Front Cover
Core Fiction Hardcover
Novella Collection
2024
You Like It Darker
Scribner
Synopsis
Two Talented Bastids: A journalist investigates the unexplained late-life success of two friends from a small Maine town.
The Fifth Step: A stranger's request for help with a recovery exercise leads a man into an unsettling confession.
Willie the Weirdo: A socially isolated boy forms a troubling bond with his dying grandfather.
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream: A vivid dream leads an ordinary man to a murder scene and makes him the focus of a determined investigator.
Finn: A young man known for extraordinary bad luck is abducted by people who may have mistaken him for someone else.
On Slide Inn Road: A family trip on an isolated road becomes a confrontation with violent strangers.
Red Screen: A police officer questions a man who believes his wife has been replaced by something inhuman.
The Turbulence Expert: A man whose unusual work prevents aviation disasters must endure the fear and isolation built into his role.
Laurie: A widower reluctantly accepts a puppy and finds the relationship changing his daily life.
Rattlesnakes: A grieving widower travels to Florida and encounters a woman whose loss has taken a disturbing form.
The Dreamers: A veteran assisting a secretive researcher becomes involved in experiments that open the mind to dangerous visions.
The Answer Man: At key moments in his life, a man meets a roadside figure who will answer any question for a price.
The Fifth Step: A stranger's request for help with a recovery exercise leads a man into an unsettling confession.
Willie the Weirdo: A socially isolated boy forms a troubling bond with his dying grandfather.
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream: A vivid dream leads an ordinary man to a murder scene and makes him the focus of a determined investigator.
Finn: A young man known for extraordinary bad luck is abducted by people who may have mistaken him for someone else.
On Slide Inn Road: A family trip on an isolated road becomes a confrontation with violent strangers.
Red Screen: A police officer questions a man who believes his wife has been replaced by something inhuman.
The Turbulence Expert: A man whose unusual work prevents aviation disasters must endure the fear and isolation built into his role.
Laurie: A widower reluctantly accepts a puppy and finds the relationship changing his daily life.
Rattlesnakes: A grieving widower travels to Florida and encounters a woman whose loss has taken a disturbing form.
The Dreamers: A veteran assisting a secretive researcher becomes involved in experiments that open the mind to dangerous visions.
The Answer Man: At key moments in his life, a man meets a roadside figure who will answer any question for a price.
Verification Summary
Verified Edition
The photographed copyright page states First Scribner hardcover edition May 2024 and shows the complete first-printing number line. ISBN 978-1-6680-7771-3 is printed in the book. The collection contains twelve works, including several previously published pieces and new longer stories. This is the standard U.S. trade first printing.