02145cam a2200349Ii 4500 27218 27218 1165369845 OCoLC 20200901104805.0 191115s2020 nyu 000 1 eng d 9781982137977 (OCoLC)1165369845 Me eng rda Me King, Stephen, 1947- author. 343 If it bleeds : new fiction / Stephen King. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. 436 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent. still image rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Four novellas. Mr. Harrigan's phone -- The life of Chuck -- If it bleeds -- Rat. "The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an EC Comics vibe. In the profoundly moving 'The Life of Chuck,' a series of apocalyptic incidents bear out one character's claim that 'when a man or a woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin.' 'Rat' sees a frustrated writer strike a Faustian bargain to complete his novel, and in the title story, private investigator Holly Gibney, the recurring heroine of King's Bill Hodges trilogy and The Outsider, faces off against a ghoulish television newscaster who vampirically feeds off the anguish he provokes in his audience by covering horrific tragedies"--Publishers Weekly. Maine author. Stephen King lives in Bangor, ME. Short stories, American. 2878 Horror tales, American. 1122 Good and evil Fiction. 5573 Horror fiction. lcgft. 2964 Novellas. lcgft. 5574 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2020-09-01 30.00 2 KING 51422 2023-12-05 2023-11-18 2020-09-01 BOOK