Stephen King

Master storyteller Stephen King's classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached. After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle's right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Key--a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast--Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place. And as he heals, he paints--feverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. For Edgar's creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of Elizabeth's past...and their power cannot be controlled...

Includes the story "Premium Harmony"--set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one. For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this collection, he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. As Entertainment Weekly said about this collection: "Bazaar of Bad Dreams is bursting with classic King terror, but what we love most are the thoughtful introductions he gives to each tale that explain what was going on in his life as he wrote it." There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. In "Afterlife," a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Others address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers--the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in "Obits;" the old judge in "The Dune" who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, people who then died in freak accidents. In "Morality," King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil's pact they can win. "I made these stories especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth." Stories include: -Mile 81 -Premium Harmony -Batman and Robin Have an Altercation -The Dune -Bad Little Kid -A Death -The Bone Church -Morality -Afterlife -Ur -Herman Wouk Is Still Alive -Under the Weather -Blockade Billy -Mister Yummy -Tommy -The Little Green God of Agony -Cookie Jar -That Bus Is Another World -Obits -Drunken Fireworks -Summer Thunder

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire--but not without exacting a terrible price in return. The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things...interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart's desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities...in exchange for a little money and--at the specific request of Leland Gaunt--a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer beware...

The mesmerizing #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Stephen King and the basis for the popular CBS TV series On a beautiful fall day, the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one can fathom what this impenetrable barrier is, where it came from, and when--or if--it will go away. As the days go by and the grim reality of the situation dawns, each of Chester's Mill's residents reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty. Survival now depends on Dale "Barbie" Barbara, an ex-army drifter trapped with everyone else who must now lead an intrepid few to uncover the sinister forces intent on holding the town hostage--and to somehow escape it before there's no one left alive...

The #1 New York Times bestseller, Cujo "hits the jugular" (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, Maine. Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (THE MAN, THE WOMAN, and THE BOY) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes his mind even as his once affable thoughts turn uncontrollably and inexorably to hatred and murder. Cujo is about to become the center of a horrifying vortex that will inescapably draw in everyone around him--a relentless reign of terror, fury, and madness from which no one in Castle Rock will truly be safe...

Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem... "I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them." For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He's taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There's something very wrong here in Desperation...and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian's victims, young David Carver, seems to know--and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth--that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are of equal and opposite intensity...

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Amerikan parhaana palkittu dekkarisarja huipentuu Jo lähes kuuden vuoden ajan Mersumies alias Brady Hartsfield on maannut aivovammaosaston huoneessa 217. Joukkomurhan tehneellä miehellä näyttää olevan vintti pysyvästi pimeänä. Samaan aikaan Mersumiehen sinnikkäin vastustaja, monessa liemessä keitetty etsivä Bill Hodges ja hänen yhtiökumppaninsa Holly Gibney äkkäävät omituiselta rikospaikalta Z-kirjaimen ja pienen pelikonsolin. Erikoisen kuvion toistuessa Hodgesin on myönnettävä, että todellisuus on sittenkin tarua ihmeellisempi. Mersumies on palannut. Ja hän on voimakkaampi kuin koskaan. Menestystrilogian aiemmat osat ovat Mersumies ja Etsivä löytää. "Ilmiömäisen hyvä." USA TODAY "Bill Hodgesin ja Hollyn tinkimättömän todellinen etsiväntyö saa koko tarinan hehkumaan. Seuraisin heitä minne vain." THE GUARDIAN "Viimeinen vartio on paitsi tavattoman vetävä trilleri myös melankolinen elegia." THE WASHINGTON POST

Thirteen "dazzling" (Associated Press) and "wonderfully wicked" (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. These are just some of the tales to be found in the #1 bestselling collection Just After Sunset. Call it dusk or call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for master storyteller Stephen King. Stories include: -Willa -The Gingerbread Girl -Harvey's Dream -Rest Stop -Stationary Bike -The Things They Left Behind -Graduation Afternoon -N. -The Cat from Hell -The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates -Mute -Ayana -A Very Tight Place

From master storyteller Stephen King comes his classic #1 New York Times bestseller about four friends who encounter evil in the Maine woods. Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious local bullies. It was something that fundamentally changed them, in ways they could never begin to understand. These lifelong friends--now with separate lives and separate problems--make it a point to reunite every year for a hunting trip deep in the snowy Maine woods. This time, though, chaos erupts when a stranger suddenly stumbles into their camp, freezing, deliriously mumbling about lights in the sky. And all too quickly, the four companions are plunged into a horrifying struggle for survival with an otherworldly threat and the forces that oppose it...where their only chance of survival is locked into their shared past--and the extraordinary element that bonds them all...

"It is just not possible to stop turning the pages" (The Washington Post) of this bestselling classic tale--an epic fantasy as only #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King could envision it. Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons... ​Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written--a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets...

Nevernyj povorot na doroge privodit supruzheskuju paru v gorodok pod nazvaniem Rok-n-rollnye Nebesa - i vnezapno poezdka oborachivaetsja suschim adom... Byvshij zakljuchennyj po kusochkam sobiraet kartu mestonakhozhdenija zarytogo klada - no za sokrovischa emu pridetsja zaplatit slishkom vysokuju tsenu... Pisatel menjaetsja mestami so svoim personazhem - i okazyvaetsja zatochen v proshlom... Stiven King vozmet vas v puteshestvie v svoj mir, mir, gde nochnye koshmary stanovjatsja realnostju i tak legko utratit spokojnyj son...

Mnogo let nazad Endi Makgi i ego buduschaja zhena prinjali uchastie v sekretnom eksperimente tainstvennoj Kontory. Pozzhe u nikh rodilas doch. Malenkaja devochka po imeni Charli, obladajuschaja osobym darom. I teper Kontora khochet zapoluchit ee, chtoby ispolzovat v sobstvennykh tseljakh. I Endi vynuzhden bezhat - bezhat, chtoby spasti edinstvennuju doch... Tak nachinaetsja "Vosplamenjajuschaja" - odin iz luchshikh romanov Stivena Kinga, polozhennyj v osnovu kultovogo filma s Drju Berrimor i Devidom Kitom v glavnykh roljakh.

... Chto-to strannoe proiskhodit v tikhom provintsialnom gorodke Khejven, gde zhivet Roberta Anderson. U kazhdogo zhitelja otkryvajutsja porazitelnye sverkhestestvennye sposobnosti, a sam gorodok prevraschaetsja v smertelnuju lovushku dlja chuzhakov. Neuzheli prichina vsego etogo - v tainstvennom metallicheskom obekte, pogrebennom v zemle tysjacheletija nazad i sluchajno najdennom Robertoj? Neuzheli ona i drugie obitateli Khejvena zakljuchili sdelku s besposchadnoj i zhestokoj siloj? Ili Zlo iz dalekikh mirov samo nashlo ikh - i teper medlenno, no verno zavladevaet ikh dushami i telami?..

Smert vtorgaetsja v povsednevnuju zhizn, prinimaja raznye oblichja. Smert - eto prekrasnaja devushka-brodjazhka i nevinnaja detskaja igrushka, smert - eto prestarelaja babushka i okutyvajuschij gorod seryj tuman. Smert neset s soboj bluzhdajuschaja pulja i mirnoe ozero, kuda otpravljajutsja otdokhnut junye parochki. Smert - eto otchajanie togo, kto medlenno podykhaet ot goloda na neobitaemom ostrove, i togo, kto postepenno nachinaet videt krugi Ada za kazhdodnevnoj realnostju. . . "Komanda skeletov" - potrjasajuschie rasskazy ot mastera zhanra!

Izvestnyj pisatel Ted Bomont vypustil neskolko knig pod psevdonimom Dzhordzh Stark. A zatem - "pokhoronil" svoj psevdonim: na mestnom kladbische dazhe pojavilas mogila Starka. No sluchilos tak, chto Stark voskres, i zhizn Teda Bomonta prevratilas v neskonchaemyj koshmar...

Vosem ubitykh i pjatnadtsat ranenykh na schetu bessledno ischeznuvshego ubijtsy, protaranivshego na "mersedese" ni v chem ne povinnykh ljudej... Stiven King napisal triller, kotoryj zastavit vas v uzhase ogljadyvatsja na kazhdyj proezzhajuschij mimo "mersedes" i sovershenno po-drugomu smotret na ljudej, s kotorymi vy stalkivaetes kazhdyj den. Kto znaet, kakie zhutkie tajny skryvajutsja za sosednej dverju i kto khochet svesti schety imenno s vami?..

Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. "Under any name King mesmerizes the reader" (Chicago Sun-Times). It's all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city's Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart's existence--whether it's about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life. But as a result, something's been happening inside Bart's head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn't prepared for--a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person from turning to violent means. As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart's neighborhood, he's not about to give everything up without a fight. As a matter of fact, he's ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him...