So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to the No. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realises there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. “An adroit vehicle to showcase the…nature of evil” ( The Boston Globe), If It Bleeds is “exactly what I wanted to read right now,” says Ruth Franklin in The New York Times Book Review.The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller featuring a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider as well as the novella 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', soon to be a Netflix original film. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there’s plenty of it. If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider-this time on her own. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” ( Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” ( Shawshank Redemption). Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Harrigan’s Phone”- now a Netflix original film starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell!įrom the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm mastery of the form” ( The Washington Post).
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