“Unadulteratedly terrifying…frightening.” - Publishers Weekly “King at his best…a winner!” - The New York Times After all, Paul has all the time in the world to do so as a prisoner in her isolated house.and Annie has some very persuasive and violent methods to get exactly what she wants. Annie is very upset over what Paul did to Misery and demands that he find a way to bring her back by writing a new novel-his best yet, and one that’s all for her. After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Paul finds himself at the mercy of the terrifying rescuer who’s nursing him back to health-his self-proclaimed number one fan, Annie Wilkes. But such a change doesn’t come without consequences. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. The #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan.” One of “Stephen King’s best…genuinely scary” ( USA TODAY).īestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. King is best known for his iconic, immersive long novels, but he is also a master of the short story, and this is a magnificent collection. “Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. “The Raft”- “Word Processor of the Gods” This “wonderfully gruesome” collection ( The New York Times Book Review) includes: And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. “Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller” (The Associated Press).Ī supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is “Stephen King at his best” ( The Denver Post)-a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time. Todd’s Shortcut”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maineįeatures “The Mist” now a TV series event on Spike Includes the stories “Uncle Otto’s Truck” and “Mrs. It is a beautiful, “rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death” ( The Washington Post). “Intricate.exhilarating” ( The New Yorker), perhaps Stephen King’s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey’s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. What begins as a widow’s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Now it’s Lisey’s turn to face Scott’s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo’ya Moon. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went-a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. The “haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” ( The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece-an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath. *Soon to be an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
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