Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, 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 this week brings me to the 2006 publication of what was billed as King's return to form,

the horror fest that takes on a common everyday object and turns it quite literally into the end of the world,

a novel that turns a ubiquitous device into our own downfall and functions as his own unique take on the popular zombie genre,

the nail-biting thriller, Cell. Here's a little background for Cell. When King finished writing the Dark Tower,

he famously stated that he was retired.

He was done.

And as you know from my review of the Dark Tower Book 7, the Dark Tower, the Reading Experience, reads like a funereal experience.

There's a sense of mourning draped over that novel, and I can understand why King felt a profound sense

of closure upon the conclusion of writing The Dark Tower. However, writers don't retire. So it was

no surprise that 2006 saw King release a throwback novel, one that sees him taking a familiar

object and spinning a horrific end-of-the-world

story around it. Just like he had done with the automobile with Christine, the victim of bullying

with Carrie, a hotel with The Shining, a loyal dog with Kujo, and the death of a family

pet with Pet Cemetery, he takes something familiar and places his own stylistic spin on it.

And in this case, the subject of the horror is a cell phone, a brilliant concept.

By 2006, cell phones were everywhere.

At that point, they were around long enough to not be considered a fad.

They had ingrained themselves into everyday life.

So upon publication, cell was very relevant and a fun examination on our life with cell phones.

Now, however, with all of that said, in 2015, cell phones are not the technology that we carry with us. Instead, we use

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