Book Preview DUSK, OF A SUMMER EVENING this dark chest of wonders. The Stand is a work of fiction, as its subject matter makes perfectly clear. Many of the events occur in real places—such as Ogunquit, Maine; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Boulder, Colorado—and with these places I have taken the liberty of changing them to … Read more
Book Preview 1 – Job Interview Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissy speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but comforting. I am a … Read more
Book Preview There’s a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess-I’m the guy who can get it for you Tailormade cigarettes, a bag of reefer if you’re partial to that, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter’s high school graduation, or almost anything else . . … Read more
Book Preview I. The Coming of the Storm. This is what happened. On the night that the worst heat wave in northern New England history finally broke-the night of July 19-the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen. We lived on Long Lake, and we saw the … Read more
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Book Preview Stephen King “The Green Mile” file:///z:/Books/Books/extract/king02.html Stephen King — “The Green Mile” Dear Constant Reader, Life is a capricious business. The story which begins in this little book exists in this form because of a chance remark made by a realtor I have never met. This happened a year ago, on Long Island. … Read more
Book Preview THE WORLD had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten o’clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother’s Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey … Read more
Book Preview Stephen King The Eyes of the Dragon 1 Once, in a kingdom called Detain, there was a King with two sons. Detain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands; when time goes on long enough, not even historians … Read more
Book Preview My Life at Rose Red Photographs on pp. vii, 30, 34, 45, and 253 copyright © 2001 Jimmy Malecki / ABC Photograph on p. 65 copyright © 2001 MSCUA, University of Washington Libraries, Barnes 171-L All sketches copyright © 2001 Hyperion Copyright © 2001 Hyperion All rights reserved. No part of this book … Read more
Book Preview Stephen King: The Dead Zone ELECTRONIC VERSION 1.1 (Mar 27 00). If you find and correct errors in the text, please update the version number by 0.1 and redistribute. By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY STEPHEN KING NOVELS Carrie ’Salem’s Lot The Shining The Stand The Dead Zone Firestarter Cujo Christine Pet Sematary Cycle of the Werewolf The Talisman (with Peter Straub) It The Eyes of the Dragon Misery The Tommyknockers THE DARK TOWER II: The Drawing of the Three THE DARK TOWER III:The Waste Lands … Read more
Book Preview Also by Stephen King NOVELS Carrie ’Salem’s Lot The Shining The Stand The Dead Zone Firestarter Cujo THE DARK TOWER I: The Gunslinger Christine Pet Sematary Cycle of the Werewolf The Talisman (with Peter Straub) It The Eyes of the Dragon Misery The Tommyknockers THE DARK TOWER II: The Drawing of the Three … Read more
Book Preview Illustrated by DarrelAnderson The penultimate volume in the DarkTower series, Song of Susannah is a pivotal installment in the most anticipated series of publications in Stephen King’s legendary career. As Stephen King’s seven-volume magnum opus draws to its electrifying conclusion, his hero, Roland Deschain, discovers the key to the quest that defines his … Read more
Book Preview Advance Uncorrected Proof-Not for Sale Does not include Bernie Wrightson’s 12 full-color illustrations, which will appear in the finished book. The publication of Wolves of the Calla, the first of the final three books in the Dark Tower series, is the most anticipated event in Stephen King’s legendary career. The world’s bestselling author … Read more
Book Preview In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their … Read more
Book Preview THE DARK TOWER IV STEPHEN KING wizard and glass ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVE MCKEAN A PLUME BOOK PLUME Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 … Read more
Book Preview THE ROSE IT BEGAN TO OPEN before his eyes. It disclosed a dark scarlet furnace, petal upon secret petal, each blazing with its own secret fury. Jake had never seen anything so beautiful, so intensely and utterly alive. Now, as he stretched one grime-streaked hand out toward this wonder, the voices began to … Read more
Book Preview CONTENTS ARGUMENT PROLOGUE: THE SAILOR THE PRISONER 1 • THE DOOR 2 • EDDIE DEAN 3 • CONTACT AND LANDING 4 • THE TOWER 5 • SHOWDOWN AND SHOOT-OUT SHUFFLE THE LADY OF SHADOWS 1 • DETTA AND ODETTA 2 • RINGING THE CHANGES 3 • ODETTA ON THE OTHER SIDE 4 • … Read more