KermitTheArgonian t1_j94fs8c wrote on February 19, 2023 at 4:01 AM

In Stephen King's "The Langoliers", Albert imagines the voice of his father saying: "That's no way to treat an expensive musical instrument!", which is a verbatim line from Jim Steinman's "Love and Death and an American Guitar". I don't know whether that was intentional or coincidental, but I like to imagine Sai King would dig such a creepy poem enough to slyly quote it in a creepy novella.

tillerman35 OP t1_jae4oxk wrote on February 28, 2023 at 7:55 PM

Nice one! I agree. King would not do something like that unintentionally, and his twisted sense of humor is definitely the kind that would prompt him to include that little reference.