The Green Mile

By Stephen King

Subjects: rape, suspense fiction, Penitentiary, supernatural, mystery and detective stories, Murderers, horror, electric chairs, fiction, Coffey, john (fictitious character), fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Horror tales, mice, Serialized fiction, prison officials and employees, Large type books, American Horror tales, African American healers, First-person narrative, Prisoners, death row, Executions and executioners, insurance fraud, prisons, Paranormal fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, nursing homes, Prison wardens, arsonists, John Coffey (Fictitious character), psychiatric hospitals, urinary tract infections, Native Americans, empathy, serialised fiction, electric current, Prisiones, Cajuns, serial, sisters, catatonia, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, psychics, jails, miracles, electrodes, solitary confinement, mystery, straitjackets, Cuentos de terror, Ficción, Georgia, fiction, death row inmates, Fiction, horror, murder, horror fiction

Description: The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work. The book is an example of magical realism. The Green Mile won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, The Green Mile was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". ---------- Contains: 1. [The Two Dead Girls](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149165W/The_Two_Dead_Girls) 2. [The Mouse on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149147W/The_Mouse_on_the_Mile) 3. [Coffey's Hands](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149107W/Coffey's_Hands) 4. [The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15861106W/The_Bad_Death_of_Eduard_Delacroix) 5. [Night Journey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16252000W/Night_Journey) 6. [Coffey on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15136222W/Coffey_on_the_Mile)