![]() Richard Bachman’s widow found the completed manuscript of The Regulators in a box in the cellar. ![]() It might be middle-tier King at best, but it is still damn amusing.Īs it doesn’t make sense to read Desperation without its ‘mirror’ piece The Regulators, that’s where I went next. He puts him a bunch of people in a remote and isolated mining town in Nevada, and from there on, they have to deal the best they can, while the casualties pile up. It is cruel and bleak and pretty horrible, and I can imagine King having a blast writing about this an aeons old demon (quite literally from The Pit) of unspeakable evil. ![]() Sure, later books have a bit of gore, or a supernatural angle, and pretty horrific things do certainly happen, but this seems to be the last one where all of that is so front and center. As I had finished my previous book on the fifteenth occasion of that historic moment, and I still needed to read it in the original English to count towards #66, I decided to pick up that book again.ĭesperation is probably the last gory supernatural horror story Stephen King put out. First Lines: Desperation / The RegulatorsĪs the story goes, my wife first spotted me reading a book by her favorite author while waiting for a show by her favorite artist. ![]()
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