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Apocalipsisby Stephen KingISBN 8497599411 (84-9759-941-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroixby Stephen KingISBN 0451190556 (0-451-19055-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix'Book summary:Time has run out for one of the inmates at the Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Nothing you have ever read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial audiobook that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter. [via]
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Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen Kingby Tim Underwood, Stephen KingISBN 0446390577 (0-446-39057-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen King'Book summary:In this revealing and varied collection of interviews, Stephen King talks about his life, family, films and in particular about his macabre novels of the unknown that have made him so well known. [via]
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The Book of Lost Thingsby John ConnollyISBN 0743298853 (0-7432-9885-3)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0385086954 (0-385-08695-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrie'Book summary:Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel as if we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well, if not better, on the page as it does on the screen. Carrie White, bullied by cruel teenagers at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."
Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake [via] -
Coffey on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190572 (0-451-19057-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey on the Mile'Book summary:The Green Mile is creatively packaged as a six-part series of small paperbacks--serial fiction for a new age. The story, set during the Great Depression, tells of John Coffey, an African American convicted of rape and murder who awaits his death in a Southern prison. Coffey has strange powers, and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts, and of God's. The mystery is enhanced by the succession of installments. [via]
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Coffey's Handsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190548 (0-451-19054-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey's Hands'Book summary:Harking back to the early days of the novel, The Green Mile is being published in six monthly installments. It's a great idea for a writer like Stephen King, famous for page-turning, nail-biting suspense. Like his earlier book The Shawshank Redemption, which became a hit movie, this one is set inside a prison; the title refers to the green-linoleum-covered corridor leading from death row to the electric chair. The narrator is an appealing prison superintendent, puzzled by the arrival of the enigmatic John Coffey, a huge, gentle, silent man accused of a double child rape-murder. Did he do it? Is the vicious guard going to do something awful, or have something done to him? Read the next installment. [via]
Colorado Kidby Stephen KingISBN 0843955848 (0-8439-5584-8)
Softcover, Leisure Books
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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0451161351 (0-451-16135-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cujo'Book summary:Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it's as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus. [via]
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- Cujo: ISBN 0881037273 (0-88103-727-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Cujo: ISBN 0451145070 (0-451-14507-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Cujo: ISBN 0452273285 (0-452-27328-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Cujo: ISBN 0670451932 (0-670-45193-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Cujo: ISBN 0816156670 (0-8161-5667-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Cujo: ISBN 0451161351 (0-451-16135-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
- Cujo: ISBN 0881037273 (0-88103-727-3)
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Cycle of the Werewolfby Stephen KingISBN 0451822196 (0-451-82219-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cycle of the Werewolf'Book summary:When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. [via]
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The Dark Halfby Stephen KingISBN 0451167317 (0-451-16731-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Half'Book summary:In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.
Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.
Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead.
This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster [via]
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- The Dark Half: ISBN 0833558927 (0-8335-5892-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Dark Half: ISBN 0816151237 (0-8161-5123-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Dark Half: ISBN 0670778095 (0-670-77809-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - The Dark Half: ISBN 067082982X (0-670-82982-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Dark Half: ISBN 0816151091 (0-8161-5109-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Dark Half: ISBN 0451167317 (0-451-16731-7)
Softcover, Signet
- The Dark Half: ISBN 0833558927 (0-8335-5892-7)
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauerby Stephen King, Joyce Reardon, Steven RimbauerISBN 0786890436 (0-7868-9043-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauerby Joyce ReardonISBN 158547231X (1-58547-231-X)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Dolores Claiborneby Stephen KingISBN 0451177096 (0-451-17709-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dolores Claiborne'Book summary:More of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King's leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense.
The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don't you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility.
Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King's reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who's an old favorite. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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El Ciclo Del Hombre Lobo / Cycle of the Werewolfby Stephen KingISBN 8432038067 (84-320-3806-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Gerald's Gameby Stephen KingISBN 1568950055 (1-56895-005-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gerald's Game'Book summary:A different kind of bedtime story from Stephen King, as a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death. But the nightmare has only just begun...[via]More editions of Gerald's Game:
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451933028 (0-451-93302-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.
Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.
The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster [via]
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I Have a Dreamby Martin Luther KingISBN 0809591170 (0-8095-9117-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Lisey's Storyby Stephen KingISBN 0743289412 (0-7432-8941-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lisey's Story'Book summary:Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children's books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember The Plant?). With Lisey's Story, once again King is trying something different. Lisey's Story is as much a romance as it is a supernatural thriller--but don't let us convince you. Who better to tell readers if King has written a romantic thriller than Nora Roberts? We asked Nora to read Lisey's Story and give us her take. Check out her review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts, who also writes under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, is the author of way too many bestselling books to name here (over 150!), but some of our favorites include: Angel's Fall, Born in Death, Blue Smoke, and The Reef.
Stephen King hooked me about three decades ago with that sharply faceted, blood-stained jewel, The Shining. Through the years he's bumped my gooses with kiddie vampires, tingled my spine with beloved pets gone rabid, justified my personal fear of clowns and made me think twice about my cell phone. I've always considered The Stand--a long-time favorite--a towering tour de force, and have owed its author a debt as this was the first novel I could convince my older son to read from cover to cover.But with Lisey's Story, King has accomplished one more feat. He broke my heart.
Lisey's Story is, at its core, a love story--heart-wrenching, passionate, terrifying and tender. It is the multi-layered and expertly crafted tale of a twenty-five year marriage, and a widow's journey through grief, through discovery and--this is King, after all--through a nightmare scape of the ordinary and extraordinary. Through Lisey's mind and heart, the reader is pulled into the intimacies of her marriage to bestselling novelist Scott Landon, and through her we come to know this complicated, troubled and heroic man.
Two years after his death, Lisey sorts through her husband's papers and her own shrouded memories. Following the clues Scott left her and her own instincts, she embarks on a journey that risks both her life and her sanity. She will face Scott's demons as well as her own, traveling into the past and into Boo'ya Moon, the seductive and terrifying world he'd shown her. There lives the power to heal, and the power to destroy.
Lisey Landon is a richly wrought character of charm and complexity, of realized inner strength and redoubtable humor. As the central figure she drives the story, and the story is so vividly textured, the reader will draw in the perfumed air of Boo'ya Moon, will see the sunlight flood through the windows of the Scott's studio--or the night press against them. Her voice will be clear in your ear as you experience the fear and the wonder. If your heart doesn't hitch at the demons she faces in this world and the other, if it doesn't thrill at her courage and endurance, you're going to need to check with a cardiologist, first chance.
Lisey's Story is bright and brilliant. It's dark and desperate. While I'll always consider The Shining, my first ride on King's wild Tilt-A-Whirl, a gorgeous, bloody jewel, I found, on this latest ride, a treasure box heaped with dazzling gems.
A few of them have sharp, hungry teeth. --Nora Roberts
Long Walkby Stephen King, Richard BachmanISBN 0451196716 (0-451-19671-6)
Softcover, Signet
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The Mouse on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190521 (0-451-19052-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Night Journeyby Stephen KingISBN 0451190564 (0-451-19056-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Journey'Book summary:Paul Edgecombe and his fellow guards take a huge gamble by taking convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night to bring him to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment. [via]
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Nightmares & Dreamscapesby Stephen KingISBN 0451180232 (0-451-18023-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes'Book summary:Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond." --Fiona Webster [via]
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Op Tommyknockersby Stephen KingISBN 0399136991 (0-399-13699-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63by Taylor BranchISBN 0671687425 (0-671-68742-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63'Book summary:An award-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., a history of the civil rights movement, and a portrait of an era, Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters begins slowly but soon catches the listener in a tumult of unforgettable events. Branch's thorough research has been synthesized into an impressive account of the violence, courage, and confusion at the beginning of the civil rights movement, building to a powerful conclusion with a blow-by-blow retelling of the events in Birmingham, Alabama. Ably narrated by Joe Morton and C.C.H. Pounder, the audio abridgment is occasionally choppy, but well-done considering the print edition runs about 900 pages. The broad cast of characters includes Baptist preachers and student movement leaders as well as President John F. Kennedy and his cabinet. If you are daunted by the sheer mass of the print edition of Parting the Waters, this abridged production is for you. However don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting more and digging into the print version after all or perhaps the audio version of Pillar of Fire, Taylor's second book in his projected three-part series. (Running time: 6 Hours; 4 cassettes) [via]
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- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63: ISBN 0671460978 (0-671-46097-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63: ISBN 0844672955 (0-8446-7295-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63: ISBN 0671687425 (0-671-68742-5)
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonaldISBN 1576466345 (1-57646-634-5)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess and Curdie'Book summary:In the years since the end of The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie has managed to convince himself that the supernatural events of that tale were products of his wild imagination. But then events draw him back to Grandmother -- that is, Mother Wotherwop, Princess Irene's great-great-great-grandmother, the Lady of the Silver Moon -- and Curdie regains his innocence and his faith. The Lady sends him on a quest to help the king and princess confound their enemies -- and save the kingdom! [via]
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- Princess and Curdie: ISBN 1582870594 (1-58287-059-4)
Hardcover, North Books - The Princess and Curdie: ISBN 1598182358 (1-59818-235-8)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Princess and Curdie: ISBN 1881084159 (1-881084-15-9)
Hardcover, Johannesen - Princess and Curdie: ISBN 1576466345 (1-57646-634-5)
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Regulatorsby Richard Bachman, Stephen KingISBN 0525941908 (0-525-94190-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Regulators'Book summary:An evil creature called Tak uses the imagination of an autistic boy to shift a residential street in small-town Ohio into a world so bizarre and brutal that only a child could think it up. It's as two-dimensional and gaudy as a kid's comic book, but for this reviewer, The Regulators is a gripping adventure tale about what happens when a mind fixated on TV (especially old Westerns and a cartoon called MotoKops 2200) runs amok. As Michael Collins writes in Necrofile, "[Stephen] King offers his readers a glimpse of the true evil of popular culture ... which has no design or intent, only an empty need to sustain itself. King is, I think, about the canniest observer of what America is, and that he generally writes horror ought to give us pause from time to time." [via]
The Regulatorsby Stephen King, Richard BachmanISBN 0451191013 (0-451-19101-3)
Softcover, Signet
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The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opusby Bev VincentISBN 1587671042 (1-58767-104-2)
Hardcover, Cemetery Dance Pubns
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Searching for Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0833591029 (0-8335-9102-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Standby Stephen KingISBN 0385121687 (0-385-12168-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 1568495714 (1-56849-571-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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- The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition: ISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
Softcover, Signet - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition: ISBN 0385199570 (0-385-19957-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition: ISBN 0517219018 (0-517-21901-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition: ISBN 0451179285 (0-451-17928-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition: ISBN 1568495714 (1-56849-571-4)
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Stephen Kingby Stephen KingISBN 0451931416 (0-451-93141-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horrorby Christopher Golden, Stan Wiater, Hank WagnerISBN 1580631606 (1-58063-160-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Stephen King's Danse Macabreby Stephen KingISBN 0425104338 (0-425-10433-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen King's Danse Macabre'Book summary:In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write Danse Macabre as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course.
The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation's Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ... Spootnik."
That's how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he'd experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of about 30 years): folk tales, literature, radio, good movies, junk movies, and the "glass teat". It's colorful, funny, and nostalgic--and also strikingly intelligent. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Stephen King's The Dark Towerby Robin Furth, Stephen KingISBN 0743252071 (0-7432-5207-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordanceby Stephen KingISBN 074325208X (0-7432-5208-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance'Book summary:A Concordance, Volume II is the definitive guide to the many worlds, argots, characters, and cross-references -- within the Dark Tower series and among the rest of King's work -- that appear in Books V through VII: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower.
Characters and Genealogies
Magical Objects and Forces
Mid-World and Our World Places
Portals and Magical Places
Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps
Timeline for the Dark Tower Series
Mid-World Dialects
Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers
Political and Cultural References
References to Stephen King's Own Work [via]
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Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordanceby Robin Furth, Stephen KingISBN 0743297342 (0-7432-9734-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance'Book summary:The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Begun more than thirty years ago, seven books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling, epic fantasy series. Previously published in two separate volumes, The Complete Concordance is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything they need to navigate their way through the series. With hundreds of characters, Mid-World geography, High Speech lexicon, and extensive cross-references, this comprehensive handbook is essential for any Dark Tower fan.
- Characters and Genealogies
- Magical Objects and Forces
- Mid-World and Our World Places
- Portals and Magical Places
- Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps
- Timeline for the Dark Tower Series
- Mid-World Dialects
- Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers
- Political and Cultural References
- References to Stephen King's Other Work
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Storm of the Centuryby Stephen KingISBN 067103264X (0-671-03264-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Storm of the Century'Book summary:Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities, sordid secrets, kids in peril, and gory portents in scrambled letters. The calamitous snowstorm is nothing compared to the mysterious mind-reading stranger Linoge, who uses magic powers to turn people's guilt against them--when he's not simply braining them with his wolf-head-handled cane. Don't even glance at that cane--it can bring out the devil in you. Just as The Shining was concerned with marriage and alcoholism as much as it was with bad weather and worse spirits, Storm of the Century is more than a horror story. It's creepy because it's realistic.
But it's also unusually visual. Linoge's eyes ominously change color, wind and sea wreak havoc, a basketball leaves blood circles with each bounce. The 100-year storm no doubt hits harder onscreen than on the page, but the snow is a symbol of the more disturbing emotional maelstrom that words evoke perfectly. And the murders of folks we've gotten to know is entirely terrifying in print. The crisp discipline of the screenplay format makes this book better than lots of King's more sprawling novels--the end doesn't wander and the dialogue crackles. Here's the real test: It's impossible to read parts 1 and 2 and not read part 3, "The Reckoning." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Strength to Loveby Martin Luther KingISBN 0800614410 (0-8006-1441-0)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strength to Love'Book summary:This is the classic collection of sermons preached by Martin Luther King, Jr. [via]
Thinnerby Stephen KingISBN 0451161343 (0-451-16134-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library - Thinner: ISBN 0451190750 (0-451-19075-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Thinner: ISBN 0606007768 (0-606-00776-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Thinner: ISBN 0451161343 (0-451-16134-3)
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Thinnerby Richard Bachman, Stephen King AkaISBN 0816140219 (0-8161-4021-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence [via]
Tommyknockersby Stephen KingISBN 0451156609 (0-451-15660-9)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tommyknockers'Book summary:[This is Part 2 of a 2 part cassette audiobook edition.]
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover&an invasion of body and soul--and mind. [via]
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The Two Dead Girlsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190491 (0-451-19049-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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They were sisters, and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight, about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile [via]Spanish
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0307348075 (0-307-34807-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrie'Book summary:El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Esta novela fue llevada al cine con un inmenso éxito de público y crítica. [via]
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El Ciclo Del Hombre Lobo / Cycle of the Werewolfby Stephen KingISBN 0451821114 (0-451-82111-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ciclo Del Hombre Lobo / Cycle of the Werewolf'Book summary:When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. [via]
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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0307348245 (0-307-34824-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cujo'Book summary:Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante de los niños. Realmente se trataba de un perro bueno y feliz. Feliz hasta que le sucedió algo, y el cerebro de perro de Cujo se cubrió de una de esas oscuridades que se alimentan de sangre. Ahora, se ha convertido en un perro asesino; doblemente cruel por cuanto la gente no conoce su mutación y aún le ve en su anterior bondad. Heraldo de un pequeño Apocalipsis, Cujo desencadenará sobre un pueblo modélico un huracán de pánico y de muerte.
Uno de los grandes clásicos de Stephen King, el gran maestro actual de la literatura de terror. [via]More editions of Cujo:
Maleficio / Thinnerby Stephen KingISBN 9500405792 (950-04-0579-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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LA Part Des Tenebres/the Dark Halfby Stephen KingISBN 2266047450 (2-266-04745-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Part Des Tenebres/the Dark Half'Book summary:broché poche en bon etat d'occasion - terreur - [via]
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