Mr. Harrigan's phone: A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave. The life of Chuck: A series of apocalyptic incidents bear out one character's claim that 'when a man or a woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin. Rat: Sees a frustrated writer strike a Faustian bargain to complete his novel. If it bleeds: Private investigator Holly Gibney, the recurring heroine of King's Bill Hodges trilogy and The Outsider, faces off against a ghoulish television newscaster who vampirically feeds off the anguish he provokes in his audience by covering horrific tragedies.