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The Road Virus Heads North

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
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 One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1 New York Times bestseller Everything's Eventual, "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide.©2002 Stephen King; (P)2002 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Horror Short Stories
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The Road Virus Heads North is one of Stephen King's better short stories.

This one is a tale of an author who buys a painting (done by a kid who later committed suicide) and tells what will happen next in the way the painting changes.

The changes are subtle at first then more pronounced as time goes on.

A cracking short tale, well read & with a superb ending.... Excellent

Great little short story

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