Bag of Bones - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

560 pages

Published Dec. 6, 2011 by Gallery Books.

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978-1-4516-7862-8
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Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. It won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. The book re-uses many basic plot elements of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which is directly referenced several times in the book's opening pages; however, the relation of these elements (including a wife who is dead as the book opens, her posthumous effect on future romance, a drowning, and house haunted by the memories of previous inhabitants) to the plot and characters is markedly different. When the paperback edition of Bag of Bones was published by Pocket Books on June 1, 1999 (ISBN 978-0671024239).

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Stephen King's novel Bag of Bones won the Bram Stoker Award from horror writers, and then the British Fantasy Society award. This shows the dual nature of this novel, with bits of fantasy and bits of horror.

The entire novel is told from the perspective of the main character, a thriller writer who lives in Maine - an example of "write what you know". Over the first few chapters we learn his recent backstory and meet a large cast of characters. Among these insular Maine residents are a young mother Mattie and her daughter Kyra.

The writer steps in to stick up for the underdog, helping Mattie keep custody of her child, and ends up falling into all the history of this place. At one point this happens literally, with a dream-like time travel sequence back to the turn of the century. Over the rest of the story, he deals …

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