GoodReads Rating: 4.1/5
Stephen King returns to the
characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The
Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan
Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special
12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot
travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of
polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and
spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal,
living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when
they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one
horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to
shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally,
he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him,
and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides
the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he
becomes “Doctor Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular
gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons
and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an
epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill
the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy
anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.18/5
Jack Torrance’s new job at the
Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the
off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of
time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing.
But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever
more remote…and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange
and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a
uniquely gifted five-year-old.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.99/5
Twenty years ago, a boy named
Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to
save his mother and her Territories “twinner” from a premature and
agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world.
Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the
nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his
adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police
force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those
memories.
When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are
reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life
madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed “The Fisherman” and
Jack’s buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his
inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed
individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in
this quiet town? What causes Jack’s inexplicable waking dreams, if that
is what they are, of robins’ eggs and red feathers? It’s almost as if
someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes
increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories
and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to
enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there
to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.
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Part of Talisman Series – #1
GoodReads Rating: 4.13/5
On a brisk autumn day, a
twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a
silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The
past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is
dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is
about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across
America–and into another realm.
One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is
an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack
Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother’s life, must search for
a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of
incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is
essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . .
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GoodReads Rating: 3.69/5
Inspired
by Richard Matheson’s classic “Duel,” “Throttle,” by Joe Hill and
Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker
against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in the simmering Nevada desert.
Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in
the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what
you’re up against,
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GoodReads Rating: 3.82/5
In the Tall Grass
begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road
after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass.
Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and
they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate.
What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale,
as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver.
In the Tall Grass was originally published in two parts in the June/July and August 2012 issues of Esquire magazine. This is their second collaboration since the novella Throttle, published in 2009.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.6/5
The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful,
about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the
ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be
published on August 21, 2012.
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with
nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball.
It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up.
Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face
of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame,
shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from
Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until
one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….
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GoodReads Rating: 3.63/5
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a
highway in Maine. It’s a place where high school kids drink and get into
the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the
place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposed to
be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play
“paratroopers over the side.” Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass
he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the
boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.
Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because
there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into
the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says “closed, no
services.” The driver’s door opens but nobody gets out.
Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a
conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase
and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls “the
ultimate insurance manual,” but it isn’t going to save Doug when he
decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down
wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices
that the wagon has no plates.
Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots
the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton’s
cracked cell phone near the wagon door — and gets too close herself. By
the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a
dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids — Rachel and Blake Lussier
— and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe
count the wagon…
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GoodReads Rating: 3.65/5
Reeling
from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley
Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s parting shot: “Why can’t you
just read off the computer like everyone else?” He buys an e-book reader
out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities
he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his
wildest dreams…and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most
terrible nightmares.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.42/5
Even
the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William
“Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game
has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first–and
only–player to have his existence completely removed from the record
books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game’s
history.
Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely
played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a
secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in
sports today. His secret was much, much worse… and only Stephen King,
the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the
world, once and for all.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.62/5
The
author whose boundless imagination & storytelling powers have
redefined the horror genre, from 1974’s Carrie to his newest epic,
reflects on the very nature of terror–what scares us & why–in films
(both cheesy & choice), tv & radio, &, of course, the horror
novel, past & present. Informal, engaging, tremendous fun &
tremendously informative, Danse Macabre is an essential tour with the
master of horror as your guide; much like his spellbinding works of
fiction, you won’t be able to put it down.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.04/5
A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King.
1922
The story opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of
his wife, Arlette, following their move to Hemingford, Nebraska onto
land willed to Arlette by her father.
Big Driver
Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for
years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a
last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a
shortcut home with dire consequences.
Fair Extension
Harry Streeter, who is suffering from cancer, decides to make a deal with the devil but, as always, there is a price to pay.
A Good Marriage
Darcy Anderson learns more about her husband of more than twenty years
than she would have liked to know when she literally stumbles upon a box
under a worktable in their garage.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.86/5
Internationally bestselling author Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories.
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 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.
The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker,
Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.81/5
Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.
In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.
In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.
And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.94/5
The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade.
"Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for the first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In "Lunch at the Gotham Café," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. "1408," the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. And in "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French," terror is déjà vu at 16,000 feet.
Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.94/5
In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine. A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.91/5
Four past Midnight is a collection of novellas by Stephen King. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. In the introduction, King says that, while a collection of four novellas like Different Seasons, this book is more strictly horror with elements of the supernatural.
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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: 3.68/5
A signed numbered limited edition. Contents: "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe", "L. T.'s Theory of Pets", "Luckey Quarter", "Autopsy Room Four", "Blind Willie", and "The Man in the Black Suit".
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GoodReads Rating: 4.34/5
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.
"The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is," hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.
This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in "The Breathing Method."
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