Mile 81: Includes bonus story ‘The Dune’ Audiobook (Free)

Mile 81 is certainly Stand by Me meets Christine-the tale of an insatiable car and a heroic child.

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest end, a location where senior high school kids drink and get into the type of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s where Pete Simmons, equipped only with the magnifier he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and beverages enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered place about Mile 81: Contains bonus tale ‘The Dune’ wagon (which is certainly strange because there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over weekly) veers into the Mile 81 relax area, overlooking the indication that says “closed, no solutions.” The driver’s door starts but nobody gets out.

By enough time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, you can find six cars at the Mile 81 rest end. But two children and a horse are the just living things remaining…unless you probably rely the wagon. With the heart of Stand By Me as well as the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 can be Stephen Ruler unleashing his imagination as he drives history one particular road signs.

In the reward tale “The Dune,” originally released in Granta’s October 2011 horror concern, retired Florida Supreme Court Judge Harvey Beecher tells his lawyer about a mystical sand dune on an unnamed isle a short distance off the Gulf coastline of his family’s house. Harvey first been to the island at the age of ten in 1932, after his grandfather, a scoundrel and land speculator who’d created the family lot of money, informed him Blackbeard’s treasure may be buried there. Planing a trip to the island became a daily dependency for Harvey…and right now his lawyer is going to discover the surprising reason why.