Fairy Tale: Stephen King’s next novel will be published in September

A lot of Stephen King stories involve people accessing other worlds in some way, and his next novel is another one that will be about someone finding a way to journey into a different world. The next King novel is called Fairy Tale, and it’s set to reach store shelves on September 6th. Amazon is already accepting pre-orders at THIS LINK.

Here’s the description of Fairy Tale:

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.

Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy – and his dog – must lead the battle.

And some information on how the story came about:

Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”
 
“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. I saw a magic sundial that could turn back time. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”

If you’d like to read a preview of Fairy Tale, an excerpt from the novel can be found at Entertainment Weekly.

Any Stephen King novel is a must-read for me, so I will definitely be getting Fairy Tale in September. Will you be reading this one? Let us know by leaving a comment below.