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Stephen King

  • Richard Bachman
September 21, 1947

Stephen Edwin King is an american author of horror, sci-fi and fantasy books.

Stephen King
The Two Dead Girls
The Dark Tower Boxset. 7 Dark Tower Novels Plus Wind Through the Keyhole
The green mile
The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
Coffey's Hands
Night Journey
  • This is the fifth volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison

    Night Journey
    4.8
  • Coffey's Hands

    • 96 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    This is the third volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison.

    Coffey's Hands
    4.8
  • The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix

    • 90 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    Det er blevet tid for den sidste tur, ad Den grønne mil for Eduard Delacroix, men først skal der tages afsked, og han er helt uvidende om den skæbne, der venter ham

    The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
    4.8
  • The green mile

    • 435 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain Penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him. -- Publisher description.

    The green mile
    4.8
  • All of Stephen King's eight Dark Tower novels: one of the most acclaimed and popular series of all time. This collection includes: - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger; - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three; - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands; - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass; - The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole; - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla; - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah; - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower.

    The Dark Tower Boxset. 7 Dark Tower Novels Plus Wind Through the Keyhole
    4.8
  • The Two Dead Girls

    • 96 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    This is the first volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison.

    The Two Dead Girls
    4.7
  • Coffey on the Mile

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Cold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years, and now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile.

    Coffey on the Mile
    4.6
  • The Stand. American Nightmares

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    The deadly super flu Captain Trips has devastated the country and now the few survivors must pick up the pieces and go on. Larry Underwood seeks escape from New York City. Lloyd contemplates an extremely unsavory dinner option in jail, and Stu Redman makes a desperate bid for freedom from his interrogators. Most ominous of all, the strange being called Randall Flagg continues his dread journey across the devastated landscape of America. Collects The Stand: American Nightmare #1-5.

    The Stand. American Nightmares
    4.6
  • The Stand. Hardcases

    • 136 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    The Trashcan Man was spared for a reason. To join the Dark Man Randall Flagg's swelling army and to set the world on fire. It's a dream come true for the pyromaniac, but he has to reach Flagg's compound in Las Vegas first--and, somehow, survive crossing paths with "the Kid," a hardcase who's even crazier and more dangerous than Trashy is! The villains are front-and-center as we cross the mid-point of this epic adaptation of Stephen King's horror masterpiece! Collecting: The Stand: Hardcases #1-5

    The Stand. Hardcases
    4.6
  • Stephen King is a unique and powerful writer for millions of horror fans. His incredible narrative drive ensnares the reader in a web of everyday surroundings, believable situations, and recognizable characters that are eventually caught up in a terrifying noose of monumental evil. Three of King's earlier classics are here together in one volume: the explosive adolescent powers of Carrie; the slow, insidious corruption of a small American town by a terrorizing vampire; and the malicious machinations of the Overlook Hotel and the gift of the "shine."

    Carrie, Salem's Lot and The Shining; three novels
    4.6
  • The Dark Tower VII

    • 736 pages
    • 26 hours of reading

    The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland's band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone... You've come this far, Come a little farther, Come all the way, The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark Tower.

    The Dark Tower VII
    4.5
  • The Mouse on the Mile

    • 96 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    This is the second volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison.

    The Mouse on the Mile
    4.5
  • Chiral Mad 5

    • 424 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    The final installment of the Chiral Mad series showcases a diverse array of writers from around the globe, including renowned authors like Stephen King and Victor LaValle. This collection features a mix of fiction and poetry, exploring themes of speculative horror and dark science fiction. Illustrated by Seth Brown, the anthology offers a unique blend of voices and styles, culminating in a captivating experience for fans of the genre.

    Chiral Mad 5
    5.0
  • Rita Hayworth & Shawshank redemption

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess - I'm the guy who can get it for you. And new convict Andy Dufresne wants two things from fellow prisoner Red: a small rock-hammer for carving stones and a giant poster of Rita Hayworth. So begins this mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment, deep friendship and offbeat escape.

    Rita Hayworth & Shawshank redemption
    4.5
  • Apt Pupil

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a 1998 Tristar movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—now available for the first time as a standalone publication. If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander’s dark and deadly past…a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception—and horror—as finally there is only one left standing.

    Apt Pupil
    4.4
  • Omnibus. Skeleton Crew. Different Seasons

    • 1168 pages
    • 41 hours of reading

    "Different Seasons" comprises four spine-chilling stories by a master of the supernatural: "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption", "The Body", "The Breathing Method" and "Apt Pupil". "Skeleton Crew" is made up of a bumper 23 tales.

    Omnibus. Skeleton Crew. Different Seasons
    4.4
  • Full Dark, No Stars

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    Is it possible to fully know anyone? Even those we love the most? What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime? For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead. A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger. Dave Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival. And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading home . . . Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

    Full Dark, No Stars
    4.4
  • Different Seasons

    • 560 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    Different Seasons contains four stories with an interlacing of horror that capture the dark corners of our times. In Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in this sinister slammer, and a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's too late. And brace yourself for icy shock in three more stunning novellas of suspense. Four young boys come face to face with life, death and hints of their own mortality....A teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil... A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death. The greatest horror master of our time turns the screws of suspense to lock you into terrifying tension and nerve-tingling twists.

    Different Seasons
    4.4
  • Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead

    • 208 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    "How could you have done it, Roland? How could you have killed your own mother? That's what everyone in Gilead's asking-- even your grieving father. But you know the answer: Marten Broadcloak and one of them evil grapefruits. That's how. And while you rot in jail, Broadcloak's plot is wrapping its bloody and black tendrils around Gilead. Your town-- the home of the gunslingers-- is the prize possession of the great enemy of the land, John Farson. And he means to have it. Gilead will fall, it will. And it will fall to the death of a thousand cuts. It started with your mother, yes, but it won't end there"--Jacket

    Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
    4.4
  • The spellbinding saga of The Talisman is now a stunning graphic novel, vividly illustrated by artist Tony Shasteen. Here’s a bold new look at the classic tale of treachery and betrayal that could only have sprung from the imaginations of master storytellers Stephen King and Peter Straub.In a run-down amusement park on a desolate beach in New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer is about to learn some hard truths—about his father’s death, about why he and his mother are on the run from his sinister uncle Morgan, and about the real nature of the mysterious realm Jack once called the Daydreams. Now, with help from his newfound friend Speedy Parker, this young man will reclaim his identity as Travellin Jack and make his first foray back into the Territories to retrieve the magical Talisman, an object of immense cosmic significance. Yet even more important to Jack, the Talisman holds the key to saving his mother’s life. In the Terrorities, where monsters lurk, evil watches, and an unbelievably precious prize awaits, Jack embarks upon a desperate quest to fulfill a destiny he never sought but cannot escape.The Talisman: The Road of Trials comprises Issues 0 through 5 of the thrilling comic book series and features original, never-before-seen material, including interviews and early sketches. Be warned: Once you’ve seen the Talisman, nothing will ever be the same.

    The Talisman: Volume 1: The Road of Trials
    4.4
  • 11.22.63. The day that changed the world

    • 740 pages
    • 26 hours of reading

    King's highly acclaimed novel, now with a stunning new cover look. WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.

    11.22.63. The day that changed the world
    4.4
  • Stephen King's The Dark Tower

    The Complete Concordance

    • 609 pages
    • 22 hours of reading

    The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Begun more than thirty years ago, seven books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling, epic fantasy series. Previously published in two separate volumes, The Complete Concordance is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything they need to navigate their way through the series. With hundreds of characters, Mid-World geography, High Speech lexicon, and extensive cross-references, this comprehensive handbook is essential for any Dark Tower fan. Characters and Genealogies -Magical Objects and Forces -Mid-World and Our World Places -Portals and Magical Places -Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps -Timeline for the Dark Tower Series -Mid-World Dialects -Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers -Political and Cultural References -References to Stephen King's Other Work

    Stephen King's The Dark Tower
    4.3
  • Contemporary / British English Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be.

    The Body
    4.3
  • The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden, premiering in the USA December 17, 2020.FIRST CAME THE VIRUS. AND THEN THE DREAMS...A man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks.Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the 'dark man', the apostate of death, the warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.Now the survivors must choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil is a classic for our times.'A masterpiece' - Guardian'His work plumbs with unnerving accuracy, the hopes and fears of an entire nation' - Observer

    The Stand
    4.3
  • On Writing

    A Memoir of the Craft

    • 274 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. Serialized in the New Yorker to vivid acclaim, On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King's overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower -- and entertain -- everyone who reads it. --front flap

    On Writing
    4.3
  • A thriller about a malevolent force in a small New England town that takes the shape of a clown, terrifying youngsters with their innermost fears and bringing them to untimely doom.

    It
    4.3
  • Simply Stories - 4: The Body

    • 80 pages
    • 3 hours of reading

    Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me —is now available as a stand-alone publication. It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn’t offer much in the way of a future. A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.

    Simply Stories - 4: The Body
    4.0
  • The Battle of Jericho Hill

    • 128 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    Enter the world of Roland Deschain in a stunning graphic novel adaptation that unveils terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of Stephen King's dark fantasy masterwork. Readers are introduced to Roland, the last gunslinger, tasked with protecting the remnants of goodness in a desolate reality filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. He embarks on a soul-shattering quest to find the Dark Tower, the mystical nexus of all worlds. In the graphic novel series, originally published by Marvel Comics and overseen by King, Roland's troubled past and coming-of-age story are revealed. With artwork by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove, and a plot by Stephen King expert Robin Furth, this adaptation serves as an extraordinary journey into Roland's origins. It offers a perfect introduction for new readers while thrilling longtime fans with adventures only hinted at in the novels. Nine years after the fall of Gilead, survivors led by Roland are forced beyond their homeland, witnessing the toll of time as it becomes a cruel instrument of violence under the rule of the Good Man John Farson. Despite the broken forces of the Affiliation, rebellion still burns in Roland and his ka-tet. As treachery abounds and the odds stack against him, Roland must make his last stand against Farson's corruption of Mid-World, even if it means sacrificing his life.

    The Battle of Jericho Hill
    4.3
  • Wizard and Glass

    • 752 pages
    • 27 hours of reading

    More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

    Wizard and Glass
    4.3
  • The Waste Lands. The Dark Tower III.

    • 624 pages
    • 22 hours of reading

    Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, an urban wasteland. And crossing a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who and what is driving him forward.

    The Waste Lands. The Dark Tower III.
    4.3
  • The Drawing of the Three

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York. Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism.

    The Drawing of the Three
    4.3
  • "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now, in a comic book personally overseen by King himself, Roland's past is revealed.Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove, adapted by long-time Stephen King expert Robin Furth (author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance) and scripted by New York Times bestseller Peter David, this series delves in depth into Roland's origins - the perfect introduction to this incredibly realized world; while long-time fans will thrill to adventures merely hinted at in the novels. Be there for the very beginning of a modern classic of fantasy literature.Collects Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1-7.

    The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
    4.3
  • My Dead Body

    • 315 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    Nobody lives forever. Not even a Vampyre.Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he’s just a target with legs.For a year he’s sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What’s it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who’s carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What’s the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What’s the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What’s he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.

    My Dead Body
    4.2
  • Reissue of the international bestseller in dramatic new graphic cover style

    The Shining
    4.3
  • 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.

    Night Shift
    4.3
  • Carrie / The Tommyknockers

    Two Novels in One Volume

    • 785 pages
    • 28 hours of reading

    Two classic novels of diverse terror that could only come from the master of modern horror and suspense. CarrieTo be invited to the Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie White - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her gift on the town that mocks and loathes her...The TommyknockersComing back to Haven, Maine, has been like walking into a nightmare for Jim. It all looked the same, the house, the furniture, the woods. But it was in the woods that his friend Bobbi had stumbled over the odd, nearly buried object, had felt a peculiar tingle as she knelt down and brushed the soft earth away. And looking back, that had been the start of a terrible, terrifying transformation of an unremarkable place into something alien and hideous. A place of unrest and insane powers.

    Carrie / The Tommyknockers
    4.2
  • The Stand. Captain Trips

    • 160 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Exclusive hardcover edition, collects The Stand: Captain Trips series of comics (#1-5) into one Hardcover volume. It all begins here: the epic apocalyptic battle between good and evil. On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something will send Charlie Campion, his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family, and the rest of America, they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: a virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand.

    The Stand. Captain Trips
    4.2
  • The Dark Tower 2. The Long Road Home

    • 160 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    After seeing the death of his lover Susan Delgado, Gunslinger Roland Deschain and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain are forced to flee into the desert with a deadly posse--the Big Coffin Hunters--in hot pursuit. Original.

    The Dark Tower 2. The Long Road Home
    4.2
  • Wolves of the Calla

    The Dark Tower V.

    Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before advancing, however, they must face the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who threaten to destroy the Calla by abducting its young.

    Wolves of the Calla
    4.2
  • The Dark Tower 3. Treachery

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    The ka-tet of Roland, Alain, & Cuthbert have returned safely to their home in Gilead. But all is not well. Roland has kept the evil Maerlyn's grapefruit & has become obsessed with peering into its depths despite the deadly toll it's taken on his health. What the young gunslinger sees brings him the darkest of nightmares.

    The Dark Tower 3. Treachery
    4.2
  • Hŏrrĭpĭlāt́ions

    • 128 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    The fantasy work of American artist, J K Potter whose combinations of art and photography have appeared on covers of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror novels and magazines and album covers.

    Hŏrrĭpĭlāt́ions
    4.0
  • The poet

    • 481 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    A cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another... An unputdownable thriller from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author

    The poet
    4.2
  • Duma Key

    • 704 pages
    • 25 hours of reading

    When Edgar Freemantle moves to Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma Key and its mysteries have been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. Even though he has lost an arm. And even though the hand he uses is the one he lost.

    Duma Key
    4.2
  • With a stunning new cover look, King's classic tale of survival sees a young mother and her son trapped in a car by a horrifyingly familiar monster. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats. And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him . . .

    Cujo
    4.2
  • Simplified adaptation with language-learning materials. [Penguin Readers Level 6] Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes' favourite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When she finds Paul injured after a car crash and takes him home she learns that he has decided to end the series by killing off Misery. Soon Paul's biggest fan turns into his biggest enemy and his nightmare begins! By the master of horror, Stephen King, this will keep you on the edge of your seat!

    Misery
    4.2
  • Omnibus 2

    The Eyes of the Dragon / Firestarter

    • 936 pages
    • 33 hours of reading

    This omnibus edition from horror writer Stephen King includes The Eyes of the Dragon and Firestarter. Both books were originally published in the 1980s.

    Omnibus 2
    4.2
  • In the afterword, Stephen King embraces the darker aspects of life in this compelling collection of twelve stories that explore fate, mortality, and the unexpected twists of reality. For over fifty years, King has excelled in storytelling, and these narratives are as engaging and thematically rich as his novels, offering readers the exhilarating escape from everyday life that he seeks. In "Two Talented Bastids," the long-hidden secret behind the protagonists' skills is revealed. "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream" depicts how a brief psychic insight disrupts countless lives, particularly Danny's. "Rattlesnakes," a sequel to Cujo, follows a grieving widower who seeks solace in Florida but encounters an inheritance fraught with complications. "The Dreamers" features a taciturn Vietnam veteran who answers a job ad, only to discover some mysteries of the universe are best left untouched. "The Answer Man" questions whether foresight is a blessing or a curse, illustrating how a life filled with tragedy can still hold meaning. King's unmatched ability to surprise and evoke both terror and comfort shines through in each story, making them feel iconic. This collection promises readers the darker thrills they crave, affirming that King's shorter fiction is as gripping as his celebrated novels.

    You Like It Darker
    4.2
  • Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children have walked in procession with solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding ..

    Pet sematary
    4.2
  • A suspenseful closing volume. Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last installment, starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney.

    End of watch
    4.2
  • You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon. Meet Charlie--and see what happens when innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror.... --back cover

    Firestarter
    4.2
  • The institute

    • 485 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use... Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local Sherriff. He's basically just walking the beat. But he's about to take on the biggest case of his career. Back in the Institute's downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise 'just another day in paradise', Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape. But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments - even the infamous Mrs Sigsby - suspect. Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, THE INSTITUTE is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.

    The institute
    4.1
  • Creepshow

    • 64 pages
    • 3 hours of reading

    Five scary tales written in comic book format.

    Creepshow
    4.1
  • Black House

    • 625 pages
    • 22 hours of reading

    From the Flap: Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

    Black House
    4.1
  • The Bachman books

    • 978 pages
    • 35 hours of reading

    The iconic bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman - now with a stunning new cover look. For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really world-bestselling author Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. The Long Walk: A chilling look at the ultra-conservative America of the future where a gruelling 450-mile marathon is the ultimate sports competition. Roadwork: An immovable man refuses to surrender to the irresistible force of progress. The Running Man: TV's future-favourite game show, where contestants are hunted to death in the attempt to win a $1 billion jackpot. Publishers Note: Includes The Running Man which is also published as an individual book.

    The Bachman books
    4.1
  • From legendary storyteller and No. 1 bestseller Stephen King, whose 'restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained' (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. This spectacular can't-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy.

    Billy Summers
    4.1
  • From Different Seasons The Body, as a media tie-in for the movie starring River Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell.

    The Body (Upper Intermediate level)
    4.0
  • Doctor Sleep

    • 499 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    FOLLOWING A CHILDHOOD HAUNTED BY TERRIFYING EVENTS AT THE OVERLOOK HOTEL, DANNY TORRANCE HAS BEEN DRIFTING FOR DECADES. Finally he settles into a job at a nursing home where he draws on his remnant 'shining' power to help people pass on. then he meets Abra Stone, a young girl with the brightest 'shining' ever seen. But her gift is attracting a tribe of paranormals.. They may look harmless, old and devoted to their Recreational Vehicles, but The True Knot live off the 'steam' that children like Abra produce. Now Dan must confront his old demons as he battles for Abra's soul and survival... ~from back cover

    Doctor Sleep
    4.1
  • With a stunning new cover look, King's bestselling supernatural tale about a boy, his girlfriend and a possessed '58 Plymouth Fury called Christine. This is the story of a lover's triangle . . . It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry. Christine is eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious. Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, is twenty. Her promise lies all in her past. Greedy and big, she is Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished. There is still power in her - a frightening power that leaks like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corrodes the mind and turns ownership into Possession.

    Christine
    4.1
  • Staatschef "Major" organisiert zur allgemeinen Belustigung einen "Todesmarsch", einen Marathon auf Leben und Tod, an dem 100 Jugendliche teilnehmen. Nur einer kann siegen, und die Überlebenschancen stehen 1:100. Die Verlierer erwartet der Tod.

    Todesmarsch
    4.1
  • Enter the world of Roland Deschain in a stunning graphic novel adaptation that unveils terrifying secrets and bold storytelling from Stephen King's dark fantasy masterpiece. Readers are introduced to Roland, the last gunslinger of Gilead, tasked with protecting the remnants of goodness in a desolate land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. On a soul-shattering quest, he seeks the Dark Tower, the mystical nexus of all worlds. This adaptation, originally published by Marvel Comics and overseen by King, reveals Roland's troubled past and ongoing saga. Beautifully illustrated by Richard Isanove, Sean Phillips, Luke Ross, and Michael Lark, and scripted by bestselling author Peter David, it serves as an extraordinary introduction for new readers while thrilling longtime fans with transformed adventures from the novels. In the aftermath of the fall of Gilead to the evil John Farson and the massacre of young gunslingers at the Battle of Jericho Hill, Roland rises from the ashes. As the last gunslinger, he embarks on a quest to find the Dark Tower, the only hope to restore balance to his fractured world, while confronting his worst nightmares and pursuing the elusive Man in Black, the sorcerer who holds the key to his fate.

    The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger 1. The Journey Begins
    4.0
  • Fairy Tale

    • 608 pages
    • 22 hours of reading

    WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. When Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe - inside the shed is a portal to another world. Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.

    Fairy Tale
    4.1
  • 'Salem's Lot

    • 653 pages
    • 23 hours of reading

    NOW A NEW FILM STREAMING ON MAX • #1 BESTSELLER • Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. "A master storyteller." —The Los Angeles Times When two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town. With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.

    'Salem's Lot
    4.1
  • The Wind Through the Keyhole

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V

    The Wind Through the Keyhole
    4.1
  • "A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes."--Provided by publisher.

    Finders Keepers
    4.1
  • Song of Susannah. The dark tower VI.

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    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.

    Song of Susannah. The dark tower VI.
    4.0
  • Skeleton Crew

    • 573 pages
    • 21 hours of reading

    Who could imagine…? In this brilliant collection of twenty-two stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine…. A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction…a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell…a woman driver finds a very scary shortcut to paradise…an idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil…and a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. Features the novella “The Mist”—Now a major motion picture

    Skeleton Crew
    4.0
  • Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling characters, returns to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. Having evolved from a shy recluse to a savvy private detective, Holly now faces a daunting challenge alone. When Penny Dahl reaches out to the Finders Keepers detective agency for help in locating her missing daughter, Holly is hesitant. With her partner Pete sidelined by Covid and her complicated family situation weighing on her, she contemplates taking a leave. However, Penny’s desperate plea compels her to accept the case. Just blocks from where Bonnie Dahl vanished, Professors Rodney and Emily Harris appear to be the epitome of respectable, devoted octogenarians. Yet, beneath their polished exterior lies a dark secret hidden in the basement of their book-lined home, potentially linked to Bonnie’s disappearance. The professors are cunning, patient, and ruthless, making it nearly impossible for Holly to uncover their sinister activities. To confront these twisted adversaries, Holly must harness all her formidable skills in this chilling new masterwork from King.

    Holly
    4.0
  • Later

    • 264 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    “Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

    Later
    4.0
  • When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach, Terry Maitland, as the culprit. DNA evidence and fingerprints confirm the crime was committed by this well-loved family man. Horrified by the brutal killing, Detective Ralph Anderson, whose own son was once coached by Maitland, orders the suspect to be arrested in a public spectacle. But Maitland has an alibi. And further research confirms he was indeed out of town that day. As Anderson and the District Attorney trace the clues, the investigation expands from Ohio to Texas. And as horrifying answers begin to emerge, so King's propulsive story of almost unbearable suspense kicks into high gear. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy but there is one rock-hard fact, as unassailable as gravity: a man cannot be in two places at the same time. Can he?

    The Outsider
    4.0
  • Mr Mercedes

    • 405 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    King's incredible crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges and introducing Holly Gibney is now released with with a stunning new cover look. Who is going to be the fish in this relationship, and who is going to be the fisherman? BILL HODGES retired cop, tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved. BRADY HARTSFIELD perpetrator of that notorious crime, and preparing to kill again. Now each is closing in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time from worldwide bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King.

    Mr Mercedes
    4.0
  • DC Compact Comics features a collection of bestselling and iconic graphic novels, reimagined in a portable size for reading on the go. This series allows fans to enjoy their favorite DC stories anywhere, making it a perfect choice for both longtime readers and newcomers. The compact format retains the essence of the original tales while providing a convenient option for avid comic book enthusiasts.

    American Vampire Book One: DC Compact Comics Edition
    4.0
  • Ghost Story

    • 567 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    In life, not every sin goes unpunished.GHOST STORYFor four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.

    Ghost Story
    4.0
  • Storm of the Century

    • 376 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    For the first time in Stephen King's remarkable publishing history, the master storyteller presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen. They're calling it the Storm of the Century, and it's coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before. Something no one wants to see. Just as the first flakes begin to fall, Martha Clarendon, one of Little Tall Island's oldest residents, suffers an unspeakably violent death. While her blood dries, Andre Linoge, the man responsible sits calmly in Martha's easy chair holding his cane topped with a silver wolf's head...waiting. Linoge knows the townsfolk will come to arrest him. He will let them. For he has come to the island for one reason. And when he meets Constable Mike Anderson, his beautiful wife and child, and the rest of Little Tall's tight-knit community, this stranger will make one simple propoisition to them all: "If you give me what I want, I'll go away."

    Storm of the Century
    4.0
  • 1922

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    The chilling novella featured in Stephen King’s New York Times bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 is about a man who succumbs to the violence within—setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres. She wants to sell her land but if she does, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. James will do anything to hold onto his farm, and he'll get his son to go along. Betrayal, murder, madness, rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American storyteller Stephen King.

    1922
    4.0