![]() ![]() I honestly don’t know how to sum up the plot for this story other than telling you there is some sort of disease killing people off. Gruesome, morbid, but overall just a bit… “meh”. When a mill employee agrees to work a bit of overtime cleaning out the factory subbasement, he finds he has bitten off more than he can chew when his colleagues are slowly picked off by massive, mutated rats. ![]() This was probably my favorite story of the collection the narrative being given through letters was unique and a fun way to frame the events, and the action kept up enough to keep me interested to the end. ![]() Upon exploring the Lot, he finds a twisted, gruesome church. The first story is told through letters to an unseen recipient, and follows a man who has moved into an inherited family home, in which he learns of a peculiar superstition in a nearly place called Jerusalem’s Lot. “The lamb had not been torn or eaten it appeared, rather, to have been squeezed until its blood-vessels had forcibly ruptured.” As I usually do with anthology reviews, I’ll break it up in pieces. I appreciate his style tremendously more now than I ever did in years past, but won’t say that I loved all of the stories in this collection. I DNFed his books so many times in my teen years because his writing just wasn’t for me. ![]() I am stunned to admit that, at 25 years old, having been a fan of all things in the horror world for my entire life, I have only just now completed my very first Stephen King novel. ![]()
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