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Stephen King and Peter Straub Black House (Unabridged)
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother - and her Territories "twinner"...
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Stephen King Blood and Smoke (Unabridged)
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Stephen King Carrie (Unabridged)
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Stephen King Everything's Eventual: 5 Dark Tales (Unabridged Selections)
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Stephen King Graveyard Shift and Other Stories From Night Shift (Unabridged)
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Stephen King Gray Matter and Other Stories From Night Shift (Unabridged)
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Stephen King The Lawnmower Man and Other Stories From Night Shift (Unabridged)
Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where...
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Stephen King The Shining (Unabridged)
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Stephen King and Peter Straub The Talisman (Unabridged)
On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park...
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Stephen King Double Pack (Boxset) (DVD)
Two films. Dead Zone - John Smith wakes after five years in a coma with the dubious gift of second sight. Finding it more of a curse than a blessing, he risks his life to end the career of a budding politician who could bring the world to the point of holocaust. Firestarter - An eight-year old girl has a tormenting and devastating power...to set objects ablaze with one glance, a curse that people want to control or destroy.
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Stephen King Omnibus,Dead Zone,Cujo
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Stephen King, John Grisham, Pat Conroy, and more The Wavedancer Benefit: A Tribute to Frank Muller
On February 2, 2002, Stephen King, Pat Conroy, John Grisham, and Peter Straub gathered at New York's Town Hall for a very special evening...
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Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books L.T.'s Theory of Pets
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Orion The Green Mile
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: Gunslinger v. 1 (Dark Tower S.)
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New English Library It
Stephen King's idea for <I>It</I> came from a favorite childhood image: the entire cast of the <I>Bugs Bunny Show</I> coming on at the beginning. He thought of bringing on all the monsters, one last time: Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Werewolf, the Crawling Eye, Rodan, <I>It Came from Outer Space</I>. <p> <I>It</I> is about a group of adults who were once troubled children in the late '50s--The Losers. One of them is a best selling horror writer much like Stephen King (or his friend and collaborator Peter Straub). In order to defeat the protean It that threatens their hometown, they have to go back- -not only to the town itself, but deep into their childhood memories, to regain the talent for magic they once had. King says <I>It</I> is for the buried child in us, but I'm writing for the grown-up, too. I want grown-ups to look at the child long enough to be able to give him up. <p> This huge, baggy beast of a novel is a favorite of Stephen King fans--second in popularity only to <I>The Stand</I>. Perhaps longtime fans develop mental filters for King's sloppy storytelling to tune out the repetitions and silliness. King is like the pointillist painter Seurat: if you stand too close to the little dots, the picture falls apart, and it looks meaningless. That's why he makes the storyscape so big--to take you up to that macro-level where you like the book in spite of its flaws. --<I>Fiona Webster</I>
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Orion mass market paperback The Green Mile
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New English Library Rose Madder
After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right on the edge.
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Dreamcatcher
What might be done to human beings by the Other--whether the Other be vampires, demons or creatures from outer space--is always in competition for absolute horror with what we do to ourselves. Stephen King has, in his time, played with both sources of the nightmarish and in <I>Dreamcatcher</I> ;, the first complete novel since his near-fatal accident, he gives us both.<p>Four childhood friends, united by secrets, are caught in the quarantine zone when something crashes into the remote forests of Maine; and the question becomes who will avoid being eaten alive by alien fungi, torn from the inside by alien ferrets, possessed by alien minds or menaced by a psychotic military commander to whom ruthlessness has become a macho ego trip?<p>The Earth is in peril as well, needless to say, but most of our attention is taken up with a few men caught on the edge, and where the most important thing in the world turns out to be the fact that four small boys saved a fifth from a beating.<p>This has the hall-marks of a good King novel--memorable catchphrases whose meaning we only gradually learn and a sense of how it feels to be human. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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New English Library From a Buick 8
In Stephen King's <I>From a Buick 8</I>, a group of Pennsylvania State Troopers find, and keep secret, the Buick 8, a car that is a portal between our world and some world far more horrid. Animals and occasionally people disappear around the Buick 8 and every so often something unpleasant comes through from the other side. The alien monsters here are creatures of pure disgust; King terrifyingly argues here that somewhere in the universe there are things for which we can have no fellow-feeling. All of the narrators are marked by the Buick 8--it is a focus for personal disaster--but they believe, rightly, that they are the competent authorities, that to hand it over would make things worse. After the death of one of the original Troopers, the rest gather round his teenage son, and tell him the tale; this is a book about storytelling and about listening and about not hearing what you are told. As such, it is a worthy fictional companion to King's excellent <I>On Writing</I>; significantly, its considerable strengths come partly from King's imagination, partly from the technical mastery that lets him play the narrators off against each other, and partly from research, from King's own capacity to listen to real cops. <I>--Roz Kaveney</I>
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Orion mass market paperback The Green Mile
This novel (now complete in one volume) taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small death house of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colourful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As <I>Time</I> magazine put it, Like the best popular art, <I>The Green Mile</I> has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. <I>The Green Mile</I> was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. <I>--Amazon.com</I> ;
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New English Library Night Shift
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New English Library On Writing
Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's <I>On Writing</I> really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You are right there with the young author as he is tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing baby-sitters, uptight schoolmarms and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber. As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a caretaker cleaning a high-school girls' locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with <I>Carrie</I>. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in <I>Misery</I>, the mind-possessing monsters in <I>The Tommyknockers</I>, and the haunting of the blocked writer in <I>The Shining</I> symbolised his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). There's one novel, <I>Cujo</I>, that I barely remember writing.<p>King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's tool kit: a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph and literary models. He shows what you can learn from HP Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Kellerman's <I>Hart's War</I> is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's <I>Be Cool</I> could be the antidote. King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --<I>Tim Appelo, Amazon.com</I>
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Titan Books Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide (Illustrated Movie Guide)
The work of Stephen King has always enjoyed a rather rocky relationship with Hollywood and <I>Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide</I> chonicles all the big and small screen adaptations of his novels and short stories. No stone is left unturned in Stephen Jones exhaustive documentary of the great, the okay and the just plain awful movies, some so bad and so far removed from King's original concept, such as <I>Lawnmower Man</I>, that the author has fought to have his name removed from the credits. It's clear from this that producers and directors see King's work as a way of making a quick buck, but for every <I>Graveyard Shift</I> (based on a short story) there is a <I>Shawshank Redemption</I> (another short story originally called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption). Jones provides critical commentary and plenty of trivia on every entry but the real meat comes from King's own thoughts on the movie adaptations. He's heavily critical of some, delighted by others and it is made quite plain that in Hollywood, no one really gives a damn about listening to the author after they've signed over the movie rights. This is an interesting and thorough examination of one of the biggest brand names in horror movies and although a tad pricey and probably only for King completists, makes for a great insight into the inner workings of Hollywood and trials of bringing a book to the screen. <I>--Jonathan Weir</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Everything's Eventual
A new Stephen King book is always an event and <I>Everything's Eventual</I>--a collection of short stories that will be already familiar to King's die-hard fans--is a nicely timed appetiser for his next novel <I>From a Buick 8</I>. <p> Collected here are the stories published in the <I>New Yorker</I> and King's highly successful e-book <I>Riding the Bullet</I> and for those of you who haven't already seen them, it will be no surprise to learn that King explores a multitude of emotions and themes, from pure horror to simple everyday life. It's a very mixed bag but each and every one hits the mark as vignettes of a master storyteller who is equally at home with a short story as with 700-page blockbuster.<p> Particular standouts include the previous audio-only tales LT's Theory of Pets and 1408. Twists and turns abound and there are plenty of characters to love and loathe in equal measure. But King is at his best when writing about the nature of the human spirit and its enduring capacity for both good and evil--there is plenty here that explores both. <I>--Jonathan Weir</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three: Drawing of Three v. 2 (Dark Tower S.)
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Time Warner Paperbacks Danse Macabre
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New English Library Salem's Lot
Stephen King's second book, <I>'Salem's Lot</I>--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil. <p> Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, <I>'Salem's Lot</I>is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, In <I>'Salem's Lot</I>, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light. Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, <I>Bag of Bones</I>. --<I>Fiona Webster</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd From a Buick 8
In Stephen King's <I>From a Buick 8</I>, a group of Pennsylvania State Troopers find, and keep secret, the Buick 8, a car that is a portal between our world and some world far more horrid. Animals and occasionally people disappear around the Buick 8 and every so often something unpleasant comes through from the other side. The alien monsters here are creatures of pure disgust; King terrifyingly argues here that somewhere in the universe there are things for which we can have no fellow-feeling. All of the narrators are marked by the Buick 8--it is a focus for personal disaster--but they believe, rightly, that they are the competent authorities, that to hand it over would make things worse. After the death of one of the original Troopers, the rest gather round his teenage son, and tell him the tale; this is a book about storytelling and about listening and about not hearing what you are told. As such, it is a worthy fictional companion to King's excellent <I>On Writing</I>; significantly, its considerable strengths come partly from King's imagination, partly from the technical mastery that lets him play the narrators off against each other, and partly from research, from King's own capacity to listen to real cops. <I>--Roz Kaveney</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla v. 5
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson Faithful: Two Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass: Wizard and Glass v. 4 (Dark Tower S.)
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New English Library Ltd Nightmares and Dreamscapes
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Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books Steven King Live
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Sceptre Everything's Eventual
A new Stephen King book is always an event and <I>Everything's Eventual</I>--a collection of short stories that will be already familiar to King's die-hard fans--is a nicely timed appetiser for his next novel <I>From a Buick 8</I>. <p> Collected here are the stories published in the <I>New Yorker</I> and King's highly successful e-book <I>Riding the Bullet</I> and for those of you who haven't already seen them, it will be no surprise to learn that King explores a multitude of emotions and themes, from pure horror to simple everyday life. It's a very mixed bag but each and every one hits the mark as vignettes of a master storyteller who is equally at home with a short story as with 700-page blockbuster.<p> Particular standouts include the previous audio-only tales LT's Theory of Pets and 1408. Twists and turns abound and there are plenty of characters to love and loathe in equal measure. But King is at his best when writing about the nature of the human spirit and its enduring capacity for both good and evil--there is plenty here that explores both. <I>--Jonathan Weir</I>
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Faithful: Two Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Dark Tower: The Waste Lands: Waste Lands v. 3 (Dark Tower S.)
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New English Library The Bachman Books
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Needful Things
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Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books Bag of Bones: Complete & Unabridged
<I>Bag of Bones</I> is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic <I>Rebecca</I>, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, <I>Wizard and Glass</I>, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld. <p> <I>Bag of Bones</I> is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mum with a marvellous psychic daughter). There is also good-humoured satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi. In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --<I>Tim Appelo</I>
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New English Library Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is Low Men in Yellow Coats, about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mum is impoverished and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock; a car grille like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish; a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately. <p> Bobby's mum takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books such as <I>Lord of the Flies</I>. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's <I>Dark Tower</I> novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of <I>Lord of the Flies</I> (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mum's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film <I>Village of the Damned</I>: The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier. <p> Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are criss-crossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant (evil infant), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's sweet and stupid song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --<I>Tim Appelo</I>
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New English Library Gerald's Game
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd The Dark Half
In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write <I>The Regulators</I>.) At the beginning of <I>The Dark Half</I>, 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. <p> Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in <I>The Dark Half</I> as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. <p> Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. <p> This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, <I>Misery </I> (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. <I>The Dark Half</I> is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies the womblike dungeon of his imagination. --<I>Fiona Webster</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books Desperation
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Overlook Connection Press,US Horror Plum'D: INTERNATIONAL STEPHEN KING BIBLIOGRAPHY & GUIDE 1960-2000 - Trade Edition
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Bowling Green University Popular Press,US Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Desperation
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Dolores Claiborne
More of a mystery than a horror novel, <I>Dolores Claiborne</I> contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savour King's leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense. <p> The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore (Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don't you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility. <p> <I>Dolores Claiborne</I> is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a sceptical newcomer--put off by King's reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who's an old favourite. --<I>Patrick O'Kelley</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Cell
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Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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New English Library The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition)
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of <I>The Stand</I> in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookshops and beg them not to buy it. <p> <I>The Stand</I> is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil. <p> I love to burn things up, King says. It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... <I>The Stand</I> was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on <I>The Stand</I> came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke. <p> There is much to admire in <I>The Stand</I>: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --<I>Fiona Webster</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Salem's Lot
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Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books Cell
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Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah: Song of Susannah Bk. 6
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HarperCollins Black House
<I>Black House</I> is the second collaboration by Stephen King and Peter Straub, two of the most important writers in genre fiction, and the expectations of their first team-up were considerable. But despite its impressive sales, many were disappointed by <I>The Talisman</I>. Rather than a truly chilling epic, what we got was a rather derivative and by-the-numbers fantasy saga. So fans were reluctant to be too hopeful about their second collaboration... but we needn't have worried. <I>Black House</I> is much more like it, although even here King and Straub have not quite delivered the ultimate horror marathon--this is a psycho-thriller in the vein of Thomas Harris, but none the worse for that. And there are supernatural elements. <p > This is the tale of a small American town held in the grip of evil. Three children have vanished, abducted by a monster called The Fisherman (after a legendary murderer) with a craving for children's flesh. Ex-detective Jack Sawyer, dealing with his own personal problems (in which he is tormented by visions of another world), is keen to stay away from the horrors of this case, recognising how bad involvement will be for him. But--guess what?--Sawyer is soon supping full on the horrors, and the reader is in for an exhilarating (and highly disturbing) experience. Jack is a powerfully realised protagonist, and his journey into the dark world of The Fisherman is genuinely unsettling. Although more of King's fingerprints are on this one than Straub's (notably the conflicted hero, struggling with his own demons), the co-authors' individual styles merge indivisibly in this highly impressive chiller. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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PerfectBound Black House
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Stephen King Quitters, Inc. (Unabridged)
Just how important is another drag on that cigarette? Is it worth a few volts of electricity...
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New English Library The Shining
Ghostly bursts of plaster dust. A low, rhythmic sound in the background: Red rum-RED RUM-red rum-RED RUM. A sense of something evil swirling inward on itself, like a whirlpool of black ectoplasmic energy. The experience of being inside the actual consciousness (come out and take your medicine!) of a frightened little boy. Echoes of Shirley Jackson (whatever walked there, walked alone), of Poe's <I>Masque of the Red Death</I> and of creepy folk tales (<I>Hansel and Gretel</I>). <p> How do we love <I>The Shining</I>? Let us count the ways. In 1977, <I>The Shining</I> was the first widely read novel to confront alcoholism and child abuse in baby-boomer families--especially the way alcoholism, a will toward failure in one's work, and abusing one's kids are passed down from generation to generation. The heart of the book is not an evil hotel but a pair of father-son relationships: Jack and his father, Jack and his son. This was both daring and insightful for its time, long before dysfunctional family was a cliché. <p> <I>The Shining</I> was written in a frenzy. Stephen King imagined the whole novel in his head while sitting up all night in the dark, in the very Colorado hotel where the story takes place. He then transcribed it (that's how he puts it) in a burst of sustained energy. He could pull that off because, even at that early point in his career, King had figured out a successful way of structuring a popular novel. The speed of its composition gives the writing a powerful flow that sweeps you along past the awkward wording. <p> <I>The Shining</I> is one of those rare novels that can burn its images--such as Room 217--into your brain. Time alone will tell, but <I>The Shining</I> may well turn out to be one of the best horror novels ever written. By the way, you know that film starring Jack Nicholson? Stephen King says, I have my days when I think I gave Kubrick a live grenade on which he heroically threw his body. --<I>Fiona Webster</I>
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd The Tommyknockers
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