My problem-and I’m sure many writers have it, not just newbies like me-is deciding where to start. “Good, evil, a kingdom to save, monsters to slay-these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.” -Laura Miller, Slate ExcerptĬhapter One: The Goddam Bridge. Magnificent, terrifying, and “spellbinding…packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhood, Fairy Tale is vintage King at his finest” ( Esquire). What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.Ĭharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. 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.
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Charlie learned how to take care of himself-and his dad. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. 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.Ĭharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice!
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