Books by Stephen King

Huset føles som det perfekte sted for dr. Louis Creed. Vidtstrakt, gammelt og hyggeligt. Et sted, hvor familien kan falde til ro, hvor børnene kan lege og gå på opdagelse. Maines bakker og marker er flere verdner væk fra Chicagos smogfyldte, farlige gader. Bag huset løber en sirligt holdt sti, som generation efter generation af lokale børn har betrådt på vej ind i skoven for at begrave døde kæledyr. Alvorsfulde børneansigter, højtelskede husdyr. Et trist sted, ja, men det kan umuligt være farligt, være noget, der trænger ind i drømmene og tvinger dig vågen, badet i angstens sved – kan det?

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep - and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...

Fire fortællinger fra gysets mester Stephen King.“Jeg tror, at der lever en anden mand inden i alle mænd, en fremmed, en hensynsløs mand… ”Således skriver en af hovedpersonerne i Stephen Kings nye bog Helt mørkt, intet lys. Et udsagn, som udmærket kan danne ramme om alle fire fortællinger.I den første fortælling, ’1922’, vækkes denne fremmede til live i Wilfred Leland James, da hans kone insisterer på, at de skal flytte.I ’Den store chauffør’ møder hovedpersonen denne fremmede på en landevej efter at have skudt genvej hjem efter et bogklubs-arrangement.I ’En rimelig forlængelse’ sker mødet med denne fremmede efter at hovedpersonen har indgået en pagt med djævlen. Og i den sidste fortælling, ’Et godt ægteskab’, opdager den intetanende kone den fremmede i sin ægtemand gennem tyve år, da hun en dag tilfældigvis støder foden ind i en kasse ude i garagen. I Helt mørkt, intet lys er Stephen King optaget af spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt vi overhovedet kan komme til at kende et andet menneske fuldt og helt, og han er optaget af det gode og det onde i mennesket. Eller som han på underfundig vis siger: ”Jeg tror, at de fleste mennesker er fundamentalt gode. Jeg ved, at det gælder mig selv. Det er dig, jeg ikke er helt sikker på.”

The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear . . . 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide . . . Come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you.'Bill Hodges, who now runs a two-person agency called Finders Keepers with partner Holly Gibney, is intrigued by the letter Z written with a marker at the scene of the crime.As similar cases mount up, Hodges is stunned to discover the evidence points to Brady Hartsfield, the notorious 'Mercedes Killer' who they helped to convict. It should be impossible: Brady is confined to a hospital room in a seemingly unresponsive state.But Brady Hartsfield has lethal new powers. And he's planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. The clock is ticking in unexpected ways...BRADY IS BACK. AND SO IS HODGES.The extract above is abridged from End of Watch.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor!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 twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.'Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival . . .

For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller The Wind through the Keyhole is a perfect bridge between the fourth and fifth novels in Stephen King's epic masterpiece. A story within a story which features both the younger and older gunslinger, it is also a wonderful introduction to The Dark Tower series.As Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet leave the Emerald city, a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. While they shelter from the starkblast, Roland tells a story about his younger days, when he was sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-changer. At the scene of the crime he had tried to comfort a terrified young boy called Bill Streeter by reciting a story from The Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole'. 'A person's never too old for stories,' he said to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER...THE DARK TOWER SERIES:THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWERTHE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like . . .There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system.Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick.And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir . . .

You re a firestarter honey just one big Zippo lighter.A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift.It is a gift which could be used to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy

Stephen King's fan-favourite thriller. Also available in audio for the first time, read by Academy Award nominee James Franco.The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . .Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fianc e has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men's souls. He's had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man . . .

THE DARK TOWER is the seventh volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.The final book in King's epic The Dark Tower series, sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.And as he closes in on the Tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. Finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone... JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER...THE DARK TOWER SERIES:THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

Is it possible to fully know anyone? Even those we love the most? What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime?For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger.Dave Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival.And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading home . . .Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

Adapted as a major TV series, produced by Steven Spielberg, King's bestselling novel centres on a small town suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible dome.In UNDER THE DOME, King has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it.It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out.The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late . . .

'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.'Stephen King, from the Introduction. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow.Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror . . .

En roman for alle dem, der ikke aner, at de er Stephen King-fan!Den 22. november 1963 lød tre skud i Dallas, John F. Kennedy døde, og verden var forandret for altid. Men hvad nu hvis man kan ændre historiens gang? Skal man så gøre det? Det spørgsmål må 35-årige Jake Epping stille sig selv, den dag hans gamle ven Al viser ham en tidstunnel skjult i den lokale diner. Jake er en helt almindelig mand; high school-lærer, fraskilt og sympatisk – og ikke mindst skeptisk over for tidstunneller.Men Al har forberedt sig godt og overtaler Jake til at tage turen tilbage til 1958, bo der i fem år og gøre et forsøg på at forhindre mordet på Kennedy. Men Jake er ikke på forlystelsestur, han er en mand med en mission; det er egentlig meningen, at han skal koncentrere sig om den problematiske enspænder Lee Harvey Oswalds færden, det er meningen han skal forhindre et mord. Til gengæld er det ikke meningen, at han skal forelske sig i den smukke bibliotekar Sadie Dunhill. Jake kommer til at finde sig rigtig godt tilrette i fortiden, og samtidig mærker han tydeligt, at fortiden modsætter sig at blive ændret; den kæmper imod.22.11.63 er en imponerende bedrift; veloplagt og tankevækkende. King formår at lege med tiden på troværdig vis, han formår at skabe en tidslomme, hvor ikke kun Jake ønsker at blive, men også læseren; man bliver ganske enkelt opslugt.Oversat af Alis Friis CaspersenJohn F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry, James Patrick Hosty, George de Mohrenschildt, Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova, mordet på John F. Kennedy, cuban missile crisis, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, USA, kærlighed, tidsrejser

Sidste roman i Dark Tower-serien, eller Det mørkeTårn. Nogle kalder den nr. 7 andre kalder dennr. 4,5, men sikkert er det, at den er længeventet på dansk af alle Kings dark tower fans.Vinden gennem nøglehullet er skrevet som densidste i serien, men handlingsmæssigt placererden sig mellem nr. 4 og 5.King indledte faktisk Dark Tower serien helttilbage i 1974, men først i løbet af 80’erne slogserien for alvor igennem, og fik kultstatus.De seneste bind i serien blev udgivet i 2003og 2004, men efterfølgende besluttede Kingsig for at skrive Vinden gennem nøglehullettil stor begejstring for de mange fans. Faktiskkan romanen også læses uden at have læst deøvrige i serien, og kan på den måde udgøre enport ind til Kings forfatterskab.Dark Tower-serien er fantasy, når det erbedst. Læseren tages på en fascinerende og gribende rejse og følger fire forskelligehovedpersoner. Den verden King formår at skabe har beriget utallige læsere gennemårenes løb. Han mestrer fortællekunsten som kun de færreste.

Atlantis er fem sammenhængende fortællinger, der alle foregår i årene 1960 til 1999. Hver historie har rod i tresserne, og vietnamkrigen spøger i dem alle. Elleveårige Bobby Garfield opdager at livet ikke er retfærdigt. Hans fattige principfaste mor opdrager ham strengt, men da Ted Brautigan, en gammel mand, der flytter ind i hans mors hus, får han en ven. Samtidig finder han dog ud af, at verden er fuld af farlige rovdyr, og han indser, at voksne ikke altid er, hvad de giver sig ud for at være.Maine Universitetet 1966. En gruppe unge studerende med Pete i spidsen bliver grebet af kortspillet Hjerterfri. Mange dropper ud af universitetet, fordi de bruger al deres tid på at spille. Petes veninde Carol, går til en Vietnam-demonstration. Pete beundrer hende, men selvom hun beder ham om det, vil han ikke holde op med at spille Herterfri.To mænd, der voksede op med Bobby Garfield i Connecticut, prøver at udfylde tomheden i deres liv efter Vietnam-krigen. Blinde Willie tigger på Fifth Avenue, men må aflevere en stor del til den lokale betjent, som han hader. Han lever en dobbelttilværelse, er forvirret og blander både fortid og nutid sammen. Og hele tiden hviler Vietnam-krigen som skygge over dem begge.Men alle maskerne falder. Bobby vender tilbage til sin hjemby, hvor en hemmelighed, håbet om udfrielse og hans hjertes inderste ønske måske venter på ham. Atlantis tager nogle læsere med til et sted, hvor de aldrig har været, og andre til et sted, de aldrig rigtigt har kunnet forlade, og betragtes af mange som Kings mesterstykke.Som mange, mange andre læsere hører jeg til dem, der med stor fornøjelse har læst alt af mesteren af bl.a. horror-genren. Hans historier er altid suverænt velskrevne og de er evige historier om det Godes kamp mod det Onde. Nu overrasker ham mig positivt igen med denne novellesamling, der er noget af det bedste King jeg har læst. - Lektør: Carsten Nørby Sørensen

Fire fortællinger fra gysets mester Stephen King.“Jeg tror, at der lever en anden mand inden i alle mænd, en fremmed, en hensynsløs mand… ”Således skriver en af hovedpersonerne i Stephen Kings nye bog Helt mørkt, intet lys. Et udsagn, som udmærket kan danne ramme om alle fire fortællinger.I den første fortælling, ’1922’, vækkes denne fremmede til live i Wilfred Leland James, da hans kone insisterer på, at de skal flytte.I ’Den store chauffør’ møder hovedpersonen denne fremmede på en landevej efter at have skudt genvej hjem efter et bogklubs-arrangement.I ’En rimelig forlængelse’ sker mødet med denne fremmede efter at hovedpersonen har indgået en pagt med djævlen.Og i den sidste fortælling, ’Et godt ægteskab’, opdager den intetanende kone den fremmede i sin ægtemand gennem tyve år, da hun en dag tilfældigvis støder foden ind i en kasse ude i garagen.I Helt mørkt, intet lys er Stephen King optaget af spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt vi overhovedet kan komme til at kende et andet menneske fuldt og helt, og han er optaget af det gode og det onde i mennesket. Eller som han på underfundig vis siger: ”Jeg tror, at de fleste mennesker er fundamentalt gode. Jeg ved, at det gælder mig selv. Det er dig, jeg ikke er helt sikker på.”

Charlie Reader ligner en helt almindelig high-school-dreng, han er fremragende til baseball og klarer sig glimrende bogligt. Men han bærer rundt på en tung bagage. Hans mor blev dræbt i en trafikulykke, da han var ti, og sorgen drev hans far til at drikke. Charlie har tidligt lært at passe på sig selv – og på sin far. Da han er sytten, møder han en hund ved navn Radar og dens aldrende herre, eneboeren Howard Bowditch, der bor i et stort hus på toppen af en høj bakke. I baghaven står der et aflåst skur, og nogle gange kommer der mærkelige lyde derindefra. Charlie begynder at hjælpe mr. Bowditch med gøremål, og han taber sit hjerte til Radar. Da Bowditch dør, efterlader han Charlie et kassettebånd med en utrolig historie til gengæld: Hele sit liv har Bowditch vidst, at skuret gemmer på en portal til en anden verden.I Et eventyr når Kings fortællekunst nye højder. Det er en storslået og rædselsvækkende historie om det godes kamp mod en overvældende ondskab, hvor en heltemodig dreng og hans hund skal stå i spidsen for striden.

Suverænt underholdende, intelligent plot og stærke karakterer: Med sin seneste spændingsroman om en modvillig lejemorder med forkærlighed for litteratur demonstrerer Stephen King til fulde, at han er langt mere end blot gysets mester.Billy Summers er lejemorder med hjertet på rette sted. Han likviderer kun onde mennesker, ellers kan han ikke sove om natten. Grundlæggende opfatter han sig selv som en skraldemand med et skydevåben, og han er den bedste i branchen. Nu planlægger han at lægge sit tidligere liv bag sig, når han har fuldført sin sidste mission.Med en dækhistorie som forfatter installerer Billy sig i en lille flække mens han venter på, at det sidste bytte indfinder sig. Billy er en af verdens bedste snigskytter, han er dekoreret krigsveteran fra Irak og en ren Houdini, som forsvinder sporløst, når jobbet er eksekveret. Så hvad kan gå galt?Billy Summers er en roman om kærlighed, hævn og skæbne, og en tvivlsom helts sidste forsøg på at frelse sin sjæl – og så rummer bogen én af de mest uimodståelige og overraskende makkerpar i Kings oeuvre, der drager ud for at hævne en ualmindelig gemen mands forbrydelser.