Stephen King, página 12 de 55

Full dark no stars. On the heels of the stunning success of Under the Dome (Number 1 bestseller, ten printings, more than 1 million in print), a new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King… King of the long story: Stephen King specialises in a length of story that is not a novel but longer than a typical short story. Two previous collections in this model, Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, were #1 bestsellers and exceptionally well reviewed. Each contained four stories, loosely linked to a theme: in Four Past Midnight, the theme of time; and in Different Seasons, the theme of a journey. The stories in Full Dark, No Stars are also thematically connected - in this case, to marriage. King's stories of this length have also proven immensely ripe for film adaptation. Different Seasons spawned three notable films: Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil, and a story in Four Past Midnight became the television series The Langoliers.

With two new stories and updated text, this definitive illustrated edition of 'Salem's Lot contains two new stories relating to the novel, and updated text throughout.

Cuarto volumen de la serie "La Torre Oscura". El ka-tet consigue vencer al tren y sigue su camino hacia la Torre Oscura mientras Roland desvela la trágica historia de su juventud. Roland y su ka-tet han conseguido escapar de la ciudad de Lud a bordo de Blaine, el tren enloquecido. Vencen a este ultimo en un concurso de adivinanzas y siguen su camino hacia la Torre Oscura. Roland ahora cuenta su historia, una historia tragica de traiciones y de destierro, sin hogar, entregado a una busqueda quiza imposible. Pero lo que fundamentalmente narra Roland es la historia de su primer amor, Susan Delgado, y probablemente el unico verdadero de su vida, y de las maniobras para separarlos. Y es que Roland era demasiado joven para defenderse de las fuerzas naturales y sobrenaturales que conspiraban contra el... Este volumen incluye una nueva introduccion del autor y todas las ilustraciones que Dave McKean creo para la edicion original limitada publicada por Donald M. Grant en 1997. La critica ha dicho..."Un King pletorico, esta en su mejor momento y se perfila como un experimentado explorador del lado sombrio de la humanidad."Publishers Weekly

Irgendwann ist es mit der Unschuld vorbei. Irgendwann hort jeder Spa auf.Auf verhangnisvolle Weise kreuzen sich in einem kleinen Vergnugungspark die Wege eines untergetauchten Morders und eines Kindes. Und mitten im sich uberschlagenden Geschehen steht ein junger, unschuldiger Student, der alles zu verlieren droht und doch so viel gewinnt.

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too fara book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.Wake up, genius. So begins Kings instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasnt published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when hes released from prison after thirty-five years.Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a lifefor good, for bad, forever.

"Joyland es un libro impresionante, bello, desgarrador. Tiene misterio, tiene atracciones; es una historia sobre madurar y hacerse mayor, y sobre aquellos que no pueden hacer ninguna de las dos cosas porque la muerte viene a por ellos antes de hora. Hasta los lectores m#s insensibles se emocionar#n."Charles Ardal, editor de Hard Case Crime Verano de 1973. Carolina del Norte. El joven universitario Devin Jones consigue trabajo en un peque#o parque de atracciones llamado Joyland. All# se encarga de las tareas de mantenimiento, se disfraza de la mascota del parque o entretiene a los ni#os. Y all# descubre tambi#n la historia de un cruento crimen que tuvo lugar en la Casa Embrujada y que nunca fue resuelto. Pero Devin no es el #nico fascinado por el parque y su leyenda negra. Cerca de su pensi#n vive Mike, un chico enfermizo con el que pronto traba una peculiar amistad. El chaval no ha visitado nunca Joyland y le encantar#a hacerlo antes de morir. Es entonces cuando Devin planea una visita privada para el final de temporada. El d#a transcurre entre monta#as rusas e historias de terror sobre lo que pudo haberle pasado a la joven asesinada. Sin embargo, las visitas indeseadas y las preguntas indiscretas pueden pro

Un hermoso día de agosto, el doctor Louis Creed llega con su esposa Rachel, sus hijos Eileen y Gage y el gato Church a su nuevo hogar, una gran casa situada en las afueras de Ludlow, Nueva Inglaterra. El lugar parece tranquilo y lo bastante alejado del ajetreo urbano. Detras de la casa de los Creed hay incluso un campo de enterramietnos, en donde los niños del lugar han sepultado a sus animales durante generaciones: el Cementerio de animales. Pero enseguida empieza la pesadilla... al menos para Louis

A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life. In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity. Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings. This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life. In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity. Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings. This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Una novela que entusiasmará a los millones de lectores deEl resplandor y que encantará a todos aquellos que conozcan a Danny Torrance por primera vez.Stephen King vuelve al mundo deEl resplandor, una de sus novelas mas queridas y emblematicas. Ahora Danny Torrance, aquel niño aterrorizado del Hotel Overlook, es un adulto alcoholico y sin residencia fija que va de ciudad en ciudad atormentado por sus visiones y por los fantasmas de su infancia, que ha aprendido a controlar pero no a eliminar de su mente.Un dia se siente atraido por una ciudad de New Hampshire, donde encontrara trabajo en una residencia de ancianos y donde se apuntara a las reuniones de Alcoholicos Anonimos. En ese lugar le llega la vision de Abra Stone, una niña que necesita su ayuda. La persigue una tribu de seres paranormales que vive del resplandor de los niños especiales. Parecen personas mayores y totalmente normales que viajan por el pais en sus autocaravanas, pero su mision es capturar, torturar y consumir a estos niños. Se alimentan de ellos para vivir y el resplandor de Abra tiene tanta fuerza que los podria mantener vivos durante mucho tiempo.Danny sabe que sin su ayuda Abra nunca conseguira escapar de ellos; juntos emprenderan una lucha epica, una batalla sangrienta entre el Bien y el Mal, para intentar salvarla a ella y a los demas niños que sacrifican.Una novela iconica en la obra de Stephen King.La critica ha dicho...Una lectura apasionante e inquietante que ofrece una conclusion satisfactoria a la historia de Danny Torrance.Publishers Weekly

An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save 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 tween 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 ...

Prepárate para el final más oscuro, inquietante e inolvidable de cuantos ha escrito Stephen King.«Al menos en un sentido nuestras vidas son ciertamente como las películas. El elenco principal se com

A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, King describes his ideas on how horror works and how he brings