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A terrifying collection of twenty short stories and other writings devilishly designed by the bestselling master of horror, Stephen King, to take you where you never dreamed of going before...

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• Introduction(p. 1)
• Dolan's Cadillac(p. 9)
• The End of the Whole Mess(p. 57)
• Suffer the Little Children(p. 81)
• The Night Flier(p. 93)
• Popsy(p. 126)
• It Grows On You(p. 139)
• Chattery Teeth(p. 155)
• Dedication(p. 186)
• The Moving Finger(p. 226)
• Sneakers(p. 259)
• You Know They a Got a Hell of a Band(p. 284)
• Home Delivery(p. 324)
• Rainy Season(p. 351)
• My Pretty Pony(p. 372)
• Sorry, Right Number(p. 396)
• The Ten O'Clock People(p. 427)
• Crouch End(p. 476)
• The House on Maple Street(p. 504)
• The Fifth Quarter(p. 537)
• The Doctor's Case(p. 551)
• Umney's Last Case(p. 582)
• Head Down(p. 627)
• Brooklyn August(p. 673)
• Notes(p. 675)

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Publishers Weekly Review

King's cornucopia of short tales, each accompanied by an introduction from the author, was a 15-week PW bestseller. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

When you're reading him, you can think that Stephen King is the best writer in America. His first collection of shorter stuff in eight years includes plenty of reasons for harboring that litcritically heretical thought. Mind you, nothing in it suggests King's about to go toe to toe with Updike, Mailer, Bellow, et al. But which of them has, all at once, his color and vitality, his sheer joy in words and the power of the imagination? Okay, he's a "genre writer," but one who's brilliantly revivified the visceral poetry and allure of the fantastic, emblematic romance tradition that, traceable back to the Bible and Greek mythology, flowers in America most famously in Hawthorne. Yet it is Dickens and Kipling whom King's verve and dynamism most powerfully bring to mind, even if, when he decides to flat-out imitate an old master, he chooses--as he does here, in fact--Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler. (For the record, the Doyle pastiche is a delightful Holmes case that Dr. Watson solves first, and the Chandler hommage propels the whole hard-boiled milieu into the empyrean of metaphysics while managing to be funny.) In less direct imitations, King pens a hard-boiled vampire story that's both amusing and thoroughly chilling, sets up "Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" situations and works them out better than those excellent TV series would have, and creates striking variations upon themes by Shirley Jackson. But star of this volume, and a nonfiction piece, is "Head Down," which traces the winning season of a little league team that included King's son. This may be the most suspenseful and moving writing he's ever done, a sports story that everyone who cares about American prose should read. ~--Ray Olson

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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels.

King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She removed the first few chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies.

Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. He is number 2 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list.

King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2012 his title, The Wind Through the Keyhole made The New York Times Best Seller List. King's title's Mr. Mercedes and Revival made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2015 for Best Novel with Mr. Mercedes. King's title Finders Keepers made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Sleeping Beauties is his latest 2017 New York Times bestseller.

(Bowker Author Biography)