-- Fairy Tale Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: 'What could you write that would make you happy?' 'As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city'deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn't know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.'