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''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

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      Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
      Published 1/21/2024
      ISBN-13 9781399725095
      978-1399725095
      ISBN-10 1399725092
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Stephen King

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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

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