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Everything's Eventual

Five Dark Tales

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An iconic, spine-tingling story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
"Everything's Eventual" features Dinky Earnshaw—a nineteen-year-old pizza delivery boy— who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally "eventual" (awesome) job.

"Autopsy Room Four:" The last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is entering the woods to find his golf ball. He wakes up as he is being rolled into an autopsy room.

In "The Little Sisters of Eluria" Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town when he gets ambushed.

In "Luckey Quarter" Darlene is a single mom struggling to raise two kids on her income as a chambermaid in Reno. When Room 322 leaves her a quarter for a tip. Darlene lets that quarter take her for a ride.

"The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy painting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide.

Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, these five stories announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      In five unabridged stories, five narrators each take a shot at the unsettling, the terrifying, the classic, and the whimsical King. In "Autopsy Room Four," Oliver Platt elegantly understates the horror of waking up on a post-mortem table. Boyd Gaines tries to fill Frank Muller's shoes in a Dark Tower vignette and mostly misses the mark. Judith Ivey gives a spunky performance of a tired single mom in a dead-end job precisely capturing the story's ups and downs. S&S Audio, however, saved the best for last. Jay O. Sanders is the first person other than Muller (and the author himself) to hit King's prose spot on. With just the breath of a pause, the hint of a Boston twang, or the slightest touch of added depth or speed, he grabs us by the hand and yanks us into the labyrinth of classic King. Sanders's performance is not to be missed. R.P.L. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 18, 2002
      Eyebrows arched in literary circles when, in 1995, the New Yorker
      published Stephen King's "The Man in the Black Suit," a scorchingly atmospheric tale of a boy's encounter with the Devil in backwoods Maine. The story went on to win the 1996 O. Henry Award for Best Short Story, confirming what King fans have known for years—that the author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modern-day counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens."The Man in the Black Suit" appears in this hefty collection, King's first since Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993), along with three other extraordinary New Yorker
      tales: "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," an intensely moving story of a suicidal traveling salesman who collects graffiti; "The Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French," about a woman caught in a fatal loop of déjà vu; and "The Death of Jack Hamilton," a gritty, witty tale of Dillinger's gang on the lam. Together, they make up what King, in one of many author asides, calls his "literary stories," which he contrasts to the "all-out screamers"—though most of the stories here seem a mix of the two, with the distinction as real as a line on a map. "Autopsy Room Four," a black-humor horror about a man who wakes up paralyzed in a morgue and about to be autopsied, displays a mastery of craft, and "1408," a haunted hotel-room story that first surfaced on the audio book Blood and Smoke, engenders a sense of profound unease, of dread, as surely as do the elegant work of Blackwood or Machen or, if one prefers, Baudelaire or Sartre. King's talent doesn't always burn at peak, of course, and there are lesser tales here, too, but none that most writers wouldn't be proud to claim, like the slight but affecting "Luckey," about a poor cleaning woman given a "luckey" coin as a tip, or "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," which King cites as his favorite of the collection, but whose shift from humor to horror comes off as arbitrary, at least on the page (the story first appeared in audiobook form). Then there's "Riding the Bullet," the novella that put King on the cover of Time
      and rattled the publishing community not for its content—a suspenseful encounter with the dead—but for its mode of delivery, as an e-book, and "The Little Sisters of Eleuria," another resonant entry in King's self-proclaimed "magnus opus" about Roland the Gunslinger (Roland will return, King lets on, in a now-finished 900-page Dark Tower novel, Wolves of the Calla). Fourteen stories, most of them gems, featuring an array of literary approaches, plus an opinionated intro from King about the "(Almost) Lost Art" of the short story: this will be the biggest selling story collection of the year, and why not? No one does it better.

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