Stephen King

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  • On 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...
  • Rosie 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.
  • Headed 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.
  • Trisha 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...
  • 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...DVD (1990):Tim Curry;Richard Thomas; Annette O'Toole: preloved; very good condition; region 4
  • The sequel to The Shining. 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  they are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Following a childhood haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, 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...
  • 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.
  • 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 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.