Song of Susannah - Stephen King [172]
More later, maybe.
From the Portland Sunday Telegram, June 20, 1999:
STEPHEN KING DIES NEAR
LOVELL HOME
POPULAR MAINE WRITER KILLED WHILE TAKING AFTERNOON WALK
INSIDER CLAIMS MAN DRIVING LETHAL VAN “TOOK EYES OFF THE ROAD” AS HE APPROACHED KING ON ROUTE 7
By Ray Routhier
LOVELL, ME.(Exclusive) Maine’s most popular author was struck and killed by a van while walking near his summer home yesterday afternoon. The van was driven by Bryan Smith of Fryeburg. According to sources close to the case, Smith has admitted that he “took his eyes off the road” when one of his Rottweilers got out of the back of the van and began nosing into a cooler behind the driver’s seat.
“I never even saw him,” Smith is reported to have said shortly after the collision, which took place on what locals call Slab City Hill.
King, author of such popular novels as It, ’Salem’s Lot, The Shining, and The Stand, was taken to Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital in Bridgton, where he was pronounced dead at 6:02 PM Saturday evening. He was 52 years old.
A hospital source said the cause of death was extensive head injuries. King’s family, which had gathered in part to celebrate Father’s Day, is in seclusion tonight…
Commala-come-come,
The battle’s now begun!
And all the foes of men and rose
Rise with the setting sun.
*Constant Readers
Wordslinger’s Note
I’d once more like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of Robin Furth, who read this novel in manuscript—and those preceding it—with great and sympathetic attention to detail. If this increasingly complex tale hangs together, Robin should get most of the credit. And if you don’t believe it, check out her Dark Tower concordance, which makes fascinating reading in and of itself.
Thanks are also due to Chuck Verrill, who has edited the final five novels in the Tower cycle, and to the three publishers, two large and one small, who cooperated to make this massive project a reality: Robert Wiener (Donald M. Grant, Publisher), Susan Petersen Kennedy and Pamela Dorman (Viking), Susan Moldow and Nan Graham (Scribner). Special thanks to Agent Moldow, whose irony and bravery have saved many a bleak day. There are others, plenty of them, but I’m not going to annoy you with the whole list. After all, this ain’t the fucking Academy Awards, is it?
Certain geographical details in this book and in the concluding novel of the Tower cycle have been fictionalized. The real people mentioned in these pages have been used in a fictional way. And to the best of my knowledge, there were never coin-op storage lockers in the World Trade Center.
As for you, Constant Reader…
One more turn of the path, and then we reach the clearing.
Come along with me, will ya not?
Stephen King
May 28, 2003
(Tell God thank ya.)
Table of Contents
Beamquake
1st Stanza
One
Two
Three
The Persistence of Magic
2nd Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Trudy and Mia
3rd Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Susannah’s Dogan
4th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
The Turtle
5th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
The Castle Allure
6th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
The Ambush
7th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
A Game of Toss
8th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Eddie Bites His Tongue
9th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Susannah-Mio, Divided Girl of Mine
10th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
The Writer
11th Stanza
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven