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Il a suffi de quelques jours au charismatique révérend Charles Jacobs pour ensorceler les habitants de Harlow, dans le Maine. Et plus que tout autre, le petit Jamie. Car l''homme et l''enfant ont une passion commune : l''electricite.Trente ans plus tard, Jamie est un guitariste de rock ronge par l''alcool et la drogue. Il va croiser a nouveau le chemin de Jacobs, et decouvrir que le mot renaissance peut avoir plus dun sens.Addiction, fanatisme, experimentations scientifiques... Un roman electrique sur ce qui se cache de l''autre cote du miroir. Hommage a Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne et Lovecraft, un King d''anthologie.

Acclaimed author Stephen King s #1 bestselling time-travel novel soon to be a limited series on Hulu! In Stephen King s most ambitious and accomplished (NPR) and extraordinary ("USA TODAY") #1 "New York Times "bestselling novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful."

A master storyteller at his bestthe O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Afterlife is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powersthe columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in Obits; the old judge in The Dune who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In Morality, King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devils pact they can win.Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of Kings finest gifts to his constant readerI made them especially for you, says King. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.

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 masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes much too far the #1 "New York Times "bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in "Mr. Mercedes."Wake up, genius. So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn t released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein s unpublished work...including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away before being locked up for another horrific crime. But upon Morris s release thirty-five years later, he s about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance....

Un thriller fascinante sobre un lector cuya obsesión con un escritor solitario va demasiado lejos, con el mismo trío de héroes inverosímiles y exitosos King, presentados en MR MERCEDES

Midwest, 2009. Dans l’aube glacée, des centaines de chômeurs en quête d’un job font la queue devant un salon de l’emploi. Soudain, une Mercedes fonce sur la foule, laissant huit morts et quinze bles

Au royaume de Délain règnent le roi Roland et sa reine Sasha. Après la naissance du jeune prince héritier, Peter, qui promet de devenir un illustre monarque, le conseiller du roi, Flagg, réalise que sa position est menacée. Le sombre sorcier met au point un plan qui amènera le chaos sur Délain et brisera la famille royale..

Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears.Do the dead sing?In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, we meet: a woman who has never crossed The Reach, the water dividing her from the mainland; a gramma who only wants to hug little George, even after she is dead; an innocent looking toy with sinister powers; and a primeval sea creture with an insatiable appetite.

The mesmerizing #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Stephen King and the basis for the popular CBS TV series!On a beautiful fall day, the small town of Chester''s Mill, Maine, is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one can fathom what this impenetrable barrier is, where it came from, and when--or if--it will go away. As the days go by and the grim reality of the situation dawns, each of Chester''s Mill''s residents reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty. Survival now depends on Dale "Barbie" Barbara, an ex-army drifter trapped with everyone else who must now lead an intrepid few to uncover the sinister forces intent on holding the town hostage--and to somehow escape it before there''s no one left alive.

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic first novel in The Dark Tower series, the basis of the major motion picture starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey!"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."In a desolate reality, on that mirrors our own in frightening ways, a lone and haunting figure known only as Roland makes his way across the endless sands in pursuit of a sinister, dark-robed mystery of a man. Roland is the last of his kind, a "gunslinger" charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world--a world that "moved on" as they say...and the only way he can possibly hope to save everything is to first outwit and confront this man in black, then make him divulge his many arcane secrets. For despite the countless miles he''s already traversed, Roland knows these will merely be his initial steps on his spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower....

Danny Torrence, le petit garçon, qui, dans Shining, sortait indemne de l'incendie de l'Overlook Palace, est devenu un adulte. Alcoolique et paumé comme l'était son père, il est maintenant aide-soigna

Le horrorizó descubrir que había pasado más de cuatro años en coma. Y le horrorizó aún más saber que podía conocer las cosas por anticipado. La jaqueca le martirizaba y parecía que la cabeza le iba a

Stephen King nació el 21 de septiembre de 1947 en Portland en el estado de Maine (Estados Unidos). Ganó una beca para ir a la universidad de Maine donde se licenció en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa en 1970. Se caso un año mas tarde con Tabitha Spruce. Mient

" L'homme en noir fuyait a travers le désert, et le Pistolero le suivait... " Ce Pistolero, c'est Roland de Gilead, dernier justicier et aventurier d'un monde qui a changé et dont il cherche a inverser la destruction programmée. Pour ce faire, il doit arracher au sorcier vêtu de noir les secrets qui le mèneront vers la Tour Sombre, a la croisée de tous les temps et de tous les lieux. Roland surmontera-t-il les pièges diaboliques de cette créature? A-t-il conscience que son destin est inscrit dans trois cartes d'un jeu de tarot bien particulier ? Le Pistolero devra faire le pari de le découvrir, et d'affronter la folie et la mort. Car il sait depuis le commencement que les voies de la Tour Sombre sont impénétrables...

Gary, el protagonista de esta historia, recuerda con miedo, cuando siendo niño tuvo un encuentro con un hombre de ojos anaranjados y vestido con un traje negro de tres piezas que le causó horror y le dijo cosas terribles.Esta experiencia le marcara toda la vida y ya en el ocaso de la misma la recordara con el temor de volver a reencontrarse con el. La aceptacion del miedoy como vivir haciendole frente es uno de los temas centrales de este sorberbio relato que fue ganador, en 1995, del prestigio premio O.Henry en Estados Unidos.