This is a rip off of that Korean show on Netflix.
Almost all his stuff is derivative. He ‘borrowed’ from everyone from Tolkien to the Twilight Zone to Shirley Jackson, just tarting the story up some, the buck-toothed hack.A lot of his early stuff reads very dated now, like The Long Walk.
His writer-sons are lefties too, of course. The Kings always have to get their political jabs in. Dad knows next to nothing about firearms, except that he hates them.