Bag of Bones

I chose my Stephen King books wisely. Reading his novels is an investment of time. Bag of Bones was worth it! It is a strange story about how the past and the present will always be interrelated and interactive.

I loved the way King used the hauntings of the past to explain the present. Excellent book!

As with most King novels, this book is more horror than romance. But the haunting at the main character’s house on Dark Score Lake sent shivers up my spine in a way not many novels have. 

The premise of the ghost mystery has a thrilling twist, and without giving away spoilers, it inspired me to create barriers to communication between the living and the dead in my own novels. After all, it doesn’t make much sense for a spirit to just simply drop hints until the mystery is solved.

If there were that easy, any fictional (or real!) ghost could… show more.

A widowed writer in a haunted lake house in Maine. It’s so utterly Stephen King it might sound like a cliche. Even so, I love this book. I first read it when it was published in September 1999 and I was a senior in high school. I bought it with my own money and carried it around with me like it was a holy text. In some ways it was—it fueled my fire to become a writer myself and for that reason, if not for all the creepiness and dread throughout, this book will always be very special to me.