A novella by Stephen King will appear in Esquire magazine.
Need a good scare (as opposed to the bad ones you get every day)? A new Stephen King thriller appears in its entirety in the July issue of Esquire, due out today. King's "The Gingerbread Girl" is a 21,000-word novella covering 23 pages. "Over the last year, we've been trying to breathe life back into magazine fiction," Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger said Monday in a statement. "The best way to do that is to publish nothing other than event fiction." He means long stories by people you've actually heard of.
According to Esquire, "The Gingerbread Girl" tells "the story of Emily, who flees to the secluded Vermillion Key off of Florida's coast after the death of her infant child. Her new neighbor also enjoys the privacy of the key, but the women he brings with him never return home." They check in but they don't check out. Kind of like a roach motel for people.
What a great title: "The Gingerbread Girl." Makes us think of Hansel and Gretel. Only even scarier.
You'll have to buy the July issue of the magazine to read it, as it's not on the Esquire.com.
