Rating: 4.0
What it's about:
From the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time, here are fourteen intense, eerie, and compelling stories, including one O. Henry Prize winner, stories from The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet" which, when published as an eBook, attracted over half a million online readers. -from Barnes&Noble.com
My thoughts:
Stephen King is great at what he considers the (almost) lost art of the short story. In Everything's Eventual there are 14 examples of this art. Most of these stories are really good. And they are very diverse! The first story, Autopsy Room Four, is sort of a comic take on the fear of premature burial. Then there's the story (The Death of Jack Hamilton) about depression era gangsters which isn't really a horror story at all but a testament to friendship. There's a story in here, In the Deathroom, where the reader can almost feel the pain in this South American interrogation room. And of course there are the down right scary stories in this book like 1408 (haunted hotel room) and The Road Virus Heads North (picture that changes). King fans won't be disappointed!
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Haven't read it yet.
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