title: Everything's Eventual: Five Dark Tales
author:  Stephen King 
description: Stephen King is the author of more thanfifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.His recent work includes <i>The Outsider</i>,<i>Sleeping Beauties</i>(cowritten with his son Owen King),the short story collection<i>The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, </i>the Bill Hodges trilogy<i> End of Watch</i>, <i>FindersKeepers</i>,and <i>Mr. Mercedes</i>(an Edgar Award winnerfor Best Novel and now an AT&amp;T Audience Network original television series),<i>Doctor Sleep</i>, and<i>Underthe Dome</i>. His novel<i>11/22/63</i>a Hulu original television series eventwas named atop ten book of 2011 by<i>TheNew York TimesBook Review</i>and won theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works<i>The Dark Tower</i>and<i>It</i>are the basis formajor motion pictures, with <i>It </i>now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipientof the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the2014 National Medal of Arts, and the2003 National Book Foundation Medal forDistinguished Contribution to American Letters.He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,novelist Tabitha King.
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  _All_ my stories begin with the premise: What if . . . ? This has never been
  more so than with _Ash_. However, let me plead that there are some basic
  truths among the fiction. Have fun deciding which are which.
  
  
  
  
  
  JAMES HERBERT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘ _There are dark forces at work in this country about which we know little._
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  QUEEN ELIZABETH II (allegedly)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [PART ONE: THE JOURNEY](../Text/part0005.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [2](../Text/part0008.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [15](../Tex