Stephen King

Kauhutrilogia yksissä kansissa! Gwendy on viihdyttävä kauhutrilogia Gwendy Petersonista, jonka haltuun on uskottu lipas suoraan helvetistä. Gwendy-kirjat ilmestyvät erillisinä e- ja äänikirjoina, mutta tässä yhteisniteessä saat kaikki kerralla! Gwendyn lippaassa 12-vuotias Gwendy saa huostaansa lippaan, jonka kannessa on kahdeksan eriväristä nappia. Seitsemän painamisella on karmeat seuraukset. Kahdeksas, punainen nappi täyttää toiveen. Mutta minkälaisen? Gwendyn lumotussa sulassa tavataan 37-vuotias Gwendy, menestyskirjailija, joka luuli jo päässeensä eroon kirotusta lippaasta. Gwendyn viimeisessä tehtävässä senaattori Gwendy Petersonin on keksittävä, kuinka estää lipasta tuhoamasta koko maailma. Stephen King palaa vielä kerran mystiseen Castle Rockin pikkukaupunkiin yhdessä hyvän ystävänsä, palkitun kauhukirjailija Richard Chizmarin kanssa. Yhteisvoimin kirjoitettu Gwendy-trilogia on suoranainen aarrearkku King-faneille, se suorastaan pursuu viittauksia kauhun kuninkaan aikaisempaan tuotantoon.

From legendary storyteller Stephen King, comes this No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, now with a stunning new cover look for Summer 2024. WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF HAPPILY EVER AFTERCharlie 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. 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.

Sjuttonårige Charlie Reade kommer till undsättning när hans granne, den buttre och hemlighetsfulle mr Bowditch, fallit och skadat sig illa. De blir vänner, men Charlie måste lova att hålla sig borta från det mystiska skjulet i trädgården. Vad är det som väntar på andra sidan skjulets tillbommade dörrar? Med hunden Radar vid sin sida ger sig Charlie ut på ett lika hisnande som skrämmande äventyr.

Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. 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. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

Da forfatteren Ben Mears vender tilbake til småbyen Jerusalem’s Lot, er det med et håp om at han ved å sette seg inn i historien til Marsten House, et gammelt herskapshus som i alle år har vært gjenstand for rykter og spekulasjoner, vil bli kvitt indre demoner og få inspirasjon til sin nye bok. Men da to unge gutter begir seg ut i skogen og bare den ene kommer tilbake i live, begynner det å gå opp for ham at noe svært skremmende er på ferde. Hjembyen hans er beleiret av mørke krefter som overgår hans villeste fantasier, og han er den eneste – sammen med en gruppe sammensvorne – som kan holde de ondskapen i sjakk i denne lille byen i New England. Stephen King om hva som inspirerte ham til å skrive bokenEt av fagene jeg underviste i på high school, var fantasy og science fiction, og en av bøkene på pensum var Dracula. Jeg var overrasket over hvor godt den hadde holdt seg, og både jeg og elevene likte den. En kveld jeg satt og spiste middag, kom jeg til å tenke på hva som kunne ha skjedd dersom Dracula kom tilbake i det 20. århundre, og til USA. «Han ville sannsynligvis ha blitt påkjørt og drept av en gul drosje på Park Avenue,» sa kona mi. Det satte en stopper for diskusjonen, men i dagene som fulgte, fortsatte jeg tankerekken. Sannsynligvis hadde kona mi rett – hvis den legendariske greven hadde kommet til New York, vel å merke. Men hva om han hadde dukket opp i en søvnig liten landsby? Jeg bestemte meg for at jeg hadde lyst til å finne ut av dette, derfor skrev jeg Salem’s Lot. Den fikk opprinnelig tittelen Second Coming.«USAs største nålevende romanforfatter.» Lee Child«En av våre dagers største historiefortellere.» GuardianOm Salem’s Lot«Stephen King har bygd en litterær sjanger på å sette vanlige folk inn i de mest skremmende situasjoner … Han er forfatteren som kan gjøre det usannsynlige så skremmende at man får lyst til å sjekke at ytterdøren er ordentlig låst.» Boston Globe«Uovertruffen fantasi.» Observer«Den mest vidunderlig grusomme mannen på jorden.» USA Today«King er den mannen som vet mer om alt det skumle som foregår på isolerte, avsidesliggende steder enn noen andre siden Edgar Allan Poe.» Entertainment Weekly

The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse. The delivery method is a cell phone--everyone's cell phone. Now Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a relentless human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve. There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points the way home to his family in Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north, they begin to see the crude signs confirming their direction. A promise of a safe haven, perhaps, or quite possibly the deadliest trap of all...

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster. With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? Gwendy's Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.

The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear... ’I’m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. I’d like you to come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you, if she’s available...’ Retired Detective Bill Hodges now runs a two-person firm called Finders Keepers with his partner Holly Gibney. They met in the wake of the ’Mercedes Massacre’ when a queue of people was run down by the diabolical killer Brady Hartsfield. Brady is now confined to Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, in an unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: the evidence suggests that Brady is somehow awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. The clock is ticking in unexpected ways ...

Holly av Stephen King följer den briljanta privatdetektiven Holly Gibney när hon utreder ett skrämmande fall av försvunna personer. I en liten stad döljer ett till synes perfekt par mörka hemligheter, som sätter Hollys beslutsamhet och mod på prov. En gripande berättelse full av spänning och styrka!