Bag Of Bones

Stephen King

Jun 2005 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Stephen King

About this audiobook

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?

Ratings and reviews

one of the best King novels ever! not only creepy and scary but the characters become beloved family. Mike is a fiction writer with a series of books that don't quite make top ten but are up there and a wife,Jo,who is supportive and loving. he loses everything within the first few chapters and we see how he deals with this but also how Mike comes to regard his world of secrets and mysteries with eyes that no longer only see the shallow outside but the deeper and often shadowy inside of people.(my favorite line ever...made me literally lol...said by a 3 year old..."Lord Jesus turned the wine into macaroni!"

I really appreciate that Stephen King himself read this, you get to hear the characters the way they were intended to be heard, but it also sucks because all I can picture is Stephen King reading the book, it was hard at first to visualize anybody other than Stephen King.

This one starts out slow, but after a while I fell so far into the story that I didn't want to stop listening.

About the author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.