Stephen King
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which...
2) Elevation
Author
Language
English
Description
Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too, that he shares with Doctor Bob Ellis. Meanwhile, Scott is at odds with his next-door neighbors, a lesbian couple. They are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock, Maine, want no part of a gay married couple. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face--including his own--he tries to help....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stephen King never stops giving us his all" (Chicago Tribune) in this #1 national bestseller about the idyllic small town of Haven, Maine, and its encounter with a deadly evil out for a diabolical invasion of body, soul—and mind.
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in Haven powers far beyond those of ordinary mortals. Something that...
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in Haven powers far beyond those of ordinary mortals. Something that...
Author
Language
English
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
6) Misery
Author
Language
English
Description
The novel's narrative is based on the relationship of its two main characters -- the popular writer Paul Sheldon and his psychotic fan Annie Wilkes. When Paul is seriously injured following a car accident, former nurse Annie brings him to her home, where Paul receives treatment and doses of pain medication. Gradually, Paul realizes that he is a prisoner and is forced to indulge his captor's whims.
7) Cujo
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Language
English
Description
A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.
8) Desperation
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Language
English
Description
Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force
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Series
Dark Tower volume 5
Language
English
Description
Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
12) Needful things
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is a peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things... interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart's desire for any...
13) Blockade Billy
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Language
English
Description
"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The state police in Statler, Pennsylvania, have kept the mysterious, vintage Buick Roadmaster caged out in back of the barracks ever since 1979. But even as it sleeps, it breathes--inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from--until the fateful day when its terrifying secrets are finally revealed.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bizarre sleeping sickness, called Aurora, has fallen over the world. Its victims can't wake up. And all of them are women. As nations fall into chaos, those women still awake take desperate measures to stay that way, and men everywhere begin to give in to their darkest impulses. Meanwhile, in the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; she calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage in her wake. Strangest of all,...
16) King of horror
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 479 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four terrifying, weird, diabolical horror films from Stephen King. In Dreamcatcher, while camping a group of friends are visited by parasitic aliens. In Dolores Claiborne a daughter returns to her hometown to find that her mother has been arrested for murder. Creepshow and Cat's eye both tell a series of short horror stories.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (556 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A local author is found murdered and unpublished novels of his -- worth millions -- were stolen from his home. While Hodges, Holly and Jerome assist the local police, they continually unearth all the ways that Brady's terror still haunts his victims and acquaintances.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (542 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A year after his thwarted attempt to perpetuate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio, Brady Hartsfield remains hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges has done his best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with Holly Gibney to open Finders Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable occurrences begin to affect hospital staff members attending to Brady, Hodges is haunted by...
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines on Earth to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree.
20) Pet sematary
Language
English
Description
After moving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect for the Creed family ... but not for long. Louis and Rachel Creed and their two young children settle into a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery--built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysterious new neighbor, Jud Crandall, hides the cemetery's darkest secret ... until a family tragedy brings the secret to life. Now, an unthinkable evil is about to be resurrected....