Fairy Tale (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Winner of the 2023 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice!
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 that 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 horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her 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.
Magnificent, terrifying, and “spellbinding…packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhood, Fairy Tale is vintage King at his finest” (Esquire).
“Good, evil, a kingdom to save, monsters to slay—these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.” —Laura Miller, Slate
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this dark fantasy by legendary horror writer Stephen King, an unlikely friendship opens a gateway to another world. Teenager Charlie Reade follows a barking dog to elderly, cranky Howard Bowditch, collapsed on the ground with a broken leg. Charlie feels a strange connection to the old stranger and his faithful hound, so he befriends and cares for Howard. But where did that bucket full of gold in Howard’s safe come from, and what’s in that creepy padlocked shed out back? Turns out to be a hidden tunnel to a land with two moons, an awe-inspiring deserted city, and a sleeping terror. But what’s more dangerous: the monsters from that world, or the monsters from ours? Narrator Seth Numrich provides rich, believable voices, from the youthful excitement of 17-year-old Charlie to Howard’s gruff pronouncements. Aspiring adventurers, survivors of difficult childhoods, and dog lovers alike will all find something they recognize in this tale of a young hero struggling with adult-level decisions.
Customer Reviews
Fairytale
The story gets deeper and deeper literally every time you think you have it figured out. The end was very anticlimactic for me.
Love this book!
The combination of the fantastical story and the narrator is absolutely perfect. Ive listened to this book 3 times already and will again. Its like a favorite movie that you cant get enough of.
Great World building
Little long to introduce to the new world but once it grasp you, hard to stop reading.