

This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle. From a few weeks to a few months, it takes it’s own sweet time gauging the audience as well as critics’ reaction, data on the viewership of the show, and its general popularity. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. Nevertheless, Netflix doesn’t have a fixed schedule when it comes to announcing sequels. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.Ĭharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.Ĭharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2023 Fiction Book of the Year
