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If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat Audiobook
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Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award
*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
Featuring the novella “The Life of Chuck”—now a feature film adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep) and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan, with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival!
From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form” (The Washington Post).
Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption).
The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition.
If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there’s plenty of it. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward.
“An adroit vehicle to showcase the…nature of evil” (The Boston Globe), If It Bleeds is “exactly what I wanted to read right now,” says Ruth Franklin in The New York Times Book Review.
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“Showcases King’s gift for crafting personas…and exploring themes such as mortality and friendship.”
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“Stephen King’s latest audiobook has four exceptional novellas that are each masterfully narrated. ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,’ narrated by Will Patton in a wistful tenor…[In] ‘The Life of Chuck’…narrator Danny Burstein expertly captures the surreal story’s shifting tones, which range from pure joy to abject despair. ‘If It Bleeds,’ a sequel to The Outsider, is also narrated by Patton, who provides a unique and compelling voice for King’s recent favorite protagonist, private investigator Holly Gibney. ‘Rat’…is riveting, thanks to narrator Steven Weber’s focused intensity. For longtime King listeners and newcomers alike, this collection is essential listening. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“These four novellas…address the seductions and corruptions of technology, the extremes of beauty,and depravity in even the most ordinary life, and the workings of a universe we can never entirely understand.”
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“Contains four new, exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form.”
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Stephen King's latest audiobook has four exceptional novellas that are each masterfully narrated. 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' narrated by Will Patton in a wistful tenor, is a meditative coming-of-age tale dotted with technophobia and communications from beyond the grave. 'The Life of Chuck' is King's most imaginative work in years. Narrator Danny Burstein expertly captures the surreal story's shifting tones, which range from pure joy to abject despair. 'If It Bleeds,' a sequel to THE OUTSIDER, is also narrated by Patton, who provides a unique and compelling voice for King's recent favorite protagonist, private investigator Holly Gibney. 'Rat,' about a struggling writer's descent into darkness, is riveting, thanks to narrator Steven Weber's focused intensity. For longtime King listeners and newcomers alike, this collection is essential listening."
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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An Audible Pick of Listeners' Favorites of the Month
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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#1 New York Times bestseller
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New York Times Bestseller in Audio
If It Bleeds Listener Reviews
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Brenda Branson, 2/14/2022
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
Steven Weber is an Earphones Award–winning narrator who has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has been named by AudioFile magazine three times for best narration of the year. As an actor, he made his film debut in 1984 in The Flamingo Kid and has since acted in numerous films and television series, including Wings and The Shining. He has also appeared in many stage productions, including National Anthems and the Broadway musical The Producers.
Will Patton is an award-winning actor and narrator. HIs narrations have earned the prestigious Audie Award for Best Fiction Narration and also won dozens of AudioFile Earphones Awards. His numerous film credits include Remember the Titans, The Punisher, The Mothman Prophesies, Armageddon, and The Spitfire Grill. He starred in the TNT miniseries Into the West and on the CBS series The Agency and won Obie Awards in the theater for his performances in Fool for Love and What Did He See.