The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the October/November 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset.[1]
| "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" | |
|---|---|
| Author | Stephen King |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror |
| Published in | Just After Sunset |
Plot summary
A widow answers a phone call from her husband who died two days earlier in an airplane crash. He is presumably in an afterlife. The husband predicts two tragedies which later come true and helps his wife avoid death herself.
gollark: I sure do like when the common builtin things are wildly unsafe.
gollark: Also, there are non-bounds-checking safety issues with C.
gollark: I don't know what you mean "safer functions", bounds checking is what I want and C doesn't offer it unless I go to extra effort to implement it myself all the time, and "dying"?
gollark: What?
gollark: The older more boring ones generally don't break stuff.
See also
- Short fiction by Stephen King
References
- Webmaster, Rodger Turner. "Fantasy and Science Fiction: Index to Volumes 114 & 115, January-December 2008". sfsite.com. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
External links
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