However, the more important question is … is If It Bleeds any good? Notably, it contains a story about Holly Gibney, a character from King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy and the stand-alone novel The Outsider. Still, it’s four stories and we all know that King likes that number. Suffice to say, If It Bleeds seems to be playing loosey-goosey with the concept of what makes a novella a novella.
This is a collection of four novellas, though the first two stories in the book are perhaps short enough to be considered novelettes more so than novellas, and the titular story “If It Bleeds” is long enough to be almost a short novel. King’s latest book, If It Bleeds, is no different. Ever since publishing Different Seasons in the early ’80s, every time that King publishes a novella collection, you can be guaranteed that it will contain exactly four new stories. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.It seems that Stephen King is infatuated with the number four. Has he gone to the horror well too often? Will it be as good as It or Dolores Claiborne or Doctor Sleep or any of his 50-plus other titles? Luckily, his scary ideas continue to flow unfettered from his mind to the pages, most recently in The Outsider.masterful.” "Every time Stephen King writes another book, I worry. Michael Berry, The Portland Press Herald Big, complex and inventive, it’s a well-honed continuation of his interest in the intersection of crime and horror fiction, demonstrating his consummate skill with both.” “King appears to be on a hot streak, that he extends with The Outsider.
All of these glories are on full display in his latest mystery-horror hybrid. "King is arguably as much an American icon as the ’68 Fastback or a classic red and white Plymouth Fury. Victor LaValle, New York Times Book Review "Here’s to mutant rats in the basement and Mexican myths here’s to the strange and to Stephen King. “An It for the Trump era.remarkable and deeply pleasurable.” Yet the most unsettling stuff - that which will leave you uncomfortable when you sit and devour this first-rate read - probes the monstrous side of human nature.” “There’s plenty of shadowy, wormy supernatural goings-on in Stephen King’s new novel The Outsider.
another shockingly dark book-perfect for longtime fans, of whom there are, well, zillions.” King’s skillful use of criminal forensics helps to ground his tale in a believable clinical reality where the horrors stand out in sharp relief.” “What begins as a manhunt for an unlikely doppelgänger takes an uncanny turn into the supernatural. will remind readers of King's early novel It." "A juicy tale that plays at the forefront of our current phobias.
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