Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Firestarter
Stephen King
This a previously-published edition of ISBN 0451167805.
The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka "The Shop") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.
--stephenking.com
Joyland
Stephen King
College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life - and what comes after - that would change his world forever.
A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old - and about those who don't get to do either because death comes for them before their time. It is at once a mystery, a horror story, and a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, one that will leave even the most hard-boiled reader profoundly moved.
The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)
Stephen King
Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past. In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. “A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.” And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.
King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s storytelling magic.
~from first edition jacket
Billy Summers
Stephen King
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?
How about everything...
Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)
Stephen King
The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy’s life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?
In Gwendy’s Final Task , “horror giants” (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.
11/22/63
Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. Unless...
In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane — and insanely possible — mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.
In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...
End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
Stephen King
The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers—In End of Watch, the diabolical “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to stop him, they’ll be victims themselves.
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney—the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city.
In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King.
Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze.
If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place.
The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease.
Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain?
Misery
Stephen King
Alternate cover editions here and here.
Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.
Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog
Stephen King
In "The Sun Dog," the concluding novella in Stephen King's best-selling "Four Past Midnight," the source of terror is a simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town's sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from itbut the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn't exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment."
5 Audio CDs / 6 Hours 15 mins
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Night Journey (The Green Mile, #5)
Stephen King
The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Night Journey is Volume Five.
Prison Warden Hal Moores isn’t just Paul Edgecombe’s boss—Hal and his wife Melinda are also friends with Paul and his wife Janice. When Paul learns that Melinda has a brain tumor, he realizes that John Coffey can use his astonishing gift to heal her. Though Paul understands that the warden would never allow John to leave the prison, and Melinda can’t enter it, he also knows that John is Melinda’s only hope for survival. And so Paul and other E Block guards devise a dangerous plan that risks their jobs—not something to take lightly in 1932—as well as their lives. They decide to spirit John away into the night and beyond the confines of the Green Mile.
1922
Stephen King
The chilling novella featured in Stephen King’s bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 – about a man who succumbs to the violence within – is now available as a stand-alone publication.
I believe there is a man inside every man, a stranger
So writes Wilfred James in his confession. It’s 1922. Wilfred owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in the family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres.
But if Arlette carries out her threat to sell her land to a pig butcher, Wilfred will be forced to sell too. Worse, he’ll have to move to the city. But he has a daring plan. It may work if he can persuade his son.
A powerful tale of betrayal, murder, madness and rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American storyteller Stephen King. It was adapted into a film from Netflix.
Blockade Billy
Stephen King
Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history.
Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.
The Little Sisters of Eluria
Stephen King
This 4,000 copy Limited Artist Edition is numbered and is signed by Michael Whelan. It is issued in a foil-stamped slipcase. Published in a larger format than the Dark Tower series which enhances Michael Whelan's thirteen full-color plates and over twenty-three black & white designs.
"The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed." This is our introduction to Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, published by Donald M. Grant in THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER in 1982. Twenty years later Stephen King revised and expanded this volume. In his own words: "What I did want to do was to give newcomers to the tale of the Tower (and old readers who want to refresh their memories) a clearer start and a slightly easier entry into Roland's world. I also wanted them to have a volume that more effectively foreshadowed coming events.This volume contains that expanded version as well as the novella THE LITTLE SISTERS OF ELURIA which chronicles an earlier adventure of Roland's as he pursued the Man in Black.
Storm of the Century
Stephen King
For the first time in Stephen King's remarkable publishing history, the master storyteller presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen.
They're calling it the Storm of the Century, and it's coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before. Something no one wants to see.
Just as the first flakes begin to fall, Martha Clarendon, one of Little Tall Island's oldest residents, suffers an unspeakably violent death. While her blood dries, Andre Linoge, the man responsible sits calmly in Martha's easy chair holding his cane topped with a silver wolf's head...waiting.
Linoge knows the townsfolk will come to arrest him. He will let them. For he has come to the island for one reason. And when he meets Constable Mike Anderson, his beautiful wife and child, and the rest of Little Tall's tight-knit community, this stranger will make one simple propoisition to them all: "If you give me what I want, I'll go away."
From a Buick 8
Stephen King
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was . . . wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous – and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it.
Curt’s avid curiosity took the lead, and they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still-life painting that breathes – inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.
In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eighteen-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it’s the boy’s way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well. . . .
From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.
Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)
Stephen King
The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told... until now.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.
At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminum bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labor Day charity game.
One day, a stranger calls to Gwendy: "Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me."
On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat like for a suit, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat...
Journey back to Castle Rock again in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, bestselling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December.
Lisey's Story
Stephen King
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's efforts to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
(front flap)
Rose Madder
Stephen King
The #1 national bestseller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is “one of Stephen King’s most engrossing horror novels. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated...fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming” (Publishers Weekly).
Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won’t find her. She’ll worry about all the rest later.
Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. Meeting Bill is one; and getting an apartment is another. Still, it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. He’s very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind.
Fixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder.
“Riveting, engrossing...packed with suspense” (People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. Rose Madder is “an eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel” (The Washington Post).
Revival
Stephen King
A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs—including Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.
Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family's horrific loss. In his mid-thirties—addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate—Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King
Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.
In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.
In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.
And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
The Stand
Stephen King
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are listening to The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.
Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
Stephen King
Wake up, genius.
The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.
Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years.
Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life—for good, for bad, forever.
Quitters, Inc
Stephen King
Dick Morrison's life has become a nightmare of addictions, filling his days with overeating, overworking, and smoking way too much. When an old friend tells him about a surefire way to quit, he's more than willing to give it a shot. But what Dick doesn?t know is that Quitters, Inc. demands a high price from anyone who strays from their rigid rules? Forced to choose between his desperate need for cigarettes and the dire consequences of giving in to his addiction, Dick must decide just how important another drag really is.
Guns
Stephen King
In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King’s keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done.
The Stand: American Nightmares
Stephen King
The deadly super flu Captain Trips has devastated the country and now the few survivors must pick up the pieces and go on. Larry Underwood seeks escape from New York City. Lloyd contemplates an extremely unsavory dinner option in jail, and Stu Redman makes a desperate bid for freedom from his interrogators. Most ominous of all, the strange being called Randall Flagg continues his dread journey across the devastated landscape of America. Collects The Stand: American Nightmare #1-5.
Coffey's Hands (The Green Mile, #3)
Stephen King
Welcome back to E Block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again.
Nothing you have read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial novel that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter.
(back cover)
The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (The Green Mile, #4)
Stephen King
Time has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Nothing you have ever read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial novel that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter. --back cover
Creepshow
Stephen King
Stories in comic strip form tell of a murdered man returning from the grave, a bizarre meteor, a monster that devours people, a husband's terrible revenge, and a plague of cockroaches. Graphic adaptation art by Bernie Wrightson.
Contents:
· Father’s Day · gs *
· The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill [adapted from “Weeds”, Cavalier May ’76] · gs *
· The Crate [Gallery, Jul ’79] · gs *
· Something to Tide You Over · gs *
· They’re Creeping Up On You · gs *
One Past Midnight: The Langoliers
Stephen King
The first of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book, Four Past Midnight. On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive—but landing in a dead world makes them wish they hadn't.
6 Audio Cassettes / 8 Hours 41 mins
The Two Dead Girls (The Green Mile, #1)
Stephen King
They were sisters, and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight, about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile . . . toward destiny.
Prepare yourself for Stephen King's boldest exercise in nerve-twisting suspense. A multi-part serial novel that begins on death row and goes on from there to realms of revelation that make death seem sweet. This is Stephen King's most irresistible journey ever.
To be continued . . .
--back cover
Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)
Stephen King
The Wolves have been defeated, but our tet faces yet another catastrophe. Susannah Dean’s body has been usurped by a demon named Mia who wants to use Susannah’s mortal form to bear a demon child. Stealing Black Thirteen, Mia has traveled through the Unfound Door to 1999 New York where she plans to give birth to her chap, a child born of two mothers and two fathers who will grow up to be Roland’s nemesis. With the help of the time-traveling Manni, Roland and Eddie plan to follow Susannah while Father Callahan and Jake will find Calvin Tower, owner of the vacant lot where a magical rose grows: a rose that must be saved at all costs. But despite our ka-tet’s intentions, ka has its own plans. Jake, Callahan, and Jake’s bumbler companion are transported to New York to follow Susannah, while Eddie and Roland are tumbled into East Stoneham, Maine, where they are greeted by Eddie’s old enemy, the gangster Balazar. But it isn’t just bullets that Roland and Eddie must brave. Soon they will meet their maker, in the form of a young author named Stephen King.
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales
Stephen King
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new anthology, perfect for airport or airplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, along with brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like—gulp!—a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight."
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
Stephen King
Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s where and when—has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. But nothing is easy in Mid-World. Along the way our tet stumbles into the ruined city of Lud, and are caught between the warring gangs of the Pubes and the Grays. The only way out of Lud is to wake Blaine the Mono, an insane train that has a passion for riddling, and for suicidal journeys.
Insomnia
Stephen King
Ralph Roberts, a sus setenta años y tras la muerte de su mujer, siente que su vida se acaba. ¿Es acaso posible que su reciente viudez, unida a un persistente insomnio, sea la causa de esa nueva sensibilidad visual que, poco a poco, le permite ver el más allá de las personas? A Ralph le preocupa este hecho, pero no menos que el súbito e inexplicable comportamiento, irracional y violento, de algunos de sus vecinos...
Later
Stephen King
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel IT, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.
Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
The Colorado Kid
Stephen King
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...
Cujo
Stephen King
Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante de los niños. Realmente se trataba de un perro bueno y feliz. Feliz hasta que le sucedió algo, y el cerebro de perro de Cujo se cubrió de una de esas oscuridades que se alimentan de sangre. Ahora, se ha convertido en un perro asesino; doblemente cruel por cuanto la gente no conoce su mutación y aún le ve en su anterior bondad. Heraldo de un pequeño Apocalipsis, Cujo desencadenará sobre un pueblo modélico un huracán de pánico y de muerte.
Uno de los grandes clásicos de Stephen King, el gran maestro actual de la literatura de terror.
Jerusalem's Lot
Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption: Different Seasons
Stephen King
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman star in The Shawshank Redemption, now a major motion picture from Columbia based on the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in Different Seasons by Stephen King. A prisoner exacts a revenge and escape so meticulous, so brilliant, that no one suspects his plan. . . .
A Face in the Crowd
Stephen King
The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012.Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….
Coffey on the Mile (The Green Mile, #6)
Stephen King
This is the sixth volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a Southern American prison.
UR
Stephen King
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares.
Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining
Stephen King
Stephen King is a unique and powerful writer without equal for millions of horror fans. His incredible narrative drive ensnares the reader in a web of everyday surroundings, believable situations and recognizable characters that are eventually caught up in a terrifying noose of monumental evil. Three of King's earlier classics are here together in one volume, complete and unabridged and chilling: the explosive adolescent powers of Carried; the slow, insidious corruption of a small American town by a terrorizing vampire; and the malicious machinations of the Overlook Hotel and the gift of the "shine."
Apt Pupil
Stephen King
Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's dark past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
Andy Dufresne, a banker, was convicted of killing his wife and her lover and sent to Shawshank Prison. He maintains his innocence over the decades he spends at Shawshank during which time he forms a friendship with "Red", a fellow inmate.
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizing tales. There are thrilling connections between these works - themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Magnificent, eerie, and utterly compelling, these tales are a fine gift to readers everywhere.
Duma Key
Stephen King
From the Flap:
NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . .
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.
"Edgar does anything make you happy?"
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges . . .
hedges against the night."
Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.
The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural--Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.
Skeleton Crew
Stephen King
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0751504386
In a bumper collection of truly chilling tales, we meet Gramma - who only wanted to hug little George, even after she was dead; The Raft - a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite; The Monkey - an innocent-looking toy with sinister powers; the unspeakable horror of The Mist. And there is a gruesome host of other stories, each with the distinctive blend of unimaginable terror and realism that typifies King's writing.
The Mist
Stephen King
It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist... creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world.
The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project—the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands?
And what happens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?
Christine
Stephen King
Christine est belle, racée, séduisante.
Elle aime les sensations fortes, les virées nocturnes et le rock n'roll des années héroïques. Depuis qu'elle connaît Arnie, elle est amoureuse. Signe particulier : Christine est une Plymouth « Fury », sortie en 1958 des ateliers automobiles de Detroit.
Une seule rivale en travers de sa route : Leigh, la petite amie d'Arnie…
Ce roman légendaire de Stephen King, rythmé par la musique de Chuck Berry et de Janis Joplin, a déjà pris place parmi les classiques de l'épouvante.
The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
Stephen King
Two of the world's bestselling authors have combined their unique talents in an unforgettable epic of fantasy, adventure, odyssey - and spine-tingling terror.
You are about to take a journey... a terrifying trip across America where young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape... a journey into the dark heart of horror.
’Salem’s Lot
Stephen King
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063
Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.
The Green Mile
Stephen King
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being?
There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them.
It
Stephen King
Welcome to Derry, Maine ...
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Stephen King
Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons…
Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written—a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets…
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)
Stephen King
While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York.
Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.
Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism.
Children of the Corn
Stephen King
Driving through the cornfields in rural Nebraska, Burt and Vicky run over a young boy—only to discover that they may not be responsible for his death. Out in the corn, something is watching them, and help is nowhere to be found.
From the unrivaled master of horror and the supernatural, Stephen King. “Children of the Corn,” first collected in the extraordinary collection Night Shift in 1973 and then adapted into a horror film franchise of the same name, is a terrifying and unforgettable classic of the genre.
The Talisman and Black House
Stephen King
Stephen King and Peter Straub. LIMITED/SIGNED BY STRAUB AND BERRY. The Talisman and Black House. Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, 2003. First edition of the limited collection. Limited to 3,500 numbered and signed sets. Signed by Straub and the illustrator, Rick Berry on the limitation page. Publisher's binding, dust jackets, and slipcase.
Donald M. Grant, Publisher, is proud to announce the publication of a new limited edition of THE TALISMAN and of its sequel, BLACK HOUSE by authors Stephen King and Peter Straub. Both books have 11 new full color plates, numerous black and white devices and are also designed by award winning artist Rick Berry. The bindings of both books are black leatherette stamped with two colors of foil and are available only as a set in a single foil stamped slipcase. The set is limited to 3,500 numbered copies. THE TALISMAN in each set is signed by author Peter Straub and artist Rick Berry. retail price is $150.00.
Six Scary Stories
Stephen King
Six Scary Stories selected and introduced by Stephen King Number 1 bestselling horror author Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology! Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder & Stoughton are pleased to report has become a reality. The six stories WILD SWIMMING by Elodie Harper EAU-DE-ERIC by Manuela Saragosa THE SPOTS by Paul Bassett Davies THE UNPICKING by Michael Button LA MORT DE L'AMANT by Stuart Johnstone THE BEAR TRAP by Neil Hudson Reader the stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water or counting the spots on a leopard…
The Lawnmower Man: Stories from Night Shift
Stephen King
Five classic tales of terror from Stephen King's bone-chilling and bestselling collection, Night Shift. 4 cassettes.
Contains "The Lawnmower Man," "The Ledge," "Sometimes They Come Back," "Quitters, Inc.," and "The Mangler."
Dark Tower Boxed Set
Stephen King
Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower features one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations—The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own, he moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams—and nightmares.
The Gingerbread Girl
Stephen King
In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running -- barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road -- and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. Will Em be next?
2 Audio CDs / 2 Hours
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Blood and Smoke
Stephen King
BLOOD AND SMOKE : THREE SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF MODERN FICTION AVAILABLE ONLY AS AN AUDIOBOOK
Three Stories Includes:
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
1408
In the Deathroom
Stephen King has forced us to confront our greatest fears. He has guided us through the depths of our imagination to places we never would have ventured alone. Now, in Blood and Smoke, he takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.In this audio-only collection, the now politically incorrect habit plays a key role in the fates of three different men in three unabridged stories of unfiltered suspense.In, "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," Steve Davis is suffering through intense withdrawal -- from both nicotine and his wife. His desperation for a cigarette and for his ex are almost too much to bear, but that's nothing compared to the horrors that await him at a trendy Manhattan restaurant.In, "1408," Mike Enslin, bestselling author of true ghost stories, decides to spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room. But he must live to write about it without the help of his ex best-friends, his trusty smokes.And in, "In the Deathroom," a man named Fletcher is held captive in a South American stronghold. His captors will use any tortuous means necessary to extract the information they want from him. His only hope lies with his last request -- one last cigarette, please.A cartonfull of chills and thrills, Blood and Smoke is classic Stephen King. The most mesmerizing storyteller of our time is at his inventive and compelling best.
Read by the Author
Although, Blood and Smoke has only been published as an audiobook, the stories themselves can be found in Stephen King's publication of, "Everything's Eventual."
4 Audio CDs / 3 Hours 30 mins (Approx)
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Selections from Skeleton Crew
Stephen King
Four selections from the 1985 bestseller feature four of Stephen King's most gruesome and diabolical stories including "The Raft."
Riding the Bullet
Stephen King
A Stephen King ghost story in the grand tradition, Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhiking. A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark landscape that could only be drawn by Stephen King.
2 Cassettes / 2 Hours
The Mouse on the Mile (The Green Mile, #2)
Stephen King
Cold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electric chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here, not all the evil is behind bars. Sometimes it carries a gun and wears a badge.
Cold Mountain is a place of the damned, but it can also be a place where salvation comes from the most unlikely source.
Nothing you have read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest experiment in terror, a multi-part serial novel that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the human heart.
It's just a mouse, you say.
But in the hands of Stephen King, nothing is what it seems.
A Good Marriage
Stephen King
What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside down?
When her husband of more than 20 years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.
Listening Length: 3 hours and 33 minutes
The Body
Stephen King
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—is now available as a stand-alone publication.It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn’t offer much in the way of a future. A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.
In the Tall Grass
Stephen King
Mile 81 meets N. in this e-book collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.
In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver.
In the Tall Grass was originally published in two parts in the June/July and August 2012 issues of Esquire magazine. This is their second collaboration since the novella Throttle, published in 2009.
Mile 81
Stephen King
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.
Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out.
Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.
Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door—and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids—Rachel and Blake Lussier—and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon...
Danse Macabre
Stephen King
"Danse Macabre" is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge; an analysis of horror, terror and the supernatural in films, television and books by the bestselling master of the genre — Stephen King.
Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes in his ideas how horror works on many levels, and how he brings it to bear in his own inimitable novels.
Cycle of the Werewolf
Stephen King
The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom.
Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure.
When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... Cycle of the Werewolf.
Just After Sunset
Stephen King
Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the everyday. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers.
A blind intruder visits a dying man - and saves his life, with a kiss.
A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her LATE husband.
In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Emily starts running. And running. Her curiosity leads her right into the hands of a murderer... and soon her legs are her only hope for survival.
Enter a world of masterful suspense, dark comedy and thrilling twists which will keep you riveted from the fist page.
Black House (The Talisman, #2)
Stephen King
Abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the Wisconsin town of French Landing, ten-year-old Ty Marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. Then it calls his name. Fascinated, Ty gets off his bike for a closer look - and is dragged into the shadows.
Is Ty destined to become the fourth victim of the Fisherman, the serial killer who's stalking this sleepy town? If so, only ex-detective Jack Sawyer may be able to save him. Jack left his old life behind precisely to avoid such madness, but lately he's been visited by strange nightmares and visions. Could the doomed past he thought he'd escaped forever be reaching out for him... from the Black House?
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Stephen King
A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is back with a powerful new collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume.
In story after story, the long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling will take you to places you've never been before. On a roller-coaster through the macabre and the monstrous, via cutting-edge explorations of good and evil - and onto a heartfelt piece on Little League baseball.
You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you...
Four Past Midnight
Stephen King
At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.
"Four Past Midnight": four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity...
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger..." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922." the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.
In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.
"Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.
When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitely ends a good marriage.
Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.
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Contains:
1922
Big Driver
A Fair Extension
A Good Marriage
Desperation
Stephen King
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0451188462 (ISBN13: 9780451188465)
There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada.
It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die.
Let the battle against evil begin.
Welcome to ... Desperation
The Dark Half
Stephen King
Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it-and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?
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Alternate cover editions:
New English Library, 1990
New English Library Early Export Edition, 1990
Gerald's Game
Stephen King
A game. A husband-and-wife game. Gerald's Game.
But this time Jessie didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she'd felt angry and humiliated.
So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt.
And now he was dead - a coronary - on the floor.
Leaving Jessie alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from nowhere. No-one to hear her screams.
Alone. Except for the voices in her head that begun to chatter and argue and sneer...
The Tommyknockers
Stephen King
Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2
ISBN 10: 0451156609
ISBN13: 9780451156600
See: Original Record Here
Late Last Night and the Night Before ...
... Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across.
It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of body and soul--and mind....
Note: All information herein, such as number of pages, publisher, etc., refer to this alternate cover edition and may or may not coincide with the main entry for this ISBN or any other alternate covers.
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Dreamcatcher
Stephen King
In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understand.
A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky.
Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.
Night Shift
Stephen King
A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you listen, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat.
This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.
Listening Length: 10 hours and 33 minutes
Cell
Stephen King
Where were you on October 1st at 3:03 pm?
Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.
And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King
On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself and then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror.
As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fears. For solace, she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio's reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her - protecting her from an all-too-real enemy who has left a trail of slaughtered animals and mangled trees in the dense, dark woods...
Needful Things
Stephen King
Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.
Carrie
Stephen King
A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.
Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie
--back cover
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
'This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.
Different Seasons
Stephen King
Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.
This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.
Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.
In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me.
Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.”
“The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 -- and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it -- fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
(back cover)
The Dead Zone
Stephen King
Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone.
Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone.
John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.
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Under the Dome
Stephen King
Under the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out.
When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late...
The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
Stephen King
The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticipated book in the author's long career. King began this epic tale about the last gunslinger in the world more than 20 years ago; now he draws its suspenseful story to a close, snapping together the last pieces of his action puzzle and drawing Roland Deschain ever closer to his ultimate goal.
Alternate cover edition for ISBN-10: 1416524525; ISBN-13: 9781416524526
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)
Stephen King
Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland’s aid, Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New York so that they can save our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation.
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)
Stephen King
Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
Stephen King
In the first book of this series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger.
He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.
The Institute
Stephen King
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good versus evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.
--front flap
If It Bleeds
Stephen King
Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption).
Four brilliant new tales in If It Bleeds are sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King’s remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition.
If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there’s plenty of it. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward.
Everything's Eventual
Stephen King
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book "Riding the Bullet." Terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French." "LT's Theory of Pets" will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn.
Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
Fairy Tale
Stephen King
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world—one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In this parallel universe, where two moons race across the sky, and the grand towers of a sprawling palace pierce the clouds, there are exiled princesses and princes who suffer horrific punishments; there are dungeons; there are games in which men and women must fight each other to the death for the amusement of the “Fair One.” And there is a magic sundial that can turn back time. A story as old as myth, and as startling and iconic as the rest of King’s work, Fairy Tale is about an ordinary guy forced into the hero’s role by circumstance, and it is both spectacularly suspenseful and satisfying.
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
Stephen King
In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
Months later, an ex-cop named Bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from "the perk," claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.
Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.
Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
--front flap
Elevation
Stephen King
Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confide only in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition he's losing weight without getting thinner, and the scales register the same whether he is in his clothes or out of them, no matter how heavy they are.
Scott also has new neighbors who have opened a "fine dining experience" in town, although it's an experience being shunned by the locals: Deirdre McComb and her wife Missy Donaldson don't exactly conform to a lifestyle the community approves of. And now Scott seems trapped in a feud with the couple over their dogs dropping their business on his lawn. Missy may be warm and friendly, but Deirdre is as cold as ice.
As the town prepares for its annual Thanksgiving 12K run, Scott begins to understand the prejudices the women face, and tries to help. Unlikely alliances form, and the mystery of Scott's affliction brings out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.
From the master storyteller Stephen King comes this compelling tale about finding common ground despite differences, a magical story with deep resonance for our time.
Holly
Stephen King
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” — BILL HODGES
Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.
Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.
Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.
The Sun Dog
Stephen King
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication.The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you.Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. There’s something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town’s sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it. But the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn’t exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment.
The Dark Tower #1-3
Stephen King
Titles include The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three and The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands.
The Jaunt
Stephen King
"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.
The story takes place early in the 24th century, when the technology for teleportation, referred to as "Jaunting", is commonplace, allowing for instantaneous transportation across enormous distances, even to other planets in the solar system. The government, which learned of the Jaunt through its inventor's use of a computer database in his experiments, soon took control of the project, demoting the scientist to a figurehead in the program. After the introduction of the Jaunt to the public in 1991, the country experienced a strong economic boom, and the price of oil declined to such an extent that OPEC disbanded. Due to environmental pollution, water became a more expensive and profitable commodity than oil by 2006.
Ветер сквозь замочную скважину
Stephen King
Миллионы фанатов цикла "Темная башня" вопреки словам Стивена Кинга о том, что легендарная сага закончена, ждали ее продолжения. И не напрасно!
История, являющаяся частью цикла, хронологически расположена между четвертым и пятым романами... Эту историю Роланд Дискейн рассказывает своему недавно собранному второму ка-тету - Сюзанне, Эдди, Джейку - и они узнают о том, что произошло вскоре после гибели матери Роланда.
...Молодой стрелок отправляется расследовать убийства крестьян в далекой провинции - убийства, в которых перепуганные люди в один голос обвиняют таинственного оборотня.
А сопровождает его один из членов первого ка-тета Роланда - Джейми Декарри, о котором ранее было известно совсем немного...
Містер Мерседес (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
Stephen King
Поліцейський Білл Ходжес вийшов на пенсію, але спогади про нерозкритий злочин не дають йому спокою. І одного дня він отримує листа від незнайомця. Це послання саме того злочинця, який, викравши мерседес, кілька років тому вбив і покалічив десятки людей. Тоді Ходжес не зміг вийти на його слід. Ця справа так і залишилася нерозкритою, і докори сумління не давали йому спати. А тепер убивця пише, що наступного разу жертв буде більше. Набагато більше! Білл, забувши про заслужений відпочинок, спокій і безпеку, повертається на роботу. Може, саме цього і домагався злочинець? Але навіщо?...
Finderlohn (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
Stephen King
Besessen bis zum Mord
John Rothstein hat in den Sechzigern drei berühmte Romane veröffentlicht, seither aber nichts mehr. Morris Bellamy, ein psychopathischer Verehrer, ermordet den Autor aus Wut über dessen »Verrat«. Seine Beute besteht aus einer großen Menge Geld und einer wahren Fundgrube an Notizbüchern, die auch unveröffentlichte Romane enthalten. Bellamy vergräbt vorerst alles – und wandert dummerweise für ein völlig anderes Verbrechen in den Knast. Jahre später stößt der Junge Peter Saubers auf den »Schatz«. Nach seiner Haftentlassung kommt Bellamy dem ahnungslosen Peter auf die Spur und macht Jagd auf ihn. Kann Bill Hodges, den wir als Detective a. D. aus Mr. Mercedes kennen, den Wahnsinnigen stoppen?
Gunslinger
Stephen King
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King s greatest literary achievement ("The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"), "The Gunslinger" is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series. A #1 national bestseller, "The Gunslinger" introduces readers to one of Stephen King s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, "The Gunslinger" is a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center ("Milwaukee Sentinel"). It is brilliant and fresh and will leave you panting for more ("Booklist")."
Never Flinch
Stephen King
From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.
Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.
Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion—a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off.
Thrilling, wildly fun, and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.
The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight Book 1)
Stephen King
The first of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book, Four Past Midnight. On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive—but landing in a dead world makes them wish they hadn't.
6 Audio Cassettes / 8 Hours 41 mins
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (Dover Doomsday Classics)
Stephen King
"This is a book of stories intended to describe that hand of mortal destruction in 16 utterly different, yet all apocalyptically stunning ways!" — Harlan Ellison, from the Introduction.
These compelling visions of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include short stories by some of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Among the noteworthy contributors and their works are Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess," "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke's "No Morning After."
The first-ever apocalyptic fantasy about global warming, "The End of the World," appears here, in translation from Eugene Mouton's 1872 French-language original. "The Pretence," by Ramsey Campbell, questions the nature and structure of everyday life in the aftermath of a doomsday prediction. In addition, thought-provoking stories by Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Greg Bear, Erica L. Satifka, and others offer an end-of-the-world extravaganza for fans of science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
"These doomsday tales are highly original, thought provoking, and reality questioning. Recommended as a collection for fans of intriguing and eccentric sci-fi!" — Read Well
Ogen van de Draak (Dutch Edition)
Stephen King
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Shining
Stephen King
Ein Hotel in den Bergen von Colorado. Jack Torrance, ein verkrachter Intellektueller mit Psycho-Problemen, bekommt den Job als Haumeister, um den er sich beworben hat. Zusammen mit seiner Frau Wendy und seinem Sohn Danny reist er in den letzten Tagen des Herbstes an. Das Hotel "Overlook" ist ein verrufener Ort. Wer sich ihm ausliefert, verfällt ihm, wird zum ausführenden Organ aller bösen Träume und Wünsche, die sich in ihm manifestieren. Mit Shining gelang Stephen King ein moderner Klassiker des Grauens, ein Buch, das die Ängste unserer Zeit erfasst und jeden Leser in seinen emotionalen Grundfesten erschüttert.
Dodelijk dilemma
Stephen King
Unieke limited edition met bedrukt boekblok en dubbelzijdig omslag. Een van Kings grootste klassiekers over een leraar met een unieke gave.
In Dodelijk dilemma van horrormeester Stephen King raakt de jonge leraar John Smith betrokken bij een vreselijk auto-ongeluk waardoor hij ruim vier jaar in coma komt te liggen.
Johns vriendin en familie hebben alle hoop opgegeven, het leven gaat door. Maar het onvoorstelbare gebeurt: John opent zijn ogen. Ondertussen is de wereld drastisch veranderd. En John merkt dat hij een bijzonder vermogen heeft gekregen: als hij iemand aanraakt, kan hij diens verleden en toekomst zien. John is eigenlijk bang voor zijn gave en wil weer een normaal leven leiden. Maar als hij een ambitieuze politicus ontmoet, krijgt hij de kans om een enorme catastrofe te voorkomen. Moet John zichzelf opofferen om de levens van miljoenen te redden? En wie zal hem ooit geloven?
Deze limited edition bevat prachtig artwork aan binnen- en buitenzijde van het omslag, alsook een bedrukt boekblok.
De marathon
Stephen King
limited edition paperback
Dit boek bevat illustraties op alle drie de zijden van het boekblok, en heeft een dubbelzijdig bedrukt omslag met glanzende folie voorop. Helemaal in stijl van de eerder verschenen limited editions van Misery en De groene mijl. Een must voor de King-liefhebber.
De langste en dodelijkste afvalrace ooit waarbij slechts één de winnaar kan zijn: degene die overleeft…
DE MARATHON: de af te leggen afstand is 700 kilometer.
DE REGELS: Er mag niet langzamer dan 6 km per uur gelopen worden; men moet blijven bewegen; er zal slechts één winnaar zijn. Bij overtreding krijgen de deelnemers drie waarschuwingen. De vierde is de laatste en is definitief. De kogel.
DE DEELNEMERS: honderd zorgvuldig geselecteerde jongeren, onder wie de zestienjarige Ray Garraty. Een gruwelijke afvalrace gaat beginnen…
Het Instituut
Stephen King
‘De koning van het spannende genre.’ VN Detective en Thrillergids'Spannend, snel en gewelddadig, maar met humor.' Noordhollands DagbladVoor de fans van Stranger ThingsMidden in de nacht, in een huis in een rustige straat in een buitenwijk van Minneapolis, worden de ouders van Luke Ellis stilletjes vermoord. Luke zelf wordt in een zwarte SUV geladen en weggereden. Dit alles duurt minder dan twee minuten. Luke wordt wakker in Het Instituut, in een kamer die precies op zijn slaapkamer lijkt, alleen zonder raam. Aan de andere kant van de deur zijn meer deuren, met daarachter meer kinderen, die daar allemaal op dezelfde manier zijn beland als Luke. Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris en de tienjarige Avery Dixon hebben allen speciale krachten, zoals telekinese of telepathie. Zij zitten in Het Voorgebouw. Ooit waren er nog meer kinderen, maar die zijn naar Het Achtergebouw verhuisd. ‘Deze plek is een muizenval,’ zegt Kalisha. ‘Je kunt erin, maar je komt er nooit meer uit.’Het personeel van deze sinistere faciliteit, dat onder leiding staat van de genadeloze mevrouw Sigsby, wil de bovennatuurlijke gaven van de kinderen inzetten voor zijn eigen doeleinden. En deinst nergens voor terug om dat te bereiken. Als je meewerkt, krijg je muntjes voor de automaten. Zo niet, dan wacht een wrede straf. Hoe meer kinderen er naar Het Achtergebouw worden gestuurd, hoe wanhopiger Luke wordt om te ontkomen en hulp te zoeken. Maar er is nog nooit iemand uit Het Instituut ontsnapt…De Nederlandse pers over Stephen King‘Niemand minder dan de horrorgrootmeester.’ NRC Handelsblad'King voert je mee naar de grensen van de horror.' Trouw‘De fantasierijke en tegelijkertijd zo angstaanjagend realistische verhalen van King definiëren wat literatuur hoort te zijn: de oneindige mogelijk tot het scheppen van nieuwe werelden.’ de Volkskrant
De groene mijl
Stephen King
De ultieme limited edition voor fans van Stephen Kings klassieker De groene mijl.
Kings klassieker en wereldwijde bestseller De groene mijl vormde dé inspiratie voor de Oscar-genomineerde film The Green Mile met Tom Hanks in de hoofdrol. Het hartverscheurende verhaal van een man die ten onrechte in de dodencel wacht op de elektrische stoel.
Deze >b>limited edition paperback bevat illustraties op alle drie de zijden van het boekblok, en een dubbelzijdig bedrukt omslag met glanzende folie voorop. Helemaal in stijl van de eerder verschenen limited edition van Misery. Een must voor de King-liefhebber.
1932. John Coffey moet de Cold Mountain-gevangenis in, ter dood veroordeeld voor een misdrijf dat hij niet heeft begaan. Maar er is iets bijzonders met John Coffey aan de hand: hij heeft een bovennatuurlijke gave om mensen te genezen. Hoofdcipier Paul Edgecombe werkt al jaren in de gevangenis als John wordt binnengebracht, en heeft algauw door dat John onschuldig is. Paul probeert met man en macht Johns onschuld te bewijzen, maar de autoriteiten willen dit koste wat kost voorkomen. De elektrische stoel staat John op te wachten. En Paul moet de schakelaar overhalen…
‘Hoe zou het zijn, vroeg ik me af, om die laatste veertig meter naar de elektrische stoel te lopen, wetend dat je daar zult sterven? En hoe zou de man zich voelen die de veroordeelde op de stoel moet vastsjorren, of de man die de schakelaar overhaalt?’
Stephen King
Dit even fascinerende als lugubure uitgangspunt is de aanleiding geweest voor Stephen King om De groene mijl te schrijven.
Dodenwake
Stephen King
Louis en Rachel Creed zijn met hun twee kinderen en hun kat net verhuisd naar een prachtige huis in Maine. Het is maar een korte wandeling over het bospad naar het dierenkerkhof achter het huis. De kinderlijke spelling van het bordje 'Pet Sematary' doet het gelukkige paar glimlachen. Maar wanneer het oeroude kwaad zich ontvouwd, verandert deze glimchlach al snel in een afschuwelijke grijns...
Wisseling van de wacht (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
Stephen King
Wisseling van de wacht is de spectaculaire finale van de succesvolle, veelgeprezen Mercedes-trilogie van Stephen King. Eerder verschenen De eerlijke vinder en Mr. Mercedes, genomineerd voor een Edgar Award. In kamer 217 van de Lakes Region-hersenletselkliniek is iets bij bewustzijn gekomen. Iets kwaadaardigs. Brady Hartsfield, de duivelse Mercedes Killer die acht mensen doodreed en er nog veel meer gewond achterliet, ligt al vijf jaar in de kliniek, in vegetatieve toestand. Volgens zijn dokters zal hij nooit herstellen. Maar achter het gestaar en gekwijl is Brady bij kennis en in het bezit van nieuwe, dodelijke krachten, waardoor hij onvoorstelbare schade kan toebrengen zonder dat hij zijn kamer verlaat. Gepensioneerd agent Bill Hodges runt nu een detectivebureau met zijn partner Holly Gibney – de vrouw die Hartsfield het ziekenhuis in sloeg. Als Bill en Holly zich verdiepen in een zelfmoord die gelinkt wordt aan de Mercedes Killer, raken ze betrokken bij hun gevaarlijkste onderzoek ooit. Brady Hartsfield is terug, en zweert niet alleen wraak te nemen op Hodges en zijn vrienden, maar op een volledige stad.
De eerlijke vinder (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
Stephen King
In De eerlijke vinder heeft John Rothstein, een legendarische schrijver van een serie boeken, al decennialang niets gepubliceerd. Morris Bellamy is woedend. Niet alleen omdat Rothstein met schrijven is gestopt, maar ook omdat diens serie niet naar zijn smaak eindigde. Zijn woede gaat zo ver dat hij Rothstein vermoordt. Ook neemt hij een zak met cash weg uit de kluis en een stapel aantekenboekjes met ongepubliceerd materiaal. Die laatste blijken de hoofdprijs te zijn.
Morris verbergt het geld en de aantekenboekjes – en wordt dan gearresteerd voor een andere misdaad. Decennia later vindt ene Peter Saubers de buit. Nu is het deze jongen, en diens familie, die door Bill Hodges, Holly en Jerome gered moeten worden van de inmiddels nog krankzinniger en wraakzuchtiger Morris, die na 35 jaar uit de gevangenis komt.
De bazaar van boze dromen
Stephen King
De bazaar van boze dromen is een bundel met twintig korte verhalen – met o.a. het verhaal The death – waarvan slechts enkele eerder in het Nederlands werden vertaald. Ieder verhaal krijgt een nieuwe introductie van King, waarin hij zowel autobiografisch commentaar op het wanneer, waarom en hoe hij tot schrijven kwam, alsook de oorsprong en motivatie van elk verhaal geeft. De verhalen zullen variëren van een man die hetzelfde leven blijft herleven, dezelfde fouten keer op keer herhalend tot een vuurwerkwedstrijd tussen buren die een explosieve climax bereikt, een columnist die mensen vermoordt door hun necrologie te schrijven en een schrijnend verhaal over het einde van het menselijke ras.
The Dark Man
Stephen King
Stephen King first wrote about the Dark Man in college after he envisioned a faceless man in cowboy boots and jeans and a denim jacket forever walking the roads. Later this dark man would come to be known around the world as one of King's greatest villains, Randall Flagg, but at the time King only had simple questions on his mind: where was this man going? What had he seen and done? What terrible things...?
i have ridden rails...
More than forty years after Stephen King first wrote his breathtaking poem "The Dark Man," Glenn Chadbourne set out to answer those questions in this World's First Edition hardcover featuring more than 70 full-page illustrations from the talented artist behind The Secretary of Dreams.
i have slept in glaring swamps...
This Cemetery Dance Publications hardcover is a true marriage of words and art, with Chadbourne pulling the images from King's imagination and illustrating them in magnificent detail. This incredible blending of King's words with Chadbourne's art creates a unique page turning experience you can return to again and again, always finding new details hidden on every page. You'll discover hidden layers and mysterious secrets for years to come.
i am a dark man...
So who is the Dark Man and why is he traveling the country? The answers are terrifying....
De shining
Stephen King
Jack Torrances nieuwe baan bij het Overlook Hotel is de perfecte kans voor een frisse start. Jack is ingehuurd als huismeester van het sfeervolle oude hotel, en omdat het buiten het seizoen is, heeft hij voldoende tijd om zich te focussen op zijn vrouw Wendy en hun vijfjarige zoon Danny.
Terwijl het gezin door hevige sneeuwstormen afgesloten raakt van de buitenwereld, krijgt Danny last van angstaanjagende visioenen. De chef van het hotel, meneer Hallorann, noemt het een gave - 'het licht' - maar Danny is het liever kwijt dan rijk.
Danny is ook de enige die in de gaten heeft dat er wat aan de hand is in het hotel. Het zou verlaten moeten zijn, maar wie is de dame in kamer 217, en wie zijn de gemaskerde gasten die maar met de lift op en neer blijven gaan?
Gwendy-trilogie
Stephen King
Een ongekend duo: Stephen King & Richard Chizmar schrijven samen nagelbijtende spanning
In Gwendy’s knoppenkist verandert het leven van de twaalfjarige Gwendy Peterson voor altijd wanneer ze van een vreemde man een mysterieuze houten kist krijgt. Die biedt verleidelijke lekkernijen en vintage munten, maar de man waarschuwt haar dat als ze op een van de prachtig gekleurde knoppen van de kist drukt, dood en verderf zullen volgen.
Jaren later, in Gwendy’s magische veer, is Gwendy een succesvolle schrijfster geworden met een veelbelovende toekomst in de politiek. Maar wanneer de knoppenkist plotseling weer in haar leven verschijnt, moet ze beslissen of ze bereid is alles op het spel te zetten voor de verleiding die hij biedt.
En in het spannende slot, Gwendy’s laatste taak, proberen kwade krachten de knoppenkist in hun bezit te krijgen. Het is aan senator Gwendy Peterson om hem koste wat kost voor hen verborgen te houden. Maar waar kan iemand zoiets destructiefs verbergen voor zulke machtige wezens?
Vel over been
Stephen King
Limited edition! Een aangrijpende en onvergetelijke thriller over verloren en nieuwe liefdes, en verschrikkelijke geheimen uit het verleden…
In Vel over been van Stephen King is bestsellerauteur Michael Noonan zichzelf niet meer na de plotselinge dood van zijn vrouw Johanna. Hij krijgt geen letter meer op papier. Overdag doodt hij de tijd met kruiswoordpuzzels, 's nachts wordt hij geplaagd door nachtmerries over Johanna en hun zomerhuis Sarah Laughs in Maine. Ondanks die nachtmerries – of misschien wel juist vanwege de nachtmerries – besluit Michael naar Maine te gaan. Hij is ervan overtuigd dat hij eerst moet ontdekken wat Johanna hem probeert duidelijk te maken over Sarah Laughs, het dorp en zijn vijandige bewoners, voordat hij de draad van zijn leven weer op kan pakken... Nu als limited edition paperback! Dit boek bevat illustraties op alle drie de zijden van het boekblok, en heeft een dubbelzijdig bedrukt omslag. Helemaal in stijl van de eerder verschenen limited editions van Misery, De groene mijl, De marathon en Ogen van de draak. Een must-have voor de King-liefhebber. Verfilmd voor tv door regisseur Mick Garris met o.a. Pierce Brosnan als Michael Noonan.
The Outsider
Stephen King
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.
Schwarz (Der dunkle Turm, #1)
Stephen King
Schwarz - Der Dunkle Turm - bk2090; Heyne Verlag; Stephen King; pocket_book; 2000
Basar der bösen Träume
Stephen King
Hier werden Albträume wahrAbermals legt Stephen King, u. a. Träger des renommierten »O.-Henry-Preises«, eine umfassende und vielseitige Kurzgeschichtensammlung vor. Von den insgesamt 20 Storys wurden bislang erst drei auf Deutsch veröffentlicht. Die Originale erschienen teilweise in Zeitschriften; andere sind bislang gänzlich unveröffentlicht.Nicht immer blanker Horror, aber immer psychologisch packend und manchmal schlicht schmerzhaft wie ein Schlag in die Magengrube – Geschichten, die uns einladen, Stephen Kings Meisterschaft im Erzählen aufs Neue beizuwohnen, oder, wie er selbst in seinem Basar der bösen Träume ausruft: »Hereinspaziert, ich habe die Geschichten eigens für Sie geschrieben. Aber seien Sie vorsichtig. Bestenfalls sind sie bissig und schnappen zu.«
Der Anschlag
Stephen King
Jake Epping lebt ein normales Leben, bis sein Freund Al ihm ein großes Geheimnis enthüllt: Er kennt ein Portal, das ins Jahr 1958 führt. Und Al gewinnt ihn für eine wahnsinnige Mission. Jake soll in die Vergangenheit zurückkehren und das Attentat auf John F. Kennedy vereiteln, um den Gang der Geschichte positiv zu korrigieren. Und so beginnt für Jake ein neues Leben in einer für ihn neuen Welt. Es ist die Welt von Elvis und JFK, von großen amerikanischen Autos und beschwingten Highschool-Tanzveranstaltungen. Es ist die Welt des gequälten Einzelgängers Lee Harvey Oswald, aber auch die der Bibliothekarin Sadie Dunhill, die Jakes große Liebe seines Lebens wird – eines Lebens, das gegen alle normalen Regeln der Zeit verstößt. Und je näher Jake seinem Ziel kommt, den Mord an Kennedy rückgängig zu machen, desto bizarrer wehrt sich die Vergangenheit dagegen – mit aller gnadenlosen Gewalt, die sich auch gegen Jakes neue Liebe richtet ...
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
Stephen King
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Stephen King
Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade, as well as stories first published in The New Yorker, “1408,” made into a movie starring John Cusack.“Riding the Bullet” is the story of Alan Parker, who’s hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In “Lunch at the Gotham Café,” a sparring couple’s contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d’ gets out of sorts. “1408,” the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is “Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards,” or “Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses,” and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn’t kill him, he won’t be writing about ghosts anymore. And in “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French,” terror is déjà vu at 16,000 feet. Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen “brilliantly creepy” (USA TODAY) tales assembled in Everything’s Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time. Stories include: -Autopsy Room Four -The Man in the Black Suit -All That You Love Will Be Carried Away -The Death of Jack Hamilton -In the Deathroom -The Little Sisters of Eluria -Everything's Eventual -L.T.'s Theory of Pets -The Road Virus Heads North -Lunch at the Gotham Café -That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French -1408 -Riding the Bullet -Luckey Quarter
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Stephen King
From the Flap:
A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories--a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell . . . and a few to glory.
The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection--classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker.
In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.
Can you believe? Then come . . .
Dolan's Cadillac --
The End of the Whole Mess --
Suffer the Little Children --
The Night Flier --
Popsy --
It Grows on You --
Chattery Teeth --
Dedication --
The Moving Finger --
Sneakers --
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band --
Home Delivery --
Rainy Season --
My Pretty Pony --
Sorry, Right Number --
The Ten O'Clock People --
Crouch End --
The House on Maple Street --
The Fifth Quarter --
The Doctor's Case --
Umney's Last Case --
Head Down --
Brooklyn August
Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden
Stephen King
The second of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's bestselling book, Four Past Midnight. Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake--that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.
Stationary Bike
Stephen King
New on audio from Stephen King...an unabridged novella"as artful as anything he has ever written." (Booklist) Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist. When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly. Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture -- and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go...and can't stay away from. A riveting riff on artistic frustration, midlife mortality, and hard-won redemption, Stationary Bike is a thrill ride that could come only from the mind of Stephen King.
LT's Theory of Pets
Stephen King
A Rare Live Stephen King Recording! Stephen King delivers a haunting, heartfelt performance as he shares a story about the bonds between husbands, wives and pets. LT has a theory about pets, particularly his Siamese cat. It had been their cat not just his cat, but that was until he came home one day to a note on the fridge. His wife had left him. The cat stayed behind... Recorded live at London's Royal Festival Hall, LT's Theory of Pets demonstrates yet again that Stephen King is a master storyteller.
Graveyard Shift, and Other Stories from Night Shift
Stephen King
Consummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift. It brings Stephen King's demonic stories fully to life - and the terror even closer to home.
Dropout drifter Hall has crossed the country doing whatever comes his way. Working the "Graveyard Shift" in a decaying Massachusetts mill under a bullying foreman is just one more leg in his crazy quilt journey, until it leads to a nether realm where the Rat Queen defends her empire. Things are never as they seem, as "The Man Who Loved Flowers" proves one perfect Spring evening on the sidewalks of New York. In "The Last Rung on the Ladder" beautiful Kitty hangs from dizzying heights above a hideous fate and, in "Night Surf," a group of teenagers on a late summer beach watch the world end in a gruesome, viral whimper. The mind-numbing secrets of "Jerusalem's Lot" wait in an ancestral mansion where blood binds the Boone family to a timeless history of unspeakable evil.
Desperation / The Regulators: Box Set
Stephen King
The Regulators is a novel by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances. Additionally, the hardcover editions of each novel, if set side by side, make a complete painting, and on the back of each cover is also a peek at the opposite's cover.
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
Stephen King
Photographer f-stop Fitzgerald and Stephen King introduce readers to the gargoyles, the faces we rarely see but are always watching us. The masterful blending of text and photos sweeps readers into a maelstrom of monsters watching from above--a nightmare in the sky. 24 full-color photos, 100 duotones.
Pet Sematary / Carrie / Nightshift
Stephen King
Three of Stephen King's most terrifying works, this set includes Pet Sematary, Carrie and Night Shift.
Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman
Stephen King
This is the third gripping tale in the four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book Four Past Midnight. Set in Junction City, Iowa, "The Library Policeman" is the story of Sam Peebles, a middle-aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offense—but not to Junction City's malevolent monster of a librarian. What follows is spine-tingling suspense as only Stephen King can deliver it.
Under the Dome: Part 1
Stephen King
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
The Dark Tower Series: Books 1-7
Stephen King
時間も空間も変転する異界の地〈中間世界〉。最後の拳銃使いローランドは、宿敵である〈黒衣の男〉を追いつづけていた。タルの町で死から甦った男や妖艶な女説教師らから情報を聞き出し、旅は続く。やがて、別の世界からやってきた少年ジェイクと出会い、少しずつ心を通わせてゆく。だが思いがけない事態が二人を襲う……。本邦初翻訳となる『ダークタワーＩＶ-1/2 鍵穴を吹き抜ける風』も含む、今世紀最高のダーク・ファンタジーシリーズ、堂々の完結。
【電子書籍特典】シリーズ装画を手がけた山田章博氏、鈴木康士氏、田島昭宇氏、米田仁士氏によるラフ画を収録。山田章博氏による『ダークタワーＶＩＩ 暗黒の塔』のカバーラフ「キングバージョン」が見られるのは、全巻合本版のみ！
※本電子書籍は「ダークタワー Ｉ」～「ダークタワー ＶＩＩ」のシリーズ14冊を合わせた合本版です。
وقصص أخرى 1408
Stephen King
مجموعة قصص مترجمة لستيفن كينج
إن غرف الفنادق أماكن مخيفة بطبيعتها حقًا، ألا ترى ذلك؟ أعني، كم شخصًا سبقك إلى النوم في هذا الفراش؟ كم منهم كان مريضًا؟ كم منهم كان يشعر بأنه يفقد عقله؟ كم منهم كان يفكر ربما في قراءة بضع آيات أخيرة من الكتاب المقدس الموضوع في درج الكومود المجاوز للفراش ، قبل أن يشنق نفسه في الخزانة القريبة من التليفزيون؟ على كل حال دعونا ندخل. ها هو مفتاحك... ولربما كنت ترغب في استغراق بعض الوقت لتلاحظ مجموع تلك الأرقام الأربعة البريئة. إن الغرفة 1408 تنتظرنا في نهاية الرواق.
The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales
Stephen King
THE MAN IN THE BLACK SUIT
FOUR UNABRIDGED DARK TALES FROM STEPHEN KING
The Man in the Black Suit read by John Cullum
"...the face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him, but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest."
A haunting recollection of a mysterious boyhood event, The Man in Black Suit read by John Cullum leads off this masterful collection from Stephen King.
Other dark tales include: All That You Love Will Be Carried Away read by Peter Gerety, in which a man checks into a Lincoln, Nebraska Motel 6 to find the meaning in his life; That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French read by Becky Ann Baker presents the ultimate case of déjà vu; and The Death of Jack Hamilton read by Arliss Howard -- a blistering tale of Depression-era outlaws on the run. Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, Stephen King's The Man In The Black Suit: Four Dark Tales is intense, eerie and instantly compelling.
The Gwendy Collection: Gwendy's Button Box / Gwendy's Magic Feather / Gwendy's Final Task
Stephen King
The complete collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!
In Gwendy's Button Box, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson's life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping. It offers enticing treats and vintage coins, but he warns her that if she presses any of the box's beautifully colored buttons, death and destruction will follow.
Years later, in Gwendy's Magic Feather, she's a successful novelist with a promising future in politics. But when the button box suddenly reappears in her life, she must decide if she is willing to risk everything for its temptations.
And in the thrilling conclusion Gwendy's Final Task, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something so destructive from such powerful entities?
Gwendy’s Button Box
Stephen King
The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told... until now.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.
At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminum bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labor Day charity game.
One day, a stranger calls to Gwendy: "Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me."
On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat like for a suit, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat...
Journey back to Castle Rock again in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, bestselling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December.
Puls
Stephen King
Clayton Riddell ist geschäftlich in Boston, hat schon Geschenke für seine Familie besorgt und möchte sich vor der Heimfahrt gerade bei einem Straßenhändler ein Eis kaufen, als die Welt untergeht. Geschäftsleute, Schüler, Busfahrer, alle Menschen, die in diesem Moment ein Handy am Ohr haben, laufen wie auf einen geheimen Befehl hin Amok, fallen übereinander her, schlachten sich gegenseitig ab, stürzen sich ins Verderben. Irgendwie können Clay, ein kleiner Mann mit Schnurrbart und ein junges Mädchen, das beinahe von ihrer Mutter umgebracht worden wäre, sich in ein Hotel retten. Sie sind völlig abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt. Clay will unbedingt herausfinden, wie es um seine Frau und vor allem um seinen Sohn Johnny steht, der gerade in der Schule war, als der mörderische Irrsinn losging. Zu ihm muss Clay Kontakt aufnehmen, bevor ein anderer es per Handy tut. Die Suche nach Johnny wird zur Schreckensmission durch eine apokalyptische Welt.
Battleground
Stephen King
Renshaw is a professional hit-man, who returns from his assassination of a toy-maker to find a package delivered to his penthouse apartment. The package contains a G.I. Joe Vietnam Footlocker, sent to him by the mother of the toy-maker he had recently killed. When he opens the package, he finds that the toy soldiers are alive with working copies (albeit miniature) of weapons, jeeps, and helicopters. To Renshaw's surprise, the tiny soldiers begin to attack him
Skeleton Crew: The Raft
Stephen King
Strawberry Spring
Stephen King
The Lawnmower Man
Stephen King
Night Surf
Stephen King
O Cemitério
Stephen King
Louis Creed, um jovem médico de Chicago, acredita que encontrou seu lugar em uma pequena cidade do Maine. A boa casa, o trabalho na universidade e a felicidade da esposa e dos filhos lhe trazem a certeza de que fez a melhor escolha.
Num dos primeiros passeios pela região, conhecem um cemitério no bosque próximo à sua casa. Ali, gerações de crianças enterraram seus animais de estimação. Mas, para além dos pequenos túmulos, há um outro cemitério. Uma terra maligna que atrai pessoas com promessas sedutoras. Um universo dominado por forças estranhas capazes de tornar real o que sempre pareceu impossível.
A princípio, Louis Creed se diverte com as histórias fantasmagóricas do vizinho Crandall. No entanto, quando o gato de sua filha Eillen morre atropelado e, subitamente, retorna à vida, ele percebe que há coisas que nem mesmo a sua ciência pode explicar. Que mistérios esconde o cemitério dos bichos? Terá o homem o direito de interferir no mundo dos mortos?
Em busca das respostas, Louis Creed é levado por uma trama sobrenatural em que o limite entre a vida e a morte é inexistente. E, quando descobre a verdade, percebe que ela é muito pior que seus mais terríveis pesadelos. Pior que a própria morte – e infinitamente mais poderosa.
Dr. Sleep (The Shining, #2)
Stephen King
The Long Walk
Stephen King
Laurie
Stephen King
Après
Stephen King
Le Fléau 2/2
Stephen King
Le Fléau 1/2
Stephen King
Talismanul (The Talisman, #1)
Stephen King
Focul viu
Stephen King
Cimitirul animalelor
Stephen King
Mai târziu
Stephen King
Elevación
Stephen King
Mientras escribo
Stephen King
Ventana Secreta, Jardin Secreto (Spanish Edition)
Stephen King
Un saco de huesos
Stephen King
Todo es eventual: 14 relatos oscuros
Stephen King
La zona muerta
Stephen King
El resplandor
Stephen King
El umbral de la noche
Stephen King
La mitad oscura
Stephen King
Under the Dome: Part Two
Stephen King
The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels
Stephen King
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume 1
Stephen King
El instituto
Stephen King
Dans les hautes herbes
Stephen King
Different Seasons: Four Novellas
Stephen King
You Like It Darker
Stephen King
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.
“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
“Two Talented Bastids” explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.
King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.
The Stand: Das letzte Gefecht
Stephen King
Brennen muss Salem
Stephen King
Das Mädchen
Stephen King
Stephen King's 5 Hardcover Collection Series (5 Stephen King's Books for "The Collections", Night Shift; Skeleton Crew; Different Seasons; Four Past Midnight; Nightmares & Dreamscapes)
Stephen King
Coeurs perdus en Atlantide
Stephen King
La Ligne verte
Stephen King
Insónia
Stephen King
O Jogo de Gerald
Stephen King
Bem-vindos a Joyland
Stephen King
Dôme: 2
Stephen King
Dôme (Dôme, #1)
Stephen King
L'Outsider
Stephen King
Las cuatro después de la medianoche
Stephen King
A Cúpula - Livro I
Stephen King
Num bonito dia de outono, um dia perfeitamente normal, uma pequena cidade é súbita e inexplicavelmente isolada do resto do mundo por uma força invisível. Quando chocam contra ela, os aviões despenham-se, os carros explodem, as pessoas ficam feridas. As famílias são separadas e o pânico instala-se. Ninguém consegue compreender que barreira é aquela, de onde vem ou quando (se é que algum dia) desaparecerá.
Agora, um grupo de cidadãos intrépidos, liderado por um veterano da guerra do Iraque, toma as rédeas do poder no interior da cúpula. Mas o seu principal inimigo é a própria redoma. E o tempo está a esgotar-se…
Premium Harmony
Stephen King
The Man in the Black Suit
Stephen King
Word Processor of the Gods
Stephen King
Uporište II deo
Stephen King
Zmajeve oči
Stephen King
Uspavane Lepotice
Stephen King
Uporište I deo
Stephen King
Duistere krachten
Stephen King
Never Look Behind You
Stephen King
The Stranger
Stephen King
Salem
Stephen King
Après une histoire d'amour malheureuse, Ben Mears, écrivain à succès, revient dans sa ville natale pour écrire son prochain roman. En passant devant une vieille maison abandonnée, Marsten House, il envisage de s'installer. Mais le vieux manoir vient d'être vendu à un mystérieux monsieur Straker. Dans le parc, Ben rencontre une belle jeune femme, Susan Norton. Il s'installe dans une chambre en ville et se met à écrire, sans pouvoir se dégager d'un étrange sentiment que les choses ne sont pas tout à fait à leur place. Quand le petit Ralphie Glick disparaît et que son frère sombre dans un coma inexplicable, le regard de Ben se tourne de nouveau vers Marsten House et ses étranges habitants, Straker et Barlow. Mais il ne parvient pas à retrouver confiance, et l'horreur se poursuit.
O Intruso
Stephen King
Um rapaz de onze anos é encontrado morto. Todas as evidências apontam para que o assassino seja Terry Maitland, um dos cidadãos mais queridos de Flint City, professor de inglês, marido exemplar e pai de duas meninas. O detetive Ralph Anderson dá-lhe voz de prisão. Maitland tem um álibi forte, estava noutra cidade quando o crime foi cometido, mas os indícios de ADN encontrados no local confirmam que é ele o culpado. Aos olhos da justiça e da opinião pública, Terry Maitland é um assassino e o caso está resolvido.
Mas o detetive Anderson não está satisfeito. Maitland parece ser uma boa pessoa, um cidadão exemplar, terá duas faces? E como era possível estar simultaneamente em dois lugares?
Por ser um romance de Stephen King, quando conhecemos a resposta, arrependemo-nos de ter formulado a pergunta.
Escrever: memórias de um ofício
Stephen King
Em 1999, Stephen King começou a escrever sobre o seu ofício e a sua vida. A meio do ano, um acidente muito noticiado ameaçara a sua sobrevivência e, nos meses de recuperação, o nexo entre a escrita e a vida tornou-se mais crucial do que nunca para o escritor. O resultado é uma obra clara, útil e reveladora.
Escrever é, assim, um relato fascinante que, partindo da experiência específica do autor, proporcionará aos leitores uma nova perspectiva sobre a formação de um escritor, com conselhos práticos e inspiradores sobre todas as fases, desde o desenvolvimento da intriga e a criação das personagens até aos hábitos profissionais e à fuga ao trabalho. Publicado originalmente no New Yorker e vivamente aclamado, Escrever culmina com um testemunho comovente do modo como a necessidade irresistível de escrever estimulou a recuperação de Stephen King e o trouxe de volta à vida. Brilhantemente estruturado e cativante, este livro ensinará - e divertirá - todos os que o lerem.
Stephen King escreveu mais de trinta livros, todos best-sellers internacionais. Muitos foram adaptados ao cinema - como Carrie, Misery ou Shining - tornando-se filmes de terror de culto. Escrever - Memórias de um Ofício é o seu primeiro livro de não ficção.
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King [Hardcover Book in Russian]
Stephen King
Cuento de hadas
Stephen King
Les Langoliers
Stephen King
Les Yeux du dragon
Stephen King
La hora del vampiro
Stephen King
Dolores Clairbone
Stephen King
The Boogeyman
Stephen King
A young man is traumatized by memories of terrible events in his childhood bedroom. Years later he returns home to face his fears
Mais Sombrio
Stephen King
Terror a Bordo: 17 Histórias Turbulentas
Stephen King
Depois
Stephen King
Novembro de 63
Stephen King
À Espera de um Milagre
Stephen King
Sombras da Noite
Stephen King
It: a Coisa
Stephen King
A Hora do Lobisomem
Stephen King
Dyrekirkegården
Stephen King
The Regulators
Stephen King
Blodtørst og andre fortællinger
Stephen King
La bambina che amava Tom Gordon
Stephen King
Charlie
Stephen King
Dead Zone
Stephen King
Le Singe, suivi de Le chenal
Stephen King
Simetierre
Stephen King
Docteur Sleep (The Shining, #2)
Stephen King
Coffret king tommyknockers 3vols
Stephen King
Ça - 2
Stephen King
La Part des ténèbres
Stephen King
Brume : La Faucheuse
Stephen King
Le Talisman (Le talisman des territoires, #1)
Stephen King
Insomnie
Stephen King
Brume : Paranoïa (9 Stories from Skeleton Crew)
Stephen King
The Shinning
Stephen King
Último Turno (Trilogia Bill Hodges, #3)
Stephen King
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9788556510181.
Brady Hartsfield, o diabólico Assassino do Mercedes, está há cinco anos em estado vegetativo em uma clínica de traumatismo cerebral. Segundo os médicos, qualquer coisa perto de uma recuperação completa é improvável. Mas sob o olhar fixo e a imobilidade, Brady está acordado, e possui agora poderes capazes de criar o caos sem que sequer precise deixar a cama de hospital.
O detetive aposentado Bill Hodges agora trabalha em uma agência de investigação com Holly Gibney, a mulher que desferiu o golpe em Brady. Quando os dois são chamados a uma cena de suicídio que tem ligação com o Massacre do Mercedes, logo se veem envolvidos no que pode ser seu caso mais perigoso até então.
Brady está de volta e, desta vez, não planeja se vingar apenas de seus inimigos, mas atingir toda uma cidade. Em Último turno, Stephen King leva a trilogia a uma conclusão sublime e aterrorizante, combinando a narrativa policial de Mr. Mercedes e Achados e perdidos com o suspense sobrenatural que é sua marca registrada.
Sob a Redoma
Stephen King
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9788581051130.
Na trama, em um dia como outro qualquer em Chester’s Mill, no Maine, a pequena cidade é subitamente isolada do resto do mundo por um campo de força invisível. Aviões explodem quando tentam atravessá-lo e pessoas trabalhando em cidades vizinhas são separadas de suas famílias. Ninguém consegue entender o que é esta barreira, de onde ela veio e quando — ou se — ela irá desaparecer.
Os moradores de Chester’s Mill percebem que terão de lutar por sua sobrevivência. Pessoas morrem, aparelhos eletrônicos entram em pane ao se aproximar da redoma e a situação fica ainda mais grave quando a cidade se vê exposta às graves consequências ecológicas da barreira. Para piorar a situação, James “Big Jim” Rennie, político dissimulado e um dos três membros do conselho executivo da cidade, usa a redoma como um meio de dominar a cidade.
Enquanto isso, o veterano da guerra do Iraque, Dale Barbara, é reincorporado ao serviço militar e promovido à posição de coronel. Big Jim, insatisfeito com a perda de autoridade que tal manobra poderia significar, encoraja um sentimento local de pânico para aumentar seu poder de influência. O veterano se une a um grupo de moradores para manter a situação sob controle e impedir que o caos se instaure. Junto a ele estão a proprietária do jornal local, uma enfermeira, uma vereadora e três crianças destemidas.
No entanto, Big Jim está disposto até a matar para continuar no poder, apoiado por seu filho, que guarda a sete chaves um segredo. Mas os efeitos da redoma e das manobras políticas de Jim Rennie não são as únicas preocupações dos habitantes. O isolamento expõe os medos e as ambições de cada um, até os sentimentos mais reprimidos. Assim, enquanto correm contra o pouco tempo que têm para descobrir a origem da redoma e uma forma de desfazê-la, ainda terão de combater a crueldade humana em sua forma mais primitiva.
La milla verde
Stephen King
Octubre de 1932, penitenciaría de Cold Mountain. Los condenados a muerte aguardan el momento de ser conducidos a la silla eléctrica. Los crímenes abominables que han cometido les convierten en carnaza de un sistema legal que se alimenta de un círculo de locura, muerte y venganza. Y en esa antesala del infierno Stephen King traza una escalofriante radiografía del horror en estado puro.
Cementerio de animales
Stephen King
La historia de Lisey
Stephen King
Apocalipsis
Stephen King
Doctor Sueño
Stephen King
Después del anochecer
Stephen King
Casa Negra
Stephen King
Fin de guardia (Bill Hodges, #3)
Stephen King
QUIEN PIERDE PAGA
Stephen King
La sangre manda
Stephen King
La chica que amaba a Tom Gordon
Stephen King
El juego de Gerald
Stephen King
Los ojos del dragón
Stephen King
El visitante
Stephen King
El bazar de los malos sueños
Stephen King
Bellas durmientes
Stephen King
Desesperación
Stephen King
La Torre Oscura (La Torre Oscura, #7)
Stephen King
Canción de Susannah (La torre oscura, #6)
Stephen King
El viento por la cerradura (La Torre Oscura, #4.5)
Stephen King
Las tierras baldías (La torre oscura, #3)
Stephen King
La llegada de los tres (La torre oscura, #2)
Stephen King
El pistolero (La torre oscura, #1)
Stephen King
Lobos del Calla (La torre oscura, #5)
Stephen King
Mago y cristal (La torre oscura, #4)
Stephen King
El misterio de Salem's Lot
Stephen King
Área 81
Stephen King
El ciclo del hombre lobo
Stephen King
El talismán (El talismán, #1)
Stephen King
Corazones en la Atlántida
Stephen King
El fugitivo
Stephen King
A mediados del siglo XXI, un concurso televisivo cuyo principal atractivo es la muerte de los participantes bate récords de audiencia. Ben Richards, padre de una niña enferma y sumido en la más profunda miseria, decide concursar atraído por los extraordinarios premios, aun a sabiendas de que no sobrevivirá. Sometido a una implacable persecución, se plantea un único objetivo: resistir tantos días como sea posible para aumentar el premio y asegurar la subsistencia de su familia.
Las cuatro estaciones II: otoño e invierno
Stephen King
Conto de Fadas
Stephen King
Romance inédito do mestre do terror e suspense, Stephen King, Conto de fadas é uma história fascinante e assustadora sobre um garoto que descobre um novo mundo, onde Bem e Mal estão em guerra.
Aos dezessete anos de idade, Charlie Reade parece ser um garoto comum: pratica esportes, é um filho atencioso e aluno de desempenho razoável. Suas lembranças, entretanto, não são feitas apenas de momentos felizes. Após perder a mãe em um grave acidente quando tinha apenas dez anos, Charlie precisou aprender a cuidar de si e do pai, que, enlutado com a perda da esposa, buscou refúgio na bebida.
Certo dia, ao pedalar pela rua de casa, Charlie atende um pedido de socorro vindo do quintal de um dos vizinhos: Howard Bowditch. O homem recluso e rabugento, que amedrontava as crianças do bairro, cai de uma escada e se machuca gravemente. O chamado por ajuda veio de Radar, a fiel pastor alemão , tão idosa quanto seu dono.
Enquanto Bowditch se recupera, Charlie passa a ajudar o vizinho com tarefas domésticas e com o cuidado de Radar, e assim o rapaz faz duas grandes amizades. Quando Howard morre, Charlie se depara com uma fita cassete que revela um segredo inimaginável: um portal para outro mundo.
Le notti di Salem
Stephen King
Si ça saigne
Stephen King
Les journalistes le savent : si ça saigne, l’info se vend. Et l’explosion d’une bombe au collège Albert Macready est du pain bénit dans le monde des news en continu. Holly Gibney, de l’agence de détectives Finders Keepers, travaille sur sa dernière enquête lorsqu’elle apprend l’effroyable nouvelle en allumant la télévision. Elle ne sait pas pourquoi, mais le journaliste qui couvre les événements attire son attention…
Quatre nouvelles magistrales, dont cette suite inédite au thriller L’Outsider, qui illustrent une fois de plus l’étendue du talent de Stephen King.
L’auteur reste un grand conteur. Il a l’art de développer chaque personnage, chaque vie humaine, même la plus ordinaire, jusqu’à en faire un monde. Cécile Mury, Télérama.
On retrouve sa plume inégalable. Hubert Artus, Le Parisien week-end.
Las cuatro estaciones I: Primavera y verano (Las cuatro estaciones, #1)
Stephen King
A los veinte años le internaron en prisión, y ahora se encarga de conseguir a los otros internos todo lo que le soliciten, sea lo que sea. En 1949 Andy Dufresne, ex vicepresidente de un banco y ahora condenado a cadena perpetua por el asesinato de su esposa y el amante de ésta, le pide a Rita Hayworth...
Un niño reconoce en un vecino suyo a un conocido nazi y usa la información para, con refinada perversidad, abusar del anciano y conseguir sus «satánicos» objetivos.
Con Esperanza, primavera eterna y Verano de corrupción, convertidos en sendas películas (especialmente reconocida ha sido la primera, Cadena perpetua), Stephen King accede a los niveles más profundos —y los más inquietantes— de la mente humana.
Doctor sueño (El resplandor, #2)
Stephen King
Pesadillas y alucinaciones II (Pesadillas y alucinaciones, #2)
Stephen King
Pesadillas y alucinaciones I (Pesadillas y alucinaciones, #1)
Stephen King
Después de Medianoche
Stephen King
The Breathing Method
Stephen King
From the world's bestselling novelist comes the third tale in the Different Seasons collection. In this masterful horror story, thirteen men gather in their gentlemen's club to hear the story of "The Breathing Method." And they will be forever transfigured by this terrifying story of a woman who was determined to give birth at all costs. The Breathing Method is one of four novellas in a collection that includes The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil.
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror
Stephen King
Contents
The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison
The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Dark Angel by Edward Bryant
The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb
Mark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert Aickman
Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner
The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates
Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein
The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe
Vengeance Is. By Theodore Sturgeon
The Brood by Ramsey Campbell
The Whistling Well by Clifford D. Simak
The Peculiar Demesne by Russell Kirk
Where the Stones Grow by Lisa Tuttle
The Night Before Christmas by Robert Bloch
The Stupid Joke by Edward Gorey
A Touch of Petulance by Ray Bradbury
Lindsay and the Red City Blues by Joe Haldeman
A Garden of Blackred Roses by Charles L. Grant
Owls Hoot in the Daytime by Manly Wade Wellman
Where There’s a Will by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson
Traps by Gahan Wilson
The Mist by Stephen King
Sobre a escrita: a arte em memórias
Stephen King
Misery: Louca obsessão
Stephen King
"Paul Sheldon descobriu três coisas quase simultaneamente, uns dez dias após emergir da nuvem escura.
A primeira foi que Annie Wilkes tinha bastante analgésico. A segunda, que ela era viciada em analgésicos.
A terceira foi que Annie Wilkes era perigosamente louca."
Paul Sheldon é um famoso escritor reconhecido pela série de best-sellers protagonizados por Misery Chastain. No dia em que termina de escrever um novo manuscrito, decide sair para comemorar, apesar da forte nevasca. Após derrapar e sofrer um grave acidente de carro, Paul é resgatado pela enfermeira aposentada Annie Wilkes, que surge em seu caminho.
A simpática senhora é também uma leitora voraz que se autointitula a fã número um do autor. No entanto, o desfecho do último livro com a personagem Misery desperta na enfermeira seu lado mais sádico e psicótico. Profundamente abalada, Annie o isola em um quarto e inicia uma série de torturas e ameaças, que só chegará ao fim quando ele reescrever a narrativa com o final que ela considera apropriado. Ferido e debilitado, em Misery – Louca obsessão, Paul Sheldon terá que usar toda a criatividade para salvar a própria vida e, talvez, escapar deste pesadelo.
22.11.63
Stephen King
Jake Epping ha trentacinque anni, è professore di inglese al liceo di Lisbon Falls, nel Maine, e arrotonda lo stipendio insegnando anche alla scuola serale. Vive solo, ma ha parecchi amici sui quali contare, e il migliore è Al, che gestisce la tavola calda. È proprio lui a rivelare a Jake il segreto che cambierà il suo destino: il negozio in realtà è un passaggio spaziotemporale che conduce al 1958. Al coinvolge Jake in una missione folle - e follemente possibile: impedire l'assassinio di Kennedy. Comincia così la nuova esistenza di Jake nel mondo di Elvis, James Dean e JFK, delle automobili interminabili e del twist, dove convivono un'anima inquieta di nome Lee Harvey Oswald e la bella bibliotecaria Sadie Dunhill. Che diventa per Jake l'amore della vita. Una vita che sovverte tutte le regole del tempo conosciute. E forse anche quelle della Storia.
...e as pedras choveram do céu
Stephen King
Não é que fosse diferente das outras. Um pouco estranha, sim. E antipática. Talvez por isso, na objecto da chacota e do riso de toda a turma. Ou talvez a sua antipatia fosse antes o resultado de se ver sempre constituída em alvo da troça de todas...
Mas, quanto ao resto não. Carrie era uma moça normal. Como todas as outras. E mais como todas as outras seria se não fosse aquela "incrível" mulher que era sua mãe.
Mas isso não explica tudo. Sobretudo, não explica que naquela noite, "a noite do baile", uma cidade inteira tenha sido arrasada por Carrie, sem que ela precisasse de mexer sequer um dedo...
Um romance palpitante, que se lê de um fôlego e que nos coloca perante os mistérios do espírito humano e dos seus estranhos poderes. Uma porta aberta sobre um mundo desconhecido e inexplorado.
Ficção científica? E talvez não. Sobretudo se tivermos em conta as recentes achegas da psicologia e casos reais da actualidade.
Colorado Kid
Stephen King
En una isla de las costas de Maine, un hombre es encontrado muerto. No hay identificación de su cuerpo. Solo el esforzado trabajo de un par de periodistas locales y de un graduado en medicina forense logra descubrir algunas pistas para, después de un año, "Saber quién es el muerto. Pero es aquí donde comienza el misterio. Porque cuanto más descubren del hombre y de las extrañas circunstancias de su muerte, menos comprenden. ¿Se trata de un crimen imposible? ¿O algo aún más extraño...?
Con ecos de El halcón maltés de Dashiell Hammet y de la obra de Graham Greene, Stephen King presenta un relato sorprendente y conmovedor, cuyo tema es nada menos que la naturaleza del propio misterio.
Everything's Eventual: 5 Dark Tales
Stephen King
"Everything's Eventual" features Dinky Earnshaw -- a 19-year-old pizza boy -- who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally "eventual" (awesome) job. Read by Justin Long.
In "Autopsy Room Four," the last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is entering the woods to find his golf ball. He wakes up as he is being rolled into an autopsy room. Read by Oliver Platt.
In "The Little Sisters of Eluria" Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town when he gets ambushed. Read by Boyd Gaines.
In "Luckey Quarter" Darlene is a single mom struggling to raise two kids on her income as a chambermaid in Reno. When Room 322 leaves her a quarter for a tip, Darlene lets that quarter take her for a ride. Read by Judith Ivey.
"The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy painting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide. Read by Jay O. Sanders.
Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, these five stories announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
A Incendiária
Stephen King
Uma criança com o poder mais extraordinário e incontrolável de todos os tempos. Um poder capaz de destruir o mundo.
Após anos esgotado no Brasil, A incendiária volta às livrarias como parte da Biblioteca Stephen King, coleção de clássicos do mestre do terror em edição especial, com capa dura e conteúdo extra. No livro, Andy e Vicky eram apenas universitários precisando de uma grana extra quando se voluntariaram para um experimento científico comandado por uma organização governamental clandestina conhecida como “a Oficina”. As consequências foram o surgimento de estranhos poderes psíquicos — que assumiram efeitos ainda mais perigosos quando os dois se apaixonaram e tiveram uma filha.
Desde pequena, Charlie demonstra ter herdado um poder absoluto e incontrolável. Pirocinética, a garota é capaz de criar fogo com a mente. Agora o governo está à caça da garotinha, tentando capturá-la e utilizar seu poder como arma militar. Impotentes e cada vez mais acuados, pai e filha percorrem o país em uma fuga desesperada, e percebem que o poder de Charlie pode ser sua única chance de escapar.
Jessie
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
Stephen King
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here — and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
O Iluminado (O Iluminado, #1)
Stephen King
O romance, magistralmente levado ao cinema por Stanley Kubrick, continua apaixonando (e aterrorizando) novas gerações de leitores.
A luta assustadora entre dois mundos.
Um menino e o desejo assassino de poderosas forças malignas.
Uma família refém do mal.
Nesta guerra sem testemunhas, vencerá o mais forte.
Em O Iluminado, Stephen King conta a história de Danny Torrance, um menino em tudo extraordinário, capaz de ouvir pensamentos, transportar-se no tempo e olhar o passado e o futuro. Danny - para o bem ou para o mal? - é um iluminado.
Quando Jack Torrance consegue o emprego de zelador no velho hotel, todos os problemas da família parecem estar solucionados. Não mais o desemprego e as noites de bebedeiras. Não mais o sofrimento da esposa, Wendy. Tranquilidade e ar puro para o pequeno Danny livrar-se de vez das convulsões que assustam a família. Só que o Overlook, antigo palco de festas sofisticadas, noitadas de sexo e bebida, grandes negócios e paixões avassaladoras, é uma chaga aberta de ressentimento e desejo de vingança. Algo resiste nos longos corredores sombrios do hotel: algo terrivelmente poderoso e assustadoramente mau.
A luta assustadora entre dois mundos. Um menino e a ânsia assassina de poderosas forças malignas. Uma família refém do mal. Tudo isso está presente em O Iluminado, em uma guerra sem testemunhas onde só vencerá o mais forte.
Fine turno (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
Stephen King
On Writing. Autobiografia di un mestiere
Stephen King
Il miglio verde
Stephen King
Com Sangue (Holly Gibney, #2)
Stephen King
Do mestre do terror, uma nova coleção de contos que levará os leitores a momentos aterrorizantes da vida… e da morte.
Brilhante em narrativas curtas, King já escreveu alguns contos que viraram sucesso em todo o mundo, como as histórias que inspiraram os filmes Conta comigo e Um sonho de liberdade. Neste livro, assim como em Quatro estações e Escuridão total sem estrelas, ele cria uma coleção única e emocionante, demonstrando mais uma vez por que é considerado um dos maiores contadores de histórias de todos os tempos.
Este é um livro sobre amor, amizade, talento e justiça… em suas formas mais deturpadas. Em Com sangue, Stephen King reúne quatro contos com protagonistas inteligentes e complexos, que têm sua vida comum transformada por algum elemento inexplicável.
Tudo é Eventual
Stephen King
Stephen King traz 14 histórias de suspense, surpresas e terror. Primeira reunião de contos de Stephen King desde 'Pesadelos e Paisagens Noturnas', na obra destacam-se contos como "Andando na bala", que narra a história de Alan Parker, um jovem universitário que precisa viajar urgentemente para visitar a mãe hospitalizada. Ao aceitar aquela carona no meio da noite, Alan só pensou que precisava chegar logo a seu destino. No meio do caminho, percebe que aquele estranho motorista poderia ter outros planos para aquela viagem... No entanto, já era tarde demais.
A Metade Sombria
Stephen King
Após anos esgotado no Brasil, A metade sombria volta às livrarias como parte da Biblioteca Stephen King, coleção de clássicos do mestre do terror em edição especial com capa dura e conteúdo extra. Compre na pré-venda e ganhe um kit de marcadores exclusivos da Coleção Biblioteca Stephen King. Criar George Stark foi fácil. Se livrar dele, nem tanto. Há anos, Thad Beaumont vem escrevendo, sob o pseudônimo George Stark, thrillers violentos que pagam as contas da família, mas não são considerados “livros sérios” pelo escritor. Quando um jornalista ameaça expor o segredo, Thad decide abrir o jogo primeiro, e dá um fim público ao pseudônimo. Beaumont volta a escrever sob o próprio nome, e seu alter ego ameaçador está definitivamente enterrado. Tudo vai bem. Até que uma série de assassinatos tem início, e todas as pistas apontam para Thad. Ele gostaria de poder dizer que é inocente, que não participou dos atos monstruosos acontecendo ao seu redor. Mas a verdade é que George Stark não ficou feliz de ser dispensado tão facilmente, e está de volta para perseguir os responsáveis por sua morte.
O Bazar dos Sonhos Ruins
Stephen King
"Mestre das histórias curtas, o que Stephen King oferece neste livro é uma coleção generosa de contos – muitos deles inéditos no Brasil. E, antes de cada história, o autor faz pequenos comentários autobiográficos, revelando quando, onde, por que e como veio a escrever (ou reescrever) cada uma delas. Temas eletrizantes interligam os contos; moralidade, vida após a morte, culpa, os erros que consertaríamos se pudéssemos voltar no tempo... Muitos deles são protagonizados por personagens no fim da vida, relembrando seus crimes e pecados. Outros falam de pessoas descobrindo superpoderes – como o colunista, em “Obituários”, que consegue matar pessoas ao escrever sobre suas mortes; ou o velho juiz em “A duna”, que ainda criança descobre uma pequena ilha onde nomes surgem misteriosamente na areia – nome de pessoas que logo morrem em acidentes bizarros. Em “Moralidade”, King narra a vida de um casal que vai se despedaçando quando os dois mergulham no que, a princípio, parece um vantajoso pacto com o Diabo."
Ao cair da noite
Stephen King
Em 'Ao Cair da Noite', de Stephen King, os mortos estão por toda parte, seja ouvindo música country em 'Willa', ou ligando para casa de um celular, como no conto 'The New York Times a Preços Promocionais Imperdíveis'. Em 'A Bicicleta Ergométrica', uma rotina de exercícios pode levar um homem a uma viagem inspiradora - e no fim das contas aterrorizante. Em 'As coisas que eles deixaram para trás', os pertences de mortos do 11 de Setembro - uns óculos escuros em forma de coração, um taco de baseball, um cogumelo de cerâmica - começam a perseguir um sobrevivente atormentado pela culpa. No conto 'N.', o transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo de um indivíduo em contar um círculo de pedras é a única coisa que mantém a humanidade protegida do desconhecido. Em 'Mudo', um ressentido vendedor de livros ambulante dá carona para um mudo, sem saber que o homem silencioso no banco do carona escuta bem até demais. 'Ao Cair da Noite' traz, no total, 13 contos de terror.
The Monkey
Stephen King
1 cassette (100 minutes). Read by David Purdham.
Hal didn't know where it had come from, but every time the moth-eaten monkey with the strange yellow eyes clashed his cymbals, jang, jang, jang...somebody died. An irresistible urge had made him turn the key, but that was before he knew what it could do. He thought he had gotten rid of the evil thing once and for all. But the monkey had other plans for Hal.
Brume
Stephen King
Eclate une tempête et la réalité se fissure ! Avant-goût d'apocalypse.. . De la brume surgit une horreur blême, créature monstrueuse aux pieds cornés qui attaque un supermarché... Défi de la nature déchaînée ou fantaisie inquiétante de l'imagination ? Glacé de peur, David croit rêver. Et à tout prendre, il vaudrait mieux que sa stéréo mentale soit déréglée... Mais il est des voix pour murmurer le nom de Shaymore et du projet Pointe-de-flèche... Et s'ils avaient ouvert un trou donnant directement dans une autre dimension ? Ils ? Les ennemis. Ne sont-ïls pas partout ? A nos trousses. Ombres diligentes, messaggers anonymes, prêts à nous faire la peau... Fadaises ? Délire paranoïaque parlait ? Chacune de ces nouvelles révèle l'envers hallucinant d'un décor qui nous est familier.
Nuit noire étoiles mortes (French Edition)
Stephen King
Ne cherchez jamais à connaître cet Autre qui sommeille en vous Dans la lignée de Différentes saisons, un King démoniaque où les mariages se disloquent sous le poids de secrets plus noirs que les ténèbres, où lavidité et la culpabilité distillent goutte à goutte leurs venins, où la seule certitude est que le pire reste encore à venir.1922. Un fermier du Nebraska assassine sa femme avec la complicité de leur fils pour lempêcher de vendre sa propriété à un éleveur de porcs. Le début dune véritable descente aux enfers dans un univers de violence et de paranoïa. Big driver. Un auteur de polar se fait violer sauvagement au bord dune route. Rendue à moitié folle par lagression, elle décide de se venger elle-même de lhomme et de son effrayante complice Fair extension. Un homme atteint dun cancer, fait un pacte faustien avec un inconnu : en échange dun peu de vie, il vend un ami denfance dont il a toujours été jaloux pour souffrir (ô combien !) à sa place Un mariage parfait. Une femme découvre par hasard quelle vit depuis plus de vingt ans aux côtés dun tueur en série. Que va-t-il se passer maintenant quil sait quelle sait « Quatre nouvelles aussi puissantes que dérangeantes, chacune dans son genre. » Neil Gaiman Stephen King : plus de 50 romans, tous best-sellers et plus de 200 nouvelles. Un mythe vivant de la littérature américaine (National Book Foundation Medal en 2003 pour sa contribution aux lettres américaines, Grand Master du Prix Edgar Allan Poe en 2007), « lEdgar Poe du XXe siècle ».
Ça, Tome 2
Stephen King
Tout avait commencé juste avant les vacances d'été quand le petit Browers avait gravé ses initiales au couteau sur le ventre de son copain Ben Hascom. Tout s'était terminé deux mois plus tard dans les égouts par la poursuite infernale d'une créature étrange, incarnation même du mal. Mais aujourd'hui tout recommence. Les enfants terrorisés sont devenus des adultes. Le présent retrouve le passé, le destin reprend ses droits, l'horreur ressurgit. Chacun retrouvera dans ce roman à la construction saisissante ses propres souvenirs, ses angoisses et ses terreurs d'enfant, la peur de grandir dans un monde de violence.
Ça, Tome 1
Stephen King
La terreur s'incarna pour la première fois dans un bateau en papier journal dévalant un caniveau gonflé d'eau de pluie. Un petit garçon courait gaiement à côté. Il s'appelait George et avait six ans... Pris dans un tourbillon, l'esquif disparut dans une bouche d'égout. L'enfant mit un genou à terre, se pencha...
Des yeux jaunes le regardaient, des yeux comme ceux qu'il avait imaginés le guettant dans la cave... « Salut, Georgie ! » fit une voix... Un clown se dressait dans l'égout. Sa main noueuse comme une patte de rapace tenait un lot de ballons colorés... George tendit le bras... Dans la rue, les gens ne virent qu'un gamin en ciré jaune qui hurlait et se tordait dans le caniveau...
Oeil de salamandre, Queue de dragon, Main de gloire, quoi que ce fût, c'était là de nouveau... ÇA ! L'ordure aux cent têtes...
Después
Stephen King
En ocasiones, para crecer debes vencer a tus demonios.
EL REY DEL TERROR REGRESA CON UNA NUEVA E INOLVIDABLE NOVELA.
Jamie Conklin, el único hijo de una madre soltera, solo quiere tener una infancia normal. Sin embargo, desde que nació tiene una habilidad sobrenatural que su madre le insta a mantener en secreto: puede hacer hablar a los muertos. Cuando una detective del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York le arrastra a la persecución de un asesino que amenaza con seguir atacando incluso desde su tumba, Jamie no tardará en descubrir que el precio a pagar por su poder tal vez sea demasiado alto.
Después es Stephen King en estado puro, una novela inquietante y emotiva sobre la inocencia perdida y las pruebas que debemos superar para diferenciar el bien del mal. Deudora del gran clásico del autor It (Eso), Después es un relato poderoso, terrorífico e inolvidable sobre la necesidad de plantarle cara al mal en todas sus formas.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Es mitad historia de detectives, mitad thriller... Emocionante y auténtica.»
The New York Times
«La escritura de Stephen King en Después es limpia, directa y evocadora, como siempre lo ha sido. El argumento, basado en un crimen, es impelente, y algunas frases quitan el aliento... Estáis en las manos de un narrador magistral.»
Washington Post
«¿Tienes ganas de escalofríos y emoción, pero no dispones de tiempo para leer un clásico de King? Este libro te irá perfecto para antes de irte a la cama. Aunque tampoco es que vayas a poder dormir.»
Kirkus
«Sangriento e inquietante, este escalofriante thriller tiene bastantes secretos y sorpresas para hacer que los lectores no suelten la lectura hasta su intensa conclusión. Es todo un regalo para los fans de Stephen King.»
Publishers Weekly
«Una lectura entretenida y ligera que cuenta con la magistral habilidad que ha convertido a Stephen King en una leyenda literaria.»
AARP Magazine
«Un relato muy satisfactorio sobre tanto los demonios que podemos ver como aquellos que acechan en la oscuridad.»
Foreword Reviews
«Después es un ejemplo más del poder de Stephen King para contar una historia que es a la vez sencilla e irresistible. Tenéis que añadir esta entretenida novela a vuestra lista de lecturas de 2021.»
New York Journal of Books
«Una prueba más que añadir a la lista de proezas narrativas de Stephen King.»
Bookbub
«Un nuevo clásico para los fans de Stephen King. Una emocionante novela policíaca.»
Associated Press
Gwendy et la boîte à boutons (Gwendy Peterson, #1)
Stephen King
Ça - 1
Stephen King
The Graveyard Shift: Stories from Night Shift
Stephen King
Consummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift. It brings Stephen King's demonic stories fully to life - and the terror even closer to home.
Dropout drifter Hall has crossed the country doing whatever comes his way. Working the "Graveyard Shift" in a decaying Massachusetts mill under a bullying foreman is just one more leg in his crazy quilt journey, until it leads to a nether realm where the Rat Queen defends her empire. Things are never as they seem, as "The Man Who Loved Flowers" proves one perfect Spring evening on the sidewalks of New York. In "The Last Rung on the Ladder" beautiful Kitty hangs from dizzying heights above a hideous fate and, in "Night Surf," a group of teenagers on a late summer beach watch the world end in a gruesome, viral whimper. The mind-numbing secrets of "Jerusalem's Lot" wait in an ancestral mansion where blood binds the Boone family to a timeless history of unspeakable evil.
Buick 8. Un coche perverso
Stephen King
Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera. Conduce un Buick Roadmaster 1954, que está en perfecto estado. El conductor va al baño y nunca más aparece. La policía se hace cargo del coche, que ahora no funciona y lo guarda detrás de la comisaría. Y aquí empieza una historia escalofriante, la historia de un vehículo perverso y malicioso, con vida propia. Los policías continúan con su trabajo, pero el coche interviene de vez en cuando contra ellos: a veces sus radios y teléfonos no les funcionan. A veces el coche comienza a moverse y producir relámpagos; a veces el maletero se abre y escupe objetos indescriptibles... y hasta parece el responsable de varias muertes, entre ellas la del policía Wilcox. Años más tarde, en el otoño de 2001, el hijo del policía fallecido empieza a trabajar en la comisaría y decide que ha de saber la verdad del Buick 8.
L'ordinateur des dieux / Word Processor of the Gods
Stephen King
Une nouvelle particulièrement percutante par le plus célèbre auteur de littérature fantastique d'aujourd'hui. Richard Hagstrom, professeur d'anglais et écrivain raté, a du mal à se faire une place entre une épouse dominatrice et un fils qui le méprise. Il est toujours amoureux de Belinda, la femme que son frère a épousée, et il adore leur fils Ion, un petit génie de l'électronique. Après que son frère, conduisant en état d'ivresse, a entraîné la mort de Belinda et Ion, Richard reçoit un cadeau posthume de ce dernier : un appareil de traitement de texte bricolé à partir de pièces disparates. Il découvre alors que cette machine lui donne un droit de vie ou de mort sur les personnes dont il tape le nom.
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L'ombra dello scorpione [The Stand]
Stephen King
Un thriller epico, un classico pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1978 e ambientato in un futuro prossimo (ormai presente) nel quale l’umanità è martoriata da una epidemia globale senza precedenti. La visione apocalittica di Stephen King ci restituisce un mondo completamente trasformato dal virus, con città vuote e spettrali percorse da poche persone allo sbando. L’ombra dello scorpione è ancor più affascinante e spaventoso oggi di quando è stato pubblicato per la prima volta. È il morbo sfuggito a un segretissimo laboratorio a seminare morte in tutto il mondo: il novantanove per cento della popolazione della terra non sopravvive all’apocalittica epidemia. I pochi sopravvissuti si trovano intrappolati in uno scontro più grande di loro, quella lotta eterna tra forze della natura nella quale si può solo decidere di perseguire il Bene e appoggiarsi alle fragili spalle di Mother Abagail, la veggente ultracentenaria, o seguire le orme dello spaventoso Randall Flagg, il Senza Volto, il Signore delle Tenebre. L’umanità di fronte alla pandemia sbanda tra paura e voglia di sopravvivere a qualsiasi costo: emergono i lati più oscuri dell’animo umano ma anche il coraggio di affrontare le tenebre.
Survivor Type
Stephen King
Survivor Type is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the 1982 horror anthology Terrors, edited by Charles L. Grant, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.
This is a graphic adaptation of the short story, adapted and illustrated by Max Miller.
Das Institut
Stephen King
The Talisman (Volume 1): The Road of Trials
Stephen King
The spellbinding saga of The Talisman is now a stunning graphic novel, vividly illustrated by artist Tony Shasteen. Here’s a bold new look at the classic tale of treachery and betrayal that could only have sprung from the imaginations of master storytellers Stephen King and Peter Straub.
In a run-down amusement park on a desolate beach in New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer is about to learn some hard truths—about his father’s death, about why he and his mother are on the run from his sinister uncle Morgan, and about the real nature of the mysterious realm Jack once called the Daydreams. Now, with help from his newfound friend Speedy Parker, this young man will reclaim his identity as Travellin Jack and make his first foray back into the Territories to retrieve the magical Talisman, an object of immense cosmic significance. Yet even more important to Jack, the Talisman holds the key to saving his mother’s life. In the Terrorities, where monsters lurk, evil watches, and an unbelievably precious prize awaits, Jack embarks upon a desperate quest to fulfill a destiny he never sought but cannot escape.
The Talisman: The Road of Trials comprises Issues 0 through 5 of the thrilling comic book series and features original, never-before-seen material, including interviews and early sketches. Be warned: Once you’ve seen the Talisman, nothing will ever be the same.
Uporište III deo
Stephen King
Trenutak konačnog obračuna se bliži, krug se zatvara. Preživeli okupljeni oko sila dobra i zla moraju se upustiti u presudni sukob kako bi odredili sudbinu čovečanstva.
U završnici jednog od najboljih i najgrandioznijih romana Stivena Kinga, sledbenici Majke Ebigejl posle njene smrti i pogibije Nika Androsa polaze na dug put pročišćenja kroz pustoš Amerike uništene virusom supergripa, naoružani samo sopstvenim strpljenjem i verom u to da zlo ne može pobediti, kako bi se suočili sa Mračnjakom u Las Vegasu.
Jasno im je da polaze u gotovo sigurnu smrt, ali isto tako i da je to jedini način da održe makar trunku nade za budućnost preživelih u Koloradu.
Četiri čoveka i jedan pas s jedne strane, a Rendal Fleg – polučovek-poludemon, majstor laži i magičnih trikova okružen preživelim zločincima i bezumnicima – s druge, moraju zauzeti poslednje uporište i u kataklizmičkom sukobu dovesti do pobede jednog od dva večito suprotstavljena principa – svetlosti i tame ljudske duše...
Lisey's verhaal
Stephen King
La niebla
Stephen King
En la ciudad de Bridgton, Maine, una gran tormenta eléctrica ha traído consigo una espesa niebla que reduce la visibilidad. A pesar de esto, David y su hijo Billy deciden ir al supermercado dejando a la esposa y madre Stephanie en casa. Mientras hacen sus compras, David y los demás personajes terminan atrapados dentro mientras una niebla blanca y espesa cubre todo afuera, convirtiendo al supermercado en el último bastión de la humanidad al invadir la tierra un enemigo inimaginable...
Morality
Stephen King
Chad, an aspiring writer who is teaching school until he lands a publishing contract, and his wife, Nora, who is working as a home nurse for a retired minister are, like most people these days, struggling financially. Nora is approached by her employer with a proposition that could make their dream of a home in Vermont a reality. But will it be worth the moral consequences?
Morality is a novella by Stephen King published in the July, 2009 issue of Esquire. It was then included as a bonus story in Blockade Billy, a novella published on May 25, 2010, and later collected and re-introduced in the November 3, 2015 anthology The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in)
Stephen King
#1 BESTSELLER - Soon to be a new major motion picture - Writer Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.
Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.
In time, he comes to understand that his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his wildest imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is tearing the town apart.
A volte ritornano
Stephen King
"Nei miei racconti incontrerete esseri notturni di ogni genere: vampiri, amanti dei demoni, una cosa che vive nell'armadio, ogni sorta di altri terrori. Nessuno di essi è reale. L'essere che, sotto il letto, aspetta di afferrarmi la caviglia non è reale. Lo so. E so anche che se sto bene attento a tenere i piedi sotto le coperte, non riuscirà mai ad afferrarmi la caviglia." L'intento di Stephen King in questi venti racconti è chiaro: parlare di paura, di come si arriva all'orlo della follia... e forse al di là del baratro.
Stagioni diverse
Stephen King
"Stagioni diverse" è una delle opere più note e amate di Stephen King, una raccolta di quattro racconti legati dallo scorrere delle stagioni, un viaggio narrativo che spazia liberamente tra generi e suggestioni e che lascia nel lettore un segno indelebile. Il viaggio comincia con la primavera di Rita Hayworth e la redenzione di Shawshank, in cui un condannato per omicidio che si dichiara innocente è in cerca di una strabiliante vendetta. Con Un allievo modello si scivola nell'estate in cui si consuma l'ossessione di un adolescente per un uomo dal passato misterioso, un ex nazista sfuggito alla giustizia. L'estate cede il passo all'autunno ne Il corpo, dove quattro ragazzini di Castle Rock sono alle prese con il ritrovamento del cadavere di un loro coetaneo e con la perdita dell'innocenza. Infine, Il metodo di respirazione racconta la storia di una nascita surreale alla vigilia di Natale. Quattro storie indimenticabili, tre delle quali hanno ispirato famosi registi per i film Le ali della libertà, L'allievo, Standy by Me - Ricordo di un'estate. Quattro classici della narrativa contemporanea che vengono riproposti ora in una nuova versione, completamente ritradotta e aggiornata nella veste grafica.
Scheletri
Stephen King
1. La nebbia (The Mist)
2. Tigri! (Here There Be Tygers)
3. La scimmia (The Monkey)
4. Caino scatenato (Cain Rose Up)
5. La scorciatoia della signora Todd (Mrs. Todd's Shortcut)
6. Il viaggio (The Jaunt)
7. Marcia nuziale (The Wedding Gig)
8. Ode del paranoide (Paranoid: A Chant)
9. La zattera (The Raft)
10. Il word processore degli dei (Word Processor of the God)
11. L'uomo che non voleva stringere la mano (The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands)
12. Sabbiature (Beachworld)
13. L'immagine della Falciatrice (The Reaper's Image)
14. Nona (Nona)
15. Per Owen (For Owen)
16. L'arte di sopravvivere (Survivor Type)
17. Il camion dello zio Otto (Uncle Otto's Truck)
18. Consegne mattutine - Lattaio nr. 1 (Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1))
19. Quattroruote: La storia dei bei lavanderini - Lattaio nr. 2 (Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2))
20. La nonna (Gramma)
21. La ballata della pallottola flessibile (The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet)
22. Il braccio (The Reach)
Achtbaan
Stephen King
Pet Sematary: A Novel
Stephen King
The house looked right, felt right, to Dr Louis Creed.
Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.
Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive note of threat.
But behind the house and away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully clear path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.
A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding...
Three Novels (Carrie / The Shining / 'Salem's Lot)
Stephen King
De Satanskinderen en andere verhalen
Stephen King
Alles is eventueel
Stephen King
Stephen King Goes to the Movies: Featuring Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
For the first time in one volume, each with a fascinating introduction, come the stories of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis (Low Men in Yellow Coats), 1408, The Mangler and Children of the Corn.
These five classic tales were turned into successful international films starring some of the world`s most famous actors from Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption through Anthony Hopkins in Hearts in Atlantis to John Cusack in 1408.
Now you can read and re-read and own the originals.
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