Jake Norton was tired of hearing everyone’s talk about Santa Claus. At twelve, he was pretty sure he’d outgrown the chimney stories—or so he told his parents.
“Ethan, are you ready yet?” Jessica’s voice drifted down the hall, sharp, like the clack-clack-clack of her heels against the hardwood floor. Impatient, as usual. “We’re going to be late.”
First published in 1974, King’s debut novel found itself a major hit among readers, with its paperback rights being sold for $400,000, which was an incredible lump sum of money for an authorial debut that garnered King fifty percent or $200,000 of the book’s sale.
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them. — Ezekiel 37:7-8
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