User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-5632489-20150224131433/@comment-5632489-20150225033608

I too was a big 'Salem's Lot fan, renewed my faith in vampires to an extent :P And it was a pretty big inspiration for my much loved "small town concealed in darkness" theme that is pretty common in horror in general. Under the Dome had so much potential, but the ending literally left me felt like I had been, excuse my crassness, pissed on by King...I actually had my feelings hurt by the ending, majorly because the book's momentous length built up so many possibilities. It felt for me like walking out of a four hour movie at the theater and thinking "Well, that was pointless." Haha oh well, at least the King book I read shortly after that, the short story collection Nightshift I believe it was called, was awesome. Children of the Corn is one of my absolute favorite horror stories, as was Jerusalem's Lot, King's first contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos.