Ричард Бакман

"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—now available for the first time as a stand-alone publication.It’s …

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. Theres no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and its more than a year before the man is identified.And thats just the beginning of the mystery. Because the …