Fairy Tale
Summary Fairy Tale
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good a
...Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher–for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself–and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world–one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In this parallel universe, where two moons race across the sky, and the grand towers of a sprawling palace pierce the clouds, there are exiled princesses and princes who suffer horrific punishments; there are dungeons; there are games in which men and women must fight each other to the death for the amusement of the “Fair One.” And there is a magic sundial that can turn back time. A story as old as myth, and as startling and iconic as the rest of King’s work, Fairy Tale is about an ordinary guy forced into the hero’s role by circumstance, and it is both spectacularly suspenseful and satisfying.
Episode list
CHAPTER ONE
I stopped at the corner of Pine and Sycamore on my way home from baseball
I grabbed the shirt o the back of the chair and spread it on the kitchen oor
I called Bill Harriman and told him he could take a picture of me and Radar if
I was still thinking about those things as I took the plastic dustcover o the bed
He took a beat-up wallet from his back pocket and opped it open so I could
I tell you these things not because they are particularly interesting but
I might have picked the New York Times or the Chicago Tribune and missed
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
She nodded with the same vigor and the remains of her mouth turned up in
I asked myself if I was really going to risk my life and certainly get into a
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The small bed had a frilly coverlet embroidered with butteries that just about
YOU WOULD STILL BE WANDERING IN THAT HELLHOLE AT
I watched the light through the open door and occasionally went out to look
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The problem was that the streets seemed to insist on taking us away from the
A mued bell began to ring behind the ironbound door at our end of the
He opened the billfold and pulled out the only money Polley had been
Any residual heat the sausages might have had was gone and the centers were
On one side of the room were wooden cubbies where team members must
Kellin pointed at one of the night soldiers at the head of our unlucky
I took this momentary distraction to raise my hand with my thumb and
FAIR ONE SECOND ROUND
There was enough light to see by even though the two ever-racing moons
lowered
Eris went to the giant and spread her feet in order to walk up one of those
One of the suites graced with slave-driven electricity was almost certainly the
I thought of her waiting here in this strange green chamber with the weird
Several people were crowded into the clothes storage room when we nally came
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
