Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, why you never see bright colors on my back.

And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.

Well, there's a reason for the things that I'm all.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the Stephen King's one man's musings on the works Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week, I'm examining King's collection of short stories the twisted and terrifying Everything's Eventual.

As you know from previous episodes, King has published a book of short stories every decade,

starting with 1978's Nightshift, 1985's Skeleton Crew,

1993's Nightmare and Dreamskakes,

and here he continues his tradition with Everything's

eventual. As a disclaimer, I want to note that Everything's Eventual came out during a low point

of my Stephen King fandom. I had been disappointed with from a Buick 8 and Dream Catcher,

and the heydays of my Stephen King enthusiasm had long since waned. So I don't have

many memories of reading everything's eventual. I didn't have the anticipation I had felt

almost a decade before with the release of his previous short story collection, nightmares and dreamscapes.

And I wanted this publication to get out of the way so we could get to the last three books of the dark tower.

I wanted conclusion. I didn't want these stinking short stories.

I say this because I wasn't in the right mind to enjoy what King had given, so I was very excited to return to everything's eventual to see what I had missed the first time around.

As I have done with my reviews of his other stories, I'm not going to review every short story

in this collection, but a handful of the best. So I'll be reviewing Autopsy Room 4, The Man in the Black

Suit, The Road Virus Heads North, Lunch at the Gotham Cafe, 1408. Now, there are two short stories that are not

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