Review: NOS4A2 is a haunting fable about the steep cost of creative gifts

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  Ashleigh Cummings plays Vic McQueen, a "strong creative" with a gift for finding lost things. [credit: AMC ]

You may have missed AMC's evocative new horror series, NOS4A2, in the jumble of hotly anticipated movies and TV series over the past few months. It's largely flown under the radar in terms of media coverage, but this haunting fable of the high cost of supernatural gifts won over sufficient fans for AMC to already approve a second season—one week before the show's two-part season one finale aired.

(Some spoilers for the novel and series below.)

The series is an adaption of the 2013 award-winning horror novel of the same name by Joe Hill.  Hill comes by his horror chops naturally; his dad is some obscure novelist named Stephen King. (Hill also created the fantastic comic book series, Locke and Key, about a mysterious Keyhouse filled with portals to other dimensions that can be opened by various keys. The beleaguered TV adaption project for that series is now with Netflix.)

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