9 Mistakes In Stephen King Books You Never Even Noticed
Even the greats can make mistakes.
Stephen King is responsible for publishing over 250 novels, novellas and short story collections. Having written so much he's undeniably a publishing genius, but it's still inevitable that mistakes and discrepancies have slipped through the editorial net.
While many of these are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, a lot of them also don't make any sense, defying the logic which is often so watertight throughout King's work.
Though they don't ruin their respective stories by any means, it's interesting to acknowledge the fact that even a genius like Stephen King can still make mistakes.
From an investigative detective who can't read a newspaper article properly to ages and recollections that seriously don't add up, here are nine mistakes in Stephen King books you never even noticed.
9. Bag Of Bones - A Man Can Apparently See Through Eyelids
Bag Of Bones was published in 1998 and focuses on an author who suffers terrible writer's block and bizarre delusions while staying at an isolated lake house, four years after the untimely death of his wife. Bag Of Bones uses various plot elements from Daphne du Marier's Rebecca, a book which is referenced multiple times throughout.
Near the beginning of the book, protagonist Mike identifies his wife's body at the morgue. When he arrives, he notes specifically that her eyes are closed.
Way later on, however, in chapter thirteen, Mike has a strange dream that sees him making love to his deceased wife. During this sequence there is a description stating that one of her pupils is larger than the other, just like it had been when he had seen her eyes at the morgue.
This makes no sense, though, because Mike never saw his wife's eyeballs at the morgue: her eyes were closed.