If you’ve ever watched an 80s zombie movie and found the low-budget, unrealistic gore scarier than the high-quality effects of today’s horror films, you’ll be a fan of Night Shift: its stories might lack the finesse of some of King’s later works, but they are the stuff of nightmares nonetheless.
Intense, eerie, and instantly com-pelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.This was King’s first collection of short stories, and let’s just say he entered this realm of literature not with a whimper, but with a bang. Luckey Quarter 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. That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French 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. In Lunch at the Gotham Caf, a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the ma tre d' gets out of sorts. 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. Two of the stories, "The Little Sisters of Eluria" and "Everything's Eventual" are closely related to the Dark Tower series.
Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original ebook, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Includes the story "The Man in the Black Suit"-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A collection of 14 dark tales, Everything's Eventual includes one O.
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