If you could change the past, would you? It’s a question many people have, and Stephen King opted to tell that story with 11/22/63. It created a somewhat alternate timeline and would later be transformed into a highly praised miniseries.
While King is well-known for his horror stories, there are the odd releases that branch out. This is one of them, and 11/22/63 has been ranked as the best of King’s non-horror pieces of work by Goodreads users.
What if you could go back in time and save a life? That’s something Jake Epping has the opportunity to consider. There’s an element of the British TV series Goodnight, Sweetheart at the heart of the story, as time travel is possible through one portal in a local diner’s storeroom, and it only takes people to one particular time period: 1958.
Sure, that’s a few years before JFK was assassinated, but it allows Jake time to set up the stepping stones needed to prevent it. He has the opportunity to befriend the right people and keep a certain Lee Harvey Oswald away from Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Of course, there is always the question of the butterfly effect. Is saving a life justified? How much does it change in the future? That’s something Jake learns as he goes on his journey and heads back in his own time. While it’s not quite a horror story, there is an element of horror to it. After all, monsters make sense, but people do terrible things for some of the most darkest of reasons.
Don’t Expect a Sequel of This Stephen King Story
King was once asked about whether he would develop a sequel to the story. After all, Jake survived, and so did his love interest, Sadie. Of course, not everything worked out the way many people wanted, especially those invested in the romance.
While King has admitted that he loved writing the story of Jake and Sadie, he doesn’t want to revisit them. It may be that he’s taking lessons from his own story. Can it be done just as well the second time, or is it best to leave good stories in the past where they belong?
King isn’t one to chase the profits. He will write what he wants and how he wants, and isn’t that what we respect the most about him as an author?
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