Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week, I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And what you have with this episode, this is a second part of a two-part review of 1997s, The Wizard and Glass.

So if you have not listened to that first part, I would stop what you're

doing right now. Go back to the previous episode and listen to the first part of the review

of Wizard and Glass. And then when you're done with that, head over here. Just note on that.

So for everyone who has listened to the first part, here you go.

Part three. Come Reap.

Chapter 1 Beneath the Huntress Moon.

King opens up this chapter with dread-filled passage after dread-filled passage.

This isn't to say that there isn't beauty to it, because there is, and King, having been a New Englander, knows the essence of seasons.

And this isn't something that I've spoken of much, not specifically in this regard, but his work on crafting the seasons is impeccable.

It's more than just describing the seasons. It's just, it's capturing what they are.

I meant to talk about that in the insomnia review, but I just, I completely forgot. See, in insomnia,

he captured an aspect of the fall that you just don't really see popularized much. Usually stories

set in the fall are always crisp, leaves strewn, or in the skeletal

grips of the Halloween season.

Insomnia instead captured that breezy blend of a dying summer with a strengthening fall,

where everything is a mix of warm and cool and everything seems to be on fire. Here he captions the transition of the seasons on another world, and he does so wonderfully

on page 341 to 342.

Some called Huntress the last moon of the summer. Some call it the first fall. Whichever it was,

it signaled a change in the life of the barony. Men put into the bay wearing sweaters beneath

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