The Breathing Method

Stephen King’s short story “The Breathing Method”—from the collection Different Seasons—is now an Encore stand-alone CD.

“The Breathing Method” takes place in an exclusive gentlemen’s club in New York, where no one pays any dues. Membership is based upon a telling of tales, and one nightmarish tale about a disgraced woman determined to give birth—no matter the consequences.

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.?His recent work includes Billy Summers, the novella collection?If It Bleeds,?The Institute,?Elevation,?The Outsider (now an HBO television series),?Sleeping Beauties?(cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy:?End of Watch,?the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Finders?Keepers,?Mr. Mercedes?(an Edgar Award winner?for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock), and Under the Dome. His novel?11/22/63—a Hulu original television series event—was named a?top ten book of 2011 by?The?New York Times?Book Review?and won the?Los Angeles Times?Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers. His epic works?The Dark Tower series,?It,?Pet Sematary, and?Doctor Sleep?are the basis for?major motion pictures, with?It?now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient?of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the?2014 National Medal of Arts, and the?2003 National Book Foundation Medal for?Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.?He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,?novelist Tabitha King.