The Two Dead Girls
- Published
- 1 March 1996
- Pages
- 92
- ISBN-13
- 9780613096485
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Two Dead Girls (March 1996) opens Stephen King's serialized Green Mile: death-row guard Paul Edgecombe narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle man convicted of murdering two young girls, in the first of six slim installments published between March and August 1996.
Key facts about The Two Dead Girls
The Two Dead Girls is a novella by Stephen King. Readers have had it since March 1996. It runs to 92 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Two Dead Girls. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780613096485 to find the main one.
The Two Dead Girls is book 1 of 6 in The Green Mile series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
The Two Dead Girls is book 1 in the The Green Mile series. It is followed by The Mouse 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613096485