More than twenty-five stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.
Review“A master storyteller.” —Los Angeles Times
«Eerie. … Ought to chill the cockles of many a heart.» —Chicago Tribune
«A master. . . . [King] will catch you in his web and reach you at an elemental level where there is no defense.» —The Cincinnati Enquirer
«Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you’ll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.» —The Boston Globe “Peerless imagination.” —The Observer (London)
From the Paperback edition.
Review’An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote’s, is so fluid that you often forget that you’re reading’ — Guardian ’A writer of excellence…King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel…brilliantly done’ — The Sunday Times ’Splendid entertainment…Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers…getting hooked is easy’ — Frances Fyfield, Express