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For readers new to The Dark Tower, THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a 'skin man,' Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.

Full dark no stars. On the heels of the stunning success of Under the Dome (Number 1 bestseller, ten printings, more than 1 million in print), a new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King… King of the long story: Stephen King specialises in a length of story that is not a novel but longer than a typical short story. Two previous collections in this model, Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, were #1 bestsellers and exceptionally well reviewed. Each contained four stories, loosely linked to a theme: in Four Past Midnight, the theme of time; and in Different Seasons, the theme of a journey. The stories in Full Dark, No Stars are also thematically connected - in this case, to marriage. King's stories of this length have also proven immensely ripe for film adaptation. Different Seasons spawned three notable films: Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil, and a story in Four Past Midnight became the television series The Langoliers.

Bajo la mirada cómplice de la Luna, «las damas de la noche» abandonan sus fríos sepulcros, sus estériles aposentos de la nada, y su cuerpo incorrupto, mortalmente bello y subyugante, se yergue en la Vida y se instala de nuevoen la Naturaleza... En esta antología se recogen los mejores relatos sobre mujeres vampiro que se han escrito a lo largo del tiempo.

After a car crash, writer Paul Sheldon is saved by his number one fan, Annie Wilkes. She brings him home, splints his mangled legs, and all he has to do in return is write a very special book, one all about her favourite character. Because if he doesn't, if he is bad, she will be cross - very cross.

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself. 'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'. Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

Contiene The Stand: The Night Has Come HC USA El sexto y último capítulo de la prodigiosa epopeya creada por el maestro estadounidense del terror. Todo lo ocurrido conduce aquí. En conflicto definitivo entre el Bien y el Mal alcanza su cénit. Los tres espías enviados a infiltrarse en el ejército de Randall Flagg han llegado a su destino. Pero, ¿y si hubieran subestimado el poder del Hombre Oscuro? La sangre correrá en la apoteósica conclusión de esta obra maestra.

Ralph Roberts, a widower suffering from insomnia, begins to experience strange visual phenomena and is unable to believe that they are merely hallucinations.