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Title: Wizard And Glass (the Dark Tower, Book 4): Description:
Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long. It begins with the series' star, world-weary Roland, and his world-hopping posse (an ex-junkie, a child, a plucky woman in a wheelchair, and a talking dog-like pet named Oy the Bumbler) trapped aboard a runaway train. The train is a psychotic multiple personality that intends to commit suicide with them at 800 m.p.h.--unless Roland and pals can outwit it in a riddling contest. It's a great race, for the mind and pulse. Movies should be this good. Then comes a 567-page flashback about Roland at age 14. It's a well-marbled but meaty tale. Roland and two teen homies must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch. The love scenes are startlingly prominent and earthier than most romance novels (they kiss until blood trickles from her lip). After an epic battle ending in a box canyon to end all box canyons, we're back with grizzled, grown-up Roland and the train-wreck survivors in a parallel world: Kansas in 1986, after a plague. The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz. Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King's most ambitious series has too many pages--almost 800--but few will deny it's a page-turner.

Title: Wizard And Glass: Description:
The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger... And in a terrifying journey Roland determines to reach his destiny with the companions he has gathered along the road; wheelchair-bound Susannah Holmes, narcotic prisoner Eddie Dean, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy, are all willing participants in the harrowing quest. Through the scarred, 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. On and on, the malevolent monorail hurtles, threatening destruction as the pilgrims desperately bargain for survival.

Title: Christine: Description:
heavy paperback in reasonable condition

Title: The Drawing Of The Three: Description:
The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning's romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." Available August 2003. Other Formats Customers also bought... Customers also bought titles by... Related Subjects Other Books In This Series

Title: Coffey's Hands (green Mile S.): Description:
This is the third volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison

Title: Coffey On The Mile (green Mile S.): Description:
This is the sixth volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a Southern American prison

Title: Needful Things: Description:
There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. Always at a price you could afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale...

Title: Four Past Midnight: Description:
In these horror tales, Stephen King gives four different visions in which the dividing line between reality and unreality dissapears. The author has also written "Carrie", "The Bachman Books", "The Tommyknockers" and "The Shining".

Title: Pet Sematary: Description:
Rambling,old,unsmart and comfortable.A place where the family could settle;the children grow and play and explore.The far-horizoned,rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the city-spawned dangers of Chicago,fume choked and garish. Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway,grinding up through the gears,hammering down the long gradients,growled out an intrusive interstate note of threat. But behind the house and away from the road;that was safe.Just a carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children had processed with the solemn innocence of the young,taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.The simple little markers in the clearing told their story: Marta Our Pet Rabbit,Hannah the Best Dog That Ever Lived,Smucky The Cat He Was Obediant..... A sad place maybe,but safe.Surely a safe place.Not a place to seep into your dreams,to wake you,shouting,sweating,slippery with fear and foreboding...

Title: Stephen King Omnibus 2: Description:
Two Bestselling Novels in one. The Eyes Of The Dragon Firestarter

Title: Rose Madder: Description:
Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes up from 14 years of nightmare marriage to the chilling realisation that one of these days her husband Norman, is going to kill her. Or worse still he isn't.

Title: Skeleton Crew: Description:
In the introduction to Skeleton Crew, his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for "literary elephantiasis," makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested once when he was "suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel." He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: "Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way." And he certainly does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb novella ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good. In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don't read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don't miss it. --Fiona Webster

Title: The Stand: Description:
The complete and uncut edition. When a man crashes his car into a petrol station just north of Arnette, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies before he reaches the hospital, but it doesnt take long before the appalling plague which killed them to spread across America and the world. It is a long time before a few stunned survivors emerge, slowly and painfully, to build a new world. But now the dreams start Dreams that forwarn the coming of the dark man and the strengthening of his empire. His worn-down boots walk the roads; his red eyes pierce the night. Surely he's the apogee of evil, warlord of the carnel house, prince of torture and death. An ancient woman struggles against the force of evil. But is it by chance that the work of the Trashcan man, the pyromaniac, evens out the odds? Who is manipulating these people?

Title: Salem's Lot: Description:
Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil. Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

Title: Black House: Description:
Black House is the second collaboration by Stephen King and Peter Straub, two of the most important writers in genre fiction, and the expectations of their first team-up were considerable. But despite its impressive sales, many were disappointed by The Talisman. Rather than a truly chilling epic, what we got was a rather derivative and by-the-numbers fantasy saga. So fans were reluctant to be too hopeful about their second collaboration... but we needn't have worried. Black House is much more like it, although even here King and Straub have not quite delivered the ultimate horror marathon--this is a psycho-thriller in the vein of Thomas Harris, but none the worse for that. And there are supernatural elements. This is the tale of a small American town held in the grip of evil. Three children have vanished, abducted by a monster called The Fisherman (after a legendary murderer) with a craving for children's flesh. Ex-detective Jack Sawyer, dealing with his own personal problems (in which he is tormented by visions of another world), is keen to stay away from the horrors of this case, recognising how bad involvement will be for him. But--guess what?--Sawyer is soon supping full on the horrors, and the reader is in for an exhilarating (and highly disturbing) experience. Jack is a powerfully realised protagonist, and his journey into the dark world of The Fisherman is genuinely unsettling. Although more of King's fingerprints are on this one than Straub's (notably the conflicted hero, struggling with his own demons), the co-authors' individual styles merge indivisibly in this highly impressive chiller. --Barry Forshaw

Title: The Talisman: Description:
It is the story of a courageous boy searching for the talisman, the one that will save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across the mythical landscape.

Title: Rose Madder: Description:
After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right on the edge.

Title: Dreamcatcher: Description:
What might be done to human beings by the "Other"--whether the "Other" be vampires, demons or creatures from outer space--is always in competition for absolute horror with what we do to ourselves. Stephen King has, in his time, played with both sources of the nightmarish and in Dreamcatcher, the first complete novel since his near-fatal accident, he gives us both.Four childhood friends, united by secrets, are caught in the quarantine zone when something crashes into the remote forests of Maine; and the question becomes who will avoid being eaten alive by alien fungi, torn from the inside by alien ferrets, possessed by alien minds or menaced by a psychotic military commander to whom ruthlessness has become a macho ego trip?The Earth is in peril as well, needless to say, but most of our attention is taken up with a few men caught on the edge, and where the most important thing in the world turns out to be the fact that four small boys saved a fifth from a beating.This has the hall-marks of a good King novel--memorable catchphrases whose meaning we only gradually learn and a sense of how it feels to be human. --Roz Kaveney

Title: Needful Things: Description:
A new shop opens in town.......in true Stephen King style. Gripping story.

Title: Fire Starter: Description:
Best selling author - not for the faint hearted. Story of a girl with the power to start fires......

Title: Different Seasons: Description:
Different Seasons is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, non-horrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil, and The Body into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986). The final novella, Breathing Lessons is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It's the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster

Title: The Shining: Description:
Ghostly bursts of plaster dust. A low, rhythmic sound in the background: Red rum-RED RUM-red rum-RED RUM. A sense of something evil swirling inward on itself, like a whirlpool of black ectoplasmic energy. The experience of being inside the actual consciousness ("come out and take your medicine!") of a frightened little boy. Echoes of Shirley Jackson ("whatever walked there, walked alone"), of Poe's Masque of the Red Death and of creepy folk tales (Hansel and Gretel). How do we love The Shining? Let us count the ways. In 1977, The Shining was the first widely read novel to confront alcoholism and child abuse in baby-boomer families--especially the way alcoholism, a will toward failure in one's work, and abusing one's kids are passed down from generation to generation. The heart of the book is not an evil hotel but a pair of father-son relationships: Jack and his father, Jack and his son. This was both daring and insightful for its time, long before "dysfunctional family" was a cliché. The Shining was written in a frenzy. Stephen King imagined the whole novel in his head while sitting up all night in the dark, in the very Colorado hotel where the story takes place. He then transcribed it (that's how he puts it) in a burst of sustained energy. He could pull that off because, even at that early point in his career, King had figured out a successful way of structuring a popular novel. The speed of its composition gives the writing a powerful flow that sweeps you along past the awkward wording. The Shining is one of those rare novels that can burn its images--such as Room 217--into your brain. Time alone will tell, but The Shining may well turn out to be one of the best horror novels ever written. By the way, you know that film starring Jack Nicholson? Stephen King says, "I have my days when I think I gave Kubrick a live grenade on which he heroically threw his body." --Fiona Webster

Title: Bag Of Bones: Description:
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot though: men, women and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld. Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mum with a marvellous psychic daughter). There is also good- humoured satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo, Amazon.com

Title: Desperation: Description:
A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ‘another legendary shadow,' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."

Title: Desperation: Description:
Horror

Title: The Dark Tower Vii: The Dark Tower: Description:
The Dark Tower is the final volume in Stephen King’s 34 years in the writing septet with which it shares its title. Not only does the book complete the 3000-plus page quest, but also weaves together much of King’s fiction from his entire career. It is, as King notes in his afterword, as much the summation of his own journey as it is of the last gunslinger, Roland Deschain. The story continues directly from the end of Song of Susannah, but this time is much more of an epic fantasy than a surreal metafiction (a word King tells us he hates, but is stuck with). Roland finally reaches The Dark Tower, but getting there is a wonder in itself, a bleak and often tragic tale with King pulling no punches as the small band of warriors find their destinies. There is more action and excitement, suspense and adventure than in the two proceeding volumes--from desperate chases to battles with a giant spider--while the tone is often melancholy with the remorseless of fate. King works within the patterns of the great fantasy epics, from the Arthurian legends to The Lord of the Rings and his writing is as beautiful as it is unsparingly graphic. The final 100 pages are simply breathtaking in their perfect dark beauty. Doubtless the meaning of it all will be debated for decades to come, with some loving the ending, others feeling let down. But the result is an immensely bold piece of work which avoids the clichés of stock heroic fantasy while completely fulfilling the series’ atavistic promise. One thing is certain, the final pages will make many readers head straight back to the first volume, The Gunslinger to make the journey all over again.--Gary Dalkin

Title: Insomnia: Description:
a supreme page-turner...and a plot that will keep you awake at night

Title: Danse Macabre: Description:
Danse Macabre is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, or classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge; an analysis of horror, terror and the supernatural in films, television and books by the bestselling master of the genre - Stephen King. Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works at many levels, and how he brings it to bear in his own inimitable novels.

Title: Carrie: Description:
Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine. News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th." Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake

Title: Dreamcatcher: Description:
What might be done to human beings by the "Other"--whether the "Other" be vampires, demons or creatures from outer space--is always in competition for absolute horror with what we do to ourselves. Stephen King has, in his time, played with both sources of the nightmarish and in Dreamcatcher, the first complete novel since his near-fatal accident, he gives us both.Four childhood friends, united by secrets, are caught in the quarantine zone when something crashes into the remote forests of Maine; and the question becomes who will avoid being eaten alive by alien fungi, torn from the inside by alien ferrets, possessed by alien minds or menaced by a psychotic military commander to whom ruthlessness has become a macho ego trip?The Earth is in peril as well, needless to say, but most of our attention is taken up with a few men caught on the edge, and where the most important thing in the world turns out to be the fact that four small boys saved a fifth from a beating.This has the hall-marks of a good King novel--memorable catchphrases whose meaning we only gradually learn and a sense of how it feels to be human. --Roz Kaveney

Title: Dreamcatcher: Description:
from horror writer, another scary story not to be missed

Title: The Waste Lands (dark Tower (paperback)): Description:
The third novel in Stephen King's magnificent epic tale about the quest to reach the Dark Tower - relaunched in B format with a new series look.

Title: Song Of Susannah (dark Tower S.): Description:
Song of Susannah continues directly from the almost literally cliff-hanging epilogue to Wolves of the Calla. As ever with such series, this is not the place to begin and new readers are strongly advised to start with volume one, The Gunslinger. Meanwhile the penultimate instalment in the Dark Tower septet follows three interlocked storylines. Roland and Eddie in New England, where they undergo the firestorm of the book’s only major action set-piece, Jake and Father Callahan hot in pursuit of Susannah in New York, and Susannah herself, together with her alter ego Mia, struggling with probably the strangest pregnancy in all fiction. Her travails certainly make the New York horrors of Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby seem almost mundane. The novel is not complete in itself, but leads to a duel climax-cliffhanger leading directly into the final volume, The Dark Tower.

Title: Bag Of Bones: Description:
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld. Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mum with a marvellous psychic daughter). There is also good-humoured satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo

Title: Wizard And Glass (dark Tower (paperback)): Description:
Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long. It begins with the series' star, world-weary Roland, and his world-hopping posse (an ex-junkie, a child, a plucky woman in a wheelchair, and a talking dog-like pet named Oy the Bumbler) trapped aboard a runaway train. The train is a psychotic multiple personality that intends to commit suicide with them at 800 m.p.h.--unless Roland and pals can outwit it in a riddling contest. It's a great race, for the mind and pulse. Films should be this good. Then comes a 567- page flashback about Roland at age 14. It's a well-marbled but meaty tale. Roland and two teenage friends must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch. The love scenes are startlingly prominent and earthier than most romance novels (they kiss until blood trickles from her lip). After an epic battle ending in a box canyon to end all box canyons, we're back with grizzled, grown-up Roland and the train-wreck survivors in a parallel world: Kansas in 1986, after a plague. The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King's most ambitious series has too many pages--almost 800--but few will deny it's a page-turner.

Title: The Dark Tower: Wolves Of The Calla V. 5: Description:
'Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping, well-honed plot'

Title: The Tommyknockers: Description:
coming back to the little community had been like walking into a nightmare

Title: Misery: Description:
Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he's writing to stay alive.

Title: Misery: Description:
In Misery, as in The Shining, a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" best selling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona Webster

Title: The Bachman Books: Description:
4 novels in 1 book, Rage,The long walk,Roadwork,The running man

Title: The Waste Lands (dark Tower): Description:
The dark tower seroies is Stephen King's most visionary piece of storytelling, a magical mix of fantasy and horror that may well be his crowing achievement

Title: Everything's Eventual: Description:
A new Stephen King book is always an event and Everything's Eventual--a collection of short stories that will be already familiar to King's die-hard fans--is a nicely timed appetiser for his next novel From a Buick 8. Collected here are the stories published in the New Yorker and King's highly successful e-book Riding the Bullet and for those of you who haven't already seen them, it will be no surprise to learn that King explores a multitude of emotions and themes, from pure horror to simple everyday life. It's a very mixed bag but each and every one hits the mark as vignettes of a master storyteller who is equally at home with a short story as with 700-page blockbuster. Particular standouts include the previous audio-only tales "LT's Theory of Pets" and "1408". Twists and turns abound and there are plenty of characters to love and loathe in equal measure. But King is at his best when writing about the nature of the human spirit and its enduring capacity for both good and evil--there is plenty here that explores both. --Jonathan Weir

Title: Dark Visions: Description:
Take three of the leading names in contemporary horror writing, commission one third of a book's worth of stories from each and the result is Dark Visions. Stephen King, the world's bestselling writer, leads off with three stories, including 'Sneakers', about a very unusual haunting, and 'Dedication', one of the most powerful and unsettling of all his works. Dan Simmons, who won the World Fantasy Award with his first novel, The Song of Kah, pays homage to Philip K. Dick with 'Metastasis', one of three highly accomplished stories. And George Martin, award-winning author of the modern horror classic Fevre Dream, rounds off the book with the brilliant werewolf novella, 'The Skin Trade'.

Title: Night Shift: Description:
This is a collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered, a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. Contents: • Jerusalem's Lot • Graveyard Shift • Night Surf • I Am The Doorway • The Mangler • The Boogeyman • Gray Matter • Battleground • Trucks • Sometimes They Come Back • Strawberry Spring • The Ledge • The Lawnmower Man • Quitters, Inc. • I Know What You Need • Children Of The Corn • The Last Rung On The Ladder • The Man Who Loved Flowers • One For The Road • The Woman In The Room Most of these stories centre on the thing that has made Stephen King so famous - pure, old-fashioned horror.

Title: Gerald's Game: Description:
An unusual story about a woman's fight within herself. Far from help in Notch Bay, at the north end of Kashwakamak Lake, she is alone, or though she thinks. Trapped by handcuffs after a little bondage in her lovemaking goes horribly wrong and her husband dies. Jessie has to fight her internal demons and repressed memories in order to become the person that can escape from her terrible situation. But the demons do not stop chasing her even when she is free!

Title: Dreamcatcher: Description:
Suspenseful, frightening, and sometimes howlingly funny, Stephen King's first full-length novel in three years is a story of invasion and battle, survival and heroism. It is a story of how men remember...and how they love. Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of Stephen King's IT and Insomnia), four young boys stood together and did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways although they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their past and in the boy they once About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING (October 3, 2000). He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Cujo: Description:
Cujo, a huge St Bernard, is bitten by a rabid bat and changes from a lovable pet into a ferocious man-eating monster. He slaughters his garage-owning master and, as madness eats at his brain, focuses his deranged attention on Donna Trenton and her five-year-old son, who are trapped in their car. About the Author Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.

Title: Hearts In Atlantis: Description:
'Although it is difficult to believe, the 60s are not fictional; they actually happened' (from the Author's Note). "Hearts in Atlantis" comprises of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War: In "Low Men in Yellow Coats", 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam", two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling", Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Skeleton Crew: Description:
A collection of Stephen King horror stories, including the tale of "Gramma", who only wanted to hug little George - even after she was dead; "The Raft", featuring a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite; and "The Monkey", telling of an innocent-looking toy with sinister powers. About the Author Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.

Title: Dolores Claiborne: Description:
Suspected of murdering the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't the one the police are expecting to hear. It's a little darker, a little stranger - and a lot more horrifying. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: King Stephen : Gerald's Game (se) (signet): Description:
Stephen King returns to the psychological intensity of THE DARK HALF and MISERY in this masterpiece of suspense

Title: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger V. 1 (the Dark Tower): Description:
Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, sets off in pursuit of the Man in Black. On his way towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice and a kid named Jake. Faced with an agonizing choice, Roland determines to find out what the Man in Black knows.

Title: From A Buick 8: Description:
For twenty years the officers in Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in Shed B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Now young Ned Wilcox, son of the recently deceased officer Curt, has started hanging around the Barracks. One day he can't resist peeking through the windows. And it's time to share the secret. So the veteran troopers sit Ned down on the smoking bench and tell him every skin-curdling detail - from the Buick's arrival to the terrifying lightshows and what it sucks in and breathes out. For the Buick is a conduit to another world. As King puts it, "when we confront the deep and authentic unknown, we glimpse that place where our familiar universe stops". From the Publisher From the powerful force of the imagination of the world's bestselling writer comes a chilling full-scale novel from the master of suspense For twenty years the officers in Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in Shed B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Now young Ned Wilcox, son of the recently deceased officer Curt, has started hanging around the Barracks. One day he can't resist peeking through the windows. And it's time to share the secret. So the veteran troopers sit Ned down on the smoking bench and tell him every skin-curdling detail - from the Buick's arrival to the terrifying light-shows and what it sucks in and breathes out. For the Buick is a conduit to another world. As King puts it, "when we confront the deep and authentic unknown, we glimpse that place where our familiar universe stops". --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, DREAMCATCHER and EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine

Title: The Dark Tower: Wolves Of The Calla V. 5: Description:
In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.

Title: The Dark Tower: Wizard And Glass V. 4 (the Dark Tower): Description:
Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than forty books. Recent titles include "On Writing", "Dreamcatcher", "Everything's Eventual" and the final three volumes in the "Dark Tower" series. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: The Dark Tower: Description:
great read

Title: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger V. 1: Description:
"The Gunslinger" is a man in tattered black on a quest in an alternative world. By the process of passing through the gate into the other universe, he collects a crew of misfits to join him.

Title: The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Bk. 1 (dark Tower): Description:
In the Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, the Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the tower is closer! About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are DREAMCATCHER, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL and FROM A BUICK 8. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: The Stand: Description:
A man crashes his car into a petrol station bringing with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. Before long the plague that killed them spreads across America and the world. It is a long time before a few stunned survivors emerge, slowly and painfully, to build a new world.

Title: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: Description:
"The Gunslinger" is a man in tattered black on a quest in an alternative world. By the process of passing through the gate into the other universe, he collects a crew of misfits to join him.

Title: The Dark Tower: Song Of Susannah Bk. 6: Description:
This a pivotal instalment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called "Salem's Lot: Song Of Susannah" is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues "The Dark Tower" series seamlessly from "Wolves Of The Calla" and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.

Title: King Stephen : Eyes Of The Dragon (signet): Description:
KING STEPHEN : EYES OF THE DRAGON

Title: Firestarter (signet): Description:
Scientific experiments gone wrong

Title: King Stephen : Salem's Lot (signet): Description:
Horror

Title: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger V. 1: Description:
A fantasy tale describing the quest of the gunslinger, a man in tattered black, who passes back and forth through a door leading to two parallel worlds, and of those people under intense psychological pressure in the late 20th-century civilization who alone have the power to join him in the quest.

Title: Needful Things: Description:
At Castle Rock, Polly Chalmers runs You Sew 'n' Sew and Alan Pangborn is the Sheriff. Leland Gaunt is the newcomer - from Ohio, he says, - and he calls his shop Needful Things. It doesn't matter what the customer wants, Alan Pangborn can get it. From the author of "Carrie". About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: It: Description:
It was the children who saw - and felt - what made the town so horribly different. In the storm drains and sewers 'It' lurked, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. As the children grow up and move away, the horror of 'It' is buried deep - until they are called back. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Shawshank Redemption: Description:
A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.

Title: Salem's Lot: Description:
Fine example of the horror master's work

Title: Carrie: Description:
Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has a gift - the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to prom night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social accpetance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macrbre turn on that horrfying and endelss night as she is forced to exercise her gift on the town that mocks and loaths her.

Title: The Dark Tower: The Drawing Of The Three Vol 2 (dark Tower): Description:
Roland of Gilead has mysteriously stepped back in time to 1980s America, where he joins up with the defiant Eddie Dean and the courageous Odetta Holmes. A savage struggle has begun in which underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to being an end to his search for the Dark Tower. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Desperation: Description:
A frightening novel from Stephen King set in Nevada.

Title: The Gunslinger (dark Tower): Description:
Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, sets out on his journey of good and evil in his quest for the Dark Tower. Across a desolate world which mirrors our own, he persues the Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice and befriends a kid named Jake. And still the Dark Tower beckons. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are DREAMCATCHER, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL and FROM A BUICK 8. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: The Dead Zone: Description:
John Smith awakes from a coma to find his life in ruins. He also finds that he can see the future - a power he doesn't want but can't escape. He is branded a freak and his warnings of danger are seen as ravings, and when he shakes a psychopathic politician's hand he foresees unimaginable horror. About the Author Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.

Title: Cycle Of The Werewolf: Description:
When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: The Green Mile: Description:
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are BAG OF BONES and THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Dreamcatcher: Description:
Alien suspense/horror thriller. Great story with some very spooky and weird goings on in the forrest

Title: Wizard And Glass (the Dark Tower): Description:
While Roland the Gunslinger and his companions leap between worlds, he relates his experiences with the elusive, powerful emotion of love in a journey into his own past. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Misery: Description:
After a car crash, writer Paul Sheldon is saved by his number one fan, Annie Wilkes. She brings him home, splints his mangled legs, and all he has to do in return is write a very special book, one all about her favourite character. Because if he doesn't, if he is bad, she will be cross - very cross...

Title: The Tommyknockers: Description:
Set in Maine, this story concerns Bobbi who has developed telepathic powers. A spaceship has landed at the bottom of her garden and when it is uncovered, the citizens of Haven metamorphose into increasingly bizarre and dangerous creatures. By the author of "Salem's Lot", "Carrie" and "Misery".

Title: Four Past Midnight: Description:
In these horror tales, Stephen King gives four different visions in which the dividing line between reality and unreality dissapears. The author has also written "Carrie", "The Bachman Books", "The Tommyknockers" and "The Shining". About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Dolores Claiborne: Description:
Suspected of murdering the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Delores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't one the police are expecting to hear. It is a little darker, a little stranger, and a lot more horrifying. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Gerald's Game: Description:
During a sexual game that goes wrong, Jessie kicks her husband Gerald inducing a fatal coronary. Finding herself handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin with no means of escape, Jessie is forced to face up to her desperate situation. Soon she begins to hear voices inside her head. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL Wthe novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Bag Of Bones: Description:
Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his...

Title: From A Buick 8: Description:
For 20 years the officers in Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in Shed B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Young Ned Wilcox can't resist having a peek - and it's time the veteran troopers shared the skin-curdling secret of this machine.

Title: Hearts In Atlantis: Description:
Five interconnected, sequential tales set in the years between 1960 and 1999 center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, DREAMCATCHER and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: The Dark Half: Description:
Written by the author of "Carrie", "Salem's Lot", "The Shining" and "Christine", this novel features Thad Beaumont, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has developed a lucrative thriller-writing alter ego named George Stark. He stops being fun so Beaumont wants to kill him. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Cell: Description:
Don't miss "Cell": A topical and terrifyingly plausible novel from the hard drive of the King of contemporary horror. 'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.' The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone... From the Publisher Campbell Scott's reading of CELL by Stephen King will send shivers down your spine - if you're a fan of King, or even of books, you have to hear this. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Title: Christine: Description:
Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury - broken down, but not finished. There was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. It is a malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into Possession. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Cujo: Description:
Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole, a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inexorably drawing in all the people around him, makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has written...

Title: Lisey's Story: Description:
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a celebrated, award-winning, novelist. And a complex man. Lisey knew there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. Boo'ya Moon is what Scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to write and live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face her husband's demons. And what begins as a widow's effort to sort through her husband's effects becomes a perilous journey into the heart of darkness. From the Publisher If you're a King fan - and let's face it, who isn't? - you'll already know about this one. We're very excited to be bringing you what promises to be a landmark in Stephen King's career - as well as this year's most gripping audiobook, hands down. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Stephen King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He is the author of more than forty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His most recent include CELL and THE DARK TOWER VII. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. (20061020)

Title: The Dark Tower: Description:
A fantasy tale describing the quest of the gunslinger, a man in tattered black, who passes back and forth through a door leading to two parallel worlds, and of those people under intense psychological pressure in the late 20th-century civilization who alone have the power to join him in the quest.

Title: The Dark Half: Description:
Written by the author of "Carrie", "Salem's Lot", "The shining" and "Christine", this novel features Thad Beaumont, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has developed a lucrative thriller-writing alter ego named George Stark. He stops being fun so Beaumont wants to kill him. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: The Stand (the Complete And Uncut Edition): Description:
When a man crashes his car into a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies and it doesn't take long for the plague which killed him to spread across America and the world. This work comes from the author of "The Tommyknockers", "Misery" and "Pet Sematary". About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are DREAMCATCHER, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL and FROM A BUICK 8. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (new English Library): Description:
'The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Trying not to be terrified. Trying not to think that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died.' In Trisha's panic to get back on the track, she takes turnings which lead her deeper and deeper into the woods. With only a small amount of food and water in her knapsack, she begins to give up hope of ever getting out. Alive. The only thing that keeps her going is her Walkman on which she listens avidly to Red Sox baseball games, creating an imaginary friendship with her hero Tom Gordon. And as she struggles for survival and a way out, she realises she's not alone. There's something else in the woods - and it's watching her... About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Hearts In Atlantis: Description:
hearts in atlantis is composed of 5 interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from1960 to 1999. each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the vietnam war

Title: Gerald's Game: Description:
Jessie is trapped: during an ill-fated S&M game, she kicks her husband and induces a fatal coronary. She is handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no means of escape. Voices in her head force her to confront a buried childhood trauma. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: The Dark Tower Boxed Set: Vols I-iv: V. 1-1v: Description:
The end is near! Start at the Beginning: Your chance to read the first four volumes of one of the richest most evocative sagas in modern publishing as the epic draws every closer to its soul-shattering conclusion. Monumental in scope and spectacular in vision, "The Dark Tower" series is Stephen King's magnum opus - an exciting, action-packed serial fantasy that confirms King's legendary status as one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Join the quest in "The Gunslinger", where Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, a knight errant, as he embarks on the road to reach the Dark Tower. Follow his adventures as he continues his journey into good and evil in "The Drasing of the Three", The Waste Lands" and "Wizard and Glass". These first four volumes will leave readers eagerly awaiting the new books. And the tower is closer! About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are DREAMCATCHER, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL and FROM A BUICK 8. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Black House: Description:
The house appeaers to have been painted a uniform black - not only the boards, but every inch of the exterior, the porch, the trim, the rain gutters, even the windows. Black, from top to bottom. And that cannot be possible; in this guileless, good-hearted corner of the world, not even the most crazily misanthropic builder would turn his house into its own shadow.

Title: The Bachman Books: Description:
Four novels by Stephen King - Rage; The Long Walk; Roadwork; The Running Man.

Title: Song Of Susannah : The Dark Tower Vi: Description:
The sixth volume in The Dark Tower series - the most anticipated series of publications in Stephen King's legendary career - The Dark Tower VI; Song Of Susannah is a pivotal instalment in the epic saga. It provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot. Song Of Susannah is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues the Dark Tower seamlessly from Wolves Of The Calla and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are Hearts In Atlantis, Dreamcatcher, Everything's Eventual and From A Buick 8 He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine

Title: Dark Tower: Wolves Of The Calla V. 5 (dark Tower): Description:
This fifth volume in Stephen King's epic series. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland of Gilead faces the most deadly of perils as he journeys through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, DREAMCATCHER, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL and FROM A BUICK 8 He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine

Title: From A Buick 8: Description:
From a Buick 8 will suck you into the powerful force of the imagination of the world's bestselling writer. It is a riveting and moving novel about the fascination deadly things have for us. About our need to map out the road ahead and make the pieces of the jigsaw fit. It is about the chains we forge - that can hold us captive, or set us free.

Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Description:
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.

Title: Dolores Claiborne: Description:
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't exactly the one the police are expecting to hear. But Dolores Claiborne's story is a little different. A little darker, a little stranger - and a lot more horrifying.

Title: Everything's Eventual: Description:
Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

Title: On Writing: Description:
An autobiographical portrait of Stephen King's home life, his family and his traumatic recent accident. He offers an insight into his world as well as analysis, advice and instruction on writing. Find out what books and films influenced the young writer, his first idea for a story, the true life tale that inspired "Carrie". Citing examples of his work and those of his contemporaries such as John Grisham and Raymond Chandler, King gives tips for writers on how to avoid pitfalls and how to use the tools of the trade from building characters to pace and plotting, the importance of dialogue and description - as well as practical advice on presentation and representation. Discover the symbolism, themes and the three deep interests that power all his work. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Excerpted from On Writing by Stephen King. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved I was stunned by Mary Karr's memoir, The Liars' Club. Not just by its ferocity, its beauty, and by her delightful grasp of the vernacular, but by its totality – she is a woman who remembers everything about her early years. I'm not that way. I lived an odd, herky-jerky childhood, raised by a single parent who moved around a lot in my earliest years and who – I am not completely sure of this – may have farmed my brother and me out to one of her sisters for awhile because she was economically or emotionally unable to cope with us for a time. Perhaps she was only chasing our father, who piled up all sorts of bills and then did a runout when I was two and my brother David was four. If so, she never succeeded in finding him. My mom, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, was one of America's early liberated women, but not by choice. Mary Karr presents her childhood in an almost unbroken panorama. Mine is a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees . . . the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you. What follows are some of those memories, plus assorted snapshots from the somewhat more coherent days of my adolescence and young manhood. This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae – my attempt to show how one writer was formed. Not how one writer was made; I don't believe writers can be made, either by circumstances or by self-will (although I did believe those things once). The equipment comes with the original package. Yet it is by no means unusual equipment; I believe large numbers of people have at least some talent as writers and storytellers, and that those talents can be strengthened and sharpened. If I didn't believe that, writing a book like this would be a waste of time. This is how it was for me, that's all – a disjointed growth process in which ambition, desire, luck, and a little talent all played a part. Don't bother trying to read between the lines, and don't look for a through-line. There are no lines – only snapshots, most out of focus. 1 My earliest memory is of imagining I was someone else – imagining that I was, in fact, the Ringling Brothers Circus Strongboy. This was at my Aunt Ethelyn and Uncle Oren's house in Durham, Maine. My aunt remembers this quite clearly, and says I was two and a half or maybe three years old. I had found a cement cinderblock in a corner of the garage and had managed to pick it up. I carried it slowly across the garage's smooth cement floor, except in my mind I was dressed in an animal skin singlet (probably a leopard skin) and carrying the cinderblock across the center ring. The vast crowd was silent. A brilliant blue-white spotlight marked my remarkable progress. Their wondering faces told the story: never had they seen such an incredibly strong kid. 'And he's only two!' someone muttered in disbelief. Unknown to me, wasps had constructed a small nest in the lower half of the cinderblock. One of them, perhaps pissed off at being relocated, flew out and stung me on the ear. The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration. It was the worst pain I had ever suffered in my short life, but it only held the top spot for a few seconds. When I dropped the cinderblock on one bare foot, mashing all five toes, I forgot all about the wasp. I can't remember if I was taken to the doctor, and neither can my Aunt Ethelyn (Uncle Oren, to whom the Evil Cinderblock surely belonged, is almost twenty years dead), but she remembers the sting, the mashed toes, and my reaction. 'How you howled, Stephen!' she said. `You were certainly in fine voice that day.' 2 A year or so later, my mother, my brother, and I were in West De Pere, Wisconsin. I don't know why. Another of my mother's sisters, Cal (a WAAC beauty queen during World War II), lived in Wisconsin with her convivial beer-drinking husband, and maybe Mom had moved to be near them. If so, I don't remember seeing much of the Weimers. Any of them, actually. My mother was working, but I can't remember what her job was, either. I want to say it was a bakery she worked in, but I think that came later, when we moved to Connecticut to live near her sister Lois and her husband (no beer for Fred, and not much in the way of conviviality, either; he was a crewcut daddy who was proud of driving his convertible with the top up, God knows why). There was a stream of babysitters during our Wisconsin period. I don't know if they left because David and I were a handful, or because they found better-paying jobs, or because my mother insisted on higher standards than they were willing to rise to; all I know is that there were a lot of them. The only one I remember with any clarity is Eula, or maybe she was Beulah. She was a teenager, she was as big as a house, and she laughed a lot. Eula-Beulah had a wonderful sense of humor, even at four I could recognize that, but it was a dangerous sense of humor – there seemed to be a potential thunderclap hidden inside each hand-patting, butt-rocking, head-tossing outburst of glee. When I see those hidden-camera sequences where real-life babysitters and nannies just all of a sudden wind up and clout the kids, it's my days with Eula-Beulah I always think of. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: The Eyes Of The Dragon: Description:
A fantasy of heroic adventure set in the kingdom of Delain. It involves a king who is poisoned, a young and beautiful queen, a prince locked in a high tower while his younger brother assumes the throne, and an evil magician who harbours terrible secrets and malevolent plans. About the Author Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. It was the publication of his first novel CARRIE and its subsequent film adaptation that set him on his way to his present position as perhaps the bestselling author in the world. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Needful Things: Description:
There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. Always at a price you could afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale...

Title: Hearts In Atlantis: Description:
'Although it is difficult to believe, the 60s are not fictional; they actually happened' (from the Author's Note). "Hearts in Atlantis" comprises of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War: In "Low Men in Yellow Coats", 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam", two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling", Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. About the Author Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

Title: Bag Of Bones: Description:
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot though: men, women and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld. Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mum with a marvellous psychic daughter). There is also good- humoured satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo, Amazon.com

Title: The Stand (king Classics): Description:
First came the days of the plague . . . . . then came the dreams . . . .dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.

Title: Misery: Description:
Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. Thats when the car accident happens, and he wakes up in pain in a strange bed. But it isn't hospital. Annie Wilkes has pulled him from the wreck , brought him to her remote mountain hoe, splnted and set his mangled legs.

Title: Lisey's Story: Description:
Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that he was a haunted man whose bestselling novels were based on a terrifying reality.

Title: Dolores Claibourne: Description:
Dolores Claibourne has a story to tell. But it isn't exactly the one the police are expecting to hear. Suspected of murdering Vera Donovan, the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores admits the two women hadn't always got along. Apparently neglected by her children and eaten up with bitterness despite her wealth, Mrs Donovan had hovered on the brink of madness for years. And when her demons bcam too strong, Dolores was there to take the punishment. Maybe one day Dolores had just had enough. But Dolores Claibourne's story is a little different. A little darker, a little stranger - and a lot more horrifying. It's a story that could only have come from the pen of Stephen King.