Early occurring events in the world were often compared with the work of Stephen King "Confrontation". The novel tells about the supergipp pandemic that killed most of humanity. The source of the disease was a random leak from the laboratory of the American military department.
The writer itself compares its life during a pandemic with the plot of the novel "Lights", and himself - with his main hero of Jack Torrance. In an interview with Vanity Fair, he said:
I work on a book. In the morning I throw away all my thoughts from my head, just sit down and work. I needed time to work on a book, I got it too much. I begin to feel Jack Torrance.
Stephen King does not mean that the most famous scene from the filmization, when Jack Torrance performed by Jack Nicholson to the ax crashes the doors. His association is related to the fact that Jack Torrance also wrote a novel. Then it turned out that hundreds of pages are written by the phrase "only work, and no fun for Jack."
The action of the novel, which I am now writing, I put for 2020. Because I thought it would be published in 2021, so the action of the novel will occur in the past. And then all these well-known events began. I began to reread the novel and found that I have two characters go to the cruise. And I thought: "I don't think that cruise liners will be popular this summer. I'd better postpone the time of action in 2019, when people could gather together, because it is important for the development of the plot, "
- Shared King.