Author: stephenking

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form” (The Washington Post). Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. … just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). Four brilliant new tales in If…

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Stephen King’s unforgettable novella–first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries–about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky. On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The … have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear “radio static” in the distance. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is “The Langoliers,” monsters he was afraid of as…

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A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke … SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his…

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“I love old-school baseball,and I also love the way people who’ve spent a lifetime in the game talk about the game. I tried to combine those things in a story of suspense. People have asked me for years when I was going to write a baseball story. Ask no more; this is it.” –Stephen King Even the most diehard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have … have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first – and only -…

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From legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting story about ”an ordinary man in an extraordinary condition rising above hatred” (The Washington Post) and bringing the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine together–a “joyful, uplifting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences, “the sign of a master elevating his own legendary game yet … own legendary game yet again” (USA TODAY). Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy…

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”–originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me–now available for the first time as a stand-alone publication. It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and … nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern…

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A brand new novel from the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling author: When a child’s corpse is found in a park, suspicion falls on well-liked town citizen Terry Maitland. And Terry is hiding a shocking and sinister secret… “Will remind readers of King’s early novel It” (Kirkus Reviews).

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For the first time ever as a complete ebook series, all of Stephen King’s eight Dark Tower novels–one of the most acclaimed and popular series of all time–now a major motion film starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower series features one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations–The Gunslinger–a haunting figure who … haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a treacherous world that is a twisted…

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The graphic novel adaptation of the classic horror anthology film written by Stephen King, with art by Bernie Wrightson Now back in print: the graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King s Creepshow, based on the 1982 horror anthology and cult classic film directed by George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead) and featuring stunning illustrations by the legendary Bernie Wrightson and … Bernie Wrightson and cover art by the acclaimed Jack Kamen A harrowing and darkly humorous tribute to the controversial and influential horror comics of the 1950s, Creepshow presents five sinsister stories from the #1…

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Six Scary Storiesselected and introduced by Stephen KingNumber 1 bestselling horror author Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology!Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed … Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder & Stoughton are pleased to report has become a reality. The six stories are:WILD SWIMMING by…

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