He's not called the Master of Horror for nothing. King weaves a short story like no one else can. I loved every single word.

And even better, each story was read by a different narrator and each was better than the one before. You couldn't ask for a better reason to sleep with the lights on. ( )

My all-time favorite Stephen King book. ( )

being a collection of five Stephen King stories, this is a hard title to tag, as the stories are not all from the same genre. The title story and "Little Sisters of Eluria" are my favorites from this collection. "Little Sisters" is a side tale from the "Dark Tower" series and tells us alittle more of Roland's years before we meet him in the first volume.

"Everything's Eventual" is a bird-in-a-gilded-cage story uniquely interpreted by King. Observant readers will see how this story also plays into the larger scheme of King's world. "Autopsy Room Four" has some twists that are worthy of a kinky O. Henry short story.

The remaining stories, while good, are not in the same league. The narration on the discs keeps them interesting, however, so overall, this is a fine collection of Stephen King stories. ( )

Everything's Eventual features Dinky Earnshaw -- a 19-year-old pizza boy -- who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally "eventual" (awesome) job. Read by Justin Long.

Autopsy Room Four The last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is entering the woods to find his golf ball. He wakes up as he is being rolled into an autopsy room. Read by Oliver Platt.

In The Little Sisters of Eluria Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town when he gets ambushed. Read by Boyd Gaines.

In Luckey Quarter Darlene is a single mom struggling to raise two kids on her income as a chambermaid in Reno. When Room 322 leaves her a quarter for a tip, Darlene lets that quarter take her for a ride. Read by Judith Ivey.

The Road Virus Heads North tracks an author who buys a creepy painting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide. Read by Jay O. Sanders.

Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, these five stories announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time. ( )