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The Shining

      Stephen Male monarch

Jack Torrance's new chore at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect gamble for a fresh start. Equally the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric one-time hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family unit and working on his writing. Merely as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels always more than remote...and more than sinister. And the simply one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering effectually the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted 5-year-old. ©1977 Stephen Male monarch; (P)2005 Random Firm Sound

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      Stephen King

It began--and ended--in 1958 when seven desperate children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil fauna, but in 1985, Mike Hanlon, in one case one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultim **

The Stand

      Stephen King

Stephen Rex's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between practiced and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was outset published. * * A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world's population inside a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Ii emerge—Female parent Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-one-time woman who urges them to build a peaceful customs in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence. Every bit the nighttime man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors volition take to choose betwixt them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. (This edition includes all of the new and restored textile get-go published in *The Stand*: *The Consummate And Uncut Edition*.) *From the Trade Paperback edition.*

The Gunslinger

      Stephen Male monarch

Beginning with a brusk story actualization in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction* in 1978, the publication of Stephen King'due south epic piece of work of fantasy -- what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus -- has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a earth of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, *The Dark Tower* series is Male monarch's virtually visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement. **Volume I** In *The Gunslinger* (originally published in 1982), King introduces his most enigmatic hero, Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, lonely figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our ain. Pursuing the man in blackness, an evil being who tin can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a adept man who seems to get out zero merely decease in his wake. This new edition of *The Gunslinger* has been revised and expanded throughout past King, with new story material, in addition to a new introduction and foreword. Information technology also includes four total-color illustrations in the hardcover and trade paperback formats.

Misery

      Stephen Male monarch

Paul Sheldon, a author of historical romances, is in a car accident; rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that conservancy tin can be worse than death. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery serial and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back. Written by Stephen King; Dramatised by Dirk Maggs. First broadcast on the BBC World Service, September 2004. What you are about to hear is an adaptation of the phase play, which premiered in London's West Finish. Information technology stars two of Britain's finest actors: Miriam Margoyles, perhaps all-time-known every bit the canis familiaris Wing in the flick "Babe" and the nurse in "Romeo and Juliette" and Nicholas Farrell, whose films include "Chariots of Fire" and "Pearl Harbor".

Doctor Sleep

      Stephen King

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of i of his almost pop novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel virtually the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-twelvemonth-quondam girl he must relieve from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways beyond 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. Just 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 ane horrific childhood twelvemonth, 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 abode where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial concluding condolement to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." So Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and information technology 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 betwixt adept and evil, a gory, glorious story that volition 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.

Pet Sematary

      Stephen King

Sometimes dead is better....When the Creeds move into a beautiful quondam house in rural Maine, it all seems too skilful to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and at present an idyllic dwelling. As a family, they've got it all...right downward to the friendly cat. Simply the nearby woods hibernate a claret-chilling truth -- more than terrifying than death itself...and hideously more than powerful.

The Green Mile

      Stephen King

When it outset appeared, one volume per month, Stephen Male monarch'south THE GREEN MILE was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all half-dozen volumes ended up on the *New York Times* bestseller lists—simultaneously—and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Common cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Low-worn men of East Cake. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a appointment with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain'southward electrical chair. Prison house guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. Only he'due south never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the trunk of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a criminal offence terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth well-nigh Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefes... and yours.

The Mist

      Stephen King

It'southward a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until y'all meet those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a trigger-happy storm sweeps across the lake and ends every bit abruptly and unexpectedly every bit it had begun. And then comes the mist...creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cutting off from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was information technology the Arrowhead Project---the top underground government operation that anybody has noticed but no ane quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and yous're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?

Carrie

      Stephen King

A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new vocalization in American fiction — Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high schoolhouse girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains ane of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time. Make a engagement with terror and live the nightmare that is. . . Carrie

Under the Dome

      Stephen King

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester'south Manufacturing plant, Maine, the boondocks is inexplicably and of a sudden sealed off from the residue of the earth by an invisible force field. Planes crash into information technology and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's paw is severed every bit "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on bear upon. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- information technology will get away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and at present 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-adult female, and iii brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at cypher -- even murder -- to concord the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a nighttime pantry. Simply their chief adversary is the Dome itself. Because fourth dimension isn't only short. It's running out.

Full Dark, No Stars

      Stephen King

A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen Rex. 1922 The story opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of his wife, Arlette, following their move to Hemingford, Nebraska onto state willed to Arlette by her father. Large Driver Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no issues. Only following a last-infinitesimal invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences. Off-white Extension Harry Streeter, who is suffering from cancer, decides to make a bargain with the devil but, every bit e'er, at that place is a price to pay. A Good Wedlock Darcy Anderson learns more than nigh her husband of more than twenty years than she would have liked to know when she literally stumbles upon a box under a worktable in their garage.

Revival

      Stephen King

In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a minor male child playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to meet a hitting human being, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful married woman, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a scrap in love with Mrs Jacobs; the women and girls – including Jamie's mother and beloved sis – experience the same nearly Reverend Jacobs. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond, based on their fascination with uncomplicated experiments in electricity. So tragedy strikes the Jacobs family; the preacher curses God, mocking all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town. Jamie has demons of his own. In his mid-thirties, he is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and coil. Addicted to heroin, stranded, drastic, he sees Jacobs again – a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' – and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact across even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that *revival* has many meanings. Because for every cure there is a price… This rich and agonizing novel spans 5 decades on its way to the most terrifying decision Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Bag of Bones

      Stephen Rex

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway and finds his dear Yankee town held in the grip of a vindictive millionaire, Max Devore, who is trying to have his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. Equally Mike is fatigued into Mattie's struggle -- and begins to fall in dearest with her -- he is also fatigued into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What do the forces that take been unleashed hither want of Mike Noonan?

Christine

      Stephen Rex

Principal storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #i national bestseller of the ultimate vehicle of terror! *"This is the story of a lover's triangle…It was bad from the first. And it got worse in a bustle."* It's love at first sight for high school educatee Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the battered 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed "Christine" by its original cross owner—rusting away on a front end backyard of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie'southward never had much luck in the looks or popularity section, or actually taken an interest in owning a car . . . only Christine chop-chop changes all that. Arnie suddenly has the newfound confidence to stick up for himself, going as far as dating the most beautiful girl at Libertyville High—transfer student Leigh Cabot—even as a mysteriously restored Christine systematically and terrifyingly consumes every aspect of Arnie'south life. Dennis and Leigh shortly realize that they must uncover the awful truth backside a car with a horrifying and murderous history. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and heaven help anyone who gets in Christine'due south fashion…

Mile 81

      Stephen King

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded upwardly balance terminate on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high schoolhouse kids accept e'er gotten into. Information technology'south the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older blood brother, who'south supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed simply with the magnifying glass he got for his 10th altogether, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks plenty to laissez passer out. Not much later, a mud-covered station carriage (which is foreign because in that location hadn't been whatsoever rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The commuter'south 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 Male monarch 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 backside it, puts on his four-ways, and and then notices that the wagon has no plates. Ten minutes afterwards, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell telephone about the wagon door — and gets also close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes upward from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 residue end. Two kids — Rachel and Blake Lussier — and one equus caballus named Deedee are the just living left. Unless you mayhap count the wagon...

The Dark Belfry

      Stephen King

The seventh and concluding installment of Stephen King'due south The Nighttime Tower saga is mayhap the most anticipated book in the author's long career. King began this epic tale about the last gunslinger in the globe more than 20 years ago; now he draws its suspenseful story to a close, snapping together the last pieces of his activity puzzle and drawing Roland Deschain ever closer to his ultimate goal.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

      Stephen King

New to Pocket Books' Stephen King backlist--the brusque story collection containing the story "Dolan'due south Cadillac," soon to be released as a feature motion picture starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.

With numerous unforgettable movies based on his curt stories--including Shawshank Redemption, 1408, and The Green Mile--readers will be delighted to rediscover this classic collection, also released as a television mini-series and on DVD. Featuring 20 short horror stories, a tv set script, an essay, and a verse form, Nightmares and Dreamscapes contains unique and chilling plots including everything from dead rock star zombies to evil toys seeking murderous revenge. Information technology will exist treasured by Male monarch fans new and quondam.

But After Dusk

      Stephen King

Internationally bestselling writer Stephen Rex delivers an astonishing collection of brusk stories. Who but Stephen Male monarch would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a identify for endless dearest? A volume salesman with a grievance might option upwardly a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether besides well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its passenger on a captivating—and so terrifying—journey. Set on a remote cardinal in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman equally vulnerable—and resourceful—as Audrey Hepburn's grapheme in Expect Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a phenomenon with a osculation and the touch of her hand. For King, the line betwixt the living and the expressionless is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "Due north.," which recently broke new ground when it was adjusted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient'due south irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. Just Later on Sunset—call it sunset, phone call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of yous. It's the perfect time for Stephen King. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications.

The Dead Zone

      Stephen Male monarch

Johnny, the pocket-size boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the pocket-sized-boondocks schoolteacher who spun the bicycle of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-twelvemonth trip into The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to encounter the future and the terrible fate awaiting flesh in The Dead Zone.

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