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The Green Mile · Book 5

Night Journey

by Stephen King
Published
1 July 1996
Pages
90
ISBN-13
9780613096058
Type
novella
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About this book

Night Journey, released in July 1996, holds the fifth spot in The Green Mile's six-part serial, moving Stephen King's story further into supernatural territory as Coffey's execution date approaches.

Key facts about Night Journey

Night Journey is a novella by Stephen King. Readers have had it since July 1996. It runs to 90 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Night Journey. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780613096058 to find the main one.

Night Journey is book 5 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

Night Journey is book 5 in the The Green Mile series. It follows The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix. It is followed by Coffey on the Mile. 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…

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