Looking back it’s striking how period-specific Stephen King books were: Carrie was about the re-debut of fundamentalist Christianity in the culture AND PSI-enabled “gifted children” (the latter was also Firestarter); The Tommyknockers had a UFO MacGuffin; Cujo, Pet Sematary, and Children of the Corn were about yuppies from the “dangerous” city where you couldn’t assume marriages were forever anymore going to rural small-town America and realizing you couldn’t assume it was safe or wholesome either