One of my favorite authors is Steven King. Only sometimes his work can start to sound the same from book to book. This book changed the mind set I had. Steven King's readers have criticized the book for leaving the normal horror realm in which King normally writes, and moving into a "fantasy world", but the story continues to speak for itself in my mind. The story of a royal family in Medieval times, plagued by an evil magician named Flagg, conicidentally the same name King used for the devil in "The Stand". I don't want to give away the story, but it remains one of my favorite books.