Dark & Twisty

Stephen King.  What else needs to be said?  I recently read "Autopsy Room 4" just as a pallette cleanser.  This is a King short story.  Those who know me, know that I think King is a better short story writer than anything else. I've liked some of his books in the course of my readings, but he usually always gets me with a good short story.

This story is good.  The guy is awake as they prepare to do his autopsy.  It turns out he was bitten by a snake that causes death-like paralysis.  He is saved because someone finds the snake, and he gets an erection when the female medical examiner plays with his snake while examining a war wound. 

There is nothing extraordinary about this tale.  There have been plenty of near death, buried alive stories written.  I just can't say that any of the end with the person being saved because he pops a postmortem, non rigor mortis boner.

Stephen King.  What else do I need to say?