You Like It Darker

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 HORROR BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HORROR ΓÇ£Stephen King knows You Like It Darker and obliges with sensational new talesΓÇ¥ (USA TODAY): From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King,an extraordinary collection of stories that are ΓÇ£a master class in tension and full of KingΓÇÖs dark humorΓÇ¥ (The New York Times Book Review)ΓÇönow with a bonus storyΓÇ£The Music Room.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£You like it darker? Fineso do IΓÇ¥ writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of lifeΓÇöboth metaphorical and literal. King hasfor half a centurybeen a master of the formand these storiesabout fatemortalityluckand the folds in reality where anything can happenare as rich and riveting as his novelsboth weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel ΓÇ£the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behindΓÇ¥ and in You Like It Darkerreaders will feel that exhilaration tooagain and again. ΓÇ£Two Talented BastidsΓÇ¥ explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In ΓÇ£Danny CoughlinΓÇÖs Bad DreamΓÇ¥ a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of livesDannyΓÇÖs most catastrophically. In ΓÇ£RattlesnakesΓÇ¥ a sequel to Cujoa grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritanceΓÇöwith major strings attached. In ΓÇ£The DreamersΓÇ¥ a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. ΓÇ£The Answer ManΓÇ¥ asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful. ΓÇ£KingΓÇÖs skills as a storyteller remain undimmedΓÇ¥ (The Minnesota Star Tribune) and his ability to surpriseamazeand bring us both terror and solace is unsurpassed. ΓÇ£The titular darkness promised is as riveting and all-consuming as everΓÇ¥ (New York magazine). You like it darker? You got it.