Book Preview “If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.” —D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow (Everything the Same) To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon. Her husband had won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, … Read more
Book Preview Acclaim For the Workof STEPHEN KING! “Excellent, psychologically textured…Stephen King is so widely acknowledged as America’s master of paranormal terrors that you can forget his real genius is for the everyday.” —New York Times Book Review “King has written…a novel that’s as hauntingly touching as it is just plain haunted…one of his freshest … Read more
Book Preview Joyland Stephen King Titan (2013) Rating: **** Tags: Crime, Mystery & Detective, Fiction / Mystery & Detective, Hard-Boiled, Fiction A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student … Read more
Book Preview Welcome to Derry, Maine. . . . It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry, the haunting is real…. They were just kids when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world … Read more
Book Preview RALPH ROBERTS IS SEEING SOME STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN DERRY, MAINE. He sees auras around human beings that show him the horror threatening them. He sees a nice young research chemist like Ed Deepneau turn into a savage wife beater. He sees Charlie Pickering with blood in his eyes and a gleaming knife in … Read more
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Book Preview 1 There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day this summer—yes, even on Sundays—twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. She walks the … Read more
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Book Preview This book is dedicated, with love and admiration, to six good women: Margaret Spruce Morehouse Catherine Spruce Graves Stephanie Spruce Leonard (Sadie) gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. ‘You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You’re all the same, … Read more
Book Preview Curt Wilcox’s boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again. We understood what he was doing: trying to hold on to the memory of … Read more
Book Preview Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror … First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. … Read more
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Book Preview Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller “is as fresh as a Hemingway sentence is short. And it’s no mistake to have those two authors’ names in the same sentence.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “First-rate entertainment. . . . A return to form for a beloved pop novelist. . . . Perhaps Duma Key’s setting—it is King’s first Florida novel—accounts for its fresh vigor … Read more
Book Preview Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted material: “Dying Man” © 1956 bv Atlantic Monthly Co. The Waking © 1953 by Theodore Roethke from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke bv Theodore Roethke, used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. “Scooby Doo Where Are … Read more
Book Preview WHAT did you ask, Andy Bissette? Do I ‘understand these rights as you’ve explained em to me’? Gorry! What makes some men so numb? No, you never mind – still your jawin and listen to me for awhile. I got an idear you’re gonna he listenin to me most of the night, so … Read more
Book Preview When I was playing my primitive brand of rhythm guitar with a group called the Rock Bottom Remainders, Warren Zevon used to gig with us. Warren loved gray t-shirts and movies like Kingdom of the Spiders. He insisted I sing lead on his signature tune, “Werewolves of London,” during the encore portion of … Read more
Book Preview “A big, serious, scary novel. . . . King is at the top of his game.” —Entertainment Weekly There’s a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It’s known as Desperation, Nevada. It’s not a very nice place to live. It’s an even worse place to die. Let … Read more
Book Preview Somewhere, high above, the moon shines down, fat and full-but here, in Tarker’s Mills, a January blizzard has choked the sky with snow. The wind rams full force down a deserted Center Avenue; the orange town plows have given up long since. Arnie Westrum, flagman on the GS&WM Railroad, has been caught in … Read more