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Everything's Eventual: Five Dark Tales Audiobook

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Read By: Boyd Gaines, Jay O. Sanders, Judith Ivey, Justin Long, Oliver Platt, various narrators Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 11.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781442370760

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

73:13 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

50 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

49:22 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

118

Publisher Description

Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade, as well as stories first published in The New Yorker, “1408,” made into a movie starring John Cusack.

“Riding the Bullet” is the story of Alan Parker, who’s hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In “Lunch at the Gotham Café,” a sparring couple’s contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d’ gets out of sorts. “1408,” the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is “Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards,” or “Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses,” and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn’t kill him, he won’t be writing about ghosts anymore. And in “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French,” terror is déjà vu at 16,000 feet.

Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen “brilliantly creepy” (USA TODAY) tales assembled in Everything’s Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

Stories include:

-Autopsy Room Four

-The Man in the Black Suit

-All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

-The Death of Jack Hamilton

-In the Deathroom

-The Little Sisters of Eluria

-Everything's Eventual

-L.T.'s Theory of Pets

-The Road Virus Heads North

-Lunch at the Gotham Café

-That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

-1408

-Riding the Bullet

-Luckey Quarter

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"I only read two of the stories in this collection and this review is only going to focus on one--The Little Sisters of Eluria (though 1408 was effectively creepy). This tale works as an addition to the world of the Dark Tower. There wasn't much action in it, and Roland is the only familiar character, but it was still good storytelling and quite satisfying."

— Xander (4 out of 5 stars)

Everything's Eventual Listener Reviews

Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 (4.00)
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Narration: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 (5.00)
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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Narration Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Story Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    — sendie hutchinson, 2/25/2023
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " This was one of his better short story compilations. Most of the stories were really good, creepy, scared the poo out of me or a combination of all three! Not a keeper, but that's due to lack of room on my shelves more than anything else. I'm definitely glad I read it. "

    — Jen, 2/20/2014
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " Read some of it, but it's shelfed for now until I have time to come back to it. "

    — Ellenjsmellen, 2/18/2014
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    " A nice diverse mixture of stories. I found myself reading each of the 14 in a single sitting. "

    — Amy, 2/15/2014
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " Some of these stories were really good, some were just okay. I am really impressed with his writing, which might seem like a silly thing to say since he's clearly a well-loved author, but this is the first time I have read anything by him. He has an amazing way of roping you in and making you care about the characters. I don't even know how! Half-way through a story I will find myself completely vested in the outcome of the story, and I can't pinpoint exactly how he does it. If my brother hadn't continued to ask if I'd finished it yet, I may not have, but I'm glad I did. "

    — Jodi, 2/1/2014
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " This had some really great stories!!!!! "

    — Ashli, 1/29/2014
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " I realised that short stories are not for me with this book. The excitement increases all and then the story ends suddenly. But the stories are really great, each of them will become a novel. Also 1408 become a movie. "

    — Onur, 1/20/2014
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    " Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales "

    — Tony, 1/7/2014
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    " This is a great collection of short stories. My very favorite of them been a storie about a man who was alive on the autopsy table. One of the few books that gave me the creeps. "

    — Jared, 12/27/2013
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    " I think he should stick to short stories. Jeez. "

    — Tiria, 12/21/2013
  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " This is my favourite compelation of Stephen King short stories. Very good. "

    — Katherine, 9/24/2013

About Stephen King

Stephen King has written more than sixty books, many hitting the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker Awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story “The Man in the Black Suit.” He is the 2003 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures.

About the Narrators

Boyd Gaines is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor whose many film credits include Second Best, I’m Not Rappaport, Heartbreak Ridge, Fame, and Porky’s. He’s won two Tony Awards for performances in the The Heidi Chronicles and the musical She Loves Me. On television he has appeared in A Woman Called Jackie, A Son’s Promise, and in the popular series One Day at a Time.

Jay O. Sanders began his acting career off-Broadway in Shakespearean roles then went on to appear in numerous films and television series, including Revolutionary Road, The Day after Tomorrow, and Kiss the Girls, based on the novel by James Patterson. He has narrated more than fifty audio books over the years, including the bestselling My Losing Season by Pat Conroy and Dean Koontz’s Dragon Tears and Mr. Murder. He also won six AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Judith Ivey was born in 1951 in El Paso, Texas. She was not quite yet a Tony Award–winner, but already a prolific Broadway and stage actress when she made her film debut appearance as Steve Martin’s love interest in Arthur Hiller’s The Lonely Guy. She then went on to star as Jennifer Jason Leigh’s older sister in the southern gothic thriller Sister, Sister. She came to star (despite her impressive resume) as what would be her better remembered role, Texan B. J. Poteet in the last season of Designing Women. Other notable characters she has played in film include Keanu Reeves’ mother in Devil’s Advocate, one of three intrepid psychics investigating a haunted house in Stephen King’s three-part miniseries Rose Red, and the recurring role of Debra Messing’s mother-in-law Eleanor Markus on Will & Grace. Her audiobook narrations have won her five AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt, was bitten by the audiobook bug in 2005. She now records books on a regular basis and has been nominated for several Audie Awards and won numerous Earphones Awards.