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Violence
A lot
Significant horror violence in the novel's climax; King's cosmic horror is at its most effective
Language
Some
Adult language in King's narrative register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content
Substance Use
A lot
Extensive drug use throughout the protagonist's years of addiction; depicted with realism
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Extreme psychological horror — the cosmic revelation at the novel's end, and what the minister discovers behind the curtain, is among King's most genuinely terrifying conclusions
What this book is about
King's novel follows Jamie Morton, who meets Reverend Charles Jacobs when he is six and their lives intersect repeatedly across decades as Jacobs pursues a dangerous electric secret. The novel builds slowly with King's characteristic warmth for its protagonist before a climax of cosmic horror that is among King's most frightening in decades. A protagonist's drug addiction is extensively depicted; the ending's horror is genuinely disturbing. For adult readers.
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Extensive drug use
Extreme cosmic horror ending
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