You don’t need to read the others to understand this series. The tie ins are mostly sly nods to his other stories, though they are connected. The only story with a direct connection is Salem’s Lot, but even that you don’t need to read to understand what’s going on. 

Send them my way if they won’t listen. I’m a CrossFit trainer and I will tell their idiot selves they have to rest. The best way I’ve found to pound it into their heads is convince them their results in the gym will suffer if they aren’t taking a rest day at least twice a week, preferably spread out. CrossFit HQ has…

To be fair, CrossFit HQ has recommended a 3 days on, 1 day off approach for a long long time. If you look at the programming they put out on their own on crossfit.com they follow this approach and have for years. In my gym we tell the same to our clients, and don’t recommend new clients come more than 3 days a week…