Question: What makes Jamie stand out among your many kid characters? 'The Stand': Stephen King decries comparisons between coronavirus and his pandemic novel Ranked: The very best and worst Stephen King movies His cash-strapped mom, Tia, and her dirty-cop girlfriend, Liz, take advantage of Jamie’s “gift,” but a more terrifying player emerges when Jamie meets a dead serial bomber inhabited by a haunting darkness that chills the boy’s soul. And they not only can see him, too, but they have to tell him the truth if he asks them a question. Jamie sees dead people, usually hanging out where they passed. His latest, Jamie Conklin in the new novel “Later” (Hard Case Crime, out Tuesday), is a youngster who has to deal with enemies of the supernatural as well as human persuasion. In the hands of Stephen King, the kids are usually all right – even if their situations always aren’t.įrom Danny Torrance in “The Shining” to the Losers Club of “It,” the bestselling master of horror has written plenty of kid protagonists facing all sorts of terrifying foes over the decades. Watch Video: Goldberg and Kinnear take a stand in Stephen King's pandemic epic
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