He might not use his father’s surname, but you do not need to join too many dots to figure out that Joe Hill is horror maestro Stephen King’s offspring. His books have a strong element of horror interspersed with the daily lives of seemingly normal people, and are often big enough to stop doors or even people (if you hit them with it). King Sorrow is Hill’s first book since the highly acclaimed The Fireman in 2016, and his absence from novelland does not seem to have adversely affected him, he is in excellent form here.

At 900 pages, King Sorrow is a pretty intimidating book. The pages, however, just flow as you start reading, such is the plot and Hill’s way with words .

Got a problem? Get a dragon!

The story revolves around the lives of a group of friends — Arthur, Donna, Van

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