Этот роман безоговорочно признают лучшей книгой Стивена Кинга и миллионы фанатов писателя, и серьезные литературные критики. …Убийство президента Кеннеди стало самым трагическим событием американской истории ХХ века. Тайна его до сих пор не раскрыта. Но что, если случится чудо? Если появится возможность отправиться в прошлое и предотвратить катастрофу? Это предстоит выяснить обычному учителю из маленького городка Джейку Эппингу, получившему доступ к временному порталу. Его цель — спасти Кеннеди. Но какова будет цена спасения?

22 листопада 1963 року — дата вбивства Джона Кеннеді. Пролунали три постріли — і світ змінився назавжди. Сьогодення. Дізнавшись, що в барі його приятеля розташований портал до 1958 року, звичайний вчитель Джейк Еппінг не може опиратися спокусі почати нове життя у рок-н-рольні часи Елвіса Преслі. Хіба гостю з майбутнього важко познайомитись із відлюдником Лі Гарві Освальдом і завадити йому вбити президента? Та чи варто гратися з минулим? Яким буде світ, де Кеннеді виживе?

Каждый писатель, работающий в жанре «ужастиков», должен написать как минимум по одному рассказу, как о похоронах заживо, так и о Комнате Призраков в Гостинице. Это моя версия последнего рассказа. Необычность его состоит в том, что я не собирался доводить его до логического завершения. Написал три или четыре страницы в качестве части приложения к моему «учебнику» «Как писать книги», чтобы показать читателям, как изменяется рассказ от первоначального наброска ко второму. Главным образом, мне хотелось привести конкретный пример принципов, которыми я руководствуюсь при создании своих произведений. Но случилось нечто очень приятное: рассказ соблазнил меня и я дописал его до конца. Я думаю, что у разных людей разные страхи, и вариаций последних не счесть (я вот не понимаю, почему у некоторых мурашки бегут по коже при упоминании перуанских бумслангов, но бегут). Так вот, этот рассказ пугал меня, пока я его писал. Первоначально он появился, как часть аудиокниги, которая называлась «Кровь и Дым», и аудио напугало меня больше, чем рукопись. Напугало до смерти. Но номера отелей сами по себе вызывают страх, не так ли? Входя в номер, поневоле задаешься вопросом, сколько людей спали до тебя на этой кровати? Сколько среди них было больных? Сколько сумасшедших? Сколько думало о том, чтобы прочесть несколько строк из Библии, что лежит на прикроватном столике, и повеситься в стенном шкафу у телевизора? Бр-р-р. В любом случае, давайте проверим, а? Вот ваш ключ… и вы можете не торопясь прикинуть, что дадут в сумме эти четыре невинные цифры

Стивън Кинг отново е на върха! Падате ли си по истории за пътуване във времето? Прочетете „22 ноември 1963“. Авторът ви я поднася, както само той умее. Искате да знаете каква е била Америка през петдесетте и шейсетте години на миналия век, Америка на суинга, на Елвис Пресли и на рокендрола? Прочетете „22 ноември 1963“. Искате ли трогателна любовна история, която ще разчувства дори хората с най-закоравели сърца? Прочетете „22 ноември 1963“. Действието в романа се развива и в наши дни, и в миналото. Главният герой Джейк Епинг е гимназиален учител в Лисбон Фолс и наскоро се е развел. Две събития внезапно го изваждат от релсите на монотонното му ежедневие. Първото е съчинението на курсист на тема „Денят, който промени живота ми“. Второто — изненадващото признание на Ал Темпълтън, собственик на закусвалня, който съобщава на Джейк, че много скоро ще умре от рак на белите дробове, затова ще му довери голяма тайна: в склада на заведението има врата към миналото. Ал е кроял планове да предотврати убийството на Кенеди, като ликвидира Лий Осуалд. Тъй като е на прага на смъртта, той убеждава Джейк да осъществи замисъла му. Джейк няколко пъти пътува в миналото, докато при поредното си завръщане в 2011 узнава, че Ал се е самоубил. Времето му изтича — налага се да действа незабавно, преди закусвалнята да бъде разрушена, иначе няма да изпълни обещанието си да спаси Кенеди. Разбира се, и този път Кинг не изневерява на навика си да пуска „въдици“ на верните си читатели, като често споменава герои, улици или населени места от предишни свои романи. Браво, Стиви! И този път улучи право в десетката!

Американская провинция. Шумный хайвэй. Заброшенная автостоянка с магазинчиком, на которую однажды приезжает загадочный автомобиль неизвестной модели — и застывает, словно в ожидании, словно приманивая жертву. Мимо едут по своим делам люди, самые разные: добрые и злые, раздраженные, уставшие, воодушевленные. Некоторые из них останавливаются и подходят к загадочной машине — и назад к своим автомобилям уже не возвращаются. Пожалуй, только дети способны разглядеть опасность, притаившуюся за перепачканными засохшей грязью стеклами, только дети найдут, что противопоставить ей. Перевод на русский язык, С. Думаков при участии А. Сергеева и М. Замятиной, 2011 специально для портала StephenKing.ru

Это — 1999 год. Год, который должен был стать временем Апокалипсиса — но не стал. Или все-таки стал, только мы пока не заметили этого — и не заметим, пока не станет поздно? Это — 1999 год. Такой, каким увидели его величайшие из мастеров «литературы ужасов» нашего мира. Писатели, хорошо знающие: Апокалипсис начинается не с трубного гласа, поднимающего мертвых, но со Страха, живущего в душе у каждого из нас. Это — 999 глазами непревзойденного Стивена Кинга. И мчится по дороге Смерть… Это — 999 по Уильяму Питеру Блэтти. И те, что ушли, говорят с живыми… Это — 999 Бентли Литтла. И исчезает грань меж явью и кошмаром… Это — 999 год Дэвида Моррелла, Джойс Кэрол Оутс, Нэнси Коллинз. И еще многих из тех, кому нет равных в умении повергать читателя в черный, иррациональный Ужас…

Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph. In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising turns of Stanley Ellin, and the profoundly underrated Margaret Millar, a genius who mixed savage social satire with brooding horror. You’ll be treated to Stephen King at his chilling best. You’ll find yourself on the violent urban streets of Ross Macdonald and Mickey Spillane, and seeped in the ominous regional flavor of Sharyn McCrumb and Tony Hillerman. You’ll marvel at the cunning webs spun by Lawrence Block, Ruth Rendell, Anthony Boucher, and Sara Paretsky, all of whom defy expectations as they reinvent the genre. And you’ll understand the awesome reputations of those authors who set the standard, such as the legendary Harlan Ellison, Fredric Brown, the master of the twist ending, and James M. Cain, uncannily skilled at knowing what went on between men and women behind closed doors. (The darker the room the better.) Delivering everything from the one-two punch of the detective story to the ingeniously precise trappings of the police procedural, from the disquieting corners of the criminal mind to sheer dread-inducing horror, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a rich anthology of this popular literary genre, a stunning tribute to the art of storytelling, and to the men and women who have done it best

Short story. A Death tells the story of Jim Trusdale, not the sharpest tool in the shed, who is accused of killing 10-year-old Rebecca Cline on her birthday and stealing her silver dollar. The story is set in 1889 in the Dakotas, before it became part of the United States, as referenced in the story. It’s not a scary story, but one can be filled with horror at the thought of how justice worked in the Old West

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012. Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier…

Now a major motion picture, Stephen King’s brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets. Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a hidden box under a worktable and in it she discovers a trove of horrific evidence that her husband is two men—one, the benign father of her children, the other, a raging rapist and murderer. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends “A Good Marriage.” Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Doctor Sleep and Under the Dome, now a major TV miniseries on CBS. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King

A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander’s dark past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil

Now a Lifetime original movie, Stephen King’s haunting story about an author of a series of mystery novels who tries to reconcile her old life with her life after a horrific attack and the one thing that can save her: Revenge. Tess Thorne, a famous mystery writer, faces a long drive home following a book signing engagement. Advised to take a shortcut at the suggestion of the event’s planner, Tess sets out for home, well after dark. On a lonely stretch of New England road, her tire blows out, and when a man in a pick up stops, it is not to help her, but to repeatedly assault her and leave her for dead. Tess survives, and she plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself, capable of gruesome violence

An anthology of stories edited by John Joseph Adams. From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity’s darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims’ necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count’s feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike… Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror

En prenant sa retraite, John Rothstein a plongé dans le désespoir les millions de lecteurs des aventures de Jimmy Gold. Rendu fou de rage par la disparition de son héros favori, Morris Bellamy assassine le vieil écrivain pour s’emparer de sa fortune, mais surtout, de ses précieux carnets de notes. Le bonheur dans le crime ? C’est compter sans les mauvais tours du destin… et la perspicacité du détective Bill Hodges. Après Misery, King renoue avec un de ses thèmes de prédilection : l’obsession d’un fan. Dans ce formidable roman noir où l’on retrouve les protagonistes de Mr. Mercedes (prix Edgar 2015), il rend un superbe hommage au pouvoir de la fiction, capable de susciter chez le lecteur le meilleur… ou le pire. « Une déclaration d’amour à la lecture et à la littérature américaine… Merveilleux, effrayant, émouvant. » STEPHEN KING a écrit plus de 50 romans, autant de best-sellers, et plus de 200 nouvelles. Couronné de nombreux prix littéraires, il est devenu un mythe vivant de la littérature américaine (médaille de la National Book Foundation en 2003 pour sa contribution aux lettres américaines, Grand Master Award en 2007 pour l’ensemble de son œuvre)

Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood, but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. It was as if it had been waiting to go. On October 1, God was in His heaven, the stock market stood at 10,140, and most of the planes were on time (except for those landing and taking off in Chicago, and that was to be expected). Two weeks later the skies belonged to the birds again and the stock market was a memory. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory

The novel tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces

The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Coffey on the Mile is Volume Six. Cold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of men drawing their last breaths, with many of them claiming to be innocent until the very end. In this final chapter of the six-part novel, we learn both John Coffey’s fate and the terrible truth Paul Edgecombe discovers about him. The story also brings us farther into the present as Paul recounts the events of his life after Cold Mountain—and the lives of all he encountered there. The gentle giant with healing hands. The little mouse that softened a murderer’s heart. The corrupt man capable of more evil than any of those he guarded. And all the wonderful and horrible men and moments in that place of ultimate retribution, the well-worn stretch of linoleum they called the Green Mile

The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Coffey’s Hands is Volume Three. Eduard Delacroix has grown quite attached to Mr. Jingles. But one guard, Percy Wetmore, despises Mr. Jingles… and anything that might bring happiness to an inmate. Not all guards can be like Paul. He’s a man who doesn’t like to see anyone suffer and has dedicated his career to making sure that the condemned men in his charge spend their last days with peace and dignity. Paul is also suffering. He has a painful bladder infection that just won’t let up. It’s because of this ailment that he learns that John Coffey has the ability to heal with his touch. It’s a wondrous revelation at a time when yet another man must take his final trip on the Green Mile

Una obra atípica en la trayectoria del autor de Carrie, en la mejor tradición de la novela negra; un crimen en las costas de Maine, aparentemente irresoluble. En una isla de las costas de Maine, un hombre es encontrado muerto. No hay identificación de su cuerpo. Solo el esforzado trabajo de un par de periodistas locales y de un graduado en medicina forense logra descubrir algunas pistas para, después de un año, saber quién es el muerto. Pero es aquí donde comienza el misterio. Porque cuanto más descubren del hombre y de la extrañas circunstancias de su muerte, menos comprenden. ¿Se trata de un crimen imposible? ¿O algo aún más extraño…? Con ecos de El halcón maltés de Dashiell Hammet y de la obra de Graham Greene, Stephen King presenta un relato sorprendente y conmovedor, cuyo tema es nada menos que la naturaleza del propio misterio

Am Strand einer Insel im Bundesstaat Maine wird ein Toter gefunden. Außer ein paar Münzen und einem Päckchen Zigaretten trägt er nichts bei sich. Woran er starb, kann nicht eindeutig geklärt werden. Nur der Hartnäckigkeit zweier Lokalreporter und eines jungen Gerichtsmediziners ist es zu verdanken, dass der Unbekannte – über ein Jahr später – identifiziert wird. Doch damit beginnt das Rätsel erst. Denn je mehr sie über den Toten und seine Herkunft herausfinden, umso weniger verstehen sie den Fall: ein scheinbar unmögliches Verbrechen. Original: The Colorado Kid Aus dem Englischen von Andrea Fischer 

A short story by Stephen King

DANSE MACABRE is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge; an analysis of horror, terror and the supernatural in films, television and books by the bestselling master of the genre - Stephen King. Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels, and how he bring it to bear in his own inimitable novels

Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short-story collection curated by legendary horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar. THE OLD DUDE’S TICKER by Stephen King Richard Drogan has been spooked ever since he came back from Nam, but he’s no head case, dig? He just knows the old dude needs to die. THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT by Lisa Morton Even though she made her name revealing the private lives of the rich and famous, Sara Peck has no idea how deep their secrets really go… or the price they’ll pay to get what they desire. THE MANICURE by Nell Quinn-Gibney A trip to the nail salon is supposed to be relaxing. But as the demons of the past creep closer with every clip, even the most serene day of pampering can become a nightmare. THE COMFORTING VOICE by Norman Prentiss It’s a little strange how baby Lydia can only be soothed by her grandfather’s unnatural voice, ravaged by throat cancer. The weirdest part? What he’s saying is more disturbing than how he says it. THE SITUATIONS by Joyce Carol Oates There are certain lessons children must learn, rules they must follow, scars they must bear. No lesson is more important than this: Never question Daddy. Or else. THE CORPSE KING by Tim Curran Grave robbers Kierney and Clow keep one step ahead of the law as they ply their ghoulish trade, but there’s no outrunning a far more frightening enemy that hungers for the dead

In einer ruhigen Vorortsiedlung von Minneapolis ermorden zwielichtige Eindringlinge lautlos die Eltern von Luke Ellis und verfrachten den betäubten Zwölfjährigen in einen schwarzen SUV. Die ganze Operation dauert keine zwei Minuten. Luke wacht weit entfernt im Institut wieder auf, in einem Zimmer, das wie seines aussieht, nur dass es keine Fenster hat. Und das Institut in Maine beherbergt weitere Kinder, die wie Luke paranormal veranlagt sind: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris und den zehnjährigen Avery. Sie befinden sich im Vorderbau des Instituts. Luke erfährt, dass andere vor ihnen nach einer Testreihe im »Hinterbau« verschwanden. Und nie zurückkehrten. Je mehr von Lukes neuen Freunden ausquartiert werden, desto verzweifelter wird sein Gedanke an Flucht, damit er Hilfe holen kann. Noch nie zuvor ist jemand aus dem streng abgeschirmten Institut entkommen

Haven ist eine verschlafene Kleinstadt. Eines Tages entdeckt Bobbi Anderson im Wald ein seltsames Ding, das die Bürger auf unheimliche Art verwandelt. Und plötzlich hält das Grauen Einzug in Haven …

In dem kleinen Ort French Landing verschwinden Kinder. Einige von ihnen werden später ermordet und auf grauenvolle Weise verstümmelt aufgefunden - offensichtlich das Werk eines Serienkillers. Doch Jack Sawyer, der ehemalige Cop aus Los Angeles, ahnt bald, dass der Mörder nur ein Werkzeug ist für die Mächte jener anderen Welt, in der er als Junge, vor zwanzig Jahren, den »Talisman« berührt hat. Sein eigentlicher Gegner ist der Scharlachrote König, und der Weg in dessen Reich führt durch das Schwarze Haus. Stephen King ist einer der bekanntesten amerikanischen Autoren. Er hat zahlreiche Bestseller geschrieben, darunter »Christine«, »Shining«, »Es« und die monumentale Saga vom Dunklen Turm. Stephen King lebt in Bangor/Maine. Peter Straub gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Erneuerer der fantastischen Literatur und erhielt für sein Werk zahlreiche Preise. Er lebt in New York City. Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel BLACK HOUSE bei Random House, New York

Jake Epping lebt ein normales Leben, bis sein Freund Al ihm ein großes Geheimnis enthüllt: Er kennt ein Portal, das ins Jahr 1958 führt. Und Al gewinnt ihn für eine wahnsinnige Mission. Jake soll in die Vergangenheit zurückkehren und das Attentat auf John F. Kennedy vereiteln, um den Gang der Geschichte positiv zu korrigieren. Und so beginnt für Jake ein neues Leben in einer für ihn neuen Welt. Es ist die Welt von Elvis und JFK, von großen amerikanischen Autos und beschwingten Highschool-Tanzveranstaltungen. Es ist die Welt des gequälten Einzelgängers Lee Harvey Oswald, aber auch die der Bibliothekarin Sadie Dunhill, die Jakes große Liebe seines Lebens wird, eines Lebens, das gegen alle normalen Regeln der Zeit verstößt. Und je näher Jake seinem Ziel kommt, den Mord an Kennedy rückgängig zu machen, desto bizarrer wehrt sich die Vergangenheit dagegen, mit aller gnadenlosen Gewalt, die sich auch gegen Jakes neue Liebe richtet ... Die Originalausgabe erscheint unter dem Titel 11/22/63 bei Scribner, New York

Desperation is the story of several people traveling along the desolate Highway 50 in Nevada who all get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for his abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to “rescuing” a family from a nonexistent gunman

Different Seasons(1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil, and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me(1986). The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It's the tightest, most polished tale in the collection.--Fiona Webster

Danny Torrance a grandi. Ses démons aussi… La suite tant attendue du cultissime Shining. Stephen King renoue avec l'histoire et le personnage de l'un de ses plus grands succès: Shining. Le petit Dany Torrance est désormais adulte. Il a échappé au sort de son père alcoolique et travaille en tant qu'aide-soignant dans un hospice où il utilise ses pouvoirs surnaturels pour apaiser la souffrance des mourants. D'où son surnom: Docteur Sleep. Il rencontre Abra, fillette de 12 ans, pourchassée par un étrange groupe de voyageurs qui traversent les Etats-Unis en se nourrissant de la lumière des enfants télépathes. Commence alors une guerre épique entre le bien et le mal… King signe un livre magistral, d'une richesse inouïe: à la fois conte fantastique, roman d'aventure, thriller et allégorie de l'Amérique contemporaine — et nous prouve qu'il est bel et bien « The King » ! Stephen King a écrit plus de 50 romans, tous best-sellers, et plus de 200 nouvelles. Il est devenu un mythe vivant de la littérature américaine (National Book Foundation Medal en 2003 pour sa contribution aux lettres américaines, Grand Master du Prix Edgar Allan Poe en 2007, etc.)

Nur mühevoll kann Dan Torrance die Schrecken verarbeiten, die er als kleines Kind im Hotel Overlook erlitten hat. Obendrein hat er die Suchtkrankheit seines besessenen Vaters geerbt und nimmt daher fleißig an Treffen der Anonymen Alkoholiker teil. Seine paranormalen Fähigkeiten – das Shining – setzt er nun in seinem Beruf ein: In einem Hospiz spendet er Sterbenden in ihren letzten Stunden Trost. Man nennt ihn liebevoll Doctor Sleep. Währenddessen ist in ganz Amerika eine Sekte auf der Suche nach ihrem Lebenselixier unterwegs. Ihre Mitglieder sehen so unscheinbar aus wie der landläufige Tourist – Ruheständler in Polyesterkleidung, die in ihr Wohnmobil vernarrt sind. Aber sie sind nahezu unsterblich, wenn sie sich vom letzten Lebenshauch jener Menschen ernähren, die das Shining besitzen. Das Mädchen Abra Stone besitzt es im Übermaß und gerät ins Visier der mörderischen Sekte. Um sie zu retten, weckt Dan die tief in ihm schlummernden Dämonen und ruft sie in einen alles entscheidenden Kampf. Die Originalausgabe erscheint unter dem Titel DOCTOR SLEEP bei Scribner, New York. Copyright © 2013 by Stephen King

Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance 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 spunky twelve-year-old 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. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon

When housekeeper Dolores Claiborne is questioned in the death of her wealthy employer, a long-hidden dark secret from her past is revealed—as is the strength of her own will to survive…

Mieszkańcy Little Tall Island czekali blisko 30 lat, by dowiedzieć się, co przydarzyło się mężowi Dolores Claiborne pewnego dnia latem 1963 roku podczas całkowitego zaćmienia Słońca. Podejrzana o zamordowanie swojej pracodawczyni, bogatej Very Donovan, Dolores niespodziewanie przyznaje się do popełnienia zupełnie innej zbrodni, uparcie jednak deklarując: "Wszystko, co robiłam, robiłam z miłości". Tak zaczyna sie jej niezwykła opowieść…

Seit Jahren wird immer wieder behauptet, Stephen King hätte sich mit Es selbst übertroffen und seither kein ähnlich herausragendes Buch mehr geschrieben. In seinem neuen Roman knüpft er an den dort geschaffenen Mythos um das Städtchen Derry an, entsprechend drängt sich der Vergleich geradezu auf: Kann es Duddits mit Es aufnehmen? Henry, Jonesy, Biber und Pete besuchen dieselbe Schule und sind die dicksten Kumpels. Und sie haben einen fünften Freund, der etwas ganz besonderes ist: Duddits, ein Junge mit Down-Syndrom aus der Sonderschule, den sie einmal vor älteren Mitschülern in Schutz genommen hatten und mit dem sie seither den größten Teil ihrer Freizeit verbringen. Duddits mag zwar über den IQ einer Vogelscheuche verfügen, aber er ist witzig und liebenswert. Außerdem ist er mit einer telepathischen Begabung gesegnet, die sich ansatzweise auch auf die vier Freunde überträgt und einen Großteil ihrer engen Verbundenheit ausmacht -- auch wenn sie sich dessen kaum bewusst sind. 25 Jahre später: Die Lebenswege der Jugendfreunde haben sich weitgehend getrennt, doch jeden November gehen sie in den Wäldern von Maine gemeinsam auf die Jagd. Als sie auf ihrer Jagdhütte eingeschneit werden, nehmen sie die Radiomeldungen über seltsame Lichter am Himmel nicht weiter ernst, bis eine Megafonstimme aus einem Hubschrauber die Gegend zum Sperrgebiet erklärt. Von einer geheimnisvollen Epidemie ist die Rede, und aus der Ferne ertönen Schüsse, eine Explosion dröhnt durch den Wald. Für die vier Freunde beginnt ein Albtraum, der sie in die Vergangenheit führt, bis an die Grenzen ihres Vorstellungsvermögens. Stephen King hat Duddits vollständig von Hand geschrieben und erwähnt in seiner Nachbemerkung, er sei schon lange nicht mehr so dicht an der Sprache dran gewesen. Diese Sprache ist einerseits sehr menschlich, fast anrührend, in den inneren Monologen dagegen -- sogar für King -- ausgesprochen vulgär. Gerade das aber verleiht der Erzählung eine unglaubliche Durchschlagskraft, die Kings Romanen in dieser Intensität lange gefehlt hat. Das Schicksal seiner Figuren verbindet sich mit der fesselnden Handlung und bannt den Leser auf jeder Seite! Warum die deutsche Ausgabe allerdings nicht schlicht "Traumfänger" heißt, lässt sich wohl nur durch die verzweifelte Suche der zuständigen Marketing-Abteilung nach einer Existenzberechtigung erklären. Doch das sollte niemand daran hindern, sich auf ein Buch zu stürzen, auf das wir lange gewartet haben: einen Stephen King in Hochform! --Felix Darwin

Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body, self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches into a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife and tried to strangle her one-handed (he lost his arm and for a time his rational brain in the accident). He divides his wealth into four equal parts for his wife, his two daughters and himself and leaves Minnesota for Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily remote stretch of the Florida coast where he has rented a house. All of the land on Duma Key, and the few houses, are owned by Elizabeth Eastlake, an octogenarian whose tragic and mysterious past unfolds perilously. When Edgar begins to paint, his formidable talent seems to come from someplace outside him, and the paintings, many of them, have a power that cannot be controlled. Soon the ghosts of Elizabeth’s childhood return, and the damage of which they are capable is truly terrifying. Like Lisey’s Story, this is a novel about the tenacity of love and the perils of creativity. Its supernatural elements will have King fans reeling

Nuo pat žmonijos atsiradimo ją persekioja Dievo rūstybė. Žiloje senovėje tai buvo Tvanas, Sodomos ir Gomoros žūtis, kitos tikros ar mitinės katastrofos. Jau keletą amžių manėme esą savo likimo šeimininkai. Pristatėme miestų, prigaminome automobilių, sparčiai vystėme mokslą, švietimą, gilinomės į gyvybės ir mirties paslaptis. Bet vieną kartą žengėme klaidingą žingsnį ir patys pasirašėme sau mirties nuosprendį... _

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Le Dôme : personne n’y entre, personne n’en sort. A la fin de l’automne, la petite ville de Chester Mill, dans le Maine, est inexplicablement et brutalement isolée du reste du monde par un champ de force invisible. Personne ne comprend ce qu’est ce dôme transparent, d’où il vient et quand — ou si — il partira. L’armée semble impuissante à ouvrir un passage tandis que les ressources à l’intérieur de Chester Mill se raréfient. Big Jim Rennie, un politicien pourri jusqu’à l’os, voit tout de suite le bénéfice qu’il peut tirer de la situation, lui qui a toujours rêvé de mettre la ville sous sa coupe. Un nouvel ordre social régi par la terreur s’installe et la résistance s’organise autour de Dale Barbara, vétéran de l’Irak et chef cuistot fraîchement débarqué en ville…

Le Dôme : personne n’y entre, personne n’en sort

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. 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 they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face—including his own—he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others. From Stephen King, our “most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work” (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear… ‘I’m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. I’d like you to come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you, if she’s available…’ Retired Detective Bill Hodges now runs a two-person firm called Finders Keepers with his partner Holly Gibney. They met in the wake of the ‘Mercedes Massacre’ when a queue of people was run down by the diabolical killer Brady Hartsfield. Brady is now confined to Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, in an unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: the evidence suggests that Brady is somehow awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. The clock is ticking in unexpected ways… Both a stand-alone novel of heart-pounding suspense and a sublimely terrifying final episode in the Hodges trilogy, End of Watch takes the series into a powerful new dimension. The extract above is abridged from End of Watch. An Amazon Best Book of June 2016: It has been seven years since the Mercedes Killer, Brady Hartsfield, was knocked on the head and put into a catatonic state. But now he’s awake, even if people haven’t quite been clued into that fact, and he’s got a score to settle. His ultimate quarry is the detective Bill Hodges, and as Brady gains his faculties—as well as some new paranormal skills (telekinesis anyone?)—people start committing suicide at a mysterious and alarming rate. King hits his sweet spot in this final episode of the Bill Hodges Trilogy, introducing his talent for horror into a storyline that already has featured some great detective writing. The result is a book that mixes revenge, crime, and otherworldly powers, bringing the trilogy to a thrilling, satisfying close. THE BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR… recommended to crime buffs and King fans alike. I challenge you not to read this book in one breathless sitting. King continues to tweak the hard-boiled genre in spectacular ways. A classic cat-and-mouse tale, this is King at his rip-roaring best. Fantastic… In part a love letter to literature, this is vintage King… Roll on the last in the trilogy

In diesem atmosphärisch ungeheuer dichten Roman schildert Stephen King, der weltweit als "Edgar Allan Poe der Gegenwart" gefeiert wird, den uralten mythischen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Die Gemeinschaft der Freunde kann "es" töten, weil ihre Freundschaft und Liebe zueinander stärker ist als die Gewalt des Bösen. Titel der englischen Originalausgabe: »It«

Good writing isn't an easy task for all of us, even for… get ready for it, Stephen King! This article he wrote in 1988 describes how he learned to write and started his career. Enjoy his 12 tips that will teach you to write like a King in ten minutes

Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan’s notes for the ages. Fans watching the 2004 baseball playoffs were often treated to shots of Stephen King sitting in the stands, notebook in hand. Given the bizarre events on the field, from the Red Sox’s unprecedented comeback against their most hated rivals to their ace pitcher’s bleeding, stitched-together ankle--not to mention the Sox’s first championship in 86 years--you could be forgiven for thinking King was writing the script as he went along, passing new plot twists down to the dugouts between innings. What he was writing, though, along with his friend and fellow novelist Stewart O’Nan, was Faithful, a diary of the 2004 Red Sox season. Faithful is written not from inside the clubhouse or the press room, but from the outside, from the stands and the sofa in front of the TV, by two fans who, like the rest of New England, have lived and died (mostly died) with the Sox for decades. From opposite ends of Red Sox Nation, King in Maine and O’Nan at the border of Yankees country in Connecticut, they would meet in the middle at Fenway Park or trade emails from home about the games they’d both stayed up past midnight to watch. King (or, rather, “Steve”) is emotional, O’Nan (or “Stew”) is obsessively analytical. Steve, as the most famous Sox fan who didn’t star in Gigli, is a folk hero of sorts, trading high fives with doormen and enjoying box seats better than John Kerry’s, while Stew is an anonymous nomad, roving all over the park. (Although he’s such a shameless ballhound that he gains some minor celebrity as "Netman" when he brings a giant fishing net to hawk batting-practice flies from the top of the Green Monster.) You won’t find any of the Roger Angell-style lyricism here that baseball, and the Sox in particular, seem to bring out in people. (King wouldn’t stand for it.) Instead, this is the voice of sports talk radio: two fans by turns hopeful, distraught, and elated, who assess every inside pitch and every waiver move as a personal affront or vindication. Full of daily play-by-play and a season’s rises and falls, Faithful isn’t self-reflective or flat-out funny enough to become a sports classic like Fever Pitch, Ball Four, or A Fan’s Notes, but like everything else associated with the Red Sox 2004 season, from the signing of Curt Schilling to Dave Roberts’s outstretched fingers, it carries the golden glow of destiny. And, of course, it’s got a heck of an ending. Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox’s stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory, none will have this book’s warmth, personality or depth. Beginning with an e-mail exchange in the summer of 2003, novelists King and O’Nan started keeping diaries chronicling the Red Sox’s season, from spring training to the Series’ final game. Although they attended some games together, the two did most of their conversing in electronic missives about the team’s players, the highs and lows of their performance on the field and the hated Yankees (“limousine longballers”). O’Nan acts as a play-by-play announcer, calling the details of every game (sometimes quite tediously), while King provides colorful commentary, making the games come alive by proffering his intense emotional reactions to them. When the Red Sox find themselves three games down during the ALCS, King reflects on the possibilities of a win in game four: “Yet still we are the faithful… we tell ourselves it’s just one game at a time. We tell ourselves the impossible can start tonight.” After the Sox win the Series, O’Nan delivers a fan’s thanks: “You believed in yourselves even more than we did. That’s why you’re World Champions, and why we’ll never forget you or this season. Wherever you go, any of you, you’ll always have a home here, in the heart of the Nation.” (At times, the authors’ language borders on the maudlin.) But King and O’Nan are, admittedly, more eloquent than average baseball fans (or average sportswriters, for that matter), and their book will provide Red Sox readers an opportunity to relive every nail-biting moment of a memorable season

Dans la chambre 217 de l’hôpital Kiner Memorial, Brady Hartsfield, alias Mr Mercedes, gît dans un état végétatif depuis sept ans, soumis aux expérimentations du docteur Babineau. Mais derrière son rictus douloureux et son regard fixe, Brady est bien vivant. Et capable de commettre un nouveau carnage sans même quitter son lit. Sa première pensée est pour Bill Hodges, son plus vieil ennemi… « Après Mr Mercedes et Carnets noirs, les fans de Stephen King trouveront dans ce mélange de suspense et d’horreur la conclusion parfaite à la trilogie de l’inspecteur Hodges. » STEPHEN KING a écrit plus de 50 romans, autant de best-sellers, et plus de 200 nouvelles. Couronné de nombreux prix littéraires, il est devenu un mythe vivant de la littérature américaine (médaille de la National Book Foundation en 2003 pour sa contribution aux lettres américaines, Grand Master Award en 2007 pour l’ensemble de son œuvre)

Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new anthology, perfect for airport or airplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, along with brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill. Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you’re suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like—gulp!—a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we’ll bet you’ve never thought of before… but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, “ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents… Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight.”

In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King’s keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done. King’s earnings from the sale of this essay will go the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence