Stephen King's terrific new story collection If It Bleeds (out April 21) is comprised of three novellas and a novel. Of the novellas, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone further highlights King’s ambivalent attitude toward technology (see also his novel Cell and Kindle-centric novella UR) in a tale about the benefits and dangers of burying someone with their favorite Apple product; Rat finds the author returning to the subject of the hardships endured by, well, authors, and centers on a writer striking a Faustian bargain so he can finish his book; and The Life of Chuck is a story of choreography and global catastrophe — told backwards!