The ending really, really threw me. It just seemed...tacked on and out of place in a novella that was mostly rooted in normal psychosis - which I think is what works so well in the movie version. It's rooted in reality. Like Cujo and Apt Pupil, it has a certain resonating terror due to the normality of the circumstances.

If you haven't read much of his more recent stuff, I really do recommend the collection 'Everything's Eventual' and the novel 'Lisey's Story'. Lisey's Story is, in my opinion, one of his best books.

I haven't in a long time, actually. Maybe I ought to go back and do some more.