On November 22, Stephen King is releasing his newest work as an audiobook only--with no print counterpart. The audiobook, Blood and Smoke, contains three short stories linked by the theme of cigarette smoking, all read by King himself. Two of the stories have never been published in any form. This collection features three unabridged stories, two of which have never before been seen in print. The new ones include "1408, " in which a bestselling ghost story writer must spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room, and "In the Deathroom, " which tells of a man held captive in a South American hideout. "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" is about a man who suffers from withdrawal from nicotine, and his wife.
The Simon & Schuster audio runs three and a half hours long on three cassettes.
The first run of the audiobook will have a specially designed package with a cigarette pack-style flip top and the printed warning: "Listening after dark may cause fear, trembling, and lead to acute paranoia."
Stephen King has forced us to confront our greatest fears. He has guided us through the depths of our imagination to places we never would have ventured alone. Now, in Blood and Smoke, he takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker. In this audio-only collection, the now politically incorrect habit plays a key role in the fates of three different men in three unabridged stories of unfiltered suspense. In Lunch at the Gotham Cafe, Steve Davis is suffering through intense withdrawal -- from both nicotine and his wife. His desperation for a cigarette and for his ex are almost too much to bear, but that's nothing compared to the horrors that await him at a trendy Manhattan restaurant. In 1408, Mike Enslin, bestselling author of "true" ghost stories, decides to spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room. But he must live to write about it without the help of his ex best-friends, his trusty smokes. And in In the Deathroom, a man named Fletcher is held captive in a South American stronghold. His captors will use any tortuous means necessary to extract the information they want from him. His only hope lies with his last request -- one last cigarette, please. A cartonfull of chills and thrills, Blood and Smoke is classic Stephen King. The most mesmerizing storyteller of our time is at his inventive and compelling best.
