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These stories explore the slow decay beneath polished surfaces, where ordinary life begins to warp under unseen pressures. You might find yourself unsettled by the strange occurrences in «Bag of Bones» or the escalating paranoia in «The Institute». They present moments when the familiar turns deeply strange.

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The small routines that keep us from turning around when something follows.

This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root canal at a time; boat builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things — fish and unicorns and men on horseback — but they are really only clouds.
Excerpt from Bag of Bones, Stephen King, Scribner 1998. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

  4. Cell

    Stephen King, 2006

    A cell-phone signal turns every caller into a mindless killer, and a father crosses a collapsing world to reach his son.

  9. Bunny

    Mona Awad, 2019

    A broke MFA student watches a clique of rich, eerie women call each other Bunny, then gets pulled into their workshop—a social satire that curdles into horror.

  11. Carrie

    Stephen King, 1974

    A high-school outcast with a terrifying gift and a fanatically religious mother faces the ordinary cruelty of her town.

  15. Doctor Sleep

    Stephen King, 2013

    Danny Torrance, the boy from The Shining, is now a drifting alcoholic—until a girl with the same gift pulls him into a fight against something that feeds on children.

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  1. The question underneath every loss: not why we hurt, but who we were.

    I cried, all right. I sat there at my desk and I cried for her, for me, for both of us, for all of us. I can’t remember hurting any more in my life than I did then. Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don’t break, and I’m sure that’s right ... but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?

    Hearts in Atlantis · Stephen King

  2. The speed with which ordinary life becomes archaeology.

    Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood, but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. It was as if it had been waiting to go. On October 1, God was in His heaven, the stock market stood at 10,140, and most of the planes were on time (except for those landing and taking off in Chicago, and that was to be expected). Two weeks later the skies belonged to the birds again and the stock market was a memory. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.

    Cell · Stephen King

  3. The most dangerous people are the ones who sigh at bad news.

    There was a perfunctory knock at the door, and then Rosalind stuck her head in, looking apologetic. “I’m sorry to disturb you, ma’am, but it’s Fred Clark, asking to see you. He seems-” “Refresh me. Who is Fred Clark?” Mrs. Sigsby took off her reading glasses and rubbed the sides of her nose. “One of the janitors.” “Find out what he wants and tell me later. If we’ve got mice chewing the wiring again, it can wait. I’m busy.” “He says it’s important, and he seems extremely upset.” Mrs. Sigsby sighed, closed the folder, and put it in a drawer. “All right, send him in. But this had better be good.” It wasn’t. It was bad. Very.

    The Institute · Stephen King

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