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Neno

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Jun 26, 2001, 4:49:07 AM6/26/01
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Hi

Doesn anybody know this story?
See the short piece below..
I found it somewhere but i didn't know it..

Grtz Neno
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~hartogt/index.html


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Stephen King

THE ROAD VIRUS

HEADS NORTH

Richard Kinnell wasn't frightened when he first saw the picture at the yard
sale in Rosewood.

He was fascinated by it, and he felt he'd had the good luck to find
something which might be very special, but fright? No. It didn't occur to
him until later ("not until it was too late," as he might have written in
one of his own numbingly successful novels) that he had felt much the same
way about certain illegal drugs as a young man.
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Matt Crabb

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Jun 26, 2001, 7:55:42 AM6/26/01
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Wasn't that story Stephen King's contribution to a collection of shorts by
various horror/fantasy writers?

I think the book was called 999.


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Max Devore

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Jun 26, 2001, 8:56:06 AM6/26/01
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"Matt Crabb" <mcr...@item.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Wasn't that story Stephen King's contribution to a collection of shorts by
> various horror/fantasy writers?
>
> I think the book was called 999.
>

Yep, edited by Al Sarrantonio.
--
Bev Vincent

Dreams age faster than dreamers
-- Stephen King, "Dreamcatcher"


Tober138

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Jun 27, 2001, 9:20:09 AM6/27/01
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>> Wasn't that story Stephen King's contribution to a collection of shorts by
>> various horror/fantasy writers?
>>
>> I think the book was called 999.
>>
>
>Yep, edited by Al Sarrantonio.

A fairly good collection and well worth the read. Also contains a new novella
by William Peter Blatty (writer of The Exorcist).

While on the subject of 999 - there was a signed, limited edition produced, but
King was one of two authors who DID NOT sign the signature pages for this
edition (I think the other was Joyce Carrol Oates). When this book has turned
up on eBay and such, it usually comes up in searches for SK, and this little
factoid I notice is sometimes not mentioned in the item description. Just FYI.


~Stephen
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Knowledge is power...power corrupts...study hard...be evil
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