GoodReads Rating: 3.91/5
Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount...All other considerations are 2ndary--theme, mood, even characterization & language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness & optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters & language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem & one nonfiction piece about kids & baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger & a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler & Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar & the Diamond."--Fiona Webster
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GoodReads Rating: 3.29/5
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away...but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke... Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten...and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.90/5
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.65/5
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a celebrated, award-winning, novelist. And a complex man. Lisey knew there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. Boo'ya Moon is what Scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to write and live. Now, it's Lisey's turn to face her husband's demons. And what begins as a widow's effort to sort through her husband's effects, becomes a perilous journey into the heart of darkness
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GoodReads Rating: 3.43/5
At first glance, Stephen King's latest bears a familial resemblance to Christine , his 1983 saga of a haunted, homicidal Plymouth Fury. But From a Buick 8 is a marked departure from this earlier tale of adolescent angst and teenage tribal rituals. It is the work of an older, more reflective writer, one who knows that the most pressing questions often have no answers.
The story begins in western Pennsylvania in 1979, when a mysterious figure parks a vintage Buick Roadmaster at a local gas station, then disappears forever. The police discover that the Buick isn't a car at all but rather a Buick-shaped enigma: self-healing; impregnable to dents, dirt, and scratches; composed of unidentifiable materials; and containing a completely nonfunctional engine. Confronted with a mystery of unprecedented proportions, the troopers of Barracks D claim the Buick for themselves and spend 20 years attempting to understand its nature, purpose, and provenance.
Over the years, the Buick is the site of a number of inexplicable occurrences, from occasional blinding "lightquakes" to more sinister happenings that suggest this alien object is a doorway to another dimension. King recounts the most dramatic of these with an intensity and attention to detail that evoke a primordial sense of terror, awe, and revulsion. Through it all, and despite the obsessive fascination of those around it, the Buick remains an impregnable mystery. And that, of course, is very much the point. The world, King tells us, rarely stops to explain itself. From a Buick 8 is one of King's best, mostly tightly focused novels since The Green Mile . With great narrative economy, it encompasses 25 years in the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters, and its unmistakable, deeply familiar voice is as haunting and engaging as ever. On the evidence at hand, it's clear that King continues to command the hypnotic power that has made him one of the dominant figures in modern popular culture. Bill Sheehan
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GoodReads Rating: 4.42/5
Set in the 1930's at Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is a riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact.
Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he's never encountered one like Coffey - a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey's gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs - and ours.
Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, The Green Mile is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made The Green Mile into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list - and stayed there for months.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.8/5
Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier, until he’s barely sleeping at all. During his late night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people’s heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep.
There’s a definite mean streak running through this small New England city; underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work. The dying has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. Now Ralph is part of it…and lack of sleep is the least of his worries.
Returning to the same Maine town where It took place, a town that has haunted Stephen King for decades, Insomnia blends King’s trademark bone-chilling realism with supernatural terror to create yet another masterpiece of suspense.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.8/5
There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada.
It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die.
Let the battle against evil begin.
Welcome to ... Desperation
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GoodReads Rating: 4.15/5
Stephen King returns to the
rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower
fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy,
the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the
River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the
howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but
two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.
In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following
his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate
evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the
population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the
brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s
most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy
and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from
the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at
bedtime. “A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill.
“Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.” And
indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a
timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.
King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the
1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three
novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is
sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also
stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey
to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s
storytelling magic.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.27/5
This volume sees
gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and
aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the Dark Tower. A journey
which means he must leave his faithful friends as he closes on the
tower. His steps are followed only by Mordred, half-human,
half-terrifying creature.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.98/5
The next-to-last novel in Stephen King’s seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah
is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding
mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled
suspense.
To give birth to her “chap,” demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of
Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New
York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah…and
terrifying to the “daughter of none,” who shares her body and mind.
Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on
securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the
Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining
katet climbs to the Doorway Cave…and discovers that magic has its own
mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to
find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope with each other and
with an alien environment “go todash” to Castle Discordia on the border
of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her
purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of
them have carried to term.
Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer
of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn’t. For one thing, it is
real, and the bullets are flying.
These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and
conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining
establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer’s journal,
will leave readers gasping for the saga’s final volume (which, Dear
Reader, follows soon, say thank ya).
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GoodReads Rating: 4.18/5
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet
are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest
for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn
Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the
hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction
that is stealing the town’s soul. The wolves of Thunderclap and their
unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but
these are odds the gunslingers are used to. Their guns, however, will
not be enough….
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning
visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series is
unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the fifth installment.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.25/5
The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.
In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” (Publishers Weekly)
as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the
Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate
version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus.
While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland
recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he
fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates
Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier
who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s
Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.
Filled with “blazing action” (Booklist), the fourth installment in the Dark Tower Series “whets the appetite for more” (Bangor Daily News). Wizard and Glass is a thrilling read from “the reigning King of American popular literature” (Los Angeles Daily News).
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GoodReads Rating: 4.24/5
Roland, The Last Gunslinger,
moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares—as he
crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image
of our own. With him are those he has drawn to this world: street-smart
Eddie Dean and courageous wheelchair-bound Susannah.
Ahead of him are mind-rending revelations about who and what is
driving him. Against him is arrayed a swelling legion of foes—both more
and less than human….
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GoodReads Rating: 4.23/5
The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.
“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun.
Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the
second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters
three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea.
Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he
joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful,
brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower.
“This quest is one of King’s best…it communicates on a genuine, human level…but is rich in symbolism and allegory” (Columbus Sunday Dispatch). It is a science fiction odyssey that is unlike any tale that Stephen King has ever written.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.98/5
#1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger
introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations,
Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner
on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world,
which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in
Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship
with the boy from New York named Jake.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.23/5
“The
Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed.” This
is our introduction to Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, published
by Donald M. Grant in THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER in 1982. Twenty
years later Stephen King revised and expanded this volume. In his own
words: “What I did want to do was to give newcomers to the tale of the
Tower (and old readers who want to refresh their memories) a clearer
start and a slightly easier entry into Roland’s world. I also wanted
them to have a volume that more effectively foreshadowed coming events.
This volume contains that expanded version as well as the novella THE
LITTLE SISTERS OF ELURIA which chronicles an earlier adventure of
Roland’s as he persued the Man in Black.
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The Dark Tower is a series of eight books written by
American author Stephen King that incorporates themes from multiple
genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western. It
describes a “gunslinger” and his quest toward a tower, the nature of
which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the
Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King’s multiverse and in doing so,
links together many of his other novels. King has described the series
as his magnum opus. In addition to the eight novels of the series
proper that comprise 4,250 pages, many of King’s other books relate to
the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as
the series progresses.
Part of The Daevabad Trilogy Series – #1
GoodReads Rating: 4.27/5
Nahri
has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets
of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she
knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm
readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned
skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious
djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to
accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood
stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot,
windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the
mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises,
and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies
Daevabad, the legendary city of brass?a city to which Nahri is
irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments,
behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are
simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that
true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the
dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can
have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for .
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Part of The Shaw Confessions Series – #10
GoodReads Rating: 3.81/5
In
the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New
York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare
and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever
after.
Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string.
They’re wrong.
Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future.
He shouldn’t.
And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart.
They’re right.
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