Everything's Eventual
Stephen King
Pocket
<p><span><em>Everything's Eventual</em> includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by <em>The New Yorker,</em>
 and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over
half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of
the decade. </span></p><p> "Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for the
first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his
dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In
 "Lunch at the Gotham Café," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns
 very, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. "1408," the
audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer
whose specialty is "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten Nights
 in Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel
doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. And in "That
 Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French," terror is déjà vu at
16,000 feet. </p><p> Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the
 near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking
to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen
dark tales assembled in <em>Everything's Eventual.</em> Intense, eerie,
and instantly com-pelling, they announce the stunningly fertile
imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.</p><p></p>