Fairy Tale by Stephen King

传奇故事家斯蒂芬·金在这部引人入胜的小说中深入挖掘了他的想象力，讲述了一个17岁的男孩继承了一个平行世界的钥匙，在那里善与恶正在交战，对于他们的世界或我们的世界来说，风险再高不过了。

查理·雷德看起来像个普通的高中生，棒球和橄榄球都很出色，是个正派的学生。但他背负着沉重的负担。在他10岁时，他的母亲在一次肇事逃逸事故中丧生，悲痛使他的父亲酗酒。查理学会了如何照顾自己和他的父亲。然后，当查理17岁时，他遇到了霍华德-鲍迪奇，一个在大山顶上的大房子里带着一只大狗的隐居者。后院有一个上锁的棚子，里面传出奇怪的声音，好像有什么生物在试图逃跑。当鲍迪奇先生去世时，他把房子留给了查理，留下了大量的黄金、一盘磁带，讲述了一个不可能相信的故事，以及一个男孩无法承担的巨大责任。

因为在棚子里有一个通往另一个世界的入口–这个世界的居民正处于危险之中，其畸形的领导人可能会摧毁他们自己的世界，以及我们的世界。在这个平行宇宙中，有两个月亮在天空中奔跑，一座庞大的宫殿的高塔刺破云层，有被流放的公主和王子遭受可怕的惩罚；有地牢；有游戏，男人和女人必须为了 “公平的人 “的娱乐而互相厮杀。还有一个神奇的日晷，可以让时间倒流。

本书是一个像神话一样古老的故事，和作者的其他作品一样令人震惊和具有代表性，它讲述了一个普通人在环境中被迫扮演英雄角色的故事，它既具有惊人的悬念又令人满意。

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder.

Because within the shed is a portal to another world—one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In this parallel universe, where two moons race across the sky, and the grand towers of a sprawling palace pierce the clouds, there are exiled princesses and princes who suffer horrific punishments; there are dungeons; there are games in which men and women must fight each other to the death for the amusement of the “Fair One.” And there is a magic sundial that can turn back time.

A story as old as myth, and as startling and iconic as the rest of King’s work, Fairy Tale is about an ordinary guy forced into the hero’s role by circumstance, and it is both spectacularly suspenseful and satisfying.