Is it just me, or *was* King purposely punning other authors in the individual stories' titles?
"Autopsy Room Four": Solzhenitsyn ("Cancer Ward"); also Orwell ("Room 101") in "1984"
"The Man in the Black Suit": Agatha Christie ("The Man in the Brown Suit"), also the movie starring Alec Guinness ("The Man in the White Suit") and another book and movie ("The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
"All that you love will be carried away": Flannery O'Connor ("Everything That Rises Must Converge")
"The Death of Jack Hamilston": Again Agatha Christie ("The Death of Roger Ackroyd")
"In the Deathroom": Andre Dubus ("In the Bedroom")
"Lunch at the Gotham Café": Carson McCullers ("Ballad of the Sad Café") and Anne Tyler ("Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant")
"1408": Again Orwell ("1984"), just about every other novel just named for a number, and of course Douglas Adams ("42").
Etc. ...
This is one of my favourite King anthologies. So dark without resorting to horror. The best stories for me were "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What it is in French" and "Everything's Eventual".
"Autopsy Room Four": Solzhenitsyn ("Cancer Ward"); also Orwell ("Room 101") in "1984"
"The Man in the Black Suit": Agatha Christie ("The Man in the Brown Suit"), also the movie starring Alec Guinness ("The Man in the White Suit") and another book and movie ("The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
"All that you love will be carried away": Flannery O'Connor ("Everything That Rises Must Converge")
"The Death of Jack Hamilston": Again Agatha Christie ("The Death of Roger Ackroyd")
"In the Deathroom": Andre Dubus ("In the Bedroom")
"Lunch at the Gotham Café": Carson McCullers ("Ballad of the Sad Café") and Anne Tyler ("Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant")
"1408": Again Orwell ("1984"), just about every other novel just named for a number, and of course Douglas Adams ("42").
Etc. ...