I also read this in Night Shift. Love it.

A real missed opportunity. This could have been a fun, crazy monster story, but it just never seems to find the proper rhythm.

Found this one at the library. It fits for the black cat square . That's good because I was having a hard time finding a book I was excited about for that one.

I admit I saw the movie adaptation first and therefore nothing in the book really came as a surprise. I remembered I liked the movie, so when I found an edition with this story and another, The Langoliers, I bought it.

Previously I'd only read the very long stories by Stephen King, and in that respect this cost some time to get used to. The story bottles down to a writer being plagued by a man who claims he's plagiarized his work.

It was an enjoyable story, but not the best King I've read. The length seemed somewhat of, like it should have either been shorter or a full length (though not 800 page) novel. That doesn't mean I'm not glad I read it!

Note: I read a Dutch translation of this book.