

If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider-this time on her own. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” ( Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” ( Shawshank Redemption).

Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction.

Harrigan’s Phone”- now a Netflix original film starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell!įrom the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm mastery of the form” ( The Washington Post).
