Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> It's by Stephen King, so it has to have a supernatural bogeyman

  Not all of King's stories have supernatural elements in them,
but I agree that in some which do, it feels completely unnecessary
and actually bothering, and that the story would have been better
and deeper without the supernatural element. (The Shining is another
good example.)

  One could argue that the supernatural element isn't actually real
but only a metaphorical way of expressing something real. However,
King usually writes the story in such a way that it cannot at all easily
be interpreted in any other way than the supernatural element being a
real part of the story and not just some kind of complex metaphor.

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                                                          - Warp

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