Bag of Bones is, hands down, [Stephen] King's most narratively subversive fiction. Whenever you're positive–just positive!–you know where this ghost story is heading, that's exactly when it gallops off in some jaw-dropping new direction.

[…] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,

The biologist and his team were greeted by a nonstop squid review, with Humboldt squid darting in toward the boat and flashing their underbellies in attempts to lure small schooling fish near the surface.

Gilroy argues for an image of Marley that is antiracial, anticapital and planetary. It is deemed antiracial because of the attempt to step outside the constraints of identity politics. Nonetheless, he acknowledges the racial elements that influence the representation of Marley' s image.