Bøger af Stephen King

A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog."

"The 'extraordinary' (Booklist) novel of one man's quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes...nothing at all. This #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, "pulsates with evil...it will have you on the edge of your seat" (Publishers Weekly)"--

"With an Introduction by the author, 'The Importance of Being Bachman'."

"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..."--

"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels finally summons the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband, Norman, for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason - Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery... a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. He's very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind. Rosie's only hope for salvation may lie in a far more dangerous place, where she must become her own myth and the woman she never knew she could be..." - back cover.

The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl 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 twelve-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.

"Tâitulo original: Finders keepers"--Title page verso.

Cuanto mâas cruenta y violenta es una noticia, mâas llama la atenciâon de la gente: "La sangre manda." Asâi reza la mâaxima periodâistica que harâa que Holly Gibney, la detective a la que Bill Hodges legâo su agencia Finders Keepers, y uno de los personajes mâas queridos por los fans de Stephen King, se interese por la matanza en el instituto Albert Macready y acabe obsesionada con las noticias. En esta ocasiâon deberâa luchar contra lo que mâas teme... y esta vez sola. Si bien Holly, que ya apreciâo en la trilogâia "Bill Hodges" y en El visitante, protagoniza su primer gran caso en solitario en el relato que da tâitulo a esta volumen, tres historias mâas forman parte de este libro. En "El telâefono del seänor Harrigan," una amistad entre dos personas de edades muy diferentes perdura de manera mâas que inquietante. "La vida de Chuck" nos ofrece una hermosa reflexiâon acerca de la existencia de cada uno de nosotros. Y en "La rata," un escritor desesperado se enfrenta al lado mâas oscuro de la ambiciâon.

Originally published in English under the title The green mile by Signet Books, an imprint of The Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1996; this edition originally published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U., Barcelona, in 1997.

"Cuando el Dr. Louis Creed deja Chicago y se traslada con su familia a la idâilica ciudad de Ludlow, en Maine, todo en la vida parece sonreâirles. Pero en ese paisaje idâilico un peligro oculto acecha a la comunidad. Louis estaba seguro: el gato habâia muerto atropellado, y por eso lo habâia enterrado. Aun asâi, incomprensiblemente, el gato habâia vuelto a casa. Church estaba allâi otra vez, como âel temâia y al mismo tiempo deseaba, porque su hijita Ellie le habâia pedido que cuidara de âel. Louis lo habâia enterrado mâas allâa del cementerio de animales. Sin embargo, Church habâia regresado, y sus ojos eran mâas crueles y perversos que antes. Aunque volvâia a estar allâi y Ellie no lo lamentarâia, el Dr. Louis Creed sâi lo harâia. Porque mâas allâa del cementerio de animales, mâas allâa de la valla de troncos que nadie se atrevâia a traspasar, el maligno poder del antiguo cementerio indio le atraâia con promesas seductoras y tentaciones impâias... Allâi se esconde una verdad escalofriante mâas aterradora que la muerte misma y horriblemente mâas poderosa. Como Louis estâa a punto de descubrir por sâi mismo, a veces es mejor estar muerto..." --

En mitad de la nocha en un barrio tranquilo de Minneapolis raptan a Luke Ellis, de doce aänos, tras haber asesinado a sus padres. Una operaciâon que dura menos de dos minutos. Luke se despierta en el Instituto, en un cuarto exactamente igual al suyo pero sin ventanans. En habitaciones parecidas hay mâas niänos: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, y Avery Dixon, entre otros, que comparten capacidades especiales como la telequinesia o la telepatâia. Todos ellos se alojan en la Mitad Denantera de la institutiâon. Los mayores, en cambio, se encuentran en la Mitad Transera. Como dice Kalisha: El que entre no sale. En este instituto tan siniestro, la dierectora--la seänoa Sigsby--e sus empleados se dedican a extraer la fuerza supernatural de cada uno de los niänos, siempre se una manera despiadada y sin escrâupulos. Si los niänos cooperan, ganan monedas para las mâaquinas de dulces. Pero si no, el castigo es brutal. Cada vez que una vâictima desaparece, Luke se encuentra mâas desesperado por hir y buscar ayuda. Pero nunca nadie ha logrado escapar del Instituto...

First published in 1990 in Four past midnight.

A kingdom is in turmoil after old King Roland dies and his worthy successor, Prince Peter, is imprisoned by the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. But Flagg's evil plot is not perfect, for he knows naught of Thomas' terrible secret-- or Prince Peter's daring plan to escape to claim what is rightfully his.

Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King. 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.

After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic, terrifying New York Times bestseller of those caught between the surreal forces of good versus evil in a small suburban Ohio town.“The red van rolls past…humming and glinting. …Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet.” It’s a gorgeous midsummer afternoon along Poplar Street in the peaceful suburbia of Wentwort, Ohio, where life is as pleasant as you ever dreamed it could be. But that’s all about to end in blaze of gunfire and sudden violence, forever shattering the tranquility and the good times here. For the physical makeup of Poplar Street itself is now being transformed into a surreal landscape straight out of the active imagination of the innocent and vulnerable Seth Garin—an autistic boy who’s been exposed to and possessed by a horrific, otherworldly force of evil, one with sadistic and murderous intent and who is willing to use whatever means necessary to grow ever stronger.

"The new minister came to Harlow, Maine, when Jamie Morton was a boy doing a battle with his toy army men on the front lawn. The young Reverend Charles Jacobs and his beautiful wife brought new life to the local church and captivated their congregation. But with Jamie, he shares a secret obsession - a draw so powerful, it would have profound consequences five decades after the shattering tragedy that turned the preacher against God, and long after his final, scathing sermon. Now Jamie, a nomadic rock guitarist hooked on heroin, meets Charles Jacobs again. And when their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings"--Back cover.

"The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including "The Body" (Stand By Me) and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (The Shawshank Redemption). Like Four Past Midnight, Different Seasons, and most recently Full Dark, No Stars, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer."--Publisher's description.

"Contains material originally published in magazine form by Marvel Comics as Stephen King's The dark tower: the drawing of the three--the lady of shadows #1-5"--Copyright page.

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy--and his dog--must lead the battle.

Repackaged to tie in with Castlerock's major motion picture release of the season, starring Tom Hanks. At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen the good, the evil, the innocent, and the guilty. But he's never seen anything like new prisoner John Coffey.