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Le génie narratif de Stephen King atteint de nouveaux sommets et bouscule les frontières de l'imaginaire. Conte de fées, c'est l'histoire magnifique et terrifiante d'un garçon de dix-sept ans qui hérite de clés ouvrant sur un univers parallèle où le Bien affronte le pouvoir écrasant du Mal. Une bataille dont l'enjeu est capital... pour notre monde.

Eindringlich, unheimlich, unwiderstehlich - Stephen King in Bestform: 14 düstere Überraschungen, blutige und unblutige, die von der unbändigen Schaffenskraft eines Autors zeugen, der als Größter seines Faches anerkannt wird. Unter den preisgekrönten Storys befindet sich auch die Erzählung "Der Mann im schwarzen Anzug", die mit dem O.-Henry-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde, dem renommiertesten Literaturpreis für Kurzgeschichten.

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mum urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

Rick McCoy of the Major Crime Squad is trying to repair his marriage when he is sent to the South of Western Australia. A young girl's body has been found in a cave, with flowers on her chest. A search finds five more bodies. Beautiful criminal psychologist, Patricia Holmes, has recovered from her stab wounds inflicted by the serial killer PPP. As their desire for each other grows and the pressure on their marriages increase, they close in on the man responsible for the beautiful deaths.

Four more short stories from the “Crossroads” series that will help keep you entertained late into the night. Discover the bright imagination, suspense, thrilling drama, picturesque visions, and a deeper look into the true landscape of the “Crossroads” series.

A thrilling collection of 20 stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and collected for the first time - with a wonderful bonus: in addition to his introduction to the whole collection, King gives readers a fascinating introduction to each story with autobiographical comments on their origins and motivations.

Nicky is sick of the violence he sees while driving a cab in the city. On the night of his brother Simon's eighteenth birthday, a gang senselessly beat him to death, and Nicky hopes to find the men responsible.

A lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his growing obsession, he...

Criminal psychologist Patricia Holmes is now a detective paired with Detective Sergeant Rick McCoy. Together, they hunt "The Biblical Killer", so named for the quotes left on walls written in the victim's blood. To lure the murderer out, they join the Tender Nights internet dating site, openly making themselves targets.

Carrie White é uma adolescente tímida, solitária e oprimida pela mãe, cristã ferrenha que vê pecado em tudo. A rotina na escola não alivia o dia a dia em casa. Para os colegas e professores, ela é estranha, não se encaixa e, por consequência, é alvo constante de bullying. O que ninguém sabe ainda é que, por trás da aparência frágil e indefesa, Carrie esconde um enorme poder: ela consegue mover objetos com a mente. Trancar portas. Derrubar velas. Dom ou maldição, isso mudará para sempre o destino das pessoas que algum dia lhe fizeram mal.

Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA. For listeners new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower.

In jungen Jahren hatte der König von Delain noch Drachen gejagt - jetzt ist Roland alt und krank. Bald wird sein ältester Sohn Peter...

Danny n’a que cinq ans, mais il possède le " shining ", un don qui le fait rayonner d’une énergie psychique. Lorsque son père devient le gardien d’un vieil hôtel, les visions de Danny deviennent incontrôlables. Isolé du reste du monde par le blizzard, l’hôtel semble développer une force maléfique. Et qui sont ces mystérieux clients qui hantent ce lieu prétendument désert ?

From the No.1 bestselling author, comes an exciting novel new to Hodder in eBook and audio. On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues...

"I would ask you a favour," said the German captain, as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more in Harwich Harbour, in November, 1918. I made no reply; I had just granted him a favour by allowing him to leave the upper deck of the submarine, in order that he might await the motor launch in some sort of privacy; why should he ask for more? Undeterred by my silence, he continued: "I have a great friend, Lieutenant-zu-See Von Schenk, who brought U.122 over last week; he has lost a diary, quite private, he left it in error; can he have it?"

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Dean Evers trompe l'ennui de ses vieux jours devant les matchs de baseball à la télévision. Quand soudain, dans les gradins, il découvre au cœur de la foule un visage surgi du passé. Quelqu'un qui ne devrait pas être là, au stade... ni même parmi les vivants. Soir après soir, Dean se laisse hypnotiser par les visages de ceux qu'il n'espérait - ou ne voulait - plus voir. Mais le pire est à venir.

Die neunjährige Trisha unternimmt mit ihrem Bruder und ihrer Mutter eine Wanderung. Sie verlässt kurz den Weg - und verläuft sich im Wald. Hunger und Durst, Schwärme von Mücken, Einsamkeit und Dunkelheit sind nicht ihre einzigen Begleiter.

Edgar Freemantle wird bei einem Unfall lebensgefährlich verletzt und verliert seinen rechten Arm. Er hat große Schmerzen und zieht sich auf eine Florida-Insel zurück, wo er sich aus therapeutischen Gründen der Malerei widmet. Von der Insel scheint eine unheimliche Macht auszugehen: Dinge, die Freemantle malt, erscheinen in der Wirklichkeit, was er ausradiert, verschwindet - auch Menschen.

Em Não pisque, Stephen King retorna ao mundo investigativo da fascinante personagem Holly Gibney para narrar tramas paralelas cheias de mistério e tensão. E mais uma vez se prova mestre não só do terror e da fantasia, mas também na arte de construir thrillers. Em mais um romance protagonizado por Holly Gibney, Stephen King retorna com uma história que entremeia duas linhas narrativas: a primeira sobre um assassino em busca de vingança, e a segunda sobre um justiceiro cujo alvo é uma celebridade feminista.

À 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.