Lunch at the Gotham Café

"Lunch at the Gotham Café"
Short story by Stephen King
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Horror
Publication
Published inSix Stories (1st release),
Blood and Smoke,
Everything's Eventual
Publication typeAnthology
PublisherPhiltrum Press
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Publication date1997

"Lunch at the Gotham Café" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It originally appeared in the 1995 anthology Dark Love (edited by Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer& and Martin H. Greenberg). It won the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection Six Stories. In 2002, it was included in King's collection Everything's Eventual, with a scene from the story featured on the cover of the collection's first edition dust jacket.