Are you fans of Stephen King and were excited about his next book? You don’t have to wait anymore, because the Fairy Tale premiered on September 7!
A fantastic new novel by Stephen King! The first fantasy novel since the Dark Tower series .
A seventeen-year-old inherits an extraordinary inheritance – the key to a parallel dimension in which the war between good and evil is waged; the fight for the highest stakes: survival of both the other world and the one we know.
Classic history like a fairy tale or a myth. Surprising and fresh, but at the same time full of motifs that we like the most in the work of Stephen King. We may all know this story, but we still want to read it when it is retold by writers of the rank of Stephen King.
A story about an ordinary boy whose heroic deeds are written. Charlie Reade is an average teenager, a great athlete, and not the worst student. But the boy also has a lot of experience. When he was ten, his mother died in an accident. His father, lost in despair and grief, began to drink. Charlie had to learn how to take care of himself and of him.
At seventeen he met the dog, Radar, and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse who lived in an imposing mansion at the top of a hill. In the depths of the vast courtyard that surrounded her, behind the house, stood a closed shed from which strange sounds could be heard. As if some creatures were trying to get outside and escape …
Charlie did various, sometimes quite remarkable, jobs for Mr. Bowditch, and after his death he inherited the mansion on the hill and inherited the cassette of a story so strange it was simply impossible to believe. Although it seems like a fairy tale, inside the shed there is a hidden portal to another world, the inhabitants of which are in grave danger. And whose terrible leaders, if no one dares to stop them, tend to destroy that reality as well as ours.
It seems that a huge responsibility has just been placed on Charlie’s shoulders. He will now have to grow up quickly and – whether he will or not – undertake the mission of saving two parallel worlds. The brave boy and his faithful canine companion will lead the forces of good in the final battle against the overwhelming forces of evil.
A story full of light and darkness, familiar and strange, thought-provoking and accelerating the heartbeat. Certain elements of the imaginary reality refer to the Dark Tower (the boundaries between the worlds created by the king of horror are not always as clear as he would have liked). But this world is completely different from anything King has ever created.
The tale is haunted by other ghouls, and its young hero Charlie Reade has a unique nature and character. A fairy tale is a delightful and extraordinary book. In a masterful display of imagination, King combines the influence of the classic masters of imagination: ER Burroughs and HP Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and L. Frank Baum, creating an unpretentious, vibrant magic potion whose charm is simply irresistible.
This is a story all loyal King readers have been waiting for for years. Exactly what they’ve always wanted to read! The author himself wrote:
I wanted to write about another world – not the Dark Tower , but some fairy-tale kingdom – and I wanted to fill many, many pages with an adventure. In my mind’s eye I saw a city stretching to the horizon, deserted but full of hidden life. Dust-covered streets, statues knocked down from pedestals, ruined buildings, and finally an imposing palace with glass towers reaching the sky. My imagination sparked and I knew that was where the story I wanted to tell would play out.
You can buy the book in two versions: basic and illustrated.