New King/O'Nan Baseball Collaboration: "A Face In The Crowd"

Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan, who collaborated on Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, are releasing a new baseball-themed story, A Face In The Crowd, on August 21.

The story is available as an ebook and audio download.

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It's Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier...

An audiobook sample can be downloaded here.