The first collection of stories Stephen King has published sinceNightmares & Dreamscapesnine years ago,Everything's Eventualincludes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published byThe New Yorker,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."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 w...