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

Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.Ĭharlie starts doing jobs for Mr.

Then, when Charlie is seventeen, 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. Charlie learned how to take care of himself – and his dad. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest 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.Ĭharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. Hodder will publish in hardback, eBook and audiobook on 6th September 2022. Hodder & Stoughton is thrilled to announce publication of Fairy Tale, a major new novel by international bestseller Stephen King. Welcome to th e Dark Side of Happily Ever After.

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