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

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

And what you're going to be getting out of this episode is a review of the Dead Zone,

which was originally released on October 5, 2014.

I'm currently recording this on January 17th, 2026.

So it has been a minute since I have read The Dead Zone.

Like all of the novels by Stephen King, all of the short stories, everything, I haven't gone back and done any rereading since I've read them for the purposes of the podcast reviews.

So I haven't read The Dead Zone since I last discussed it back in October of 2014.

But I just got to say that the Dead Zone is a novel and a story that I can't stop thinking about.

And I think about it every single day

because the foresight that Stephen King had

at seeing the possibility of where politics could go

is of the most scary things he has ever put to page.

You know, I mean, he is famous for creating a scary clown at the time of this recording.

You know, it, Welcome to Derry was a huge huge huge success for HBO max or HBO or by the time

you listen to this I don't know is this it's just Netflix's it welcome to Dairy is HBO even

a thing anymore but I say this because you know he's known to be the master of horror for all of the right reasons.

He is able to write a scary thing.

But the thing that is so so powerful about Stephen King is his ability to understand the human condition.

And it's why stories like the Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me and most recently, Life of Chuck resonate so much is because he gets people.

He gets people individually.

He gets people when they are in pairs.

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