The
Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
by Stephen King, Michael Whelan (Illustrator)
(Hardcover)
Wizard
and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)
by Stephen King (Hardcover)
The
Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
by Stephen King, Phil Hale
(Illustrator) (Hardcover)
The
Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
by Stephen King (Hardcover)
Wolves
of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator)
(Hardcover - November 2003)
On
Writing
by Stephen King (Author)
(Mass Market Paperback)
The
Stand: Complete and Uncut
by Stephen King
(Mass Market Paperback - May 1991)
The
Talisman
by Stephen King, Peter Straub (Mass Market Paperback - July 2001)
Insomnia
by Stephen King (Mass Market Paperback - September 1995)
The
Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King, David Palladini (Illustrator) (Mass Market Paperback)
Black
House
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small
distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange
internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there.
And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is
abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff
desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared
another serial killer in a neighboring town.
Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen
King and Peter Straub's 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book,
the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate
realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible
enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories.
Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't
entirely forgotten:
When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told
himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his
mother's neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy
with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real,
and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just
as he's calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving
that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing
it calmly.
Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by
the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child's shoe, foot still attached.
As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories,
aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other
oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of
the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian
Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah,
the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.
While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black
House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside
a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar
Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King's own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans
will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing
style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie
Trinkle - Amazon.com
(Mass Market Paperback - August 2002)
Everything's
Eventual : 14 Dark Tales
by Stephen King
In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire
Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the
order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the
impact of these stories, from the first words of the darkly fascinating
"Autopsy Room Four" to the haunting final pages of "Luckey Quarter," one
can almost believe King truly is guided by forces from beyond.
His first collection of short stories since the release of Nightmares
& Dreamscapes in 1993, Everything's Eventual represents King at his
most undiluted. The short story format showcases King's ability to spook
readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories
(a boyhood fishing excursion). The dark tales collected here are some of
King's finest, including an O. Henry Prize winner and "Riding the Bullet,"
published originally as an e-book and at one time expected by some to be
the death knell of the physical publishing world. True to form, each of
these stories draws the reader into King's slightly off-center world from
the first page, developing characters and atmosphere more fully in the
span of 50 pages than many authors can in a full novel.
For most rabid King fans, chief among the tales in this volume will
be "The Little Sisters of Eluria," a novella that first appeared in the
fantasy collection Legends, set in King's ever-expanding Dark Tower universe.
In this story, set prior to the first Dark Tower volume, the reader finds
Gunslinger Roland of Gilead wounded and under the care of nurses with very
dubious intentions. Also included in this collection are "That Feeling,
You Can Only Say What It Is in French," the story of a woman's personal
hell; "1408," in which a writer of haunted tour guides finally encounters
the real thing; "Everything's Eventual," the title story, about a boy with
a dream job that turns out to be more of a nightmare; and "L.T.'s Theory
of Pets," a story of divorce with a bloody surprise ending.
King also includes an introductory essay on the lost art of short fiction
and brief explanatory notes that give the reader background on his intentions
and inspirations for each story. As with any occasion when King directly
addresses his dear Constant Readers, his tone is that of a camp counselor
who's almost apologetic for the scare his fireside tales are about to throw
into his charges, yet unwilling to soften the blow. And any campers gathered
around this author's fire would be wise to heed his warnings, for when
King goes bump in the night, it's never just a branch on the window. --Benjamin
Reese - Amazon.com
Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.33 x 6.76 x 4.16
Publisher: Pocket Books; (December 30, 2002)
ISBN: 0743457358
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