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Article: King finds fright on Florida's coast
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2008
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BOOK REVIEW
Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary
people in the most terrifying situations. Aside from some recent
tedious diversions into Gothic westerns and B-movie cellphone
zombies, he's the author who can always make the improbable so scary
you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door. His
latest novel, "Duma Key," is a welcome return to that kind of
narrative.
Edgar Freemantle - who thanks to a terrible accident and a
faithless wife has already had a pretty awful year - is badly in
need of some R&R in Florida and a healthy dose of art therapy. But
instead of peace and quiet, he gets an evil force channeling itself
into some menacing paintings and a ...