"You Like It Darker" (2024), new collection

[Bev Vincent]

On the Talking Dead podcast, Steve announced his 2024 book -- a collection called You Like It Darker. Mostly new stories, mostly longer, he says.

[mae]

YAY!!!! I was hoping for this and actually thought about bring this up, since the last collection came out in 2015, and he's been putting out a new collection every seven years on average, so that should've come out last year. But there's been less uncollected short stories published in these last seven-plus years, so I hope it's a big book with new stuff but also the uncollected stuff.

Or is this a novella collection? If It Bleeds just came out in 2020, so it would seem sooner than usual.

[Bev Vincent]

YAY!!!! I was hoping for this and actually thought about bring this up, since the last collection came out in 2015, and he's been putting out a new collection every seven years on average, so that should've come out last year. But there's been less uncollected short stories published in these last seven-plus years, so I hope it's a big book with new stuff but also the uncollected stuff.

Or is this a novella collection? If It Bleeds just came out in 2020, so it would seem sooner than usual.

He said "mostly longer," and that he wanted to include a poem in it, so it seems more like a collection with some long pieces. Maybe Rattlesnake will be in it, too.

[mae]

There is at least one recent uncollected poem, Mostly Old Men from 2009.

[Niels]

On the Talking Dead podcast, Steve announced his 2024 book -- a collection called You Like It Darker. Mostly new stories, mostly longer, he says.

In what episode of The Talking Dead podcast is it? Is it already online?

[mae]

On the Talking Dead podcast, Steve announced his 2024 book -- a collection called You Like It Darker. Mostly new stories, mostly longer, he says.

In what episode of The Talking Dead podcast is it? Is it already online?

https://talkingscared.buzzsprout.com...-nerve-endings

[Bev Vincent]

Later in the interview, he says the collection is about 600 pages long.

[webstar1000]

The Talisman 3 was the best info from it. The worst? Another darn Holly book!!


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[St. Troy]

The Talisman 3 was the best info from it.

Wait; what?

[mae]

The Talisman 3 was the best info from it.

Wait; what?

See the T3 thread: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...58#post1274058

[St. Troy]

Thanks

[dnemec]

The Talisman 3 was the best info from it. The worst? Another darn Holly book!!


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Amen! I'm really getting tired of Holly!

[DoctorZaius]

Love Holly, sorry guys!

[Garrell]

I also am a big fan of Holly

[Ari_Racing]

Love Holly Gibney!

[MikeDuke]

3rd Tailsman sounds awesome to me, as well as the collection.

[mae]

[mae]

Just for information, here are all the uncollected stories King published since Bazaar in 2015:

• Cookie Jar
• The Music Room
• Thin Scenery
• Laurie
• The Turbulence Expert
• Squad D
• The Fifth Step
• On Slide Inn Road
• Red Screen
• Willie the Weirdo
• Finn

And of course various older uncollected stories, such as:

• The Glass Floor
• The Blue Air Compressor
• Weeds
• The Night of the Tiger
• Man With a Belly
• The Crate
• The Reploids
• The Old Dude's Ticker
• Throttle
• In the Tall Grass
• A Face in the Crowd
• The Rock and Roll Dead Zone

[CyberGhostface]

I know it's not King's book but Throttle and In The Tall Grass were both in Joe Hill's last collection.

[mae]

I know it's not King's book but Throttle and In The Tall Grass were both in Joe Hill's last collection.

Right but I meant an official King book.

[The Great Buchinsky]

I wonder if the “Frannie Falls in a Well” epilogue he wrote for The Stand mini-series will get collected?

[Randall Flagg]

I wonder if the “Frannie Falls in a Well” epilogue he wrote for The Stand mini-series will get collected?

Unlikely in this book.

[Herbie_Marsten]

What is Joe Hill's Anthology named?

[CyberGhostface]

What is Joe Hill's Anthology named?

Full Throttle.

[herbertwest]

Amazon UK gives the release date (may 21st 2024), the Hodder cover and the details of a few stories :



The presentation :

'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King's ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.

'As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years' - USA Today