In the Tall Grass by Stephen King

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Mile 81 meets “N.” in this eBook collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.

As USA TODAY said of Stephen King’s Mile 81: “Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?” In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver.

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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Joe Hill is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns and writes an ongoing comic book series, Locke & Key. He makes lots of noise on Twitter under the handle @joe_hill.

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Published October 9, 2012 by Scribner. 62 pages
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Horror, Literature & Fiction. Fiction

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Narrator Stephen Lang supplies plenty of chills in his reading of this eerie story collaboration between father and son horror masters King and Hill. In this bizarre tale, the road to hell truly is pa

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There is some gore toward the end of the story that is a little stronger than what a reader might expected from a King story, especially his more recent work, but nothing that should shock a fan of the genre.

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See about eight million horror movies if you don’t believe me.) This is an awfully long set up to tell you that if I heard a small child crying from within a field of six-foot high grass, I hope I would come to his aid, but I’m not making any promises.

Oct 31 2012 | Read Full Review of In the Tall Grass

This is Horror

In The Tall Grass is the product of a collaboration between two members of the most talented family in horror, Stephen King and his son Joe Hill.

Oct 16 2012 | Read Full Review of In the Tall Grass

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