Everything’s Eventual (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen King
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: Primarily the twentieth century
- Setting: The United States in both real and alternative dimensions
- Principal Characters: Dink Earnshaw, Alan Parker, Alfie Zimmer, Roland, Richard Kinnell
- Genres: Short fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Suicide, Twentieth century, Literature, Writing, Publishing or publishers, Fame, Horror, Internet, Signs or symbols
- Locales: United States, Earth, alternate versions of
With Everything’s Eventual: Fourteen Dark Tales, author Stephen King returns again to the short-story collection (his last collection, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, was published in 1993). Between 1993 and 2002, King changed publishers, published Bag of Bones (1998) to critical acclaim, survived a bizarre near-fatal car accident (recounted in his 2000 memoir On Writing), and finally established himself as a literary writer with four stories in The New Yorker magazine.
At the same time, however, King had his share of criticism. In a 2002 article...
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