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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
"Riding the Bullet" 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," made into a film starring John Cusack, 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 Hotel Dolphin 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 sixteen thousand 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 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.
SCRIBNER, SOFTCOVER, 2002
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