Kouzelná skříňka pro Gwendy
Kouzelná skříňka pro Gwendy je dalším Kingovým dílem situovaným do fiktivního maineského městečka Castle Rock. Tentokrát se však, na rozdíl od těch ostatních, jedná o poměrně krátkou novelu, napsanou navíc ve spolupráci s Richardem Chizmarem. Na začátku příběhu je Gwendy 12 let. Je to bystrá holčička, která má problémy s nadváhou, s nimiž se dokáže svou vůlí a kázní vypořádat. Jednoho dne ji v parku osloví záhadný černě oděný muž, který jí z neznámých důvodů dá jedinečný a nebezpečný dárek – kouzelnou skříňku s páčkami a různobarevnými tlačítky. Stisknutím páček skříňka vydává buď vzácné stříbrné dolary, nebo nesmírně chutné čokoládičky. Barevná tlačítka jsou destruktivní a symbolizují jednotlivé světadíly, jejichž případné zničení je teď plně v moci Gwendy. Ta postupně začíná chápat, jakou s dárkem převzala zodpovědnost. Po deseti letech je proto ráda, když ji záhadný cizinec téhle zodpovědnosti zbaví a vybere si někoho jiného.
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Stephen King Classic Collection - The Shining
Bag of Bones. When Mike Noonans wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writers 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 sons 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. But there are other more sinister forces at Sara Laughs - and Kyra can feel them too.
The Shining. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a shiner, aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Dannys visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator. And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive. Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel - and that, too, is beginning to shine.
Christine. Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, is twenty. Her promise lies all in her past. Greedy and big, she is Arnies obsession, a 58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished. There is still power in her -a frightening power that leaks like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corrodes the mind and turns ownership into Possession. This is the story of a lovers triangle.
Cell. Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory. The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within hours, those receiving calls would be infected. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. He flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone.
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Outsider
Bolo to zlo. Čisté zlo. Existuje sila, ktorá obnoví rovnováhu?
V mestskom parku nájdu zhanobené telo jedenásťročného chlapca. Svedectvo ľudí aj odtlačkov prstov jednoznačne ukazujú na jedného z najobľúbenejších občanov Flint City. Je to Terry Maitland, tréner chlapčenského bejzbalového družstva, učiteľ angličtiny, vzorný manžel a otec dvoch dievčat. Detektív Ralph Anderson, ktorému Terry kedysi trénoval syna, nariadi rýchle zatknutie pred očami celého mesta. Maitland má alibi, Anderson aj štátny zástupca zas očitých svedkov, odtlačky prstov aj vzorky DNA. Všetko sedí, prípad vyzerá jasný.
Vyšetrovanie však pokračuje a na svetlo vychádzajú nepochopiteľné, hrôzostrašné skutočnosti. Napätie sa stupňuje. Terry Maitland je slušný človek, ale čo ak tvár, ktorú nosí, nie je pravá? Môžu existovať tvorovia, nositelia zla, ktorí nie sú ľudia a prežívajú len vďaka tomu, že nikto v nich neverí? Holly Gibneyová z agentúry Stratení nájdení o tom vie svoje a prichádza na pomoc.
Pet Sematary
Soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring John Lithgow, Jason Clarke, and Amy Seimetz! Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller Pet Sematary, a “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—among King’s most iconic and beloved novels. When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow’s tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed’s beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing…as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Then there are the warnings to Louis both real and from the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard where another burial ground lures with seductive promises and ungodly temptations. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there—one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. As Louis is about to discover for himself sometimes, dead is better…
Kedvencek temetője
Dr. Louis Creed, a fiatal orvos kitűnő állást kapott: a Maine-i Egyetem rendelőjének lett a vezetője, ezért Chicagóból az idilli New England-i tájban álló, magányos házba költözik családjával - feleségével, Rachellel, ötéves lányukkal, Ellie-vel és másfél éves kisfiukkal, Gage-dzsel. Boldogan, a szép jövő reményében veszik birtokukba új otthonukat...
Az első gondra az út túloldalán, velük átellenben élő öregember, Jud hívja föl a figyelmüket: a tájat kettészelő országúton éjjel-nappal olajszállító tartálykocsik dübörögnek, halálos veszélynek téve ki a háziállatokat és az apróságokat. Nem véletlenül van a közelben egy nyomasztó légkörű, ódon temető az elgázolt háziállatok számára... Az első trauma akkor éri Louist, amikor egy baleset áldozatául esett, haldokló fiú a rendelőben dadogó szavakkal óva inti az állattemetőn túli veszedelemtől. Nem sokra rá egy tartálykocsi elgázolja Ellie imádott macskáját, és az öreg Jud - jó- vagy rosszakaratból? - az állattemetőn túli, hátborzongató vidékre, a micmac indiánok egykori temetkezőhelyére viszi Louist, s ott földelteti el vele az állatot.
Másnap a macska visszatér - de ocsmány jószág lett belőle: lomha, ijesztően bűzlő és gonosz. Aztán néhány békés hónap után a kis Gage elszabadul a szüleitől, és szaladni kezd pici lábain az országút felé...
King borzalmakkal teli regénye magyarul 1993-ban jelent meg először, Állattemető címen.
The Outsider
A horrifying crime.
Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.
Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.
Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?
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Revival
A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.
In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.
Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Finders Keepers
The second book in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch), an AT&T Audience Original Series, now in its second season!
"Stephen King's superb new stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery" (The Washington Post)-the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.
"Wake up, genius." So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn't released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein's unpublished work...including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away-the money and the manuscripts no one but Gold ever saw-before being locked up for another horrific crime. But upon Morris's release thirty-five years later, he's about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure-and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance...
Not since Misery has Stephen King played with the notion of a reader and murderous obsession, filled with "nail biting suspense that's the hallmark of [his] best work" (Publishers Weekly).
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Mind Control
In Zimmer 217 ist etwas aufgewacht. Etwas Böses. Brady Hartsfield, verantwortlich für das Mercedes-Killer-Massaker mit vielen Toten liegt seit fünf Jahren in einer Klinik für Neurotraumatologie im Wachkoma. Seinen Ärzten zufolge wird er sich nie erholen. Doch hinter all dem Sabbern und In-die-Gegend-Starren ist Brady bei Bewusstsein - und er besitzt tödliche neue Kräfte, mit denen er unvorstellbares Unheil anrichten kann, ohne sein Krankenzimmer je zu verlassen. Ex-Detective Bill Hodges, den wir aus Mr. Mercedes und Finderlohn kennen, setzt alles daran, das Schlimmste zu verhindern.
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Flight or Fright
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.
Stephen King hates to fly.
Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like - gulp! - a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight."
Book a flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Stephen King
Cargo by E. Michael Lewis
The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson
The Flying Machine by Ambrose Bierce
Lucifer! by E.C. Tubb
The Fifth Category by Tom Bissell
Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons
Diablitos by Cody Goodfellow
Air Raid by John Varley
You Are Released by Joe Hill
Warbirds by David J. Schow
The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury
Zombies on a Plane by Bev Vincent
They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald Dahl
Murder in the Air by Peter Tremayne
The Turbulence Expert by Stephen King
Falling by James L. Dickey
Afterword by Bev Vincent
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End of Watch
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.
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A ragyogás
Minden nagy szállodának vannak botrányai - mondta. - Ahogy kísértet is van minden nagy szállodában. Hogy miért? A fenébe is, az emberek jönnek-mennek. Megesik, hogy valamelyik a szobájában dobja fel a talpát, a szíve, vagy gutaütés, vagy valami ilyesmi. A szálloda babonás hely. Nincs tizenharmadik emelet, nincs tizenhármas szoba, nincs tükör az ajtón, amin az ember bemegy, meg hasonlók."
Stephen King egyik leghíresebb története, A ragyogás, a Sziklás-hegység egyik magaslatán, egy világtól elzárt szállodában játszódik. Itt vállal állást az alkoholizmusából éppen kigyógyult Jack Torrance, és vele együtt ideköltözik felesége, Wendy, és kisfia, Danny is. Miközben Jack egyre megszállottabban próbálja megírni a szálloda történetét, természetfeletti, látnoki képességekkel rendelkező fia egyre több furcsa jelet lát...
A ragyogás 1977-ben jelent meg először, és azonnal bestseller lett. Az azóta klasszikussá vált műből 1980-ban Stanley Kubrick rendezett filmet, Jack Nicholson főszereplésével.
The Colorado Kid
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, and it's more than a year before the man is identified. And that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself...
A kívülálló
Mr. Mercedes - Aki kapja, marja - Agykontroll trilógia után Stephen King - vagy ahogy rajongói világszerte emlegetik: a Mester - ismét egy hátborzongató thrillerrel hozza rá olvasóira az álmatlanságot.
Az oklahomai kisváros, Flint City egyik parkjában brutálisan megerőszakolt, meggyilkolt és megcsonkított holttestre bukkannak. Az áldozat Frank Peterson, egy fehér fiúgyermek, életkora 11 év. A felfoghatatlan tett elkövetője pedig szemtanúk állítása és több, cáfolhatatlan bizonyíték szerint Terry Maitland gimnáziumi irodalomtanár és baseballedző, azaz T. edző, egy mindenki által ismert, köztiszteletben álló ember, két kislány édesapja.
Ralph Anderson nyomozó letartóztatja az edzőt, méghozzá a lehető legmegalázóbb módon: a Maitland csapata számára kulcsfontosságú meccs közben, a szurkolósereg szeme láttára. Anderson indulata érthető: az ő kamasz fia is T. edző keze alatt tanulta a sportot.
Az igazságszolgáltatás folyamatában azonban fennakadást okoz, hogy Maitlandnek kikezdhetetlen alibije van: szemtanúk, ujjlenyomatok, sőt DNS-minta igazolják, hogy a gyilkosság idején egy másik, távoli városban tartózkodott. Anderson nyomozónak segítőtársaival együtt választ kell találniuk a kérdésre: hogyan lehet ugyanaz az ember egyszerre két helyen?
A rejtély megoldása Kinghez méltóan egyszerre hihetetlen és kétségbevonhatatlan, bármennyire sokkolja is azokat, akik egy texasi barlang mélyén végül szembekerülnek vele.
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The Institute
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect.
Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use...
Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He's basically just walking the beat. But he's about to take on the biggest case of his career.
Back in the Institute's downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise 'just another day in paradise', Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape.
But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments - even the infamous Mrs Sigsby - suspect.
Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, THE INSTITUTE is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.
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