"Two stories, "Dolan's Cadillac" and "My Pretty Pony," both published earlier as separate books, are collected here with revised text. Collects twenty stories, a television script ("Sorry, Right Number"), an essay ("Head Down") and a poem ("Brooklyn August").
King's fourth collection of short fiction. The title of this book was used for a television anthology series of King's stories in 2006 which used the following stories from this collection- "Crouch End," "End of the Whole Mess," "The Fifth Quarter," "Umney's Last Case," and "You Know They Got A Hell of A Band." The story "Chattery Teeth" was used as part of the television film Quicksilver Highway (1997), Stories made into short films: "Home Delivery," "My Pretty Pony," "Popsy," "Rainy Season," and "Suffer the Little Children." The story "The Moving Finger" was used in a television anthology series and the story "The Night Flier" was made into a cable television film in 1997. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 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.Octavo, cloth-backed boards. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock).
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr.
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