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Miedo por dos es igual a terror absoluto. Atado a un asiento de avión en un vuelo más allá del inferno. Atrapado en las profundidades de la peor pesadilla de un escritor. Simplemente, estás en manos de Stephen King: te dejara tieso con un extraordinario doblete de novelas, que garantizan el paro cardiaco a... las dos despues de medianoche. King nunca parece agotar su magia. Estas novelas demuestran las cualidades que han hecho de el, de lejos, el autor mas famoso del mundo. Chicago Tribune

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What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for.Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: 'workmen' who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair.There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene.Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people's worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town -- and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual -- until it happens.

Reissues of King's best-loved horror novels, with dramatic new cover designs

Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) A story by Stephen King the master of horror. Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkess favourite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When Annie finds Paul after a car accident, she takes him home to look after him. The Annie discovers that Paul wants to kill Misery and to write different kinds of book. She is determined to stop him, and Paul becomes her prisoner

Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first - and only player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse . . . and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. The bonus story Morality is a riveting short about Chad, an aspiring writer who is teaching in a school until he lands a publishing contract. His wife Nora is working as home nurse for a retired minister. Like most people these days, they are struggling financially. And then Nora is approached by her employer with a proposition that could make their dream of home in Vermont a reality. But will it be worth the moral consequences?

"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads itfans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

`Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.` The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane.

There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tidal pull' and Stephen King has done it time and time again with stories like The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile and The Stand. In Under the Dome, he has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it. It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out. The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late ...

Gary es un anciano que al final de su vida recuerda un hecho espeluznante que le ocurrió siendo un niño. Relato ganador del Premio al mejor relato corto O.Henry. Gary, el protagonista de esta histo

Fin de guardia es el espectacular final de la «Trilogía Bill Hodges» que comenzó conMr. Mercedes y continuó conQuien pierde paga.Hay asesinos que usan cuchillos,otros pistolas o incluso coches,pero

Stephen King nació el 21 de septiembre de 1947 en Portland en el estado de Maine (Estados Unidos). Ganó una beca para ir a la universidad de Maine donde se licenció en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa en 1970. Se caso un año mas tarde con Tabitha Spruce. Mient

No las despiertes.En esta espectacular colaboración entre padre e hijo, Stephen King y Owen King nos ofrecen la historia más arriesgada de cuantas han contado hasta ahora: ¿qué pasaría si las mujeres abandonaran este mundo?En un futuro tan real y cercano que podria ser hoy, cuando las mujeres se duermen, brota de su cuerpo una especie de capullo que las aisla del exterior. Si las despiertan, las molestan o tocan el capullo que las envuelve, reaccionan con una violencia extrema. Y durante el sueño se evaden a otro mundo. Los hombres, por su parte, quedan abandonados a sus instintos primarios.La misteriosa Evie, sin embargo, es inmune a esta bendicion o castigo del trastorno del sueño. ¿Se trata de una anomalia medica que hay que estudiar? O ¿es un demonio al que hay que liquidar?Una fabula del siglo XXI sobre la posibilidad de un mundo exclusivamente femenino mas pacifico y mas justo que resulta especialmente relevante hoy en dia.Reseña:La novela nos aboca a una batalla epica (...) con brillantes incursiones en territorios que el padre de los King puede justamente reclamar como propios: el insomnio, la tension con que responde a la violencia una sociedad aislada, la propia idea de la propagacion de una pandemia... (...): puro King en sus mejores pasajes.Enrique de Heriz,El Periodico de CataluñaEn los blogs...Lo que destaca en esta version particular es su brillantez. En un futuro tan real y cercano que podria ser hoy, y con una fantasia espectacular, que en todo momento se apoya en la logica y en la reflexion, los autores convierten la idea de que las mujeres abandonen el mundo para crear otro en un cuento conmovedor, en una aventura emocionante a veces violenta y a veces tierna.BlogTodo literaturaLa historia en definitiva es una parabola sobre la posibilidad de un mundo exclusivamente femenino, mas pacifico y mas justo.BlogLiteratura noticiasLos autores convierten la idea de que las mujeres abandonen el mundo para crear otro en un cuento conmovedor, en una aventura emocionante a veces violenta y a veces tierna.BlogLas lecturas de GuillermoUna historia llena de terror que nos hace pensar y plantearnos muchas cosas, sobre todo, si eres mujer, que habrias hecho tu si estuvieras en el lugar de las protagonistas y, si eres hombre, cual habria sido tu manera de intentar solucionar la tragedia.BlogEl mundo de NayaLa pluma de los autores es exquisita, este par ha sabido mezclar su narrativa de forma magistral.BlogAtrapada en unas hojas de papelLa novela es una satira brutal sobre los hombres, pero tambien sobre los recortes en servicios sociales o sobre el papel de los medios de comunicacion.Zenda libros

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When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach, Terry Maitland, as the culprit. DNA evidence and fingerprints confirm the crime was committed by this well-loved family man. Horrified by the brutal killing, Detective Ralph Anderson, whose own son was once coached by Maitland, orders the suspect to be arrested in a public spectacle. But Maitland has an alibi. And further research confirms he was indeed out of town that day. As Anderson and the District Attorney trace the clues, the investigation expands from Ohio to Texas. And as horrifying answers begin to emerge, so King's propulsive story of almost unbearable suspense kicks into high gear. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy but there is one rock-hard fact, as unassailable as gravity: a man cannot be in two places at the same time. Can he?

THE GUNSLINGER is the first volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba, due in cinemas July 28, 2