 First edition cover | |
| Author | Stephen King |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Mark Stutzman |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | March 19, 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7432-3515-0 |
| Preceded by | Hearts in Atlantis |
| Followed by | Just After Sunset |
Everything's Eventual is a 2002 collection of 11 short stories and 3 novellas by American writer Stephen King.
| # | Title | Originally published in |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Autopsy Room Four" | Six Stories (1997) |
| 2 | "The Man in the Black Suit" | October 31, 1994 issue of The New Yorker |
| 3 | "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" | January 29, 2001 issue of The New Yorker |
| 4 | "The Death of Jack Hamilton" | December 24/31, 2001 issue of The New Yorker |
| 5 | "In the Deathroom" | Blood and Smoke audiobook (1999) |
| 6 | "The Little Sisters of Eluria" | Legends (1998) |
| 7 | "Everything's Eventual" | October/November 1997 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 8 | "L. T.'s Theory of Pets" | Six Stories (1997) |
| 9 | "The Road Virus Heads North" | 999 (1999) |
| 10 | "Lunch at the Gotham Café" | Dark Love (1995) |
| 11 | "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" | June 22/29, 1998 issue of The New Yorker |
| 12 | "1408" | Blood and Smoke audiobook (1999) |
| 13 | "Riding the Bullet" | Riding the Bullet e-book (2000) |
| 14 | "Luckey Quarter" | June 30/July 2, 1995 issue of USA Weekend |
"The Little Sisters of Eluria" is part of The Dark Tower series.
In the introduction to the book, King describes the unusual method he used to sort the stories:
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.
In 2023, the book was banned, in Clay County District Schools, Florida. [1]
The unabridged digital audiobook edition includes all fourteen stories, but the physical book-on-cd versions of the stories are spread out over several products. "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" is the only story not included in any of the book-on-cd collections, but rather as a standalone product.
Everything's Eventual: Five Dark Tales contains these stories:
The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales contains these stories:
Everything's Eventual: Volume 2 is a retitled edition of The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales, along with the addition of "Riding the Bullet". It contains these stories:
Blood and Smoke contains these stories:
"L. T.'s Theory of Pets" and "Riding the Bullet" are available as individual single-story productions.
Of the stories King wrote for this collection, two became films and another is in the works. The novella Riding the Bullet became a direct-to-video film by the same name, released in 2004 and directed by Mick Garris, who made many films and TV miniseries of King's works, and the film 1408 (2007) appeared in theaters, starring John Cusack. "The Death of Jack Hamilton" was adapted for the screen for the first time as part of King's "Dollar Baby" deal, [2] and an official teaser trailer for the film was released on September 1, 2012, with an expected release date in 2013. [3]
Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
Six Stories is a short story collection by Stephen King, published in 1997 by Philtrum Press. It is limited to 1100 copies, which are signed and numbered. Six Stories contains:
This is a list of short fiction works by Stephen King. This includes short stories, novelettes, and novellas, as well as poems. It is arranged chronologically by first publication. Major revisions of previously published pieces are also noted. Stephen King is sometimes credited with "nearly 400 short stories". However, all the known published pieces of short fiction are tabulated below. In all, 218 works are listed. Most of these pieces have been collected in King's seven short story collections: Night Shift (1978), Skeleton Crew (1985), Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993), Everything's Eventual (2002), Just After Sunset (2008), The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015), and You Like It Darker (2024); in King's five novella collections: Different Seasons (1982), Four Past Midnight (1990), Hearts in Atlantis (1999), Full Dark, No Stars (2010), and If It Bleeds (2020); and in the compilation Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (2000). Some of these pieces, however, remain uncollected.
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The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one novella, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels.
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Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy is a 1998 anthology of 11 novellas by a number of English-language fantasy authors, edited by Robert Silverberg. All the stories were original to the collection, and set in the authors' established fictional worlds. The anthology won a Locus Award for Best Anthology in 1999. Its science fiction equivalent, Far Horizons, followed in 1999.
A.K.A. Goldfish is the title of a 1994 American creator-owned comic book series written and drawn by Brian Michael Bendis, and published by Caliber Comics. The entire award-winning series was collected and published as a trade paperback by Caliber in 1996 and by Image, entitled Goldfish rather than A.K.A. Goldfish, in 1998, and again in 2001 as Goldfish: The Definitive Collection. Dark Horse published another collected edition, similarly titled simply Goldfish, in August 2022.
"The Death of Jack Hamilton" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in the December 24/31, 2001 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 2002, it was published in King's collection Everything's Eventual. This true crime story is based on the death of Jack Hamilton, a member of John Dillinger's first gang.
Joseph Hillström King, better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American writer. His work includes the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013), and The Fireman (2016); the short story collections 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Strange Weather (2017); and the comic book series Locke & Key (2008–2013). He has won awards including Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, and an Eisner Award.
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