"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of
his imagination in this Mystery & Suspense novel about a
seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world
where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be
higher--for that world or ours." --
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of
his imagination in this spellbinding hardcover novel about a
seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world
where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be
higher--for that world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at
baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy
load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was
ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to
take care of himself--and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he
meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a
recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked
shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart
to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette
tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows,
and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is
a portal to another world.
King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent
and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming
evil, and a heroic boy--and his dog--must lead the battle.
Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: "What could you write
that would make you happy?"
"As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be
asked, I saw a vast deserted city--deserted but alive. I saw the
empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying
overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn't
know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace
with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those
images released the story I wanted to tell."
* Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well
of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a
seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world
where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be
higher—for that world or ours.
*
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at
baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy
load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was
ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to
take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he
meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a
recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked
shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart
to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette
tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows,
and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is
a portal to another world.
King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent
and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming
evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle.
Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write
that would make you happy?”
“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be
asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the
empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying
overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t
know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace
with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those
images released the story I wanted to tell.”