Item category 1: Short Stories

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.

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.

This collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard and we...

An old house turns out to not be as empty as its new owners supposed. A nobleman barters his soul in exchange for arcane knowledge. A stranger with a terrible curse looks for an unsuspecting victim to take her place. Monsters, killers and unquiet spirits stalk these stories, drawn from the places...

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort o...