Episode 187-The Ending of Song of Susannah
Stephen Kingcast
Constant Reader
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King. |
| 0:06.0 | Once, I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel, it all goes round again, and here I am once more on a new phase of the journey, one that will examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King to determine whether or not King deserves his |
| 0:20.8 | reputation for having an inability to successfully land his endings the focus of the |
| 0:25.4 | podcast will be to examine the climax following action and resolution of the |
| 0:28.9 | endings to each of his novels and break it down by character themes conflict and |
| 0:33.5 | plot to determine whether or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively good ending. |
| 0:39.6 | I'll also weigh in on whether or not I happen to personally like the ending, and today I'm here |
| 0:43.9 | to discuss the ending of The Song of Susanna. And everyone, welcome back to the Stephen King cast, |
| 0:49.5 | and for first time, listeners, welcome to the Stephen King cast. If you are just tuning in for the first time |
| 0:56.7 | there are quite a few episodes that you can peruse if you want some deep dives into the |
| 1:04.3 | books and movies of Stephen King there are literally hundreds of episodes for you to |
| 1:10.0 | explore and I would recommend going back you can start the journey with Carrie and There are literally hundreds of episodes for you to explore. |
| 1:15.7 | And I would recommend going back, you can start the journey with Carrie onward, |
| 1:20.1 | or you can pick and choose from the novels that you really want to dive into. |
| 1:21.7 | So welcome and enjoy. |
| 1:25.9 | Today, like I said, I'll be talking about the ending of the song of Susanna. |
| 1:29.4 | But first, I would like to listen to some listener emails and you two can write in all you have to do is write into stephen kingcast |
| 1:35.8 | at yahoo.com up first we have john who writes hello constant reader I hope all is well sorry to |
| 1:42.6 | bother you it's no bother but i was just curious about a billy |
| 1:45.8 | summers episode i know you've been doing all of his endings which i love i for one don't think he's |
| 1:50.4 | bad at endings that reputation is wildly unfair i can't wait to hear what you think about the king |
| 1:55.4 | isms in the novel also is billy somers a gunslinger he's not. Anyway, maybe you have long days and pleasant nights. |
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