N. is a novella written by Stephen King that appears in his collection Just After Sunset (2008). Plot summary In the outer circle of a nested narrative, a woman named Sheila writes to her friend Charlie about her brother Johnny, a psychiatrist who recently committed suicide. Sheila suspects it was due to a patient Johnny referred to in his notes only as the eponymous "N." In the inner circle of the narrative, N. is diagnosed by Dr. John Bonsaint as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder a… (More on N)