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 Cafe," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns
very, very bloody when the maitre 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
deja 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 compelling, they announce the stunningly
fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
Contents:
- Autopsy Room Four
- The Man in the Black Suit
- All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
- The Death of Jack Hamilton
- In the Deathroom
- The Little Sisters of Eluria
- Everything's Eventual
- L.T.'s Theory of Pets
- The Road Virus Heads North
- Lunch at the Gotham Café
- That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
- 1408
- Riding the Bullet
- Lucky Quarter
