The legendary horror author’s latest short story anthology hits bookshelves May 21, 2024.
Are you rabid for moreStephen King?
Then fear notor maybe fearplenty.
‘You Like It Darker’ by Stephen King.Scribner
The book features 12 tales from theCarrieauthor, many never-before-published.
And you might read an excerpt from the story below.
This was on Rattlesnake Road, which winds the four-mile length of Rattlesnake Key on the Florida Gulf Coast.
‘You Like It Darker’.Scribner
Houses and condos to the south; a few McMansions at the north end.
The curve was marked on either side by fluorescent green plastic kids, each bearing the warning SLOW!
I was already wondering if I’d bitten off more than I could chew.
One of the wheels had a squeak and could have used some oil.
She was wearing baggy shorts, sandals with knee-length socks, and a big blue sunhat.
I said it wouldn’t, but now I wondered.
I think you must be Mrs. Bell.
My name is Vic Trenton.
I’m staying at Greg’s house for awhile."
“A friend of Greg’s?
An old friend?”
“We worked in the same Boston ad agency.
I was a copywriter and he”
“Pictures and layout, I know.
Before he made the big bucks.”
She pushed the double pram closer, but not too close.
“Any friend of Greg’s, so on and so forth.
It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Or Allie, if you like.
No sign of this new flu?”
“I’m okay.
No cough, no fever.
I assume you are, too.”
One of the few nice things about being herein the summer is how most people clear out.
Can you believe that?"
I told her I had seen the same thing.
“Did you come here to get away from it?”
I needed some time off and the place was offered to me, so I took it."
That was far from the whole story.
“Vic, yo,” I said.
“Since we’re neighbors.”
Excerpted from YOU LIKE IT DARKER by Stephen King.
Copyright 2024 by Stephen King.
Reprinted with permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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