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They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone into the big world to gain success and happiness.But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end and the evil without a name....
The StandImagine America devastated by a vast killer plague that moves from coast to coast.Imagine the countryside destroyed and great cities decimated as the entire population desperately and futilely seeks safety.Imagine then an even greater evil rising to threaten the survivers-and a last embattled group of men and women coming together to make a last stand against it. Here is Stephen King's most terrifying vision,his most stirring story, his most magnificent cast of characters,his ultimate tale of good versus evil,his supreme triumph.
The Dead ZoneJohnny,the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into...the dead zone. Johnny Smith,the small town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into...the dead zone. John Smith,who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power- the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in... the dead zone.
Pet SemataryThe Creeds were an ideal family,with a charming little daughter and an adorable infant son.When they found the old house in rural Maine,it seemed too good to be true. It was.For the truth was bloodchiling- something more horrifying than death itself,and hideously more powerful....
CujoA big,friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave-and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself.The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to ravage the flesh and devour the mind....
Four Past Midnight,Featuring The LangoliersThe Langoliers- Put an safety belt on your reading chair.Flight 29-the red-eye from Los Angeles to Boston-is now boarding and you are on a supreme flight of the scariest storytelling imagination of our time. And prepare for terror in three more extraordinary novellas of suspense. You are forced to hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid... you are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer's worst nightmare...you are face to face with a beast bent on shredding your sanity. You are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind-blowing best.
The TommyknockersSomething was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine.Something that gave every man,woman,and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders.Something that came from a metal object,buried for millennia,that Bobbi stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.It was more like a diabolical takeover...and invasion of body and soul - and mind.
Gerald's GameOn a warm weekday in October, Jessie and Gerald Burlingame are alone in the bedroom of their summer house,playing a game that isn't listed in Hoyle's.But suddenly,as Jessie hears the click of the second handcuff locking her to the bedposts and sees her husband looming over her,a nerve-snap of regognition tells her that this time Gerald is playing for keeps.Her next move is furious,violent,and, she is shocked to discover,deadly.Giving up control is scary enough;it is terrifying when there is no one left to give it to. Except that Jessie is not alone. Over the next twenty-eight hours,trapped in a lakeside house that has become a prison,Jessie will come face-to-face with all the things she has ever feared,and the unlatched back door banging in the breeze is an open invitation to horrors she has never imagined.Inside the darkening bedroom,shadows gather in mute menace,while inside Jessie's head a taunting chorus of voices whispers and shrieks: "Women alone in the dark are like open doors...and if they cry out for help, who knows what dread things may answer?"
Nightmares and DreamscapesA solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac.Meanwhile,the legend of Castle Rock returns...and grows on you.There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection-classic tales of the macrabe and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle,even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus,a heartfelt piece on Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker. In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated.Fair warning, you will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King,writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.
Salem's LotThe town knew darkness...and the awful,heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows...and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence...and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.But no one living in 'Salem's Lot dared talk about the high,sweet,evil laughter of a child...and the terrible sucking sounds...
ThinnerBilly Halleck,good husband,loving father,is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life:he has an expensive home,a nice family,and a rewarding career as a lawyer. But he is also 50 pounds overweight and, as his doctor keeps reminding him,heading into heart attck country. Then,in a moment of carelessness,Billy sideswipes an old woman as she is crossing the street-and her ancient father passes a bizarre and terrible judgement on him. "Thinner," the olg gypsy man whispers, and caresses his cheek like a lover. Just one word...but six weeks later and 93 pounds lighter, Billy Halleck is more than worried. He's terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.
The Green MilePrepare yourself for Stephen King's boldest excercise in nerve-twisting suspense. A multi-part serial novel that begins on death row and goes on from there to realms of revelation that makes death seem sweet. This is Stephen King's most irresistible journey ever.
Part One:The Two Dead GirlsThey were sisters,and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths,not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight,about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile...toward destiny.
Part Two:The Mouse on the MileCold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electic chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here,not all the evil is behind bars. Sometimes it carries a gun and wears a badge. Cold Mountain is a place of the damned,but it can also be a place where salvation comes from the most unlikely source.
Part Three:Coffey's HandsWelcome back to E Block,the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey,the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again.
Part Four:The Bad Death of Eduard DelacroixTime has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the green mile. Bur first he must say goodbye-to the guards,to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him,and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Part Five:Night JourneyTruth time is approaching at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Paul Edgecombe is taking a huge gamble,one where the stakes are high and the consequences are deadly. He and his fellow guards take connvicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the middle of the night and bring hom to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment.It is there they will find out once and for all if this mountain of a man is a miracle worker or a monster....
Part Six:Coffey on the MileCold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years. Now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile. Yet prision guard Paul Edgecombe has uncovered a devestating truth, which means he could be too late to save both himself and Coffey.You see,death by execution may be the easy way out.It's living with the consequences that may last an eternity.
FirestarterFirst, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then they are married and have a child. A daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to "act normal." Now the government wants its brainchild back-for its own insane ends.
The ShiningWhat of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel,a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own-and a five year old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past? Behind every door of the Overlook's 110 empty rooms there is a chamber of horror. Little Danny knows of these things because he has the terrible power-The Shining.
MiseryPaul Sheldon, a bestselling novelist has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is also his captor.Now Annie wants Paul to write his greatest work-just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And then she can get really nasty.
CarrieCarrie was not quite aware that she was possessed of a terrifying power. But it was enough to transform a small New England town into a holocaust of destruction beyond the imagination of man.Innocent schoolgirl or vengeful demon, Carrie will make you shudder.
The Bachman Books
RageA high school show and tell session explodes into a nightmare of evil...
The Long WalkOnly death can keep you from the finish line-in the ultimate competition of the all-too-near future...
RoadworkWhat happens when one good and angry man fights back is murder-and then some...
The Running ManIn the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives...
Delores ClaiborneDelores Claiborne gives her compelling confession...of the strange and terrible links forged by hidden intimicies...of the fierceness of a mother's love and its dreadful consequences...of the silent rage that can turn a woman's heart to hate.
The Dark HalfThad Beaumont has the twisted imagination that produced his bestselling horror novels. Is his imagination also responsible for the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home?
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