The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
| "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Stephen King | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Just After Sunset |
"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in the October/November 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset.[1]
Plot summary
A widow answers a phone call from her husband who died two days earlier in an airplane crash. He is presumably in an afterlife. The husband predicts two tragedies which later come true and helps his wife avoid death herself.
Television adaption
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates will be adapted into a television series called Grand Central. The series was originally slated to premiered on ABC during the summer of 2014 but has yet to come to fruition.
