Stephen King
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
Author
Series
Gwendy novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs up the cliffside to Castle Rock, Maine, she encounters a mysterious stranger, who calls out to her wanting to talk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 6
Publisher
D.M. Grant, Publisher in association with Scribner
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Publisher
Donald M. Grant, Publisher in association with Scribner
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered...
11) Insomnia
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In Derry, Maine, a small town polarized by a pro-life rally, two old men become possessed by supernatural forces engaged in a struggle between good and evil. By the author of Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
19) The Colorado kid
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine.