Not quite good enough to be entirely interesting and not quite scary enough to be… well, all that scary, Duma Key is a weird book. For its overly long first half, we get little more than the vaguely ...

There's the damaged and creative protagonist ("The Dark Half," "Misery," "Lisey's Story"), the menacing residence ("Bag of Bones," "The Shining"), the vaguely cryptic friend with unusual abilities ...