Awesome! Seems at least the few stories mentioned are all new but hoping some of the 12 are from the uncollected bunch. There are some good ones to pick from. Very unusual for a King collection to have mostly previously unpublished stories.
Awesome! Seems at least the few stories mentioned are all new but hoping some of the 12 are from the uncollected bunch. There are some good ones to pick from. Very unusual for a King collection to have mostly previously unpublished stories.
There will be some reprints from stories previously published in magazines.
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A bit unlike King to write short stories and not publish them in magazines and such. Maybe he'll put out another collection sooner rather than later next time, to collect the rest.
Most of the new stories are quite long, so it's harder to find magazines etc. that would take them.
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Yeah I saw the UK edition is about 500 pages, and US editions are always more, so closer to the 600 that was originally estimated, which for 12 stories makes me really excited. That's an average of 50 pages per, which is novellette length if not novella. I think I remember King saying "Rattlesnakes" is a novella.
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As usual the US cover rocks
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-NG-F...dp/1668037718/ And larger cover:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fjILT8ZoL.jpg
You can read the opening of Rattlesnakes here.
Here is the complete table of contents:
- Two Talented Bastids
- The Fifth Step
- Willie the Weirdo
- Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream
- Finn
- On Slide Inn Road
- Red Screen
- The Turbulence Expert
- Laurie
- Rattlesnakes
- The Dreamers
- The Answer Man
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I was hoping the cover would be a wraparound:
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What remains uncollected since Bazaar in 2015:Originally Posted by Bev Vincent
- Cookie Jar
- The Music Room
- Thin Scenery
- Squad D
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
Bummed Cookie Jar and Music Room aren't in there. I liked them both.
Besides this, which I've never heard of, was Cookie Jar an audiobook?
"An abridged radio adaptation of "Cookie Jar" was broadcast in three parts by BBC Radio 4 in October 2016 as part of its Fright Night Shorts series."
Cookie Jar was narrated by Santino Fontana in Bazaar of Bad Dreams. The Music Room was narrated by Maggie Sift in Gwendy's Button Box.
Uncle Stevie is not wasting much thought on the title these days. "Holly" and now this one which sounds like a bad anthology on Shudder.
Not sure what makes Holly worse title than Christine or Carrie or Nona or...
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A Face in the Crowd came out from Cemetery Dance, with The Lomgest December.
Who said that?
Then I guess I don't know what you meant by "these days".
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It means the last couple of books in response to the recent announcement of the title of the upcoming book. That doesn't preclude titles from other periods during his career from being uninspired. Some were good, and some were terrible like this one and "Holly."
It's no better or worse than any of his other collection titles.
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I haven't read Holly, but based on the blurb, which paints it as an interesting story in its own right, I thought it deserved something more than the name of a character who has appeared a number of times before.
Eastasia has always taught college students to feel pride or shame according to their race.
Tune in to the YouTube Premiere of Stephen reading an excerpt from his upcoming collection You Like It Darker on April 18th at 2pm EST.
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Award-winning narrator Will Patton will read the audiobook edition of YOU LIKE IT DARKER with select stories read by Stephen King
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I have it on reserve at my local library. I enjoy listening to the recorded version after reading new SK releases.
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