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Under the Dome by Stephen King On a beautiful fall day, the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one can fathom what this impenetrable… Saber más sobre este artículo

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance 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 Know travel… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King Since his first collection, Night Shift, was published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection, he assembles twenty stories, some of which have never appeared in print, some of which King has revisited and revised. He introduces each with… Saber más sobre este artículo

Bag of Bones by Stephen King Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonon, who is unable to stop grieving following the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his computer. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Billy Summers by Stephen King Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. First, there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world,… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Outsider by Stephen King In The Outsider, Stephen King delivers one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph… Saber más sobre este artículo

Night Shift by Stephen King Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces -- bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms, where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl. The settings are familiar… Saber más sobre este artículo

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's Lot was a summer of homecoming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Shining by Stephen King The Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort in the world; but Jack Torrance, the new winter caretaker, his wife Wendy, and their five-year-old son Danny say much more than its splendor. Jack saw the Overlook as an opportunity, a desperate way back from failure and despair; Wendy saw this lonely sanctuary as… Saber más sobre este artículo

Holly by Stephen King Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodge's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Institute by Stephen King In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at the Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window.… Saber más sobre este artículo

11/22/63 by Stephen King In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King -- who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer -- takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls,… Saber más sobre este artículo

11/22/63 by Stephen King Life can turn on a dime -- or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a divorced high school English teacher in small-town Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads about such a destined moment through a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning. Fifty years earlier, Harry somehow survived… Saber más sobre este artículo

Billy Summers by Stephen King Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. First, there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious local bullies. It was something that fundamentally changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. These lifelong friends -- now with separate lives and separate problems -- make it a point to… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Outsider by Stephen King In The Outsider, Stephen King delivers one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Langoliers by Stephen King On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bango, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear "radio static" in the distance. Craig Toomy, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cujo by Stephen King Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (THE MAN, THE WOMAN, and THE BOY) and everyone around him and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a… Saber más sobre este artículo