I only read the first third of this book. I normally find King books to be superb storytelling — but too long.

I quit at the point where the ghost story started to get too weird and violent.

Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel … about an author who suffers severe writer’s block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. …

He decides to confront his fears and moves to his vacation house on Dark Score Lake, known as “Sara Laughs”.

On his first day, he meets Kyra, a 3-year-old girl and her young widowed mother, 20-year-old Mattie Devore.

Mattie’s father-in-law is Max Devore, an elderly rich man who will do anything to gain custody of his granddaughter. He was the bad guy when I quit the book.

Pierce Brosnan plays the writer in the TV mini-series.

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