STEPHEN
KING
Everything's
Eventual
1 4 D A R K T A L E S
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The following selections, some in different form, were previously published: "Autopsy Room Four" in Robert Bloch's Psychos; "The Man in the Black Suit" in The New Yorker and Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 1995; "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" and "The Death of Jack Hamilton" in The New Yorker; "In the Deathroom" on Blood and Smoke (audio book); "The Little Sisters of Eluria" in Legends; "Everything's Eventual" in Fantasy & Science Fiction and on F13 (CD-ROM); "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" in The Best of the Best 1998; "The Road Virus Heads North" in 999; "Lunch at the Gotham Café" in Dark Love, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 1996 and on Blood and Smoke (audio book); "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" in The New Yorker; "1408" on Blood and Smoke (audio book); "Riding the Bullet" as a Scribner e-book; and "Luckey Quarter" in USA Weekend.
This is for Shane Leonard
Contents
What I did was take all the spades out of a deck of cards plus a joker. Ace to King = 1–13. Joker = 14. I shuffled the cards and dealt them. The order in which they came out of the deck became the order of the stories, based on their position in the list my publisher sent me. And it actually created a very nice balance between the literary stories and the all-out screamers. I also added an explanatory note before or after each story, depending on which seemed the more fitting position. Next collection: selected by Tarot.
Introduction: Practicing the (Almost) Lost Art 11
Autopsy Room Four 19
The Man in the Black Suit 45
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away 71
The Death of Jack Hamilton 87
In the Deathroom 119
The Little Sisters of Eluria 145
Everything's Eventual 211
