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El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en toda 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.

Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, Rose Madder, which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.

A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to the number one best seller The Outsider. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realises there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. 

Everyone in the kingdom talked about the King-in-waiting, Roland's elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Roland's younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead. The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison. While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots.

Le roman Billy Summers de Stephen King sortira en français, le 21 septembre 2022... le jour de l'anniversaire de Stephen King !

Billy Summers é uma história de guerra, amor, sorte e destino, com um herói complexo buscando sua última chance de redenção. Impossível de largar e impossível de esquecer. Billy Summers é o homem com a arma; um assassino de aluguel e um dos melhores atiradores do mundo. Mas ele tem um critério: só aceita o serviço se o alvo for realmente uma pessoa ruim.

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. 'Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing.' The result is this unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic...

Timothy Bergendorf suffers from so many potentially fatal allergies, he’s forced to live in a self-contained bubble. Protected from everything and loved by his parents, Timothy endures a lonely childhood. Yet, as nature compensates, he develops extraordinary telekinetic and psychic powers. As he reaches puberty, his secret talents increase in power so he can travel the world in his mind. Using his power while juggling numerous cars in the air, Timothy suffers a ruptured hernia and is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. But the operation goes wrong, Tim awakens in agony, and the ...

Stephen King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special 12-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop . . . Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever...

The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.

Christine was eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious. Christine, blood red, fat, and finned, was 20. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished. There was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into possession.

Verdrängte Erinnerungen, blutige Liebesbeweise, mörderische Wahrheiten. Wie weit darf Liebe gehen? Als Liseys berühmter Mann stirbt, weckt sein Nachlass in ihr albtraumhafte Erinnerungen und Ahnungen, die bald grausame Gewissheit werden...

Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are haunted by the past. On a sharp December day, the wind changes—and the birds begin to gather. A group of wartime scientists attempt to capture the power of death, an eye operation reveals a monstrous reality, and a woman returns home to find she doesn't exist.

When Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn to his summer home, the beautiful lakeside retreat called Sara Laughs. Here Mike finds the once familiar town in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his deceased son's daughter and is twisting the fabric of the community to this purpose. Three year old Kyra and her young mother turn to Mike for help. And Mike finds them increasingly irresistible.

Cuando tenía doce años, Gwendy Peterson conoció a Richard Farris, un tipo misterioso que le pidió que cuidara de una extraña caja de botones. Ahora, Gwendy es una afamada novelista y su carrera política está empezando a despegar. Parece que lo tiene todo a su alcance, pero entonces el insólito objeto vuelve a su vida. Las fuerzas del mal se han apoderado por completo de la caja de botones y ahora recae sobre Gwendy la responsabilidad de alejarlas de ella. ¿Su última misión?Salvar al mundo. Y puede que a todos los mundos.

Dolores Claiborne has a confession to make.... She will take her time. Won't be hurried. Will do it her way, sparing neither details nor feelings. Hers or anyone else's. This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Truth that takes you to the edge of darkness. Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell, and you'd better pay attention - or else.

Il y a vingt ans, Jack a survécu à l'enfer des Territoires. Aujourd'hui, pour l'amour d'une femme et la vie d'un enfant, il va franchir une nouvelle fois la frontière. French Landing, paisible bourgade du Wisconsin, est terrorisée par un serial killer. Désemparé, le shérif local fait appel à son ami Jack Sawyer, un ancien flic de Hollywood. L'enquête conduit Jack jusqu'à une maison que l'on dit hantée, nichée au fond des bois.

Em Sob a redoma, em um dia como outro qualquer em Chester's Mill, no Maine, a pequena cidade é subitamente isolada do resto do mundo por um campo de força invisível. Aviões explodem quando tentam atravessá-lo e pessoas trabalhando em cidades vizinhas são separadas de suas famílias. Ninguém consegue entender o que é essa barreira, de onde ela veio e quando–ou se–ela irá desaparecer. Os moradores de Chester's Mill percebem que terão de lutar por sua sobrevivência.