Bag of Bones: A Novel

Stephen King

Simon and Schuster, May 23, 2023 - Fiction - 752 pages

A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls “Sara Laughs,” Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie’s and Kyra’s struggle—and as he falls in love with both of them—he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs…now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and just what do they want of Mike Noonan?

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 22
• Section 3: 35
• Section 4: 59
• Section 5: 77
• Section 6: 98
• Section 7: 127
• Section 8: 147
• Section 9: 167
• Section 10: 188
• Section 11: 221
• Section 12: 244
• Section 13: 292
• Section 14: 312
• Section 15: 331
• Section 16: 361
• Section 17: 394
• Section 18: 419
• Section 19: 441
• Section 20: 459
• Section 21: 492
• Section 22: 518
• Section 23: 539
• Section 24: 542
• Section 25: 562
• Section 26: 582
• Section 27: 605
• Section 28: 641
• Section 29: 661
• Section 30: 694
• Section 31: 717
• Section 32: 735
• Section 33: 737
• Section 34: 738
• Section 35: 739

About the author

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels. King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She removed the first few chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. He is number 2 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2012 his title, The Wind Through the Keyhole made The New York Times Best Seller List. King's title's Mr. Mercedes and Revival made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2015 for Best Novel with Mr. Mercedes. King's title Finders Keepers made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Sleeping Beauties is his latest 2017 New York Times bestseller.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bag of Bones: A Novel
• Author: Stephen King
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2023
• ISBN: 166801808X, 9781668018088
• Length: 752 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Supernatural; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense