Gabino Iglesias Reviews Later by Stephen King locusmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from locusmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
âThis is a horror story,â Jamie Conklin, the protagonist and narrator of âLater,â repeats throughout Stephen Kingâs latest novel. As a boy, Jamie discovers that he can talk to the ghosts of the recently deceased; through this, he learns that the dead cannot tell lies. He does not intend to use this knowledge, but the people closest to him take advantage of his abilities for personal gain. Despite his repetition of Jamieâs mantra about this being a horror story, King does not deliver the gut-wrenching scares he has in the past. Rather, he melds his skillful knack for horror writing with an old-fashioned noir aesthetic. King falls flat in delivering anything worth reading, with a sluggish plot driven solely by an unconvincing narrator.
OFF RADAR: Stephen King’s ‘Later’
Another tight-knit horror story, with a weird little knot at the end
By Dana Wilde
“Later” by Stephen King; Titan Books, London, 2021; 272 pages, paperback, $14.95.
The narrator of Stephen King’s latest novel, “Later,” admits early on that the story’s hook is not exactly original: “So yeah. I see dead people. … But it’s not like in that movie with Bruce Willis.”
Actually, it’s quite a bit like in that movie, “The Sixth Sense.” What’s different is the point of view: The movie’s whole gimmick (spoiler alert, though this film is 22 years old) is that we see events from the dead guy’s perspective; in “Later,” the kid who sees the dead is the storyteller.
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Wardruna
As most of us fluent in Norwegian know, Kvitravn translates to White Raven. And if you re a Norwegian pagan, you know what an important totem a white raven IS! Wardruna is a Bergen musical collective that indeed reveres all things ancient in their Nordic history. They play archaic instruments and fuse centuries-old indigenous folk music with modern atmospherics. It s very evocative, hypnotic stuff, and the band has earned some recognition inasmuch as the television show The Vikings uses a lot of their material. I don t watch The Vikings because I m a Saints fan, but this music is pretty great and refreshingly different.