![]() ![]() Jamie’s hard-working single mom doesn’t quite believe that her son can view visitors from the spirit world, until Jamie solves a vexing puzzle for the kindly widowed professor who lives in a nearby apartment. And while most fade away after a few days, some hang around, some with malicious intent. If asked a direct question, the dead will answer totally truthfully, because they cannot tell a lie. ![]() A few of them are scary, mutilated by premortem injuries, but most seem to accept passively that they will be moving on soon. They mostly hang around their place of death, dressed in whatever they happened to be wearing when they passed on. The biggest difference in the initial plot set-up of “Later” is that the dead people Jamie sees aren’t particularly bothersome. Jamie writes, “I’ll look back on what I thought I understood at twenty-two and realize there was a lot I didn’t get at all. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” and King’s “Later” is made clear right from the start, as the twenty-ish New Yorker begins to narrate his life story thus far. Six-year-old Jamie Conklin can see dead people. King has so far operated at his pulpy best when working with them. ![]() As well as reprinting classic or forgotten thrillers such as might have been found in a drugstore spinner rack four or five decades ago, Hard Case publishes original material, usually as a reasonably priced and sized paperback, with a retro cover illustration featuring a scantily clad model, actress or beachgoer. What is pleasantly surprising is that “Later” is published by the mystery/suspense imprint Hard Case Crime. ![]()
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