Mile 81: Includes Bonus Story 'the Dune'

  • Author: Stephen King
  • Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 2:30:56
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Synopsis

Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine—the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid.

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says “closed, no services.” The driver’s door opens but nobody gets out.
     By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. But two kids and a horse are the only living things left...unless you maybe count the wagon. With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs.
     In the bonus story “The Dune,” originally published in Granta’s October 2011 horror issue, retired Florida Supreme Court Judge Harvey Beecher tells his lawyer about a mysterious sand dune on an unnamed island a short distance off the Gulf coastline of his family’s property. Harvey first visited the island at the age of ten in 1932, after his grandfather, a scoundrel and land speculator who’d created the family fortune, told him Blackbeard’s treasure might be buried there. Traveling to the island became a daily addiction for Harvey…and now his lawyer is about to discover the shocking reason why.

Chapters

  • Mile81AndTheDune 01 Open

    Duration: 27s
  • Mile81AndTheDune 02 Mile81 1

    Duration: 29min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 03 Mile81 2

    Duration: 10min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 04 Mile81 3

    Duration: 09min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 05 Mile81 4

    Duration: 27min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 06 Mile81 5

    Duration: 15min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 07 Mile81 6

    Duration: 13min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 08 Dedication

    Duration: 34s
  • Mile81AndTheDune 09 TheDune Open

    Duration: 32s
  • Mile81AndTheDune 10 TheDune Part1

    Duration: 07min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 11 TheDune Part2

    Duration: 15min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 12 TheDune Part3

    Duration: 08min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 13 Credits

    Duration: 01min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 14 112263Excerpt

    Duration: 10min
  • Mile81AndTheDune 15 Close

    Duration: 25s