The reason for this Scott’s mysterious change is unknown. Scott’s namesake in Richard Matheson’s novel The Shrinking Man started getting smaller after ingesting bug spray and subsequently being exposed to a radioactive cloud (as mentioned by a character in Elevation). He has the appearance of an overweight man who tips the scales something north of 240, but when the story opens on an October morning, his scale registers 212 and he’s dropping a pound a day. He’s also losing weight - although not mass - no matter how much he eats. He’s living alone (with a cat) in a too-large house on Castle View, and he’s having problems with his new neighbors. That’s not to say bad things aren’t happening to protagonist Scott Carey, forty-two, recently divorced and dealing with the repercussions of that life change. His new novella, Elevation, has an even more positive outlook, despite its setting: Castle Rock, a small town in Maine where terrible things have been happening for decades. It’s an uncharacteristically encouraging notion. Stephen King’s most recent published work, “The Turbulence Expert” in the anthology Flight or Fright (which he co-edited with yours truly), suggests the existence of people who prevent airplanes from crashing.
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