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'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.

In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.

In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by a bizarre figure that has a message for him. The essage is terrifying. What's worse, it is delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose. And that is only the beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in this strange place deep within Mid-World. We continue Roland Deschain's quest for the Man in Black that has become his obsession. Featuring the artistic talents of Michael Lark, whose fine pencils have graced the pages of Daredevil and Spider-Man.COLLECTING: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Battle of Tull 1-5

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Depuis Shining, le petit Danny Torrance a grandi. Ses démons aussi… Le nouveau chef-d''oeuvre de Stephen King. Stephen King, pour Docteur Sleep, a été élu « Meilleur roman fantastique de l’année » pa

An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her ...

Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel - and that, too, is beginning to shine ...

Astuto y despiadado como una serpiente de cascabel, Skinner Sweet tiene fama de ser terco e intratable. Es el primer vampiro concebido en tierra americana, pero no es la habitual criatura de la noche. Es mas fuerte, mas fiero y el sol renueva sus energias... Sweet es el primero de una nueva raza de chupasangres: el vampiro americano.45 años despues de alzarse de su tumba, Sweet se encuentra en Los Angeles en los años veinte, donde los jovenes y bellos se ven atraidos como polillas por las luces de Hollywood. Sin embargo, hay algo mas que simples humanos acechando alli, como la joven actriz Pearl Jones esta a punto de descubrir. Cuando su sueño de convertirse en una estrella de cine se transforma en una pesadilla sangrienta, Sweet le da su unica oportunidad de sobrevivir, asi como el poder de vengarse.El legendario maestro del terror Stephen King se une al escritor Scott Snyder y al dibujante Rafael Albuquerque para guiarnos a traves de decadas de expansion americana y evolucion de los no muertos. Este volumen recopila los cinco primeros numeros de la aclamada serie Vertigo, con una nueva introduccion de Stephen King.

1962. Charles Jacobs arriva, insieme a moglie e figlio, in una cittadina del New England come nuovo pastore. Giovane e appassionato, il reverendo conquista i suoi parrocchiani, e in particolare il piccolo Jamie, al quale insegna le meraviglie dellelettricita. Ma quando una tragedia gli porta via la famiglia, la fede di Jacobs vacilla e lui viene allontanato dalla citta. Jamie lo incontrera di nuovo, trentanni dopo. Insieme a tutti i suoi demoni.

"In versione graphic novel uno dei long seller del maestro del brivido: un morbo sfuggito a un segretissimo laboratorio semina morte e terrore. Il novantanove per cento della popolazione della terra non sopravvive all''epidemia e per i pochi scampati c''e una guerra ancora tutta da combattere tra chi ha deciso di seguire il Bene e chi invece ha scelto di calcare le orme di Randall, il Senza Volto, il Male, il Signore delle Tenebre. "

"In versione graphic novel, uno dei long seller del maestro del brivido: un morbo sfuggito a un segretissimo laboratorio semina morte e terrore. Il novantanove per cento della popolazione della terra non sopravvive all''epidemia e per i pochi scampati c''e una guerra ancora tutta da combattere tra chi ha deciso di seguire il Bene e chi invece ha scelto di calcare le orme di Randall, il Senza Volto, il Male, il Signore delle Tenebre. "

This popular post-apocalyptic novel by master of horror Stephen King inspired a 1994 TV miniseries. A devastating flu escapes from its containment in a military biowarfare lab, killing most of the population of the United States, and by implication, the world. Those who remain, immune to the disease, receive dreams that lead them to align themselves either with the forces of good, led by a saintly, ancient woman named Mother Abigail; or the forces of evil, led by the enigmatic, demonic Randall/Richard Flagg, the Dark Man whose debut in this book was followed by appearances in several of Stephen King''s later novels. Each group of people struggles to reclaim the remnants of civilization...and to prepare for the inevitable confrontation between the two sides.Stephen King''s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world''s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge?Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious ?Dark Man,? who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them?and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.

In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the perk and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Bradys next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.