Joe Hill's highly anticipated new novel, 'King Sorrow,' is a thousand-page journey into horror with a unique twist: a binding agreement with a dragon. Hill, known for adapting his works into successful TV series, promises this book to be his most intense and expansive yet. Set across decades and featuring a large cast, 'King Sorrow' delves into the consequences of summoning a powerful dragon, drawing inspiration from Hill's own experiences with Arthurian legends and a desire to create a truly unforgettable reading experience.
Just under a thousand pages long and featuring a life-or-death agreement with a dragon, Joe Hill’s upcoming book, King Sorrow, is exactly what fans have been waiting for. It’s been nine years since Hill published a novel, but the horror writer has certainly been busy since his last book, The Fireman, came out in 2016. In that time, his comic Locke & Key became a three-season Netflix show, which he adapted. His novel NOS4A2 turned into a two-season AMC show.
And he adapted the movie In the Tall Grass with his dad, Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King), which was based on the novella they co-wrote. King Sorrow by Joe Hill tells TODAY.com that his intention with King Sorrow was to write a book that “ran hard.” He says it’s “as scary and relentless” as his past books Heart-Shaped Box or NOS4A2 but “on a vastly larger scale.” “King Sorrow has a big cast of characters, and takes place across nearly 25 years of recent American history. I tried to pack everything I knew about frightening stories into it. It’s a big scaly beast of a novel,” he says. The seed for his latest novel was “buried” in the one that preceded it, Hill says. “Each book flows naturally to the next. My last novel was about a deadly pathogen called Dragonscale that causes people to spontaneously combust. At some point while I was working on The Fireman it became clear to me I was going to be writing about dragons sooner or later,” he said. Now, about that dragon. King Sorrow opens at a small college in Maine, Hill’s home state, where student Arthur Oakes becomes cornered in an scheme to steal books from the library. Desperate to get out of it, Arthur turns to his friends — who turn to magic. Using an old book, they summon up a dragon to do their bidding, but it comes at a price. Every year from now on, the friends must choose a new sacrifice for the dragon ... or they’re next. The premise was partially inspired by a class Hill took in Arthurian legend while in college (hence names like Arthur and Gwen). “It’s fashionable to make fun of the stuff that’s taught at liberal arts college — who needs to know anything about Arthurian legends when they could be learning to code? But I always kind of thought someday I’d put all that reading to good use and I was right. It only took 30 years,” he said. Hill says the novel is jam-packed with plot — and has the page count to prove it. But this is the last long book he’ll write in a while. “I’ve written three long ones in a row and they just about killed me,” he said. On the bright side, he said he is going to be publishing more frequently. “I have a plan to try and write a book a year for the next decade (something I’ve never done but wanted to try for a long time) and that’s never going to happen if they’re all 250,000 words,” he said
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