NOTE: For a few years, Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance was doing a big Stephen King re-read (one of three venues doing that, including The Guardian and Grady Hendrix’s read over at Tor.com), but stalled out in 2017 just before The Talisman (Chizmar, uh, started just writing with King instead of merely reading him).  Each essay came with a guest essay by another writer and I had turned in an essay for the first collaboration between King and Peter Straub. For your reading pleasure, here’s th...