This is the first time I ever read a King book the same year it releases, let alone on release date. And I’m glad to report this is one of those King books that are worth the price, the wait, the length, whatever.

It’s not his best ever book. But damn, is it good and entertaining all over.

The Outsider, which has been called a modern-day version of King’s own It, relies most of its horror not so much in what’s...