{"product_id":"everythings-eventual-9780743235150","title":"Everything's Eventual","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes the story \"The Man in the Black Suit\"--set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA collection of 14 dark tales, \u003ci\u003eEverything's Eventual \u003c\/i\u003eincludes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"Riding the Bullet,\" King's original ebook, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo of the stories, \"The Little Sisters of Eluria\" and \"Everything's Eventual\" are closely related to the Dark Tower series. \"Riding the Bullet,\" published here on paper for the first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In \"Lunch at the Gotham Café,\" a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. \"1408,\" the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is \"Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards\" or \"Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses,\" and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStories include: \u003cbr\u003e -Autopsy Room Four\u003cbr\u003e -The Man in the Black Suit\u003cbr\u003e -All That You Love Will Be Carried Away\u003cbr\u003e -The Death of Jack Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e -In the Deathroom\u003cbr\u003e -The Little Sisters of Eluria\u003cbr\u003e -Everything's Eventual\u003cbr\u003e -L. T.'s Theory of Pets\u003cbr\u003e -The Road Virus Heads North\u003cbr\u003e -Lunch at the Gotham Café\u003cbr\u003e -That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French\u003cbr\u003e -1408\u003cbr\u003e -Riding the Bullet\u003cbr\u003e -Luckey Quarter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in \u003ci\u003eEverything's Eventual.\u003c\/i\u003e Intense, eerie, and instantly com-pelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes \u003ci\u003eNever Flinch\u003c\/i\u003e, the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou Like It Darker (\u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003etop ten horror book of 2024), \u003ci\u003eHolly\u003c\/i\u003e (a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2023), \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Summers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf It Bleeds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Institute\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElevation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauties\u003c\/i\u003e (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: \u003ci\u003eEnd of Watch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMr. Mercedes\u003c\/i\u003e (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel \u003ci\u003e11\/22\/63\u003c\/i\u003e was named a top ten book of 2011 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Mystery\/Thriller. His epic works \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Tower\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePet Sematary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFirestarter\u003c\/i\u003e are the basis for major motion pictures, with \u003ci\u003eIt \u003c\/i\u003enow 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720940290322,"sku":"9780743235150","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f253a6b-bc77-4149-ae0f-a5bf8907812c.jpg?v=1762941978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everythings-eventual-9780743235150","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}