Who hasn’t thought about the concept of going back in time to change something stupid we did or said?

What if you could travel through time for a bigger purpose? Say, changing history for the better.

That’s the concept behind the upcoming novel from prolific horror-writing machine Stephen King.

The name of King’s newest novel “11/22/63” tips off the event that will swing the balance of history. That day in November of 1963 was the infamous day Lee Harvey Oswald (and maybe an accomplice if you think like a conspiracy theorist) fired a fateful few shots in Dallas.

The initial setting for the novel’s lead character is a high school in, not Dallas, but, you guessed it, Maine, where nearly every King novel is set. The protagonist is a high school English teacher who learns about a time portal to 1958, giving him time to find Oswald and to try to save John F. Kennedy.

With King’s mastery of the written word, I have no doubt the plot will carry us quickly back to the late 1950s and early 1960s when things seemed simpler. Remember he already plumbed the summer of 1959 for “Stand By Me.”

Even with no scary clowns and nothing demonic about the dead body the “Stand By Me” boys journeyed to see, that trip to the past turned out well for readers and viewers. I’m sure his next rewind will leave us with another glimpse into the scary side of human nature and likely with plenty more goosebumps.

King’s website announced his novel “11/22/63” will be released on November 8th of this year.

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