“It was the doll’s house about which Flagg had had vague misgivings so long ago which was now Peter’s only real hope of escape.”
Written for King’s daughter Naomi – who did not like his horror stories – this is a cozy but unmistakably Kingesque fairy-tale about the sons of a mediocre king and an evil magician with the familiar name of Flagg in a kingdom called Delain. Being a kids’ book of sorts it may not be King at his most ambiguous or exciting, but it is a good story well told.