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 this week, I'm going in deep.

I'm doing a deep dive this week to review September's very recent publication of Stephen King's latest fairy tale. And I am super excited to talk about

this one, ladies and gentlemen. So I have posted this and similar sentiments over the last

couple of years on Instagram and on Twitter and stuff. But there's really nothing like it. There is

nothing like the experience of waiting for and then the day of receiving, holding in your hands

a new Stephen King book. There's just nothing like it. And over the last couple of years,

maybe it's been because of it's just the swell and that surge of Stephen King popularity.

Maybe it's because of my extra attention to Stephen King because of this podcast. Maybe it's because

of middle-aged now.

And the weight of my experience with Stephen King is something that I'm feeling very heavily.

And maybe it's because it's the realization that I don't know how many more opportunities I'm going to have to hold a new Stephen King book in my hands.

All of it just makes it matter to me.

I look back on, I don't know, I've podcasted about this before,

but that fall of when Nightmares and Dreams and Dreams

and Dreams Came Out, and that was the first new Stephen King publication

that had been published since I had become a Stephen King fan.

That was such a cool feeling.

And then when insomnia came out,

I just love it.

I just love it.

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