Bag of Bones by Stephen King This haunting love story should win Stephen King some new readers if they can get past his reputation for horror. Mike Noonan is devastated when his wife dies. His life is thrown into more turmoil as he begins to discover secrets she had kept from him. Add to the mix writer’s block which prevents him from earning a living, a beautiful young widow and her precocious baby, an evil old man and his sinister sidekick, the ghosts of a murdered boy and his vengeful blues singing mama, and you have an intriguing yarn.