International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his first collection of short stories in almost a decade. In this spine-chilling compilation, King takes readers down a road less traveled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-Book "Riding the Bullet," bad table service turns bloody when you stop in for "Lunch at the Gotham Care," and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French"--along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybreak. Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.

What I did was take all the spades out of a deck of cards plus ajoker Ace to King = 1-13.Joher = 14. I shuffled the cards and dealt them. The order in which they came out of the deck became the order of the stories, based on their position in the list my publisher sent me. And it actually created a very nice balance between the literary stories and the all-out screamers. Ialso added an explanatory note before or after each story, depending on which seemed the more fitting position. Next collection: selected by Tarot.

Introduction: Practicing the (Almost)Lost Art

Autopsy Room Four

The Man in the Black Suit

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

The Death of Jack Hamilton

In the Deathroom

The Little Sisters of Eluria

Everything's Eventual

L.T.'s Theory of Pets

The Road Virus Heads North

Lunch at the Gotham Cafe

That Feeling, You Can Only Say

What It Is in French

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Riding the Bullet

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