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You Like It Darker: the Sunday Times number one bestseller (May 2024)

Stephen King

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Horror & ghost stories, Short stories

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- 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
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- Audiobook May 21, 2024 | 9781399725125 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
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- Hardback May 21, 2024 | 9781399725095 | RRP $59.99 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

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Praise for You Like It Darker: the Sunday Times number one bestseller (May 2024)

One of the great storytellers of our time - Guardian
As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years - USA Today
King is writing some of the best work of his long career - Seattle Times
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
Displays his familiar, unmatched ability to embed moments of fantasy or horror in otherwise social-realist tales - Sunday Times
Entertaining - Daily Mail
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
A master class in tension - New York Times Book Review