Mile 81
Mile 81 is a 2011 horror novella by Stephen King. Much of the action takes place in Maine. Characters include Pete Simmons (fictional character), Doug Clayton (fictional character) and Julie Vernon (fictional character). Key subjects include roadside rest areas.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 23 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions. It appeared on the New York Times E-Book Fiction bestseller list in 2011.
It runs to roughly 70 pages — about an hour and a half of reading at an average pace.
About Mile 81
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the entrance ramp of the deserted Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. But two kids and a horse are the only living things left...unless you maybe count the wagon. With the heart of *Stand By Me* and the genius horror of *Christine*, *Mile 81* is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs.
Awards & lists
- 📰New York Times bestseller list — E-Book Fiction, 2011
Quick answers
Who wrote Mile 81?
Mile 81 was written by Stephen King and first published in 2011.
What genre is Mile 81?
It is usually shelved as Horror.
How long is Mile 81?
The median edition has 70 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Mile 81?
Readers who like it often enjoy My Father the Werewolf, Look for Me by Moonlight and Haunting Adeline.
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