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The Jaunt is the tenth title in Short Stops, a series from Conversation Tree Press dedicated to bringing exceptional shorter works of fiction to life through beautifully bound, letterpress-printed, limited editions that begin shipping immediately upon announcement. See the full announcement here.
In The Jaunt, Stephen King delivers one of his most haunting short stories—a masterful blend of science fiction and horror that lingers long after the final line. Set in the early twenty-fourth century, when teleportation—known as “Jaunting”—has become an ordinary convenience of modern life, the story explores a future in which humanity has conquered distance, but not the space between.
First published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981 and later collected in King’s 1985 collection Skeleton Crew, The Jaunt stands as a chilling examination of technological progress and its unseen risks. In a world reshaped by nearly instantaneous travel across the Solar System, King turns his focus not to spectacle, but to the quiet, creeping implications of discovery: what happens when innovation outruns understanding, and when curiosity presses against boundaries that perhaps were never meant to be crossed.
With clinical precision and mounting dread, King transforms a commonplace act of travel into an existential terror. The story’s power lies not in elaborate machinery or distant planets, but in an exploration of time and the fragility of human consciousness. Spare, unsettling, and devastating in its restraint, The Jaunt builds toward an ending that will stay with you for longer than you think.
The Jaunt by Stephen King is a limited edition of 750 unnumbered copies, letterpress printed by Hand & Eye Editions on mould-made Magnani Pescia 130gsm paper. It features three full-colour illustrations by Grace Aldrich and the book is quarter-bound in pearlescent book cloth and hand-marbled papers by Daniela Prina. The endpapers are GF Smith Colorplan with a linen finish.
All copies are signed by the artist. It is not signed by Stephen King.
