Author: stephenkingandrichardbachman

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). “You can’t do anything… It’s gone too far. You understand, Halleck? Too…far. Attorney Billy … Too…far. Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all#65533;—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of…

In this #1 national bestseller, “master storyteller” (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives. In the near future, when America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded … be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules—keep a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and…

The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time. Stephen King’s “dark half” may have saved the best for last. A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 (“cancer of the pseudonym”), but in late 2006 King found the original … 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library (“How did this get here? “), and decided that with a little…