The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Halloween edition

Tricia is lost in the woods. But she's not alone . . .

'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.'

Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods.

At first it's just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon.

As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There's something else in the woods - watching. Waiting . . .

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the No. 1 bestsellers Sleeping Beauties (co-written with his son Owen King), and The Outsider, which received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller (2018).

Many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films, television series and streamed events including Carrie, Misery, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.

King is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.