Category: General Fiction, Horror
Language: EnglishKeywords: Celebrity Horror Joe Mantegna Richard Bachman Stephen King Thinner
Written by Stephen King
Read by Joe Mantegna
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King
After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.
Billy Halleck, a lawyer with a penchant for excess, lives a comfortable life in Connecticut, but he is overweight and faces health problems.
The Accident:
In a moment of carelessness, Billy commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes an old Romani woman crossing the street.
The Curse:
Due to his connections, Billy avoids legal punishment, but the woman’s father, a mysterious and ancient Romani man, curses him with the word “Thinner,” causing him to rapidly lose weight.
The Descent:
Billy, now terrified, finds the weight he once struggled to lose dropping effortlessly and rapidly.
The Quest:
Billy must find the source of his nightmare and reverse the curse before he vanishes, facing a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil.
The Author:
The novel was written by Stephen King under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman.
CD rip followed by volume normalization and cleaning of low and high frequency muffling and sharpness. This now sounds very good and incidentally is a great story and awesome performance by Joe Mantegna
Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King
After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.
Billy Halleck, a lawyer with a penchant for excess, lives a comfortable life in Connecticut, but he is overweight and faces health problems.
The Accident:
In a moment of carelessness, Billy commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes an old Romani woman crossing the street.
The Curse:
Due to his connections, Billy avoids legal punishment, but the woman’s father, a mysterious and ancient Romani man, curses him with the word “Thinner,” causing him to rapidly lose weight.
The Descent:
Billy, now terrified, finds the weight he once struggled to lose dropping effortlessly and rapidly.
The Quest:
Billy must find the source of his nightmare and reverse the curse before he vanishes, facing a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil.
The Author:
The novel was written by Stephen King under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman.