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Everything's Eventual
''Everything's Eventual'' is a 2002 collection of 11 short stories and 3 novellas by American writer Stephen King. Stories "The Little Sisters of Eluria" is part of '' The Dark Tower'' series. Story order In the introduction to the book, King describes the unusual method he used to sort the stories: Audio versions The unabridged digital audiobook edition includes all fourteen stories, but the physical book-on-cd versions of the stories are spread out over several products. " L.T.'s Theory of Pets" is the only story not included in any of the book-on-cd collections, but rather as a standalone product. ''Everything's Eventual: Five Dark Tales'' contains these stories: * " Everything's Eventual" – read by Justin Long * " Autopsy Room Four" – read by Oliver Platt * " The Little Sisters of Eluria" – read by Boyd Gaines * " Luckey Quarter" – read by Judith Ivey * " The Road Virus Heads North" – read by Jay O. Sanders ''The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them Thriller (genre), suspense, crime fiction, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery fiction, mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately Stephen King short fiction bibliography, 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.Jackson, Dan (February 18, 2016)"A Beginner's Guide to Stephen King Books". Thrillist. Retrieved February 5, 2019. His debut novel, debut, ''Carrie (novel), Carrie'' (1974), established him in horror. ''Different Seasons'' (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976 film), ''Carrie'' (1976), The Shining (film), ''The Shining'' (1980), The Dead Zone (film), ''The Dead Zone'' and Christine (1983 film), ''Christine'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legends (book)
''Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy'' is a 1998 anthology of 11 novellas (short novels) by a number of English-language fantasy authors, edited by Robert Silverberg. All the stories were original to the collection, and set in the authors' established fictional worlds. The anthology won a Locus Award for Best Anthology in 1999. Its science fiction equivalent, '' Far Horizons'', followed in 1999. The collection has a sequel, '' Legends II'', published in 2003. Contents * Stephen King: " The Little Sisters of Eluria" ('' The Dark Tower'') * Terry Goodkind: " Debt of Bones" (''The Sword of Truth'') * Orson Scott Card: "Grinning Man" (''The Tales of Alvin Maker'') * Robert Silverberg: "The Seventh Shrine" ( Majipoor) * Ursula K. Le Guin: "Dragonfly" (Earthsea) * Raymond E. Feist: "The Wood Boy" (''The Riftwar Cycle'') * Terry Pratchett: " The Sea and Little Fishes" (''Discworld'') * George R. R. Martin: '' The Hedge Knight'' (novella, ''A Song of Ice and Fire'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joker (playing Card)
The Joker is a playing card found in most modern French-suited playing cards, French-suited card decks, as an addition to the standard four Playing card suit, suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades). Since the second half of the 20th century, they have also been found in Spanish-suited playing cards, Spanish- and Italian playing cards, Italian-suited decks, excluding stripped decks. The Joker originated in the United States during the American Civil War, Civil War, and was created as a Trump (card games), trump card for the game of Euchre. It has since been adopted into many other card games, where it often acts as a Wild card (cards), wild card, but may have other functions such as the top trump, a skip card (forcing another player to miss a turn), the lowest-ranking card, the highest-value card, or a card of a different value from the rest of the pack (see e.g. Zwicker (card game), Zwicker which has six Jokers with this function). By contrast, a wild card is any card that m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (series)
''The Dark Tower'' is a series of eight novels, one novella, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels. In addition to the eight novels of the series proper that comprise 4,250 pages, many of King's other books relate to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses. The series was chiefly inspired by the poem " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, the full text of which was included in the final volume's appendix. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of '' The Gunslinger'', King also identifies ''The Lord of the Rings'', Arthurian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Weekend
''USA Weekend'' was an American weekend newspaper magazine published from 1953 to 2014. Founded as ''Family Weekly,'' it was purchased in 1985 by the Gannett Company, which turned it into a sister publication to Gannett's flagship newspaper ''USA Today'' and distributed it in the Sunday editions of participating local newspapers, At its peak, ''USA Weekend'' was the country's second-largest national magazine supplement (behind ''Parade'') and was distributed to more than 800 newspapers nationwide. Gannett ceased publication after the December 28, 2014, issue, citing a decline in print advertising and a company effort to minimize duplicative offerings. Overview The publication was incorporated in 1953 as ''Family Weekly'', a weekend magazine intended for distribution with newspapers. By the mid-1980s, it was carried in 362 newspapers nationwide for a total circulation of 12.8 million copies, making it the third-largest weekly magazine in the U.S., ranking behind its main compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luckey Quarter
"Luckey Quarter" is a short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in '' USA Weekend'' in 1995. Plot summary Darlene Pullen, who is a struggling single mother with two children (a rebellious teenage daughter and a sickly young son) and an unfulfilling job as a chambermaid at The Rancher's Hotel in Carson City, Nevada, is left a tip of a single quarter with a note saying that it is a "luckey uckyquarter". She takes a quick gamble on it and finds that it brings her some small luck. Moving on to a real casino, she keeps trying her luck, and soon she's winning thousands of dollars. All seems to be going exceedingly well until she suddenly reappears back in the hotel room, left with nothing but her lucky quarter. All of her success was a fantasy. As her two children come to visit her at work, she lets her son have the quarter, and as he uses it in a gamble, it starts to pay off just as it did when Darlene was fantasizing. Publication "Luckey Quarter" was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-book
An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent. E-books can be read on dedicated e-reader devices, also on any computer device that features a controllable viewing screen, including desktop computers, laptops, tablet computer, tablets and smartphones. In the 2000s, there was a trend of print and e-book sales moving to the Internet, where readers buy traditional paper books and e-books on websites using e-commerce systems. With print books, readers are increasingly browsing through images of the covers of books on publisher or bookstore websites and selecting and ordering titles online. The paper books are then delivered to the reader by mail or any other delivery servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riding The Bullet
''Riding the Bullet'' is a horror novella by American writer Stephen King. It marked King's debut on the Internet. Simon & Schuster, with technology by SoftLock, first published ''Riding the Bullet'' in 2000 as the world's first mass-market e-book, available for download at $2.50. That year, the novella was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Long Form. In 2002, the novella was included in King's collection '' Everything's Eventual''. Publication During the first 24 hours, over 400,000 copies of ''Riding the Bullet'' were downloaded, jamming SoftLock's server. Some Stephen King fans waited hours for the download. With over 500,000 downloads, Stephen King seemed to pave the way for the future of publishing. The actual number of readers was unclear because the encryption caused countless computers to crash. The total financial gross of the electronic publication remains uncertain. Initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1408 (short Story)
"1408" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the audiobook collection '' Blood and Smoke'', released in 1999. In 2002, "1408" was collected in written form in King's '' Everything's Eventual''. In the introduction to the story, King says that "1408" is his version of what he calls the "Ghostly Room at the Inn", his term for the theme of haunted hotel or motel rooms in horror fiction. He originally wrote the first few pages as part of an appendix for his non-fiction book, '' On Writing'' (2000), to be used as an example of how a story changes from one draft document to the next. King also noted how the numbers of the title add up to the supposedly unlucky number 13. Plot Mike Enslin is a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places: ''Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses'', ''Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards'', and ''Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles''. They prove to be best-sellers, but Enslin feels some guilt at their success, private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French
"That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in the June 22, 1998 issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection '' Everything's Eventual''. It focuses on a married woman in a car ride on vacation constantly repeating the same events over and over, each event ending with the same gruesome outcome. In his closing remarks, King suggested that Hell is not "other people," as Sartre claimed "Claimed" is the eleventh episode of the The Walking Dead season 4, fourth season of the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic Horror fiction, horror television series ''The Walking Dead (TV series), The Walking Dead'', wh ..., but repetition, enduring the same pain over and over again without end. Plot summary As the story progresses, a woman (Carol) begins to have déjà vu of the same car ride on their second honeymoon with the same blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunch At The Gotham Café
"Lunch at the Gotham Café" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It originally appeared in the 1995 anthology ''Dark Love'' (edited by Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer& and Martin H. Greenberg). It won the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection '' Six Stories''. In 2002, it was included in King's collection '' Everything's Eventual'', with a scene from the story featured on the cover of the collection's first edition dust jacket. Plot summary Steven Davis comes home one day to find a letter from his wife, Diane, coldly stating she has left him and intends to get a divorce. He finds himself baffled as to what led her to do this, and over time becomes increasingly depressed. Diane's departure prompts him to give up cigarettes, and he begins to suffer nicotine withdrawal. Diane's lawyer, William Humboldt, calls Steve with plans to meet with the two of them for lunch. He decides on the Goth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
999 (anthology)
{{Infobox book , name = 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense , image = Al Sarrantonio - 999 New Stories Of Horror And Suspense.jpeg , caption = First edition cover , cover_artist = Amy Halperin , author = Al Sarrantonio (editor) , country = United States , language = English , genre = Horror, Fantasy, Anthology , publisher = Avon Books (hardcover), Perennial (paperback) , release_date = 1999 , media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback) , pages = 666 , isbn = 978-0-380-97740-6 , dewey= 813/.08738 21 , congress= PS648.H6 A16 1999 , oclc= 41039795 ''999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense'' (changed to ''999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense'' for the paperback; both generally shortened to ''999'') is a collection of short stories and novellas published in 1999 and edited by Al Sarrantonio. The title is a contraction of the year as well as 666 upside-down. All twenty-nine stories had neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
