When – oh when – will people in the 19th-century US of A learn to beware of cousins leaving them posthumous gifts of prime real estate in puritanical corners of the country? No good ever comes of it.
As so many of them are, the latest to suffer are the product of horror master Stephen King’s imagination. His short, slight story Jerusalem’s Lot, first published in the 1978 collection Night Shift, has been adapted – somehow – into a 10-hour television series. It is called Chapelwaite (Paramount+) and stars Adrien Brody, a lot of recordings of whippoorwills, and some worms.
