Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, the Bill Hodges trilogy End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and now an AT&T Audience Network original television series), Doctor Sleep, and Under the Dome. His novel 11/22/63--a Hulu original television series event--was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
"A master storyteller... Haunting." -- Karen Sandstrom, Cleveland
Plain Dealer
"In these 13 newly collected stories, we see a master craftsman at
the top of his game and clearly enjoying himself.... Each story is
a treat not just for King fans but for any fan of good fiction." --
Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer
"King continues to be dedicated to giving his readers a luxuriant
experience, the basic pleasure of getting lost in a book." --
Charles Taylor, New York Times Book Review
"King is as sharp and disgusting as ever... Haunting." -- People
magazine
"King is as sharp and versatile as ever." -- Erica Noonan, Boston
Globe
"King lets the reader put the book down at night after one story,
knowing another horrific treat awaits the next day." -- Amanda St.
Amand, St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Quietly dazzling." -- Ted Anthony, Associated Press
"Wonderfully wicked." -- Carol Memmott, USA Today
In the introduction to his first collection of short fiction since Everything's Eventual (2002), King credits editing Best American Short Stories (2007) with reigniting his interest in the short form and inducing some of this volume's contents. Most of these 13 tales show him at the top of his game, molding the themes and set pieces of horror and suspense fiction into richly nuanced blends of fantasy and psychological realism. "The Things They Left Behind," a powerful study of survivor guilt, is one of several supernatural disaster stories that evoke the horrors of 9/11. Like the crime thrillers "The Gingerbread Girl" and "A Very Tight Place," both of which feature protagonists struggling with apparently insuperable threats to life, it is laced with moving ruminations on mortality that King attributes to his own well-publicized near-death experience. Even the smattering of genre-oriented works shows King trying out provocative new vehicles for his trademark thrills, notably "N.," a creepy character study of an obsessive-compulsive that subtly blossoms into a tale of cosmic terror in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale. (Nov.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
"A master storyteller... Haunting." -- Karen Sandstrom,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"In these 13 newly collected stories, we see a master craftsman at
the top of his game and clearly enjoying himself.... Each story is
a treat not just for King fans but for any fan of good fiction." --
Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer
"King continues to be dedicated to giving his readers a luxuriant
experience, the basic pleasure of getting lost in a book." --
Charles Taylor, New York Times Book Review
"King is as sharp and disgusting as ever... Haunting." --
People magazine
"King is as sharp and versatile as ever." -- Erica Noonan,
Boston Globe
"King lets the reader put the book down at night after one story,
knowing another horrific treat awaits the next day." -- Amanda St.
Amand, St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Quietly dazzling." -- Ted Anthony, Associated Press
"Wonderfully wicked." -- Carol Memmott, USA Today
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