Full of vividly drawn characters and unsettling themes, If It Bleeds is another tour de force by a master storyteller

Such glimpses into King’s own mind are riveting and satisfyingly terrifying. Read the book for this

The horror writer is at his familiar best with four suspenseful and sometimes surprisingly tender novellas… If It Bleeds brings together four new stories, all offering vintage King themes with their own particular twist… King, as always, is right on the money

The titular novella is…an impeccably judged whodunnit…the other three [are] readable, engaging studies of male lives at different stages

You may wonder if the great yarn spinner of the supernatural possesses psychic abilities of his own because this collection of short stories is so timely… Spine-chillingly brilliant

You’ll fly through IF IT BLEEDS

You are drawn in immediately and kept guessing until the end

Four wonderful stories

full of vividly drawn characters … another tour de force by a master storyteller

His achievements… are dazzling in scope… immensely enjoyable

The straightforward cadences of King’s voice, paired with his signature sit-down-and-let-me-tell-you-a-story style, were immediately soothing. And the stories he was telling – about the seductions and corruptions of technology, the extremes of beauty and depravity in even the most ordinary life, the workings of a universe we can never entirely understand – were somehow exactly what I wanted to read right now… As sirens blare outside my Brooklyn window and the headlines grow more apocalyptic by the day, I might start working my way through King’s backlist. He’s good company in the dark

Four new, exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm his mastery of the form… stories that cover a surprising amount of emotional territory but can still be read in a sitting… King’s affection for [Holly] is evident on every page… deeply empathetic and compulsively readable

The iconic author will keep you up late at night engrossed in four tales about our dreams and our frailties

King is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest – and most inventive – storytellers of our time and The Institute is a dazzling achievement

A genuinely intriguing mystery, one that uses many of the tropes of both so-called “grip-lit” thrillers and more conventional forensics-driven crime fiction… The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want

One of the greatest storytellers of the past century…If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one