everythings eventual 14 dark  tales    stephan king The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares  Dreamscapes nine years ago Everythings Eventual includes one O Henry Prize winner two other award winners four stories published by The New Yorker and Riding the Bullet Kings original ebook which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade Riding the Bullet published here on paper for the first time is the story of Alan Parker whos hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride farther than he ever intended In Lunch at the Gotham Caf a sparring couples contentious lunch turns very very bloody when the matre 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 doesnt kill him he wont be writing about ghosts anymore And in That Feeling You Can Only Say What It Is In French terror is dj vu at 16000 feet 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 Everythings Eventual Intense eerie and instantly compelling they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time