King named Lisey's Story as his best novel in a 2014 interview, saying of the story: "I wanted to talk about two things: One is the secret world that people build inside a marriage, and the other was that even in that intimate world, there's still things that we don't know about each other." It might seem like an unconventional pick for fans of King's gorier fare, but this character-focussed look at a wife unearthing her husband's secrets after his death is equal parts cerebral horror and touching romance.