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Here are just a few of the connections fromItto King’s broader carnival of twisted tales.

As the author himself has acknowledged, “All of the books kind of relate to other ones.”

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Here, we unravel the web.

At the time, no one understood how Hallorann knew the right way to escape.

It’s almost like he had … second sight amid the smoke and flames.

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He assumes it’s merely a hallucination.

(Dandelo can make you laugh yourself to death.)

King himself isn’t sold on the link.

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“But it wasn’t a conscious thing to say one was like the other.”

(But he, of course, has no idea what that means.)

“Creepy as hell.

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You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”

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