Thad Beaumont would like to say he’s innocent. He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his bestselling novels. He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the voice on the phone uttering its obscene threats and demanding total surrender.
Question: how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it, and signs its crime with Thad’s bloody fingerprints? Answer: he can’t. Meet THE DARK HALF.
The Gunslinger, a haunting figure, seemingly alone in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace. Join him on his elusive search for the Dark Tower. Join him as he pursues the Man in Black, encounters the sexually ravenous Alice, and befriends the kid from Earth called Jake.
Follow the Gunslinger as he begins his incredible journey.
The quest for the Dark Tower continues as Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is drawn through a mysterious door that brings him into contemporary America. Here he links forces with Eddie Dean, the defiant one, and Odetta Holmes, the brave one, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.
THE DRAWING OF THE THREE is sheer storytelling magic.
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, with Eddie Dean and Susannah, moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares as he crosses a desert of damnation and enters a macabre world that seems eerily familiar. A world that is a twisted mirror image of our own, a world filled with haunting adventure.
THE WASTE LANDS is further testament of Stephen King’s mastery.
Praise for Stephen King’s DOLORES CLAIBORNE
“POWERFUL… STARTLINGLY GOOD.”
“WHAT A STORYTELLER. Stephen King is a magician at creating colorful characters and at spinning a yarn that casts a spell over the reader… One will not easily forget [Dolores]… compelling.”
“A LITERARY TRIUMPH. The finest of King novels… a plot of enormous energy… Read this book.”
“A DARING PERFORMANCE… spooky… Dolores’s voice rings true thoughout.”
“The all-time master of horror has turned out a piece of genuine literature… a finely wrought work… emphasizing character.”
“A DARK AND BROODING TALE of the psychological underbelly of a bad marriage… a morality play with an unusual heroine.”
“Stephen King peeks beneath the simple horrors… which makes Dolores’s story moving.”
“SEDUCTIVE… SUSPENSEFUL… Dolores is a brilliantly realized character and her struggles will hook readers inexorably.”
“Reality-based horror reflecting the evil that men do to women… This time King’s boogeyman is the guy next door.”
“UNFORGETTABLE… STEPHEN KING IS A MAGNIFICENT STORYTELLER.”
“A terrifying tale of desperation, abuse, and revenge that showcases King’s talent as a powerful storyteller.”
“COMPELLING… has a special kind of resonance that will echo for the reader long after the tale is told.”
“SHARP… you feel the power of its decency.”
“A FINE, SOLID, FASCINATING NOVEL, AND ARGUABLY THE BEST, MOST AFFECTING WRITING.“
“ABSORBING… FASCINATING… a dark and brooding tale of a bad marriage that finally explodes in retribution and murder… an honest and chilling story, very well told.”
WORKS BY STEPHEN KING
Carrie
’Salem’s Lot
The Shining
The Stand
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Cujo
THE DARK TOWER I: The Gunslinger
Christine
Pet Sematary
Cycle of the Werewolf
The Talisman (with Peter Straub)
It
The Eyes of the Dragon
Misery
The Tommyknockers
THE DARK TOWER II: The Drawing of the Three
THE DARK TOWER III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Half
Needful Things
Gerald’s Game
Dolores Claiborne
Insomnia
Rose Madder
Desperation
The Green Mile
THE DARK TOWER IV: Wizard and Glass
Bag of Bones
The Girl Who Loved Tom
Gordon
Dreamcatcher
Black House (with Peter Straub)
From a Buick 8
THE DARK TOWER V: Wolves of the Calla
Rage
The Long Walk
Roadwork
The Running Man
Thinner
The Regulators
Night Shift
Different Seasons
Skeleton Crew
Four Past Midnight
Nightmares and
Dreamscapes
Hearts in Atlantis
Everything’s Eventual
Danse Macabre
On Writing
Creepshow
Cat’s Eye
Silver Bullet
Maximum Overdrive
Pet Sematary
Golden Years
Sleepwalkers
The Stand
The Shining
Rose Red
Storm of the Century
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