Awards

• Commended for Audies (Short Story Collection) 2010

Overview

"2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections Thirteen ""dazzling"" (Associated Press) and ""wonderfully wicked"" (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. These are just some of the tales to be found in the #1 bestselling collection Just After Sunset. Call it dusk or call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for master storyteller Stephen King. Stories include: -Willa -The Gingerbread Girl -Harvey's Dream -Rest Stop -Stationary Bike -The Things They Left Behind -Graduation Afternoon -N. -The Cat from Hell -The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates -Mute -Ayana -A Very Tight Place"

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A master storyteller... Haunting. -- Karen Sandstrom, <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>

King reminds us again of his power to unhinge with a single line or image. A master of the storytelling craft, he gets his ghastly fingernails right beneath the skin. -- John Marks, Salon.com Wonderfully wicked. -- Carol Memmott, USA Today Quietly dazzling. -- Ted Anthony, Associated Press -King reminds us again of his power to unhinge with a single line or image. A master of the storytelling craft, he gets his ghastly fingernails right beneath the skin.- -- John Marks, Salon.com -A master storyteller... Haunting.- -- Karen Sandstrom, Cleveland Plain Dealer -In these 13 newly collected stories, we see a master craftsman at the top of his game and clearly enjoying himself.... Each story is a treat not just for King fans but for any fan of good fiction.- -- Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer -King is as sharp and disgusting as ever... Haunting.- -- People magazine -King lets the reader put the book down at night after one story, knowing another horrific treat awaits the next day.- -- Amanda St. Amand, St. Louis Post Dispatch -King continues to be dedicated to giving his readers a luxuriant experience, the basic pleasure of getting lost in a book.- -- Charles Taylor, New York Times Book Review -Quietly dazzling.- -- Ted Anthony, Associated Press -King is as sharp and versatile as ever.- -- Erica Noonan, Boston Globe -Wonderfully wicked.- -- Carol Memmott, USA Today A master storyteller... Haunting. -- Karen Sandstrom, Cleveland Plain Dealer In these 13 newly collected stories, we see a master craftsman at the top of his game and clearly enjoying himself.... Each story is a treat not just for King fans but for any fan of good fiction. -- Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer King is as sharp and disgusting as ever... Haunting. -- People magazine King lets the reader put the book down at night after one story, knowing another horrific treat awaits the next day. -- Amanda St. Amand, St. Louis Post Dispatch King continues to be dedicated to giving his readers a luxuriant experience, the basic pleasure of getting lost in a book. -- Charles Taylor, New York Times Book Review Quietly dazzling. -- Ted Anthony, Associated Press King is as sharp and versatile as ever. -- Erica Noonan, Boston Globe Wonderfully wicked. -- Carol Memmott, USA Today

King is as sharp and disgusting as ever... Haunting. -- People magazine

Author Information

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of 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 Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Ron McLarty has appeared on Broadway in That Championship Season, Our Country's Good, and Moonchildren. His film credits include Two Bits, The Postman, and The Flamingo Kid. He has starred on television in Spenser for Hire and Cop Rock. Mr. McLarty is also a novelist and an award-winning playwright. Mare Winningham has appeared in more than fifty film and television projects, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Georgia and Emmy Awards for the telefilms George Wallace and Amber Waves. She is also an accomplished singer-songwriter.

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