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Needful Things is the new shop in Castle Rock, run by Mr. Leland Gaunt. There really is something for everyone. For poor little bewildered Nettie Cobb, there's a fabulous carnival glass lampshade to add to her carefully-protected little collection. Nerdish Norris Ridgewick gets a very special fishing rod at a real bargain price. And Myra Evans buys a picture of Elvis Presley that seems to have magical powers. While the cash prices are a bargain, the balance of payment is costly - and Leland Gaunt enjoys seeing how much people will pay for their secret desires. A secret deal here; a bargain cash amount with a balance owing of a harmless little practical joke to be played on someone - all week, wires are crossed all over Castle Rock until the inevitable explosion occurs that literally sets the town ablaze. Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
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. -
Pet Sematary: Stephen King
$30.00When 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 cat. 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...Cover art by Gerry Grace. -
Rose Madder: Stephen King
$22.00Rosie 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. -
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. -
Book VI of The Dark Tower. Roland and his loyal followers Jake, Father Callahan and Oy set out to break Susannah's date with destiny. She has used the power of Black Thirteen to transport her from the farming community of Calla Bryn Sturgis to New York where she prepares to give birth to an unknown entity. Meanwhile, Roland and Eddie brave the state of Maine, 1977 - a frightful world, a real world where bullets are flying. A world inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot....With 16 full-colour illustrations by Darrel Anderson. -
The Dark Half: Stephen King
$15.00When writer Thad Beaumont hit a difficult period, he created 'George Stark' - at first, Stark was a bit of fun, a pseudonym, complete with a sinister author-biography. He wrote violent, commercial thrillers which became best sellers and soon, Stark was earning more money than Thad Beaumont. Now, Thad is feeling better and beginning to write for himself and as himself again. He doesn't need George Stark now so he announces that Stark will write no more, and even 'buries' him with a specially-made headstone for a magazine photo-feature. A happy ending to a lucrative but strange period in the life of Thad and Liz Beaumont. Except - George Stark doesn't want to die. Impossibly, he seems to have returned as a killing machine intent on destroying everything and anything that gets between him and his creator...Cover art by Paul Davies -
Driving home from an evening with his fiancee, Johnny Smith crashes his car. He awakes five years later in a different world - his fiancee has married another man, his mother has died and he has the ability to see the future and the evil in mens' souls. And one man in particular, a man rising to power, is the most evil of them all... https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-the-dead-zone-christopher-walken-martin-sheen/ -
Book II of The Dark Tower. On his journey across Mid-World to reach the Dark Tower, errant knight Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors - each leading to New York, Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And must confront the deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies threatens to bring an end to Roland's quest for the Dark Tower...Cover art by John Avon. -
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Stephen King
$12.00–$20.00Trisha McFarland only veered off the hiking trail to get away from the bickering of her brother and recently divorced mother. She really doesn't think she could possibly lose her way...but by trying a shortcut to catch up with them again, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze. At first it's just the mosquitoes and midges hanging around her ears. Then she feels hungry. For solace, she tunes her Walkman to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox baseball game and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. As darkness falls and her panic mounts, she begins to give up hope she'll be found alive. 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 bloody, mangled trail in the dense, dark woods... -
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 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, a secret Government facility, 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, telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha and Nick, George and Iris, ten-year-old Avery Dixon. 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. Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help...but no one has ever escaped from the Institute... -
Wentworth, Ohio: a small, idyllic friendly little town, where the Carver children bicker over sweets and Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street, it's a normal summer's day, with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats tinking, Frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But young Cary Ripton, on his paper round notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside her glass door - and he's always thought there was something creepy about her nephew, Poplar Street's best kept secret. What Cary doesn't notice is the chrome-red van idling up the hill...soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin and the Regulators will arrive in force. And by night-fall on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and despair...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Late last night and the night before...Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door...Something's happening in the idylllic little town of Haven, Maine. Something that comes from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi literally accidentally stumbles across. Now there's something strange about Bobbi, too. Jim Gardner, poet, drunk and potential suicide decides to visit Bobbi, his only real friend - and he finds she's lost an alarming amount of weight...and she's dismantling kitchen appliances and making weirdly brilliant inventions out of them...and then there's the thing she's discovered buried in her garden. And as she digs, the metamorphosis of Haven's citizens becomes stranger and more murderous to outsiders. Jim realises he isn't in another drunken nightmare, he's in a waking one of terrifying significance. Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven didn't sell 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, soul - and mind... -
Under The Dome: Stephen King
$12.00–$15.00On an entirely normal, beautiful autumn 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. A planes crashes into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage; a gardener’s hand is severed as The Dome comes down on it; those running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families; cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away. The Army needs a man on the 'inside' and finds Dale Barbara, former Iraq veteran, now a short-order cook. He finds support with a few intrepid citizens - but against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a local politician who will stop at nothing - even murder - to cling to power and who sees The Dome as the answer to his political prayers. With Big Jim is his son, who is keeping a dreadful secret; and a bunch of Big Jim's renegade bully-boys who designate themselves as the new law and order. They have to find what created The Dome, fast. Because the children begin having dreams of a horrific Hallowe'en...electricity and the internet begin to fail...food and water is running short...air is limited...and time is running out... -
Book IV of The Dark Tower. The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger. Roland is determined to make the journey with the companions he has gathered: Susannah Holmes, wheel-chair bound; Eddie Dean, a narcotic prisoner, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy. Through the devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where cavernous black holes threaten the structure of the tower, time grows thin and the past becomes a riddle. The malevolent monorail hurtles ever on, threatening destruction as the pilgrims bargain desperately. There is hidden danger on all sides: from the terror of Roland's relentless cunning enemy to the temptation of the wizard's glass. Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Book IV of The Dark Tower. The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger. Roland is determined to make the journey with the companions he has gathered: Susannah Holmes, wheel-chair bound; Eddie Dean, a narcotic prisoner, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy. Through the devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where cavernous black holes threaten the structure of the tower, time grows thin and the past becomes a riddle. The malevolent monorail hurtles ever on, threatening destruction as the pilgrims bargain desperately. There is hidden danger on all sides: from the terror of Roland's relentless cunning enemy to the temptation of the wizard's glass. Cover art by Bob Warner.
