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The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man: Stephen King.It''s not just a game when you''re running for your life.Every night they tuned in to the nation''s favourite prime-time TV game show.They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to bet not the clock, but annihhilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive thirty days and win the billion dollar jackpot - that was the promise. But the odds were brutal and the game rigged. Best score so far was eight days.And now there was a new contestant, the latest running man, staking his life while a nation watched.

En esta séptima entrega de la adaptación gráfica de la magnífica serie creada por Stephen King, «La Torre Oscura», Roland toma un desvío que puede llegar a costarle la vida. Roland Deschain ha escogi

Una historia apocalíptica e hipnótica. Totalmente fascinante. Lo mejor de Stephen King. Es una soleada mañana de otoño en la pequeña ciudad de Chester's Mill. Claudette Sanders disfruta de su clase de vuelo y Dale Barbara, Barbie para los amigos, hace autostop en las afueras. Ninguno de los dos llegara a su destino... De repente, una barrera invisible cae sobre la ciudad como una burbuja cristalina e inquebrantable. Al descender corta por la mitad a una marmota y amputa la mano a un jardinero. El avion que pilotaba Claudette choca contra la cupula y se precipita al suelo envuelto en llamas. Dale, veterano de la guerra de Irak, ha de regresar a Chester's Mill, el lugar que tanto deseaba abandonar, pues el ejercito ha decidido ponerle a cargo de la situacion, pero Big Jim Rennie, el hombre que tiene un pie en todos los negocios sucios de la ciudad, no esta de acuerdo: la cupula podria ser la respuesta a sus plegarias. A medida que la comida, la electricidad y el agua escasean, los niños comienzan a tener premoniciones escalofriantes. El tiempo se acaba para aquellos que viven bajo la cupula. ¿Podran averiguar que ha creado tan terrorifica prision antes de que sea demasiado tarde? Intente escribir esta novela hace tiempo, cuando era mucho mas joven, pero sus dimensiones me superaban. Sin embargo, la idea era tan buena que nunca me abandono del todo y de vez en cuando regresaba para decirme "escribeme". Al final lo hice.Stephen KingLa critica ha dicho...Trepidante de cabo a rabo... una vez iniciada su lectura resulta muy dificil parar.The New York Times La cupula es uno de mis libros preferidos.Neil Gaiman

A través de los teléfonos móviles se envía un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos... Día 1 de octubre: Dios está en los cielos, la bolsa está a 10.140, la mayoría de los vuelos llegan a tiempo y Clayton Riddell, un artista de Maine, casi salta de alegria por Boylston Street, en Boston. Acaba de firmar un contrato para ilustrar un comic que le permitira mantener a su familia con su arte en vez de tener que dar clases. Ya ha comprado un regalo a su sufrida mujer y tiene claro lo que va a regalar a su hijo Johnny. ¿Por que no tambien algo para si mismo? Clay presiente que las cosas van a ir mejor, pero bruscamente se trastorna todo: se produce una devastacion masiva, causada por un fenomeno que mas adelante llamaran El Pulso, que se reproduce a traves del telefono movil. De todos los telefonos moviles. Clay, junto a unos cuantos supervivientes desesperados, es arrojado a una edad oscura, rodeados por el caos, la hecatombe y una masa humana degradada a su estado mas primitivo. Esta novela fascinante, absorbente y cruel no solo hace la pregunta ¿Me oyes?, sino que tambien responde, y de una forma muy, muy inquietante.La critica ha dicho...Aqui llega Mr. King para derribar la Torre de Babel de la telefonia movil y sus telarañas.New York Times Muy inteligente, brillantemente escrita... pasaran dias hasta que vuelva a usar el telefono movil.The Guardian

From the No. 1 bestselling writer, comes a terrifying serial killer thriller featuring King''s beloved character Holly Gibney from the Finders Keepers private detective agency.

Pocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, útil y revelador. "Si no tiene tiempo para leer, no tendrá el tiemponi las herramientas necesarias para escribir." Mientras escribo empieza con el relato de la asombrosa infancia de Stephen King y su extraño y temprano interes por la escritura. Una serie de vividos recuerdos de la adolescencia, de la universidad y de los años de lucha que lo llevaron a la culminacion de su primera novela, Carrie, aportan al lector una amena y divertida perspectiva sobre la formacion del escritor. A continuacion King describe las herramientas basicas del oficio y expone sus opiniones personales sobre el secreto de la escritura. Mientras escribo culmina con el conmovedor relato de como la necesidad de escribir lo estimulo a recuperarse del accidente casi fatal que sufrio el 19 de junio de 1999.

Una vez más, Stephen King nos ofrece atmósferas sobrecogedoras y emociones incontrolables a través de los relatos reunidos en este libro. Ya nadie disputa a Stephen King el primer puesto en la literatura de terror: sus muchos millones de lectores son prueba fehaciente de ello. Su brillante imaginacion revela las sombras que subyacen en lo evidente y hace que todos nos sintamos menos seguros de la realidad. La expedicion, que da titulo a este volumen de escalofriantes cuentos, advierte angustiosamente contra los riesgos de la curiosidad; la anciana de la Abuela quiza no sea la compañia adecuada para un niño cuando este queda aislado en una casa distante; el protagonista de Superviviente no tiene nada que comer, excepto...; y la locura esta agazapada en la maquina de escribir del redactor de La balada del proyectil flexible...

Stephen King's international bestselling and highly acclaimed novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.

Undécima entrega de la adaptación gráfica de la mítica serie de Stephen King «La Torre Oscura.» El estruendo de un revolver resuena para siempre. Este volumen reúne tres historias acaecidas en algún

"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 mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. 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 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 films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

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.

Un hermoso día de agosto, el doctor Louis Creed llega con su esposa Rachel, sus hijos Eileen y Gage y el gato Church a su nuevo hogar, una gran casa situada en las afueras de Ludlow, Nueva Inglaterra. El lugar parece tranquilo y lo bastante alejado del ajetreo urbano. Detras de la casa de los Creed hay incluso un campo de enterramietnos, en donde los niños del lugar han sepultado a sus animales durante generaciones: el Cementerio de animales. Pero enseguida empieza la pesadilla... al menos para Louis

Tras veintisiete años de tranquilidad yy lejanía en los que unos cuantos niños se han convertido en adultos, una antigua promesa infanil les hace volver al lugar en el que vivieron su infancia y juventud como una terrible pesadilla. Regresan a Derry para enfrentarse con su pasado y enterrar definitivamente la amenaza que los amargo durante sus teoricamente años dorados. Saben que pueden morir, pero son conscientes de que no conoceran la paz hasta que aquella cosa sea destruida para siempre

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 epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the ''steam'' that children with the ''shining'' produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father''s legacy of despair, alcoholism and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant ''shining'' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes ''Doctor Sleep.''Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan''s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra''s soul and survival . . .

A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who's haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular - the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when the economy was guttering out. Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing that from happening. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. And he's preparing to kill again. Only Hodges, with a couple of misfit friends, can apprehend the killer in this high-stakes race against time. Because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim hundreds, even thousands.

An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.' Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival ...

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