After a few months of speculation, Stephen King has finally confirmed he's working on a book that will be his best one of the 2020s. It's always been funny to me to ponder how King has said once or twice in the past that he's thinking about retiring. Considering his prodigious output of the past decade, he knows, and we know, and we know he knows he's lying to himself; the man has stories pouring out of him like water from a spring.

We already know two upcoming books involving him. The first is King's Never Flinch, which will return to the Holly Gibney universe; the second is the anthology The End of the World As We Know It, a first for Stephen King that will find dozens of writers coming together to pen short stories set in the world of The Stand. But the project he's teased he's quietly...