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Writing about
encounters with the dead, about near death, or about the
plain dread of mundane life, King is in top form in this
collection of dark tales--his first in nine years. Includes
three never-before-printed stories and four pieces
previously published in "The New Yorker."
The first collection of stories Stephen King has published
since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's
Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award
winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and
Riding the Bullet, King's original e-book, which attracted
over half a million online readers and became the most
famous short story of the decade.
Riding the Bullet, published here on paper for the first
time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see
his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he
ever intended. In Lunch at the Gotham Café, a sparring
couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the
maître d' gets out of sorts. 1408, the audio story in print
for the first time, is about a successful writer whose
specialty is Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards or Ten
Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, and though Room 1408 at the
Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about
ghosts anymore. And in That Feeling, You Can Only Say What
It Is In French, terror is déjà vu at 16,000 feet.
Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near
dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting
smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his
form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's
Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly com-pelling, they
announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the
greatest storyteller of our time. |
