Margot Bakker Books

In het Amerika van een eeuw geleden arriveert een jonge schrijver, op zoek naar avontuur en nieuwe ervaringen. Na zijn vertrek uit Europa vestigt hij zich in St. Louis als huisonderwijzer, maar zijn ware ambitie ligt in het Westen, een onontdekte streek vol mogelijkheden. Hij wil de Indianen en hun levenswijze leren kennen en zijn ervaringen opschrijven om in zijn onderhoud te voorzien. Onder de begeleiding van zijn oudere vriend, mr. Henry, krijgt hij een baan als landmeter bij een spoorwegonderneming. Samen met een groep mannen, onder leiding van scout Sam Hawkens, gaat hij de wildernis in. De 'greenhorn' blijkt al snel een veelbelovende leerling; hij leert goed paardrijden en omgaan met het geweer dat mr. Henry hem heeft gegeven. Tijdens hun werkzaamheden stuiten ze op de Apaches, die de aanleg van de spoorlijn verbieden, wat leidt tot een conflict. De jonge Indianenkrijger Winnetou speelt hierbij een cruciale rol. De schrijver, inmiddels 'Old Shatterhand' genoemd vanwege zijn kracht, wordt gevangen door de Apaches, maar verandert van vijand in vriend en bloedsbroeder van Winnetou. Hun vriendschap, die door vele uitdagingen wordt getest, belooft een reeks spannende avonturen.

Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has every had. One day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole - a cave inhabited by 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.

One of the true classics of psychological suspense, about a writer and his No. 1 fan, now with a stunning new cover look. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wants to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happens, and he wakes up splinted and in pain, in the remote mountain home of his rescuer, Annie Wilkes. The good news is that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news is that she has long been Paul's Number One Fan. And when she finds out what Paul has done to Misery, she doesn't like it. She doesn't like it at all . . .

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 ..

Horror fiction. FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift: the power of pyrokinesis.

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.

A collection of horror stories, including the tale of "Gramma", who only wanted to hug little George - even after she was dead. Among the other stories is one about a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite and the tale of an innocent-looking toy with sinister powers.

Members of the Chowder Society told each other ghost stories that didn't always stop when the teller finished speaking. A series of obscene outrages, grows into a horrifying spiral of senseless atrocities, then the town of Milburn is pitted against a force of terror and chaos.

In a terrifying trip across America, young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can 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 a mythic landscape.

The king is dead, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. But while the land of Delain mourns, the magician Flagg, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the king's oldest son, Peter is imprisoned at the top of a high tower, the Needle, for his father's murder, while his younger brother Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his own innocence, and the truth of the evil that is Flagg. And only Peter can save Delain from the horror Flagg has in store. He has a plan, but it is dangerous and desperate and if he fails there will be no second chance. And all the while, Flagg's words echo in his mind: "I'll carry your head on my saddle-horn for a thousand years. Here I come, Peter! Coming for your head!" (back cover)

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the rest of his class hostage. Over the course of one long, tense and unbearable hot afternoon, Charlie Decker explains what led him to this drastic sequence of events, while at the same time deconstructing the personalities of his classmates, forcing each one to justify his or her existence.

A revenge and murder story with supernatural overtones, concerning a group of men who served with the military in Vietnam. It has as its background various places in South East Asia. Peter Straub is the author of "Ghost Story" and he wrote "Talisman" with Stephen King.

The Fear - mysterious, unstoppable, this deadly plague is slowly wiping out humanity. And only one world seems to offer hope of sanctuary - Ree'hdworld, home of the only other intelligent beings in the universe. But Ree'hdworld is not as safe as it seems. For something has been happening to the natives - both the friendly Ree'hd and their more primitive kinsmen, the Rundii. And only three people stand any chance of discovering and surviving the danger that the humans of Ree'hdworld will soon face: Kristina, an Earthwoman who is slowly "going Ree'hd"; Maguire, a blind man who should have died centuries ago and who, living, has seen all the secrets of the universe; and Zeitman, a brilliant scientist who holds the key to salvation on Ree'hdworld in his mind - if only he can discover it in time...

Everything was familiar but everything had changed. The people, his old friend Bobbi, even her decrepit, ageing beagle. Coming back to the little community had been like walking into a nightmare. It all looked the same, the house, the furniture, Bobbi herself, the woods out at the back. But it was in the woods that she 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 the terrible, terrifying transformation of a quiet, unremarkable place into something utterly alien and hideous. A place of unrest and insane powers.

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf’s fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker’s Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker's Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated...

Koning Roland is vermoord en zijn eerste zoon en erfgenaam, Peter, wordt beschuldigd van deze gruwelijke misdaad. Maar Peter is erin geluisd, aan de kant gezet door de boosaardige tovenaar Flagg zodat zijn jongere broer Thomas zijn plek kan innemen. Opgesloten in de koninklijke gevangenis bereidt Peter nu een gedurfd ontsnappingsplan voor, vastbesloten te vechten voor zijn troon. Maar het zal waarschijnlijk nog jaren duren voordat hij kan ontsnappen, en het ook echt kan opnemen tegen Flag...