DM wishes King many more years of reading, writing, living. (And say thanks to a genre master for creating “of-color” characters that stay in your memory, some of whom are even alive at the end of the story.)
Odetta Susannah Dean from “The Dark Tower” series
By hardcoremike at Deviant Art.
Tim Reid as Mike Hanlon in “It” (1990)
Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann in “The Shining” (1980)
Andre Braugher as Matt Burke in “‘Salem’s Lot” (2004 remake)
Ruby Dee as Mother Abigail in “The Stand” (1994)
Dark Matters 