Chimzar exclusively sat down with SYFY Wire to discuss his new horror novel, Them, which serves as a worthy spiritual follow-up to Stephen King's The Mist. Chizmar Teases His Spiritual Follow-Up to Stephen King's The Mist"In the movie, the military comes in and torches the monsters," Chizmar said. But in the book...the mist is still out there, and there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube, so-to-speak. "I always found something so enchanting that the world didn't end—only humanity did," Chizmar said of The Mist. "There were points where this was very much a war novel.