Everything's Eventual

STEPHEN

KING

Everything's

Eventual

1 4 D A R K T A L E S

SCRIBNER

New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore

SCRIBNER

1230 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Visit us on the World Wide Web: http://www.SimonSays.com

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales

or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2002 by Stephen King

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc.,

used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work.

DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING

Set in Garamond No. 3

ISBN 0-7432-3704-8

The following selections, some in different form, were previously published: "Autopsy Room Four" in Robert Bloch's Psychos; "The Man in the Black Suit" in The New Yorker and Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 1995; "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" and "The Death of Jack Hamilton" in The New Yorker; "In the Deathroom" on Blood and Smoke (audio book); "The Little Sisters of Eluria" in Legends; "Everything's Eventual" in Fantasy & Science Fiction and on F13 (CD-ROM); "L.T.'s Theory of Pets" in The Best of the Best 1998; "The Road Virus Heads North" in 999; "Lunch at the Gotham Café" in Dark Love, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 1996 and on Blood and Smoke (audio book); "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" in The New Yorker; "1408" on Blood and Smoke (audio book); "Riding the Bullet" as a Scribner e-book; and "Luckey Quarter" in USA Weekend.