''Everything's Eventual'' is a 2002 collection of 11
short stories
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and 3 novellas by American writer
Stephen King
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.
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
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Spoken audio has been available in sch ...
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
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Following his acting deb ...
* "
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'' contains these stories:
* "
The Man in the Black Suit"
* "
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away"
* "
The Death of Jack Hamilton"
* "
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French"
''Everything's Eventual: Volume 2'' is a retitled edition of ''The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales'', along with the addition of "Riding the Bullet". It contains these stories:
* "
The Man in the Black Suit"
* "
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away"
* "
The Death of Jack Hamilton"
* "
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French"
* "
Riding the Bullet"
''
Blood and Smoke'' contains these stories:
* "
1408"
* "
In the Deathroom"
* "
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe"
"
L. T.'s Theory of Pets" and "
Riding the Bullet" are available as individual single-story productions.
Film adaptations
Of the stories King wrote for this collection, two became films and another is in the works. The novella ''
Riding the Bullet'' became a
direct-to-video film by the same name, released in 2004 and directed by
Mick Garris, who made many films and TV miniseries of King's works, and the film ''
1408'' (2007) appeared in theaters, starring
John Cusack
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. "
The Death of Jack Hamilton" was adapted for the screen for the first time as part of King's "
Dollar Baby" deal, and an official teaser trailer for the film was released on September 1, 2012, with an expected release date in 2013.
See also
*
Stephen King short fiction bibliography
References
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2002 short story collections
American short story collections
Charles Scribner's Sons books
Short story collections by Stephen King