Stephen King gets a lot of flack for his endings.
It’s been happening for years nowOpinion pieces have even been written on the topic, some of which the horror author has responded to himself. In the second chapter of the film adaptation of It, King made a cameo in a brilliantly meta scene in which he played a cantankerous shopkeeper, casually dismissing author Bill Denbrough’s offer to sign his novel copy by telling Bill he “didn’t like the ending” (the ending of the novel It was one of King’s most famously divisive). At this stage, the whole thing has pretty much become an in joke.
But actually, is this reputation for bad endings a deserved one? Is it really a recurring weak point in King’s writing? Read more…
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