Author's Corner : Ronald Malfi Talks Influences & How He Approaches Writing Horror & Mystery

And it has parts where you just have the character Jake and Sadie is just like they're just living their life in the '60s. And you tell that King's just reminiscing about that time when he was that age. And I love that stuff because he's just so good at it.

This is going to be in consideration for my book of the year. I love this so much.

But yeah, this was this was really you did a great job of making that how scary isolation can really feel and no one's coming to help you.

But what I really stood out to me in Come with Me was you did an outstanding job of writing grief. The way you write as the Aaron in that book about how him dealing with the loss the sudden unexpected loss of his wife really hit me hard before the mystery even started.

I mean I obviously I mean it's been one of my favorites so far because I do love a good coming of age story like I said. I love the part where Angelo's standing up to the bully. That was just I'm just like fist pumping.

But with it being my favorite King book, this is the one that got recommended to me the most. I've always loved the concurrent story of flashing back between the kids and the adults and seeing what did they do that's so messed up, you know?

Now, you mentioned Pet Sematary earlier and I said that what that book did that really just moved me was just how he wrote grief. Like I felt for that character.

I can see what you said earlier that people who just read crime novels will read these and be like, "That's a little too messed up." He's real Silence of the Lambs kind of creepy.

I liked it a whole bunch. And I think that if you can write characters that really just aren't good people but I still want to see them succeed.

But I guess they have incredibly freaky monsters. Like some of the murder scenes in there are just like, "Oh my god, what is going on right now?"

So, this was a really easy sell for me, but for me when I read it, I was like, "Damn, getting a lot more of Cormac McCarthy's like The Road and it kind of meets Stephen King's The Stand a little bit."

The thing what And here's the thing is I think what soured me was like I never really cared for Talisman that much.