Stephen King

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Jochen Stremmel

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Everything's Eventual

Matt Eaves

Great little read. Fun to read a collection of short stories versus a full novel, but ready for a novel now. Best story - The Road Virus Heads North

Worst - L.T.s Theory of Pets

Delaney Woods 

good short story collection, some genuinely scared me
these are my ratings for each individual story: 

autopsy room four: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
the man in the black suit: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
all that you love will be carried away: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
the death of jack hamilton: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
in the deathroom: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
the little sisters of eluria: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
everything’s eventual: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
l.t.‘s theory of pets: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
the road virus heads north: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
lunch at the gotham cafe: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
that feeling, you can only say what it is in french: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
1408: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
riding the bullet: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
luckey quarter: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Celeste Richardson

I enjoyed this collection overall. As with any short story collection, some were more successful than others. But none of them were bad enough for me to skip on to the next. I especially enjoyed “Autopsy Room Four,” “The Little Sisters or Eluria,” and “1408.” There’s an unusually high number of unhappy marriages in this collection. And everyone either smokes or is trying to quit. Every story seemed to be fueled by angsty relationships and nicotine. But I found this to be by and large and fun mix.

Hannah Futterman

* Autopsy Room Four- 5 stars 
* Man in the Black Suit- 5 stars 
* All That You Love Will Be Carried Away - 3 stars
* Death of Jack Hamilton - 2 stars 
* In the Deathroom - 4 stars 
* Little Sisters of Eluria - 4 stars 
* Everything's Eventual - 5 stars 
* L.T.'s Theory of Pets - 4 stars 
* Road Virus Heads North - 4 stars 
* Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - 5 stars 
* That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French - 3 stars 
* 1408 - 4 stars 
* Riding the Bullet - 5 stars 
* Luckey Quarter - 2 stars

Melody Izard

There were 5 Stephen King type tales. Rather average. Stephen King type creepy. The Gunslinger was my least favorite. But I will still keep the Dark Tower series on my to read list.

From the Flap:

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The 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 Cafe," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maitre 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 writing about ghosts anymore. And in "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French," terror is deja vu at 16,000 feet. Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

14 Dark Tales

Carla Borralho

Features the tale "1408," now a Dimension Films motion picture starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

Also inside is the blockbuster eBook "Riding the Bullet," the original audio story "In the Deathroom," plus eleven more boundary-pushing fiction masterworks that will keep you awake until daybreak.
--back cover

Dorian Avers

In all honestly I was a bit disappointed with this collection. The first story "Autopsy Room Four" frightened me, which was great. The thought of being utterly helpless while others around you are moving like nothing is wrong, unaware that they are hurting you. Off to a great start. Then we hit "The Man in the Black Suit" and "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" which I thought were okay, just a few shorts leading up to another good one. I was under the impression that all the stories in here would be scary, horror stories, I wasn't aware that Stephen King wrote anything other than that. So that's on me. King says that he tries to write one short story a year and I think that's great. I like that he just writes, he doesn't box himself into a genre, he tests his skills, it's admirable. I did enjoy both "The Death of Jack Hamilton" and "In the Deathroom" which are both based on real people and loosely on events. "The Little Sisters of Eluria" is where King lost me. This short story was based on another book or series that King enjoyed and he stated that in his short introduction to the piece. (I really enjoyed King's brief introductions before each story. It was a nice little break and tidbit of insight). He said that even if you hadn't read the other books you'd still be fine to follow along. King changed his writing style to match the other author's and I really didn't like it. I've also never been able to get into fantasy, so I guess I should've known going into this that I wouldn't enjoy myself. I'm glad King wrote what he wanted and it was something different, but definitely not for me and I almost gave up on it. I hate quitting books though, so I powered through. 
 "Everything's Eventual" was pretty cool and made me wish for superpowers and "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" was funny and easy going until you remembered that his wife's fate is still unknown. "The Road Virus Heads North" was one of the stories that stuck with me. It made me wish that I had been born a little bit sooner so that I could've read King before so many of his stories were overused or recycled by other authors. Was King the one coming up with most of these original ideas or were authors all writing stuff similar to this, and King just did it the best? King does say in some of his intros that "this is a story every thriller or horror author should do their own version of" or something like that. I could look into some of this, but how did King get as big as he is? Were his ideas that terrifyingly original? Was it because he wasn't afraid to be blunt or a bit vulgar? 
 "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" was one of those stories that make you realize humans can be the scariest monsters of all. "That Feeling, Only You Can Say What It Is In French" was a story I didn't enjoy until the very last page or two when we were told what had happened. I loved the detail about the charred magazine. "1408" is the familiar work in this book. I'd seen part of the movie with John Cusack so I already knew the story. After seeing the movie, however, it made the story feel like it lacked detail and imagination. In King's defense he just wrote a short story, the movie was probably an hour and a half, it's not a very fair comparison. "Riding the Bullet" was a good story, a quick and enjoyable read. "Luckey Quarter" was a happy-ish final story for the collection. 
 I guess my biggest problem with this collection was the lack of surprise or horror in them. So many of these ideas and plots I've seen done before so it took away a lot of excitement. That's not necessarily King's fault because I'm a few decades late to reading these. I have Stephen King's "The Green Mile" on my shelf and I'm still down to read that, but after reading these short stories, it will be awhile. Looking back on these stories while writing this I realized that I did enjoy most of them for differing reasons. All except one, I think, but that one just left a sour taste in my mouth that I never quite got over.

Adrianna Giunta

This is probably the first short story collection I’ve ever read that I’ve actually enjoyed all of the stories. Some were just good but a lot of them actually scared me. My favourites were “the man in the black suit”, “the road virus heads north”, “1408” and “riding the bullet”. Can’t wait to read more short story collections from King!

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International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his first collection of short stories in almost a decade. In this spine-chilling compilation, King takes readers down a road less traveled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-Book "Riding the Bullet," bad table service turns bloody when you stop in for "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What IT IS in French"--along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybreak. Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
--back cover

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