LATER
Every Body’s Talking To Jamie
RELEASED 2 MARCH 272 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook Author Stephen King Publisher Titan Books
On a number of occasions in Later, the book’s first-person narrator, Jamie Conklin, assures us “This is a horror story.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that the author is Stephen King. On the other hand, this is King’s third book for Hard Case Crime, an imprint primarily devoted to noirish crime mysteries, and his previous two contributions have either only hinted at the supernatural (2005’s The Colorado Kid) or kept it low-key (2013’s Joyland).
Later, though, feels much more like familiar King territory: it features a young boy with a supernatural gift, various ghosts, many bloody deaths and a paranormal killer, not to mention the return of a spooky threat from a couple of previous books.