You Like It Darker The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (May 2024)

<p><b>** With a bonus story for the paperback edition. **</b><br> <br> 'You like it darker? Fine, so do I' writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal.<br> <br> Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys and mysteries; each feels iconic. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, sees a grieving widower travel to Florida for respite and instead receive an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.<br> <br> King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind' and his ability to surprise, amaze and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed.<br> <br> <b>You like it darker? You got it.</b><br> <br> 'As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years' <i><b>USA Today</b></i><br> 'One of the great storytellers of our time' <i><b>Guardian</b></i></p>