Overview
This is how the world ends: Benjamin Percy and Stephen King team up to bring you a post-apocalyptic novel like nothing you've ever read.
Get The End Times (previously only available in monthly newspaper installments) collected in a single edition for the first time.
As the world struggles to begin again—years after a pandemic wipes out most of the population—Mary Poole finds meaning as a writer and editor when she revives an old printing press and begins publishing a small-town newspaper.
But Mary soon discovers there are other, more sinister agendas at work as well.
Don't miss this tale of quirky humor, startling fear, deep love, faith in humanity, and—ultimately— hope.
Special contributions by Claudia Inez Bachman not only inform the narrative, but add to the lore surrounding Claudia and her late husband, Richard Bachman, Stephen King's longtime pseudonym.
Author Bio
Benjamin Percy is an award-winning, genre-bending novelist, comics writer and screenwriter.
He is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- as well as The Unfamiliar Garden, The Ninth Metal, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding. He has published three books of stories -- Suicide Woods, Refresh, Refresh, and The Language of Elk. He is also the author of a book of essays -- Thrill Me -- which is widely taught in creative writing classes.
He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. He has also written for DC Comics, AWA Studios, and Dynamite Entertainment and is known for his celebrated runs on Green Arrow, Devil's Highway, Teen Titans, Year Zero, Nightwing, and James Bond.
He has written three, ten-episode audio dramas for Marvel. Wolverine: The Long Night was listed as one of the top 15 podcasts of the year by Apple and won the iHeartRadio Award for best scripted podcasts. His latest series, Old Man Star-Lord, was listed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Top Ten Podcasts of the year and stars Chris Elliot, Timothy Busfield, Vanessa Williams, and Danny Glover.
His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire (where he was a contributing editor for a decade), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Cemetery Dance, McSweeney's, and many other magazines and journals.
His honors include an NEA fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the Whiting Writers' Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
He co-wrote the film Summering with the director James Ponsoldt, and it premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. He and Ponsoldt are currently collaborating on a TV adaptation of Urban Cowboy for Paramount+.
Learn more about him at www.benjaminpercy.com.
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes NEVER FLINCH, YOU LIKE IT DARKER (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), HOLLY (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), 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). 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 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.
