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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 Rob Wood. -
Contains: The Langoliers: A handful of passengers on a packed red-eye flight awake to find all the other passengers vanished, the plane still in the air - and they land at a dead, silent terminal. 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 Rob Wood. -
Insomnia: Stephen King
$7.00At 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.
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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? -
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. This is the Book Club Associates edition, dated 1992, the true first edition of this book, predating the 1993 'first' edition. Refer: https://www.stephenkingcollector.com/identifyingUK1st.html -
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... -
Insomnia: Stephen King
$9.00At 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. -
Book/DVD: IT: Stephen King
$5.00–$9.00Derry, 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...DVD (1990):Tim Curry;Richard Thomas; Annette O'Toole: preloved; very good condition; region 4 -
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.