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Face time for King’s “N.”
Megabest-selling author Stephen King is a video star. The animated video adaptation of the horror master’s short story “N.” has been viewed more than 1 million times on the Internet and on mobile phones since its release in July, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.
King has well demonstrated his digital appeal before; his e-novella “Riding the Bullet” was a sensation in the early days of the Internet.
“Stephen King has once again lured his readers to try a new way to enjoy a story,” Susan Moldow, executive vice president and publisher of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, said recently.
The print version of King’s short story, in which a psychiatrist fatally absorbs the madness of one of his patients, is included in the collection “Just After Sunset,” which was released earlier this month. The Associated Press
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The Bodies Left Behind, by Jeffery Deaver
Silence.
The woods around Lake Mondac were as quiet as could be, a world of difference from the churning, chaotic city where the couple spent their weekdays.
Silence, broken only by an occasional a-hoo-ah of a distant bird, the hollow siren of a frog.
And now: another sound.
A shuffle of leaves, two impatient snaps of a branch or twig.
Footsteps?
No, that couldn’t be. The other vacation houses beside the lake were deserted on this cool Friday afternoon in April.
Emma Feldman, in her early thirties, set down her martini on the kitchen table, where she sat across from her husband. She tucked a strand of curly black hair behind her ear and walked to one of the grimy kitchen windows. She saw nothing but dense clusters of cedar, juniper and black spruce rising up a steep hill, whose rocks resembled cracked yellow bone.
Here husband lifted an eyebrow. “What was it?”
She shrugged and returned to her chair. “I don’t know. Didn’t see anything.”
Outside, silence again.
Children’s fiction
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