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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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 . . .
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 . . .
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.
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.
