14 darkly chilling tales from the modern Master of Horror: Includes: The Death of Jack Hamilton - a story from the days of gangsters and Prohibition; Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - a troubled couple have a lunch date with a lawyer and get more than they bargained for; 1408 - bizarre and horrible goings-on in a motel room; The Road Virus Heads North - a painting by an artist who committed suicide roars to life; and Autopsy Room Four; The Man In The Black Suit; All That You Love Will Be Carried Away; In The Deathroom; The Little Sisters of Eluria; Everything's Eventual; L.T.'s Theory Of Pets; That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French; Riding The Bullet; Luckey Quarter. (That's not a typo, by the way...)
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Dreamcatcher: Stephen King
$12.00Four young boys save a special little lad from the torment of the school bullies. "Duddits", as he calls himself, is now their friend for life. Twenty five years later, the boys have become men and still get together once a year to go hunting in the northern Maine woods. But this time a man comes stumbling through the snow into their camp, lost, disoriented, muttering about the lights in the sky. This is only the beginning of their struggle with something malevolent from another world and their only chance of survival is locked in Duddits...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-dreamcatcher-morgan-freeman-thomas-jane-jason-lee/
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The Green Mile: Stephen King
$10.00At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton, Arlen Bitterbuck 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 - a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? In this place of ultimate retribution, prison guard Paul Edgecombe is about to discover that 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...Cover shows Tom Hanks in the role of Paul Edgecombe in the film The Green Mile. -
In this volume: The Langoliers: A handful of passengers on a packed red-eye flight awake to find all the other passengers and crew vanished, the plane still in the air...they manage to land the plane at a dead, silent terminal and all that would be bad enough - but one of the survivors has brought his demons with him... Secret Window, Secret Garden: Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake - that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. The Library Policeman: In Junction City, Iowa, middle-aged businessman Sam Peebles happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offence - but not to Junction City's malevolent monster of a librarian. The Sun Dog: A simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, always produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking dog, no matter where Kevin Delevan aims the lens. 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.Cover art by Paul Davies. -
Rose Madder: Stephen King
$15.00Rosie Daniels, trapped in a fourteen year nightmare marriage is suddenly roused by a single drop of blood and she realises that her husband Norman is going to kill her. Or maybe - worse still - he won't. And she takes flight – with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an old junk shop painting, "Rose Madder," which is perfect for her new apartment and strangely, the painting seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog’s instinct for tracking people. And he’s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he is getting… Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell - but it's not the one the police expect to hear. Suspected of murdering Vera Donovan, the widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores admits the two women didn't always get on. Seemingly neglected by her children and full of bitterness despite her wealth, Vera Donovan hovered on the brink of madness for years. And when her demons became too strong, Dolores was there to take the punishment - and maybe, one day, Dolores had had enough. But Dolores Claibornes's story is different...darker...stranger - and a lot more horrifying. -
IT: Stephen King
$12.00Derry, Maine is an ordinary town; familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. But seven children - who call themselves the Losers - can see and feel what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks...the IT that takes the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appears as an evil clown, Pennywise, and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing...Time passes, the Losers grow up, move away and forget...Until they are called back, to confront IT once more, as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging to make their past nightmares a horrible, present reality... -
Some chillers, some thrillers, a few revenges and even a moral or two in this selection from the Master of Horror: Dolan's Cadillac: A staid schoolteacher swears to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of a big crime boss; The End of the Whole Mess: A rare mineral found in a town's water supply makes the population there gentle and non-violent...so what if that could be spread to the world...? Suffer the Little Children: Miss Sidley, an experienced teacher suspects one of her students, Robert, is not quite human...and he might not be the only one... The Night Flier: A reporter follows a hunch that a serial killer may be travelling from victim to victim in a light plane. Popsy: A gambling addict, in debt and fearful for his life, snatches a little boy to sell...but he hasn't bargained on the little lad's Popsy... It Grows on You: An infamous house in Castle Rock takes on a life of its own. Chattery Teeth: The joke teeth sat there on the shop counter on their comic oversize shoes and even though they no longer worked, Hogan knew his son would love them - but the funny little teeth still had a trick or two...Dedication: A coloured maid working in a hotel takes an unusual route to fall pregnant. The Moving Finger: A disembodied finger seems to have moved into a bathroom pipe - but only one man can see it. Sneakers: There are plenty of haunted houses - but a haunted mens' bathroom? You Know They've Got Hell of A Band: A quarrelsome husband and wife get lost on a road trip, and find themselves in the quaint little town of Rock and Roll Heaven. Home Delivery: On a small island off the coast of Maine, a small community prepares to defend themselves from an attack of reanimated corpses. Rainy Season: A young couple, new in town, believe the locals are playing a joke on them about the dangerous 'rainy season...' My Pretty Pony: An elderly man gives his young grandson a pocket watch and warns him against the dangers of letting time slip away. Sorry, Right Number: A woman gets a mysterious call late in the night and she is sure it isn't a wrong number. The Ten O'Clock People: Nicotine withdrawal can be scary - very scary... Crouch End: A couple become lost in London streets - and one is lost for ever... The House On Maple Street: The Bradbury children don't like their step-father very much - so should they tell him when the find their house is gradually turning into something else entirely? The Fifth Quarter: A map leading to treasure from a heist is divided into pieces - who will get them all? The Doctor's Case: A Holmes and Watson case - solved by Doctor Watson. Umney's Last Case - Umney, the ultimate 30s private eye lives in the ultimate 30s world of newsstand boys and diners - until the day his perfect world unravels, with no warning at all...Head Down; Brooklyn August. Cover art by Paul Davies. -
Desperation: Stephen King
$18.00Headed down the highway are the Jacksons, on their way home to New York; the Carvers, a family on vacation and Johnny Marinville, a once-famous author. They all encounter the little town of Desperation, which should be a refuge in the middle of the Nevada desert. But the once thriving copper mining town is eerily empty. Almost abandoned - except for the local cop patrolling the wilderness, guarding Desperation's secrets, hidden in the landscape. When those secrets are unleashed, a terrifying transformation takes place and the travellers learn the true meaning of the word desperation...Cover art by Chris Moore.