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2) Stephen King
Series
Publisher
Salem Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of essays relating to the life and writings of Stephen King.
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 314 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Semetary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for over forty years. His characters have brought chills to our spines and challenged our notions of reality while leaving us in awe of the perseverance of the human spirit. As the first book in the new Great...
Author
Publisher
Palazzo Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Surely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With sixty-five existing movies and thirty television shows, and many more to come, the concept of the King adaptation lies at the core of what we understand as Hollywood entertainment, the essence of horror, and the landscape of American life. Illustrated with a fabulous array of familiar and unusual iconography, this is the most comprehensive...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 photos, color illustrations by celebrated "Dark Tower" artist Michael Whelan, and black-and-white drawings by Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne; supplemented with interviews with friends, colleagues, and mentors who knew King well; looking at King's formative years in Durham, when he began writing fiction as a young teen, his college years in the turbulent sixties, his struggles with early poverty, working full-time...
10) 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....
Series
Contributions to the study of popular culture volume no. 67
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
viii, 203 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
14) Firestarter
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlene 'Charlie' McGee is a child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, 'The Shop, ' that wants her destroyed?
15) Carrie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go. Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is one of the all-time great horror classics! At the center of the terror is Carrie, a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother...
17) The dark man
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrated version of Stephen King's poem "The Dark Man" written more than forty years ago.
18) The green mile
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When John Coffey, a giant of a man, is brought to death row, prison guard Paul Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about him. Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost like a child himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards' sense of humanity is awakened in this adaptation of the novel by Stephen King.
19) King on screen
Publisher
Dark Star
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Shining, Carrie, It, Misery, Stand By Me; more than 60 of Stephen King's novels have been adapted into films. King on Screen pulls back the curtain and offers an intimate sit down with the filmmakers who brought King's stories to life.
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