by Jay Wilburn

The plan is to reread all of Stephen King’s works in the order that they were published. Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance had the vision. I’m doing it because I am a writer and I want to improve my fiction. And I love Stephen King’s stories. I think there is something to be learned through this process.

You can also go back to the beginning and read Before Carrie or any of my other posts up through this one and beyond by checking out this link to the Master List of all my #StephenKingRevisited posts.

Insomnia is one of the Stephen King books I failed to finish the first time I picked it up. I believe it was my junior year of college. I bought the hardback from a local bookstore in Rome, Georgia where I was finishing school. I read part of it and the story started to bore me. I think it was more who I was at that point than the story itself.

I took that and a couple other books I’d bought unread back to the bookstore because money got tight. Insomnia was 33% off when I bought it, but was full price when I returned it, so I got back more than I paid for it. I took the money without saying anything. That’s who I was back then. I like to think I’m someone different now. I’ve passed a few honesty and integrity tests since then. I guess we only know who we are when times are tough and we’re tested.

I am looking forward to checking this novel out again. I’ve thought about the incomplete reads a lot as I’ve been going through this process of reading all King’s works in order. There are millions of new books I’ll never get around to reading, but it is the incomplete reads that bother me the most. I get to set right a few things in this life I suppose.

My next post in this series will be After Insomnia which will be linked on the Master List of all my Stephen King Revisited posts.

Jay Wilburn

Jay Wilburn has a Masters Degree in Education that goes mostly unused since he quit teaching to write about zombies. Jay writes horror because he tends to find the light by facing down the darkness. His is doing well following a life saving kidney transplant. Jay is the author of Maidens of Zombie Kingdom a young adult fantasy trilogy, Lake Scatter Wood Tales adventure books for elementary and middle school readers, Vampire Christ a trilogy of political and religious satire, and The Dead Song Legend. He cowrote The Enemy Held Near, Yard Full of Bones, and The Hidden Truth with Armand Rosamilia. You can also find Jay's work in Best Horror of the Year volume 5. He is a staff writer with Dark Moon Digest, LitReactor, and the Still Water Bay series with Crystal Lake Publishing.

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