A thrilling collection of twenty stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with a wonderful bonus: in addition to his introduction to the whole collection, King gives the readers a fascinating introduction to each story with autobiographical comments on their origins and motivation... Effervescent yet poignant, juxtaposing the everyday against the unexpected, these stories comprise one of his finest gifts to his constant reader as well as to those fascinated by the autobiographical insights in his celebrated non-fiction title 'On Writing. '