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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Horror & ghost stories, Short stories
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Hodder Paperbacks
- Paperback Sep 9, 2025 | 9781399725132 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 21, 2024 | 9781399725095 | RRP $59.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 21, 2024 | 9781399725125 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 21, 2024 | 9781399725118 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Sep 9, 2025 | 9781399725132 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 21, 2024 | 9781399725095 | RRP $59.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 21, 2024 | 9781399725125 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 21, 2024 | 9781399725118 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Sep 9, 2025 | 9781399725132 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 21, 2024 | 9781399725095 | RRP $59.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 21, 2024 | 9781399725125 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 21, 2024 | 9781399725118 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Sep 9, 2025 | 9781399725132 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 21, 2024 | 9781399725095 | RRP $59.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 21, 2024 | 9781399725125 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 21, 2024 | 9781399725118 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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With a bonus story for the paperback edition, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller (May 2024) is a collection of thrilling stories, many never-before-published.
** With a bonus story for the paperback edition. **
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I' writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal.
Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys and mysteries; each feels iconic. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, sees a grieving widower travel to Florida for respite and instead receive an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. '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 writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind' and his ability to surprise, amaze and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed.
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
'One of the great storytellers of our time' Guardian
Praise for You Like It Darker: the Sunday Times number one bestseller (May 2024)
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One of the great storytellers of our time - Guardian
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As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years - USA Today
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King is writing some of the best work of his long career - Seattle Times
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King proves he's still a master of short fiction in his sterling seventh collection... This remarkably assured collection will thrill the author's fans - Publishers' Weekly
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Displays his familiar, unmatched ability to embed moments of fantasy or horror in otherwise social-realist tales - Sunday Times
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Entertaining - Daily Mail
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King explores the darkest aspects of human existence through metaphorical monsters and psychological thrills (and sometimes pure realism) while demonstrating how morality always has a chance to prevail - Evening Standard
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A master class in tension - New York Times Book Review
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Stephen King
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include Fairy Tale, Holly, and If It Bleeds, all number one Sunday Times bestsellers.
Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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