Stephen King

//Stephen King
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  • There's a terrifying secret in the shed at the back of the police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. It's been there for twenty years - a beautiful Buick that lures its victims, terrified yet tempted, to look at the gorgeous chrome fenders, the silver grille and exotic exhaust system.  None of which works - because the power of the Buick is not turbo-charged or fuel-injected. It's a conduit to a world beyond and lets the curious officers know by its fantastic light shows - and its terrifying feeding times. Young Ned Wilcox is equally entranced - Ned who comes to the barracks to mow the lawn and wash the windows in an effort to hold onto his father, killed in the line of duty in a road accident with another Buick. Ned can feel it pulling him, calling him to come and have a look. Ned's father wanted answers, and so does Ned...Cover art by Larry Rostant.
  • There's a terrifying secret in the shed at the back of the police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. It's been there for twenty years - a beautiful Buick that lures its victims, terrified yet tempted, to look at the gorgeous chrome fenders, the silver grille and exotic exhaust system.  None of which works - because the power of the Buick is not turbo-charged or fuel-injected. It's a conduit to a world beyond and lets the curious officers know by its fantastic light shows - and its terrifying feeding times. Young Ned Wilcox is equally entranced - Ned who comes to the barracks to mow the lawn and wash the windows in an effort to hold onto his father, killed in the line of duty in a road accident with another Buick. Ned can feel it pulling him, calling him to come and have a look. Ned's father wanted answers, and so does Ned...Cover art by Larry Rostant.

  • Gerald's Game - a husband and wife game. But this time, Jessie didn't want to play. Lying there, spread-eagled, handcuffed to the bed while he'd drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she'd kicked out - hard. Aiming to get him where it would hurt. And it did hurt - it caused a coronary.  Gerald was dead on the floor, leaving Jessie alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin, miles from anywhere. No-one to hear her screams. Alone - except for the voices in her head that had begun to chatter...and argue...and sneer...Cover art by Paul Davies.
  • At first, Ralph found it hard to drop off to sleep. Then he was waking up earlier and earlier.  Then the hallucinations start - colours, shapes and strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always seem to materialise at the scene of a death.  Then Ralph begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend Ed is getting dangerously out of control and why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon. An evil of unimaginable proportions has found its way in - and Ralph has one chance to beat it - in a card game.  The stakes are high - they always are when you're playing for human souls. This was a new phase of writing for King:  his heroes in this outing are the elderly retired Ralph and his middle-aged girlfriend. Cover art by Steven Crisp.

  • At first, Ralph found it hard to drop off to sleep. Then he was waking up earlier and earlier.  Then the hallucinations start - colours, shapes and strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always seem to materialise at the scene of a death.  Then Ralph begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend Ed is getting dangerously out of control and why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon. An evil of unimaginable proportions has found its way in - and Ralph has one chance to beat it - in a card game.  The stakes are high - they always are when you're playing for human souls. This was a new phase of writing for King:  his heroes in this outing are the elderly retired Ralph and his middle-aged girlfriend. Cover art by Steven Crisp.
  • Derry, 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...
  • Just after sunset...when darkness grips the imagination. The time when the unexpected creeps into everyday events..In this volume of short stories from the King of Horror...Willa: After a train derails leaving its passengers stranded, David's wife wanders  toward the bright lights of the honky tonk bars in the nearby town...and they'll be staying for quite some time. Gingerbread Girl: After leaving her husband, Emily takes up running. Her life is turning around until she goes on holiday and while running, finds herself running from a serial killer. Harvey's Dream: A woman in a boring marriage is surprised when her husband is anxious to share a dream with her. Rest Stop: A crime writer on the way home stops at a rest area and is confronted with a real crime. Can his alter-ego give him the courage he needs? Stationary Bike: An overweight commercial artist gets a stationary bike. Installed in a basement bay, he livens up his exercise by painting a woodland mural on the wall he faces...and then finds that he's riding through it... The Things They Left Behind: An office worker who called in sick on 9/11 finds that mysterious objects begin to appear in his apartment - things that belonged to his deceased co-workers. Graduation Afternoon: A young woman attending her boyfriend's family's post graduation party knows this will be the last time - and it is. In  more ways than one. N: A psychiatrist commits suicide and his sister reads the file on his last patient, an OCD man named N. The Cat From Hell: A pharmaceutical millionaire hires a hitman to kill... a cat? The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates: A woman gets an unexpected phone call from her dead husband on the afternoon of his funeral. Mute: After finding out his wife has been having an affair, a man picks up a deaf-mute hitchhiker and bares his soul. But later, he wonders if the man was really deaf...Ayana: A blind girl visits a dying man and saves his life - with a kiss.  A Very Tight Place: A man is made a prisoner by his vicious, vindictive neighbour - in a portable toilet tipped over and resting on its door. Can a much-loved deceased pet help him escape?
  • 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.
  • 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. 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 amounts 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.