The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden, premiering December 17, 2020. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent...

"How do you know what's imagined and what is not? . . . After spending most of his life trying to become an animatronic, Billy wakes up in the hospital to an entirely new reality. Travis can't shake the feeling that something eerily familiar is haunting him. And nightmares make Rory's days and nights blend together until it's hard to tell what's what"--Back cover.

""You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...

"What if I shrink down to the size of a bug? What if I completely disappear during the night? Danny Marin thinks the comic-book superhero, Shrinkman, is the coolest! Shrinkman can shrink to the size of a bug and go places most ordinary people can't. But when Danny suddenly starts to shrink, he finds that being small isn't really so super. In fact, it's terrifying. First, he's nearly torn to pieces by his own dog. Then he's in a fight to the...

At the end of recess at Eerie Elementary, everything on the school grounds suddenly comes alive and turns into a fog-filled jungle maze intent on trapping and disposing of hall monitor Sam Graves and his friends Antonio and Lucy.

"When Zach meets his new neighbor, Hannah, he wants to be best friends. Until he meets her dad, a spooky guy named Mr. Shivers. Only that's not his real name. Shivers is really R.L. Stine, the famous horror writer. When Zach accidentally opens one of his manuscripts, he discovers that R.L. Stine's monsters are all real. Now Zach, Hannah, and Stine have to do whatever it takes to get the monsters back in their manuscripts where they belong..."--Back...

Joe Burton's dad loves tacky lawn ornaments. But when he brings home two ugly lawn gnomes, strange things begin to happen at night.

"A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years"-- Provided by publisher.

Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.