![]() Read any interview or essay where King discusses his early inspirations, and you’re bound to find numerous hardboiled writers’ names machine-gunned out as a response. When MacDonald agreed to write the introduction for King’s debut collection, Night Shift, he nearly pissed himself. ![]() He was a goddamn noir geek, if you want to know the truth. He grew up mainlining pulp legends like Richard Stark and John D. And horror and crime? I can’t think of a more exciting tag team. Nearly every book can be classified under multiple genres. ![]() Which is odd, because while, yes, The Outsider is a crime novel, it also clearly falls under horror. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch) and he would finally return to his horror roots. ![]() Maybe this latter group figured he’d gotten the genre all out of his system now that he’d concluded his Bill Hodges trilogy about an ex-cop tracking down a serial killer ( Mr. ![]() When news of Stephen King’s latest novel, The Outsider, first broke, the horror community found themselves divided into two camps: those willing to welcome this new title with the same enthusiasm as his previous publications, and those disappointed that King had once again decided to release something under the crime umbrella. ![]()
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