I'll play along with the thread hijacking...
The Abigail II story confuses the shit out of me. I love King's stories, even on the albums where the music doesn't do much for me, but I just don't get this one:
* Who is "Little One" really? The murdering spirit of the 1777 Abigail, somehow grown from stillborn infant to child version of Casper the Friendly Ghost walking around with lanterns in the middle of the night? I thought she was a parental unit killing demon? Why is she friendly in this story? Or is it the 1843 Abigail's split personality twin spirit? Or is it the innocent soul of the stillborn possessed child that Abigail took residence in back in 1777, that never had a chance to be born? The very same that went nuts and possessed Miriam and Abigail 2.0 in the womb? Wait, did I already say that? I don't know what the hell's going on. Are all the Abigails in this story good, and there is no demon at all? WTF happened to the demon then? Was there one to begin with, or was Abigail just a vengeful ghost taking revenge on the LaFey bloodline because the old count didn't want a bastard child? She is obviously more than that, since she is the "second coming of a devil" born with yellow eyes and proceeds to eat her dead mother after birth (after supposedly dragging the body of a grown woman back to her infant sarcophagus to have a snack). Sounds like a demon with an agenda. How did 18 year old Abigail rid herself of the possession of this mighty demon Abigail?
* Why the hell did O'Brian keep her name as "Abigail", after all the misfortunes associated with the name? Call her freaking Heather or something. If you adopted the love child of Charles Manson and Elizabeth Bathory, would you not call the child something else? Charles Manson Bathory Jr kind of sets the kid on a scary career path. Same thing with Abigail... Not exactly setting your adoptive kid up for success there, O'Brian, you old bastard.
* So the "Mommy" that Little One is searching for is the original count's wife that was pushed down the stairs in 1777? Why do we care about a person who was a footnote at best in the original story and does not get a voice in this story? Why does it matter that her ashes were "buried in the floor"? What's the significance of the floor to the story and to the inability of Little One to find her?
* Why is Abigail "playing along with his eerie game"? There seems to be no real pressure or looming threat from Jonathan forcing her to do so, but she still just dumbly follows her newfound father (which she is really chill about finding out, BTW) into the bedroom after he's talking all sorts of crazy, referring to her as her dead mom. I mean... Warning bells? No? Is it all just to set "Little One" free? I mean Abigail is free to roam the place. She is the one to blow out the candles so she wouldn't have to look at Jonathan's hideous body before the act of incest takes place. He's not exactly holding a gun to her head. If she goes along with letting her dad have his way with her, for the noble cause of setting Little One free, then that didn't go so well in the end, did it?
* Why is Jonathan referred to as evil? He was the original victim in the story of Abigail. His wife taken away from him, his child possessed in the womb, awakened by ghosts in the dead of night to go crypt-spelunking... He reluctantly agreed to end his beloved Miriam's life to rid the world of Abigail's evil, but got shoved down the stairs himself to his death (well, as it happened he just broke every bone in his body, but still). Now rotting away in a mansion, going insane from grief, he finally sees who he thinks is Miriam again and just snaps. That's evil? Fucking guy did not have an easy life. I wonder if Abigail is licking her chops every time Jonathan calls her Miriam, remembering the taste of her dead mother's flesh? Who's the evil bitch here?
* OK... And here's the thing I just can't even wrap my mind around - straight from General Hospital or Days of Our Lives... Abigail looks at Jonathan on the verge of his death and states: "I was the sister of your father's in another life. The father you never knew, who saved me years ago, And now I'm looking at his son." Hmmm... The horseman O'Brian obviously saved her years ago, so he's the father of Jonathan as well? And Abigail is the reincarnation of O'Brian's half sister - he states that in the "Spare this Life" intro. So Abigail is both Jonathan's daughter (by blood), step-sister (O'Brian is father to Jonathan and also raised Abigail) AND spiritual aunt (adoptive father O'Brian's half sister)? What is this, the Ozark Mountains family reunion with Uncle Daddy?
* It all ends with Little one crying in the crypt and a mysterious narrator states: "It's not your MOMMY you're looking for. It's YOURSELF!" I mean... WTF? I thought I had it all figured out. Somebody call Scooby Doo and the gang. I need to see who is hiding beneath the mask of Little One.