Not quite good enough to be entirely interesting and not quite scary enough to be… well, all that scary, Duma Key is a weird book. For its overly long first half, we get little more than the vaguely ...

On holiday with my family in Portugal, aged around 11 or 12, I found a stash of deserted books left behind by former residents of the place we were staying (and isn't that one of the nicest things ...

Alyssa Avina is a writer and model in Virginia. Born and raised in Southern California, when she isn't building a community for body positivity, she is losing herself in far off worlds both on the big ...

"Duma Key" (Scribner, 611 pages, $28), by Stephen King: Consider the Stephen King kitchen, where the ingredients in the pantry are like comfort food: They're always ready for another recipe. There's ...

The master of horror has become more thoughtful in recent years. His latest novel, Duma Key, is not a terror-fest, but an eerie tale of paranormal powers. It makes for unsettling but intriguing ...

There's the damaged and creative protagonist ("The Dark Half," "Misery," "Lisey's Story"), the menacing residence ("Bag of Bones," "The Shining"), the vaguely cryptic friend with unusual abilities ...

Since his own car accident, most of Stephen King’s main characters have health issues that complicate their lives and create challenges. Edgar Freemantle, the main character in “Duma Key,” is no ...

To recover from a construction accident that took from him his right arm, some mental control and – fearful of his violent moods – his wife, Edgar Freemantle decamps to the winter warmth of the ...

IF The Shining had you on the edge of your seat, then Duma Key will have you turning pages faster than you can say Red Rum. IF The Shining had you on the edge of your seat, then Duma Key will have you ...