No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King introduces and selects six winning stories by Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone and Neil Hudson. King is an acclaimed master of novels and short stories. His collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams received excellent reviews, with his story 'Obits' winning the Edgar Award for Best Short Story.

King won an O. Henry Award, he was recipient of of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters and in 2015 he won America's National Medal of Arts. He is the author of more than fifty books, all of them international bestsellers, including Misery, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and End of Watch. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine and Florida.