In the Tall Grass

by Stephen King, Joe Hill

Overview

Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix!

Mile 81 meets “N.” in this novella 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476710822
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	10/09/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	60
Sales rank:	33,042
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). 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. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and 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.

Hometown:

Bangor, Maine

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1947

Place of Birth:

Portland, Maine

Education:

B.S., University of Maine at Orono, 1970

Website:

http://www.stephenking.com

Editorial Reviews

Stephen King and son Joe Hill collaborate to create a creepily grotesque short story that will leave listeners recoiling in horror. Starting with the lead-in music, it’s a thriller through and through, and narrator Stephen Lang perfectly sets the stage with deliberate intensity and ghoulish inflection. A brother and sister pull over on a deserted stretch of highway upon hearing a child call for help from the tall grass. What ensues is part classic horror (getting lost in a changing landscape of tall grass) and part classic King (shock, terror, and gore). Lang’s dramatic undertones create an atmosphere of suspense that permeates throughout. E.A.B. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2013 - AudioFile