ISBN: 1501143506 9781501143502

Category: Fiction / Horror

Page count: 512

<b>Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture!</b><br> <br><b>The #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King. </b><br><br>An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And a desert island is the scene of the most frightening struggle for survival ever waged.<br> <br> Featuring the short story “The Monkey” (now a major motion picture) and the novella “The Mist,” which was both a feature film and television series, as well as many other haunting now classic tales, this magnificent collection is enduring and irresistible proof that Stephen King is a true master of the short story form.<br> <br> Table of Contents:<br> “The Mist” <br> “Here There Be Tygers”<br> “The Monkey”<br> “Cain Rose Up”<br> “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”<br> “The Jaunt”<br> “The Wedding Gig”<br> “Paranoid: A Chant”<br> “The Raft”<br> “Word Processor of the Gods”<br> “The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands”<br> “Beachworld”<br> “The Reaper’s Image”<br> “Nona”<br> “For Owen”<br> “Survivor Type”<br> “Uncle Otto’s Truck”<br> “Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)”<br> “Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)”<br> “Gramma”<br> “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”<br> “The Reach”