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sl8

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Wed May 22, 2024, 07:02 AM May 2024

Interview highlights Stephen King's new story took him 45 years to write. He tells NPR why

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252772130/stephen-king-new-book-short-stories-you-like-it-darker
(8 min. audio, transcript at link)

Interview highlights

Stephen King's new story took him 45 years to write. He tells NPR why

MAY 22, 20245:00 AM ET
By Mary Louise Kelly, Erika Ryan, Courtney Dorning



Stephen King says finishing one of his stories decades after he started it felt like "calling into a canyon of time."
Francois Mori/AP


[...]

As you might expect from the reigning King of Horror, some are terrifying. Some are creepy. Others are laugh-out-loud funny. And one of them took him 45 years to write.

The book is a collection of 12 stories, called You Like it Darker.

[...]

"I found out – to sort of my delight and sort of my horror – that you can't really gross out the American public," King told NPR.

He spoke with All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly about the book, destiny and getting older.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

[...]

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👇👇👇👁️👁️ Goonch May 2024 #1
Ooh, all signs point to King making scary-weird FL even darker--in a creepy thrills fiction way. Timeflyer May 2024 #2

Timeflyer

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2. Ooh, all signs point to King making scary-weird FL even darker--in a creepy thrills fiction way.
Wed May 22, 2024, 07:42 AM
May 2024

Hope, hope, hope he skewers the MAGAts who infest the place. Can't wait.

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