When a blues-singin' hoodoo-slingin' mistress calls, a man's got to reply.

It came as a surprise to no one except Yuhan himself that, in the Year of the Goat, he fell in love with one.

Although King, in It , overlays Lovecraft's cosmology with a dualistic world-view, he permits no outside force to rescue his heroes; but neither does he, like Lovecraft, attribute their escape to blind chance.

Some women would be queens, / both swift and extreme / in their influence.