You Like It Darker: Stories is a collection of twelve dark and masterful tales from legendary author Stephen King, published by Scribner. The trade paperback edition, released September 2, 2025, features 528 pages and includes an exclusive bonus story, "The Music Room," not found in the original hardcover release.

The collection spans novellas and short stories that probe fate, mortality, luck, and the unseen folds in reality where anything can happen. Standout pieces include "Rattlesnakes," a chilling sequel to King's 1981 novel Cujo following grieving widower Vic Trenton into supernatural peril in Florida; "The Dreamers," which King himself found so creepy he couldn't think about it at night; and "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," in which a single unprecedented psychic flash cascades into disaster for dozens of lives. "Two Talented Bastids" unravels the long-hidden supernatural secret behind two childhood friends' extraordinary careers, while "The Answer Man" meditates on whether prescience is fortune or curse. The remaining stories explore mad science, airborne terror, grief, addiction recovery, and the thin membrane between ordinary life and the abyss.

The collection debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in its publication week, won the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror, was named a New York Times Book Review Top 10 Horror Book of 2024, and was a finalist for the 2025 Locus Awards. Stories included: "Two Talented Bastids," "The Fifth Step," "Willie the Weirdo," "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," "Finn," "On Slide Inn Road," "Red Screen," "The Turbulence Expert," "Laurie," "Rattlesnakes," "The Dreamers," "The Answer Man," and bonus story "The Music Room."