Coffey's Hands
- Published
- 1 May 1996
- Pages
- 90
- ISBN-13
- 9780613095471
- Type
- novella
About this book
The third The Green Mile book, Coffey's Hands, runs 90 pages. It follows The Mouse on the Mile and comes before The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix in publication order.
Key facts about Coffey's Hands
Stephen King wrote Coffey's Hands, a novella on our list. It has been out since May 1996. The book has 90 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780613095471 to find the main one.
Coffey's Hands is book 3 of 6 in The Green Mile series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Two Dead Girls (1996).
Additionally, Stephen King writes The Shining, The Dark Tower and The Talisman, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our horror, epic fantasy and fantasy horror shelves. Meanwhile, Other Worlds Than These is the latest published Stephen King book on file, from 6 October 2026.
About Stephen King
Stephen King is one of the best-selling and most influential American novelists of the modern era, known primarily for horror but ranging freely across suspense, science fiction, and fantasy across a bibliography of more than sixty novels. See every Stephen King book in order.
Its place in The Green Mile
Coffey's Hands is book 3 in the The Green Mile series. It follows The Mouse on the Mile. It is followed by The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix. See the full The Green Mile reading order.
Paul Edgecombe, head guard on E Block -- the death-row wing nicknamed 'the Green Mile' for its sickly-green linoleum -- narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle Black man convicted of murdering two young girls. Coffey turns out to possess a miraculous healing gift, and as Edgecombe and his fellow guards come to know him, the certainty of his guilt begins to crack even as his execution date approaches. Stephen King wrote The Green Mile as a serialized novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613095471