num_pages: 447
description: If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas Mr. Harrigans Phone The Life of Chuck Rat and the title story If It Bleeds each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories including a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider.News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again to the late-night report she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds' a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.Dancing alongside are three more long stories - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone' 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat'.The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career and many have been made into iconic films If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.
language: English
title: If It Bleeds
publisher: Scribner