Revival / Stephen King / 405 pages

What can I say...classic Stephen King...although with this one I almost thought I was reading Dean Koontz...the moral/philosophical fixation on the hereafter, the battle between good and evil, and the dissertation on the part religion/faith plays in the lives of men certainly is more typical of Koontz.  Regardless, this is a good, scary, well-written novel that is depressing at best, and downright frightening at worst.  Jamie Morton's life is shadowed, almost in its entirety by Charlie Jacobs, the minister who came to his small town church when Jamie was only six years old.  Reverend Jacobs' hobby...and his obsession...was electricity...secret electricity.  He used it to cure people, including Jamie's brother and later Jamie himself. Unfortunately, the cures brought curses...