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Gwendy’s Button Box

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Includes a conversation between Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!

Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the town of Castle Rock-paired on audio with King's Edgar Award-nominated story "The Music Room".

The little town of CASTLE ROCK, MAINE has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now.

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.

At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminum bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labor Day charity game.

One day, a stranger calls to Gwendy: 'Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me.'

On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat like for a suit, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat...

Journey back to Castle Rock again in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, bestselling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December.

(P)2017 Simon & Schuster Audio

Critics Review

It is a collaboration, and a seamless one at that...clear, idiomatic prose style and a flair for creating instantly recognizable characters...both a superior addition to the never-quite-finished saga of Castle Rock and a cautionary tale directed toward a world that grows crazier - and more incomprehensible - with every passing day.
Washington Post
Extremely well-paced...a fun read that never loses momentum.
USA Today
This absorbing novella by horror giants King (End of Watch) and Chizmar (A Long December) revisits one of King's most popular locales.
Publisher’s Weekly

User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 4.0
Author Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
Narrator Maggie Siff
Series Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy
Duration 2 hours and 42 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473672116
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
5.0 (1 review)
Narration
4.0 (1 review)

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