Everything's Eventual

Published in 2002, Everything's Eventual is a collection of 14 stories, several of which first appeared in magazines and The New Yorker. It includes 'Riding the Bullet' (written directly for e-book format in 2000—one of the first major e-books), '1408,' 'Everything's Eventual,' 'The Little Sisters of Eluria,' and 'The Death of Jack Hamilton.'

Yes. '1408' follows a debunking writer who investigates supposedly haunted hotel rooms and encounters Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel in New York—a room that turns out to be genuinely, lethally supernatural. It was adapted into a well-received 2007 film starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

A young man with the ability to kill through written patterns—symbols he draws on paper—is recruited by a mysterious organization. The story is told as a personal account by the young man, who is comfortable with what he does and only gradually senses that something is wrong with his employers' intentions.

King released 'Riding the Bullet' directly as a paid e-book download in March 2000—before the collection was published in print. It was one of the first major works of fiction released as an e-book by a mainstream author, generating enormous media attention and crashing download servers due to demand. It was later adapted to film in 2004.

You do not need to read the series beforehand, as the stories function independently. However, the titular story and The Little Sisters of Eluria feature characters and concepts that later appear in the Dark Tower saga, providing extra context for those familiar with that world.

The sequence of the fourteen stories was determined by a random process where the author shuffled a deck of cards and dealt them to assign each story a position.