Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Far from Home | 1981 | Walter Tevis | Buy |
| 2 | The King Is Dead | 2023 | Walter Tevis | Buy |
Walter Tevis published Far from Home in 1981, collecting his short fiction. The King Is Dead (2023) is a posthumous collection released nearly four decades after his death in 1984. His short stories share the themes of his novels: loneliness, obsession, and quiet determination.
Far from Home gathers stories Tevis wrote during the same period as his major novels. Many of these pieces explore characters stranded in unfamiliar situations, whether literal or emotional. The collection gives readers a wider view of Tevis beyond the novels that made him famous.
The King Is Dead arrived in 2023, driven in part by renewed interest in Tevis after the Netflix adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit in 2020. This posthumous collection includes previously uncollected stories and offers a final look at a writer whose output was small but has had a lasting reach.