Richard BachmanSeries
This series delves into the dark corners of the human psyche, exploring desperation, obsession, and the limits of endurance. The narratives often feature relentless scenarios where characters face brutal challenges and moral quandaries. Readers can expect intense and unsettling storytelling that questions the very nature of survival. The collection examines themes of alienation and the struggle against oppressive systems.
Recommended Reading Order
- 1
- 2
Roadwork
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
When a highway project leaves him unemployed and threatens to destroy his home, one man takes on the forces of progress as he embarks on a vengeful showdown of epic proportions. Reissue.
- 3
The Running Man
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Every night the whole nation watched the ultimate live game show on TV, as the contestants tried to beat annihilation at the hands of the hunters in order to win the billion dollar jackpot. And now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.
- 4
Thinner
- 318 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Billy Halleck's nightmare begins after he sideswipes an old Gypsy woman as she is crossing the street: he loses ninety-three pounds within six weeks.
- 5
The Regulators
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Wentworth, Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with frisbees flying, law mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill. Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening...
- 6
Blaze
- 321 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers are strictly small-time until his mentor introduces him to the one big score that every small-timer dreams of: kidnap. But now the brains of the operation has died - or has he? - and Blaze is alone with a baby as hostage. The Crime of the Century just turned into a race against time in the white hell of the Maine woods.
