Grandpa Pist his pants again, he don't give a damn.

Brother Philly has both guns gone. Grandpa pissed his pants again, he don't give a damn.

Brother Philly has both guns drawn, he ain't been right since Vietnam.

Sweet home Alabama, play that dead band song.

Turn those speakers up full blast, play it all night long.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King

and the chronological order of publication. And this week what I'm doing, I am following up

not on Stephen King, but I am following up on the second installment in Jonathan Madberry's

Pine Deep trilogy, which began with Ghost Road Blues, and this week I

will be examining, like I said, the follow-up, Dead Man's Song, and then next episode I will

look at the concluding installment of the trilogy, Bad Moon Rising.

So for those of you who are tuning into the first

time, thank you for tuning into the Stephen King cast. You might be a little confused why I'm

reviewing another author. Well, the reason is because of this. It is Halloween season. As I record

this, it is October 12th.

So we are, we're deep into the Halloween season, which to me begins in September.

And for a while now, actually since nearly the beginning of the run of this podcast,

I have been promising here and there that I would eventually get around to reviewing Mad Barry's Pine Deep trilogy because it feels very much like classic Stephen King.

There's just so many elements found in these books that are found within Stephen King's books, and it's very strong on character and setting, and we have charismatic

villains, and just a lot of the qualities that draw us to Stephen King are definitely

present in these books. Plus, it has the added benefit of being very, very, very Halloween. It is a love

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