The police’s one and only suspect is Terry Maitland, a local celebrity teacher known for coaching little league and all manger of junior sports. A young boy, Frank Peterson, was kidnapped, brutally raped, and ultimately murdered in the fictional Oklahoma town of Flint City. The Outsider begins with an investigation. Time and time again, Stephen King has proven himself to be a master of genre, and The Outsider only bolsters his record. The Outsider was only his first book of 2018. He has managed to publish one or two books a year for decades and shows no signs of slowing down. While he is known for his supernatural horror and mystery stories, King is equally famous for his seminal work of fantasy, The Dark Tower and his break from character, The Green Mile, among many, many others. Since 1967, when King published is first story, he has written fifty-eight novels, many of which have been adapted into TV shows or movies. Stephen King is arguably the master of horror and mystery. Horror and mystery combine perfectly for the simple reason that we do not know everything. These genres are often paired together in an unholy matrimony of darkness, decay, and eldritch scares. We read mysteries because we do not want to know everything, and we read horror because we want to be scared. These are the books one reads when they want to examine the darkness that can exist out there in the unknown. For every book with happy events and writing that makes you feel good, there are five more than plumb the depths of depravity. Not everyone reads books for romance or adventure.
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