This is a slow burn - and that's how I like it. King gives a tour of the town first and will introduce you to the people who live in it. After all, you're just visiting. But the longer you stay, the more you get to know about the people who run these places. In the end, were they just so unlucky that their small town was chosen as the nesting ground of the darkest creature of the night, or did they summon evil themselves? If there's collective good, does collective evil exist on the other side of the spectrum?

"And in the dark, the town is yours and you are the town's and together you sleep like the dead."

some more thoughts in bullets because that's easier