I loved this book, mostly because it's a straight-ahead fright fest that doesn't rely on any of the monster or paranormal contrivances. Instead, it's just a crazy lady doing crazy things and just one heart-stopping escape effort after another.

The story-inside-a-story motif, which King has used before as well, works really well here since (mild spoiler alert) the crazy lady is keeping him hostage in order to extort a new bodice-ripping romance novel out of him. The novel he's writing is intentionally cheesy and the excerpts King gives us made me smile.