Frank de Groot Books

Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case--that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.

Douglas E. Winter, de samensteller van deze bundel opmerkelijke verhalen, is een vooraanstaand recensent van horrorliteratuur. Dertien schrijvers kregen vrije baan wat betreft onderwerp en verhaallengte. Meesters van het Kwaad is het resultaat: een kleurrijke verzameling horrorverhalen, waarin zeer uiteenlopende stijlen vertegenwoordigd zijn.

A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell... and a few to glory. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker. In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you. Can you believe? Then come...

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found. From the sacred Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whos insatiable taste for young women could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival depends. A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theater . From the Paperback edition.

A single mom turned stripper finds herself locking horns with a high-powered Congressman when a bachelor party gets out of hand in this inventive tale yet of savage appetites and sweet justice. Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats -- not to mention blackmail and murder -- would a virtuous topless dancer join forces with a cool but clueless cop. And only in the fiction of Carl Hiaasen do readers experience riveting suspense and razor-sharp characters along with the most wicked humor imaginable. Don't miss Strip Tease, Hiaasen's crazed romp through lust, murder, and government machinations.

Deze verhalen, eerder verschenen in "Nachtmerries en Droomlandschappen" laten King op zijn best zien: als geen ander is hij in staat om ogenschijnlijk alledaagse gebeurtenissen en herkenbare situaties uit te laten groeien tot een nachtmerrie... 1. Regentijd (Rainy Season) 2. Mijn prachtige paard (My Pretty Pony) 3. Hallo, met wie spreekt u? (Sorry, Right Number) 4. Het Volk van Tien Uur 's Ochtends (The Ten O'Clock People) 5. Crouch End (Crouch End) 6. Het huis aan Maple Street (The House on Maple Street) 7. Het vijfde kwart (The Fifth Quarter) 8. De zaak van de doctor (The Doctor's Case) 9. Umney's laatste zaak (Umney's Last Case) 10. Kop omlaag! (Head Down!) 11. Augustus in Brooklyn (Brooklyn August) 12. De bedelaar en de diamant (The Beggar and the Diamond)