Stephen King

Eine Kleinstadt gerät außer Kontrolle - Vierter Roman des "Castle-Rock"-Zyklus - Verfilmt mit Max von Sydow und Ed Harris

Dritter Roman des Castle-Rock"-Zyklus Seit Jahren hat Thad Beaumont unter dem Pseudonym George Stark erfolgreich blutrünstige Thriller veröffentlicht. Als das Pseudonym aufgedeckt wird, beschließt er, sein Alter Ego ?umzubringen?. Kurz darauf kommt es zu einer Mordserie in der Kleinstadt, unter den Opfern sind jene, die sich an dem symbolischen Begräbnis beteiligt haben. Ist George Stark wieder zum Leben erwacht? Verfilmt von Regisseur George A. Romero. "Stephen King ist unschlagbar." Daily Mirror"

Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this vintage collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes--King himself plus an all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places. An infamous house in Castle Rock takes on a life of its own in It Grows on You. In The Fifth Quarter, a crook seeks to avenge his friend's death and to piece together a map to stolen treasure that his buddy died trying to claim. A nightly free rock-androll concert carries a hidden price in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. And a tabloid reporter's pursuit of a brutal killer could turn deadly in in The Night Flier. Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Grace Slick and Frank Muller lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic stories that no Stephen King fan should be without.

Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this vintage collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. One man's pursuit of world peace turns deadly in The End of the Whole Mess. Stephen King puts his spin on the familiar duo of Holmes and Watson in The Doctor's Case. In The Moving Finger, menace arrives poking out of the drain of a bathroom sink. And a young, pregnant widow takes on a zombie attack in Home Delivery. An all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places. Matthew Broderick, Tim Curry, Eve Beglarian and Stephen King lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic stories that no Stephen King fan should be without.

Subtle, haunting, terrifying--this astonishing collection of short stories from #1 bestselling author Stephen King includes the short story "N." Stephen King--who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies--delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable--and resourceful--as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. Just After Sunset--call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, 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 Stephen King.

Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall sucht Edgar Freemantle auf einer einsamen Insel Trost in der Malerei. Die Insel aber übt eine dämonische Macht aus, und bald schon entwickeln Edgars Bilder ein tödliches Eigenleben ... Mit Wahn" hat Stephen King ein Meisterwerk des Unheimlichen geschaffen, einen Roman über die Beharrlichkeit der Liebe und die Gefahren enthemmter Kreativität. "Auf der Höhe seines Könnens." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Wer Horror pur liebt, wird von Stephen King wieder einmal bestens bedient." Bücher "Das Beste, was er seit Jahren geschrieben hat." Vanity Fair"

Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zurückgezogen. Gerald möchte dem eintönigen Eheleben etwas Schwung verleihen und fesselt seine Frau ans Bett. Jessie hält gar nichts von den neuen Sexspielchen ihres Mannes und versetzt ihm einen Tritt - mit für ihn tödlichen Folgen. Mit Handschellen ans Bett gefesselt, beginnt für Jessie ein quälender Albtraum: Nachts bekommt sie unheimlichen Besuch ... Psychologischer Horror vom Feinsten." The New York Times"

Eine wunderbare Hommage an das Goldene Zeitalter des Kriminalromans. The Guardian Auf einer Insel vor der Küste des US-Bundesstaates Maine wird eine männliche Leiche gefunden, die nicht identifiziert werden kann. Ein paar hartnäckige Lokaljournalisten recherchieren den Fall, aber je mehr Spuren sie verfolgen, desto geheimnisvoller wird das Ganze. Handelt es sich um ein schier unmögliches Verbrechen? Oder sogar um etwas noch Befremdlicheres ...?

Ein großer Coup soll den geistig zurückgebliebenen Blaze aller Sorgen entledigen. Er entführt das Baby einer reichen Familie. Was wird er dem Kleinen antun? Während alle Welt ihn jagt, um den Horror zu beenden, geht in Blaze eine Verwandlung vor. Das Lösegeld interessiert ihn längst nicht mehr?...

Amerika i en mörk, alternativ framtid. Varje år ansöker ett stort antal pojkar, varav hundra antas, till Maratonmarschen. Ray Garraty, 17 år, har lyckats bli antagen. Hans mamma är skräckslagen, för hon vet villkoren - och oddsen. Väl på startplatsen är det för sent att dra sig ur. Här möter Majoren dem. Majoren i de mörka glasögonen som ingen säger emot. Det är han som står bakom denna exempellösa framgång, detta spel med 99 förlorare och en vinnare. "Sedan sa han (McVries), mycket tyst: 'Tror du att du kommer att vinna Garraty?' Garraty begrundade detta en lång, lång stund. 'Nej', sa han till slut. 'Nej, jag - nej.' Det nakna medgivandet skrämde honom. Han tänkte återigen på hur det skulle vara att få sitt, få sin kula, på den sista evighetslånga halvsekunden av total visshet när han såg karbinernas bottenlösa mynningshål riktas mot sig. Benen förlamade. Skräckens klor som grävde i magen på en. Muskler, könsorgan, hjärna som skuggade för utplåningen som bara var ett hjärtslag borta. Han svalde torrt. 'Hur är det med dig?''Jag skulle inte tro det', sa McVries. 'Jag slutade tro att jag hade någon reell chans vid niotiden i kväll. Du förstår, jag ..'Han klarade strupen. 'Det känns tungt att säga det, men - jag gick in i det här med öppna ögon, du vet.' Han gjorde en gest mot de andra pojkarna omkring honom. 'Många av de här killarna har inte gjort det, vet du. Jag visste oddsen. Men jag tänkte inte på det hela som något som handlade om människor. Och jag tror aldrig att jag innerst inne fattade vad det verkligen handlar om. Jag tror att jag hade någon föreställning om att när den första killen inte klarade det längre så skulle man rikta gevären mot honom och krama av avtryckaren och så skulle det komma ut små papperslappar där det stod PANG - och Majoren skulle säga april, april och så skulle vi alla gå hem igen." Maratonmarschen följs i detalj av TV-kameror och upphetsade folkmassor längst vägen. Vinsten är ofattbar - vad vinnaren själv önskar under resten av livet. Men priset är högt, de som inte längre orkar eller går för långsamt skjuts. Pojkarna som deltar är alla övertygade om att de ska segra. Men från de första lätta snabba stegen passerar de olika stadier av krämpor; skavsår, kramp, feber och olika stadier av tvivel. Tvivel på att de ska kunna vinna, på meningen med denna kamp på liv och död. Allianser och vänskapsband knyts - och bryts när en gevärssalva snabbt och skoningslöst fäller den som sackat efter en gång för mycket. Maratonmarschen är skriven redan 1979 av Stephen King. Boken är en av hans första och gavs ut under pseudonymen Richard Bachman.

Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. Just After Sunset -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, 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 Stephen King.

Duma Key is a powerful suspense novel from No. 1 bestseller Stephen King, now with a new cover. When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key, off Florida's coast, to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long hands into the present.

'THE GREEN MILE has everybody talking ... as haunting and touching as it is just plain haunted' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYThe No.1 bestseller and also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks.

Contemporary / British English Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be.

Das Böse kommt nachts. -Das Herz stirbt zuletzt. Liseys berühmter Mann ist tot - und sein Nachlass weckt albtraumhafte Erinnerungen und Ahnungen in ihr, die bald grausame Gewissheit werden?... In Stephen Kings vielleicht dichtestem und persönlichstem Roman geht es um die Geheimsprache der Liebe und die Allgegenwart des Wahnsinns. Lisey ist seit zwei Jahren Witwe. Bereits lange vor seinem Tod hat ihr Mann Scott Landon - ein hochangesehener Romanautor - für sie eine Spur mit Hinweisen ausgelegt, die sie nun immer tiefer in seine von Dämonen bevölkerte Vergangenheit führt. Stück für Stück werden sorgsam verdrängte Erinnerungen in ihr wach: an eine andere Welt, die sie einst mit Scott besucht hat, tagsüber ein märchenhaftes Paradies, während nachts überall das Böse lauert. Ob Scott dort auf sie wartet, damit sie ihn ins Leben zurückholt? Plötzlich tritt ein Verrückter auf den Plan, der sich Zack McCool nennt und es auf Scotts schriftstellerischen Nachlass abgesehen hat. Und um seine Forderungen zu bekräftigen, verletzt er Lisey auf bestialische Weise?... "Ein großer Wurf!" Spiegel "Mit 'Love' hat Stephen King seinen seit langem besten Roman geschrieben." Süddeutsche Zeitung "'Love' ist auf jeden Fall ein Lese-Erlebnis." Stern

The iconic bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman - now with a stunning new cover look. He's got a plan. But he hasn't got a clue. Clayton Blaisdell's capers are strictly small-time until he meets George Rackley. With Blaze's brawn and George's brains, they pull off a hundred successful cons. Then George plans the one big score every small timer dreams of: kidnapping the infant heir to a family fortune. The trouble is that by the time the deal goes down, the brains of the operation has died. Or has he? Now Blaze is running into the white hell of the Maine woods with a baby as hostage. The crime of the century just turned into a race against time . . .

Stephen King's fan-favourite thriller. Also available in audio for the first time, read by Academy Award nominee James Franco. The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo. When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancée has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men's souls. He's had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man . . .

Wake up the new reader and shake up the existing reader - between Spring 2021 and Autumn 2024 Hodder is reissuing groups of Stephen King's books in a wonderful new livery. CUJO is a CHILLING CLASSIC which sees a mother and son trapped in a car by a rabid dog.

With a stunning new cover look, King's classic thriller about a young girl with a terrifying gift. You're a firestarter honey . . . just one big zippo lighter. A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift. A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy . . . Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising . . . and menacing.