Stephen King‘s “Constant Readers” have read about the character Holly Gibney in the pages of his Bill Hodges trilogy, the novel The Outsider, the If It Bleeds short story from the collection of the same name, and his crime novel Holly. Holly is also at the heart of his next novel, Never Flinch, which is set to reach store shelves on May 27th – and with that date just one month away, King has sat down to read a passage from the novel on the Simon & Schuster Books YouTube channel. You can check it out in the embed at the bottom of this article. Before getting to the reading, King discusses his inspiration for writing this particular book and reveals that this is one of the rare King novels that was plotted out before he started writing it.

A few years ago, King told The Kingcast hosts, “I could...