Stephen King has surprised constant readers with a new short story titled Dinah’s Hat.
It’s available in the June issue of The Atlantic and can be read online with a subscription or a 30-day free trial.
The 6,000-word short story sees King trading in his signature New England setting for coastal Florida to explore a family’s dark secret.
King will next publish Other Worlds Than These on October 6 — but if Dinah’s Hat is any indication, a new short story collection could follow.
Other Worlds Than These is the final entry in the horror fantasy trilogy that King created with Peter Straub, following 1984’s The Talisman and 2001’s Black House.
King penned the 624-page novel based on a concept by Straub, who passed away in 2022. The book also wraps up the fate of the worlds from King’s Dark Tower series.
It follows Jack Sawyer, who must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds.
