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 overhalf a million online readers and became the most famous short story ofthe decade."Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for thefirst time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see hisdying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In"Lunch at the Gotham Café," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turnsvery, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. "1408," theaudio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writerwhose specialty is "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten Nightsin Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hoteldoesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. And in "ThatFeeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French," terror is déjà vu at16,000 feet.Whether writing about encounters with the dead, thenear dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smokingto yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteendark tales assembled inEverything's Eventual.Intense, eerie,and instantly com-pelling, they announce the stunningly fertileimagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.