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Fairy Tale

Pages
624
Published
2022
Language
English

Synopsis

Charlie Reade is seventeen, an ordinary high-schooler carrying the private weight of a mother killed years earlier and a father he pulled back from the edge of grief and drink. When he helps his reclusive neighbor Howard Bowditch after a bad fall, Charlie inherits the old man's aging German shepherd, Radar — and the secret of the locked shed behind his house.

Inside the shed is a passage to Empis, another world of wonder and terror where a great city has fallen silent under a curse and a monstrous tyrant threatens everything. Drawn there first by the hope of saving Radar, Charlie becomes bound up in Empis's fate, cast as an unlikely hero in a struggle that echoes the fairy tales he grew up on — darker, stranger, and far more dangerous than any of them.

Fairy Tale is Stephen King's love letter to the stories that shaped him: a coming-of-age portal fantasy that moves from small-town realism into pure, shadowed enchantment.

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