Does Stephen's Style Sometimes Frustrate You?

[Gerald]

He doesn't have much style, he's not concerned with it. Sometimes that frustrates and sometimes it surprises. But at least it always keeps things unexpected - and essentially that's a good thing.

Stark was the never fully developed twin brother - I thought that was very clear. But I see what you mean, at that period was the end of the solid King where everything was pure gold. Agree about the Four Past Midnight stories.

I think horror has a balance, of explaining not quite everything, but enough to keep it scary and interesting. When Stephen had given a full explanation how Stark came to be, for example, it had been more sci-fi.

[fljoe0]

He may think over explaining something will bog down the story. Somethings are better left to the imagination.

Watch some Alfred Hitchcock movies and you will notice that Hitch left many things to the imagination. There is one movie that comes to mind (can't remember the name) where people are chasing and killing each other over some substance in a bottle and Hitch never bothers to tell the audience what's in the bottle, it wasn't important.