Part of the Holly Gibney Series
If It Bleeds
436 Pages
If It Bleeds is a collection of four novellas, each one exploring the quiet dread hiding in everyday life, and what happens when something breaks through the surface. Whether it’s a phone that lets you speak to the dead, a school bombing with supernatural undertones, or a familiar face hiding something monstrous, these stories are about survival: emotional, physical, and cosmic.
It features the return of Holly Gibney (from Mr. Mercedes and The Outsider) in the title story, chasing down something that looks human but definitely isn’t.
This collection is King at his most controlled, more unsettling than terrifying, but laced with unease, moral weight, and just enough weirdness to make you double-check your reality.
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone: A teenager’s friendship with a reclusive billionaire takes a strange turn after the man’s death, when texts start coming from beyond the grave.
The Life of Chuck: A haunting, nonlinear portrait of a man’s life, told in reverse as the world slowly crumbles around him. Beautiful and strange.
If It Bleeds: Private investigator Holly Gibney suspects a local news reporter may be something far darker than he seems. A spiritual sequel to The Outsider.
Rat: A struggling writer makes a deal in a remote cabin to finish his novel, one that comes with an impossible cost.