The narrator Jamie in Stephen King’s novel Revival has the surname Morton.
Jamie Morton recounts his life from childhood into adulthood, beginning with his encounter with Charles Jacobs, a charismatic minister fascinated by electricity. Their paths repeatedly cross as Jacobs’ experiments become increasingly important and increasingly dangerous.
Published in 2014, Revival blends religious doubt, addiction, grief, scientific obsession, and cosmic horror. Its first-person structure makes Jamie both the story’s participant and its retrospective storyteller.
Charles Jacobs is sometimes mistaken for the narrator because he drives much of the plot, but Jacobs is the former minister and experimenter. Jamie Morton is the character whose long life provides the novel’s narrative framework.