Rose, a woman who has been brutally abused by her husband for 14 years, decides, one day, to leave him while she busies herself rebuilding her life or, more accurately, building it, with the help of a women's aid organisation and a hunk with hazel eyes, husband Norman plans to track her down and kill her or more accurately, hide under her bed and plunge a knife through her from underneath. So far it could be any kind of novel, but this is Stephen King and, when Rose swaps her engagement ring for a painting in a pawn shop, strange and extremely nasty things happen strange as in Rose getting inside the picture, and mixed up in goings on of the mythological kind, and nasty as in Norman dismembering everyone he can lay hands on in the most brutal fashion. The screw turns merrily to the very end, but it was all a bit too vicious for me, I must say.
