 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorist. Today we are talking about Stephen King's second novella collection for past midnight. Yeah, so in this one you have four novellas, short novels, you have the Langelier, Secret Window, Secret Garden, the Library Policeman, and the Sun Dog. Today I'm going to go through and review each and every one of them, just a short review, just a recap. I plan, once this series is over, I plan to go through and reread Stephen King's entire catalog. Yes, again, it'll be my third time through the whole thing. That'll be in 2020, and I plan on reviewing more in-depth each one of his books all the way through. It won't be another Thursday Theorist. It'll just be reviews to have up on the channel, because I haven't reviewed everything. So I'll go into more detail in those reviews, and I will in the Thursday Theorist. The meat and potatoes of the show has always been connecting his works to the Dark Tower or the King universe, however, just connecting all these worlds together, and what easier way to do it than to do it with Dark Tower, which insists that all of his work does fit together, because he wrote himself into the book, into the story, like a crazy person. I actually enjoyed that part of it, but anyway. So spoilers throughout, spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. I haven't done this since, what, December, or did I stop in November? I can't even remember. And it is currently January, January 10th, I believe. So I've had an extended break, I'm ready to jump back into it. The reason why I took a break, just to inform people that might not know who've been wondering where their series went, is because I wanted to take a break for the holidays, and I had to catch up on some rereads. Right now I'm rereading Roadwork, that'll be next week's Thursday Theorist, then I have to do The Running Man's Center, I have to do all the Bachman books, then I have to do the Peter Straub collaborations. It's been ages since I read any of these books, any of the Bachmans or the Straub books. So I'm having to go back and reread them. I found something in Roadwork that I hadn't found before, which is interesting. But back to this one. So, right off the bat, Langaliers is one of my favorite Stephen King novellas of all time. I love the wackiness of it, I love the craziness of it. It does have a problem for most fans in that, the Stephen King universe is like, he says it is, how is it possible for the dark tower to exist if the Langaliers eat time? Well, that's simple. It's just another turn of the wheel. There are other worlds than this. So in this one particular world, the Langaliers eat the time. Now as far as the rift is concerned, I still think that rift is a thingy. As far as the idea goes, it's just a veil between worlds. And what you're going to, I think, is another, it's not really our world, it's of course our world in the past, but it's a world where these creatures exist. And basically we don't, time has moved on kind of thing. But so with the Langaliers, one of my favorite parts of the story are the creatures. Now in the utterly terrible and amazing, at the same time, TV adaptation, they're just shown as, you know, basically, what are they? Critters, you know, basically balls of fur with teeth. I love that stupid movie, basically because of Bronson Pinshow. His To Me is a terrific character, I think. I also like Harry Dean's Doctin's, I can't remember. I might not even, the dude from Quantum Leap. I think he plays a guy named Sam, maybe not. Anyways, but I love his character. I love his character in the book. I like everybody except for the little girl. I don't like Dinah too much. So the way the book plays out, I don't actually mind it, but I had a good time with it. And like I said, I think it connects with the thinny aspect of it and how can that be if it each time, if it each time after it passes. I think that's because you're traveling to another world where that is possible. Next up we have Secret Window, Secret Garden. If you, if you don't, if you don't actually read the entire story, you might think that John Shooter and the main character are twinners. They are not, he's just fucking crazy. With this, I have very fond memories of a movie theater experience watching this movie. I remember the movie more than I remember the book. As far as tie-ins to the Dark Tower series, I'm going to leave that up to you down there in the comment section. You always know I leave something out for you guys, so I want you to connect the Secret Window, Secret Garden down there in the doobly-doo. Next up we have the Library Policeman. I think this one is a very loose, loose, loose connect like the Langoliers. I think Ardelia Lortz is a creature much like the Outsider and Pennywise and the Graze. I think, well basically I think she's a Grave from the Dreamcatcher universe. But I think the same thing of it, well Pennywise, the entity known as Pennywise. But I think that Pennywise is an upper echelon type of creature, whereas the Graze are maybe lower, lower beings. Because it's never really said in it whether or not the, and spoilers for it in case, I mean the series is about spoilers, we're going to go into spoilers. So it's for his entire catalogue, not just this book. So spoilers for it, the, it's never said whether or not Pennywise arrives on a spaceship or if it's just him. And we see this thing land, but we don't know if it's in a spaceship or maybe part of his, part of it is the spaceship. Who knows? Because he gets stuck, it gets stuck in the spider form, but that's not his true form either. So anyways, I think Ardelia Lortz is another Outsider or another Pennywise. And I'm going to start calling that race of creature an Outsider. Because of the book The Outsider, he goes into that far, far more. And also another thing that was brought up recently that, of course, I had already done the Bag of Bones before I did the Outsider Thursday theorist, but the Outsider is mentioned in Bag of Bones. And Tracy Robinson on Twitter brought that up is something that, you know, of course, I would have caught on a reread, but I hadn't reread it. So there you go. There's another, yet another connection. And finally, the Sun Dog. The Sun Dog has our old buddy, Pop Merrill, which puts a hard connect to the Dark Tower universe because of Wendy's Button Box and Randal Flag in that one. Castle Rock is part of the Dark Tower universe. And Pop Merrill is Ace Merrill's day. I think Uncle, oh wow, I don't even actually remember. So it's either the Uncle or the Dad. I can't remember. I just completely blanked on that. So rage at me down there and tell me which one it is. I actually think it's his Uncle. But Bill, if you're watching this, Bill, or thugged out white boy here on Twitter, says he wants an Ace Merrill book. I'd like to ask you guys, what would you think an Ace Merrill book would be like from Stephen King? Let's just discuss that. So what did I miss, especially for Secret Window, Secret Garden, what did I miss in this book that connects to the Dark Tower Stephen King universe? Let me know down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have an E. You have an U. This has been Thursday. There is. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye. Man, I am super hyped to be back. I'm super hyped. And I don't know if you guys are enjoying these after the video clips or not. Is something new after the outro clips? Is something new? If you're wondering why I have so much energy, this is me on Keto Coffee. I tried Keto Coffee this morning because I'm fasting today. Wow. My brain is firing on 12 different cylinders. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I might start overthinking things because that's how my brain works. But anyways, how are y'all doing? Let me know down there in the comments. I'm thinking about writing a fanfiction about Ace Merrill just to shut Bill home. I'm kidding, Bill. Bye-bye.