The Cronophage makes me think of the Eponymous Langoliers Novella from Stephen King's "Four past Midnight". I wonder if he saw this clock and gained some inspir

The Cronophage makes me think of the Eponymous Langoliers Novella from Stephen King's "Four past Midnight". I wonder if he saw this clock and gained some inspiration from it? The "inspirations" section of the Wikipedia page only cites alleged plagiarism of unrelated IPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Past_Midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Past_Midnight