Fairy Tale

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice! Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war,and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kidgreat at baseball and footballa decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was tenand grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeenhe meets a dog named Radar and her aging masterHoward Bowditcha recluse in a big house at the top of a big hillwith a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Thenwhen Bowditch dieshe leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knowsand has kept secret all his long lifeis that inside the shed is a portal to another world. Magnificentterrifyingand “spellbinding…packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhoodFairy Tale is vintage King at his finest” (Esquire). “Goodevila kingdom to savemonsters to slay—these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.” —Laura MillerSlate