TY - BOOK AU - King, Stephen, TI - You Like It Darker: Stories SN - 9781399725101 U1 - 813 PY - 2024/// CY - London, UK PB - Hodder & Stoughton KW - Fate and fatalism KW - Fiction KW - Mortality KW - Inheritance and succession KW - US & CAN thriller / suspense fiction KW - Short stories KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Horror fiction N2 - 'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again ER -