Stephen King

17-year-old Charlie Reade inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war.

A quest narrative and an epic adventure story, Stephen King goes to the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a 17-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.

• "As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city--deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn't know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell." - Stephen King

This is a love letter to the myths, fairy tales, novels and films that King loves and that have shaped his worlds, from the three little pigs to Disney's mermaids, from Lovecraft to Suzanne Collins. Not since the Dark Tower series has King dug so deeply into his own imagination. The fantasy themes in Fairy Tale will activate and engage the huge readership of King's famous series, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer.