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Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when ...

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A ...

He was a writer and she was his number one fan. She had pulled him out of the car-wreck, brought him home and splinted and set his mangled legs. All he had to do in return was to write a very special book, just for her, all about her favourite character from his novels. If he didn't, she would ma...

Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confide only in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition: he's losing weight, without getting thinner, and the scales register the same when he is in his clothes or out of them, however hea...

A mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, 'Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption' is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this i...

Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's ju...

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to...

A New Castle Rock Novella from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. 'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' Washington PostThe small town of CASTLE ROCK, MAINE has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but the...

A collection of twenty stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all assembled in one book for the first time - with a bonus: in addition to his introduction to the whole collection, Stephen King gives readers an introduction to each story with autobiographical comments on their ...

In a bumper collection of truly chilling tales we meet Gramma - who only wants to hug little George, even after she was dead, The Monkey - an innocent looking toy with sinister powers, and the unspeakable horror of The Mist, amongst others.

Carrie has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to prom night by Tommy is a dream - the first step to social acceptance. But events take a turn on that night as Carrie is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her.

Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Surely it was a safe place.

Set in a small New England town called Salem's Lot, this classic Stephen King horror tale's central character is a fairly successful writer who, upon returning to the town to write a semi-autobiography, finds himself surrounded by terror.

Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel his visions grow frighteningly out of control.

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary killers such as Billy the Kid Wharton and Eduard Delacroix await death in Old Sparky. But no-one is prepared for the arrival of the evil new prisoner, John Coffey.

Horror.