# If It Bleeds

**\*#1 _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER\***

**Includes "Mr. Harrigan's Phone"--****now a Netflix original film** **starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell!**

**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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- **Vendor:** Hodder & Stoughton
- **Type:** Stephen King

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