Stephen King Has A Terrifying New Book Recommendation
While
Stephen King is a frequent recommender of movies and television shows, he has a much longer history as a go-to author for blurbs and tips for other novels. King, who published crime story
Later a few months ago, and has another book on the way this year, singled out Christopher Golden’s
Road of Bones for particular praise, both for its terrifying content and impressive artwork.
Here’s what he had to say about it on Twitter:
I loved this book (see blurb), but I thought it was an extraordinary cover. Posting it as art, not advertising. pic.twitter.com/gUG1nhEsl2
Karakoram Highway, Pakistan to China
This ancient Silk Road route climbs to the 4,700 metre high Khunjerab Pass, which translates to ‘Valley of Blood’ due to its former popularity as an ambush spot for robbers. While you’re unlikely to fend off a bandit attack nowadays, the route is still fraught with danger in the form of landslides, floods and earthquakes.
Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road, China
An incredible 99 bends (most of them hairpin) loop around this 11 kilometre route over Tianmen Mountain’s vertigo-inducing slopes. If the road itself doesn’t scare you off, take a stroll along the Coiling Dragon Cliff skywalk: a glass-bottomed walkway snaking around the cliffs, some 1,400 metres from the ground.
Driver Frozen to Death in -50C Weather After Taking Shorter Google Maps Route 12 Dec 2020, 12:37 UTC ·
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A recent example in this regard is the case of 18-year-old friends Sergey Ustinov and Vladislav Istomin, who were both traveling in a passenger car on Russia’s Kolyma Highway, also known as the Road of Bones.
With a length of 2,031 km (1,262 mi), the highway was built during the Soviet Union’s Stalinist era, and it’s believed over 250,000 people died during the construction phase.
A report citing local media indicates the driver followed a shorter route suggested by Google Maps, only to be sent to a snow-covered road that was abandoned during the 1970s. A wooden spike damaged the radiator of their Toyota Chaser, with the two eventually becoming stranded in an area with no cellular signal, thus not being able to call for help.