Stephen King

You Like It Darker (eBook, ePUB)

the Sunday Times number one bestseller (May 2024)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

** With a bonus story **

'You like it darker? Fine, so do I' writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal.

Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys and mysteries; each feels iconic. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, sees a grieving widower travel to Florida for respite and instead receive an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind' and his ability to surprise, amaze and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed.

You like it darker? You got it.

'As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years' USA Today
'One of the great storytellers of our time' Guardian

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399725118
• Artikelnr.: 69297012

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. He is described in the Daily Mail as 'one of the greatest storytellers of the past century . . . a master at revealing the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of what looks like ordinary life.' His recent work includes Never Flinch, Holly, Fairy Tale and If It Bleeds.
Many of his other titles are also the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including IT, Misery and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, 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 Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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One of the great storytellers of our time Guardian

Praise for You Like It Darker

"A master class in tension and is full of King's dark humor. He knows what we like, and he delivers. This collection proves King is still king." -The New York Times Book Review

"Stephen King knows You Like It Darker and obliges with sensational new tales... thoughtful... intriguing... surprisingly emotional... the author has a long history of exceptional short fiction... He proves once more that his smaller-sized tales pack as powerful a wallop as the big boys." -USA Today

"What's obvious is that King's skills as a storyteller remain undimmed, and following him into the dark, the light or anywhere in between is never a bad bet. As if anyone could resist." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"The best of these stories, as is true with the best of King's work, feature horror tempered with heart." -Associated Press

"Stephen King is still writing with the giddy abandon of scribes half his age, and more than anything else, You Like It Darker is evidence of that joy." -Paste

"Stephen King keeps it fresh... very entertaining... sometimes, good things come in small packages." -Bangor Daily News

"Classic King, stories full of heart, horror, and humanity, each riffing on that eternal question: what if?" -Vulture

"The titular darkness promised is as riveting and all-consuming as ever." -New York Magazine

"King is writing some of the best work of his long career." -Seattle Times

"King does it again in this collection of stories... there's no doubt that King is still a master." -AARP

"The bite-sized tales are perfect beach reads." -Variety

"King proves he's still a master of short fiction in his sterling seventh collection... This remarkably assured collection will thrill the author's fans." -Publishers Weekly

"King's first book, Carrie, was published 50 years ago. You Like It Darker proves that he is still at the height of his powers. A triumph." -Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

"Readers will be thrilled by these tales. They all have that King touch." -Library Journal, STARRED review

"A dozen tales from the master will draw you in-page by page, horror by horror-and hold you fast." -Kirkus, STARRED review