# If It Bleeds (Export)

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- Authors: [Stephen King](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king)
- Language: en_US

## Description

If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas —Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds— each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.<br/><br/>A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider.<br/><br/>News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.<br/><br/>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. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.<br/><br/>Dancing alongside are three more long stories - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat'.<br/><br/>The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.

## Editions

### If It Bleeds (Export)

- Publisher: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN: 978-19-8217-972-4
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2021-06-08
- Language: en_US