![]() If that is so, we live in darkness like animals in a burrow, or ants deep in their hill. Revival is narrated by small-town boy Jamie Morton, an averagely talented rhythm guitarist and former drug addict, and opens with his desperate denial of preordination – because if “these horrors” we are set to learn about were fated, “then there is no such thing as light, and our belief in it is a foolish illusion. But it is Lovecraft, and the quote “That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons, even death may die”, that reverberate throughout the book. Later on, Ray Bradbury’s Mr Electrico is also paid due homage. ![]() ![]() The book may be tricksy, but King signposts where we are going from the start: with the title, with the naming of Mary Shelley as one of “the people who built my house” in the dedication, alongside HP Lovecraft and Arthur Machen, whose The Great God Pan “has haunted me all my life”. ![]()
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