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Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA. In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece, Stephen King introduces listeners to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

A John Smith le horrorizó descubrir que había pasado más de cuatro años en coma. Pero le horrorizó aún más descubrir que podía conocer las cosas por anticipado. Él sabía que aquel hombre perverso iba a convertirse en presidente de Estados Unidos e iba a destruir el mundo. Y por eso tenía que matarlo.

Jamie Conklin, el único hijo de una madre soltera, solo quiere tener una infancia normal. Sin embargo, nació con una habilidad sobrenatural que su madre le insta a mantener en secreto y que le permite ver aquello que nadie puede y enterarse de lo que el resto del mundo ignora. Cuando una inspectora del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York le obliga a evitar el último atentado de un asesino que amenaza con seguir atacando incluso desde la tumba, Jamie no tardará en descubrir que el precio que debe pagar por su poder tal vez es demasiado alto.

Había una vez cuatro chicos, compañeros en todo, que decidieron proteger a un chico indefenso atormentado por el tirano del colegio. Su acción marcó un cambio decisivo en sus vidas. Un cambio tan grande, que tardarían veinticinco años en entender su importancia...

What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside down? When her husband of more than 20 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.

A superb novel set in classic Stephen King territory - a small new England town about to be engulfed by terror. Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them. Stephen King, from the introduction. Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk.

Los compañeros del ka-tet de Roland se encuentran separados en el espacio y en el tiempo y su primera meta es volver a juntarse. Susannah ha sobrevivido al parto del ser monstruoso. Jake, Ancho y el padre Callahan luchan contra sus enemigos en Nueva York. Roland y Eddie siguen en el año 1977 en Maine; allí buscan la puerta de regreso a donde están sus amigos.

Le génie narratif de Stephen King atteint de nouveaux sommets et bouscule les frontières de l'imaginaire. Conte de fées, c'est l'histoire magnifique et terrifiante d'un garçon de dix-sept ans qui hérite de clés ouvrant sur un univers parallèle où le Bien affronte le pouvoir écrasant du Mal. Une bataille dont l'enjeu est capital... pour notre monde.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

A man discovers an incredible talent for painting after a freak accident in which he loses an arm. He moves to a "new life" in Duma Key, off Florida's West Coast - a deserted strip, part beach, part weed-tangled reef, owned by a patroness of the arts whose twin sisters went missing in the 1920s. Here, Freemantle is inspired to paint the amazing sunsets. But soon the paintings become predictive, even dangerous.

The Road Virus Heads North tracks an author who buys a creepy painting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide.

Der siebzehnjährige Charlie Reade hat kein leichtes Leben. Seine Mutter starb, als er drei war, und sein Vater ist dem Alkohol verfallen. Eines Tages offenbart ihm der von allen gemiedene mysteriöse Nachbar auf dem Sterbebett ein Geheimnis, das Charlie schließlich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in eine andere, fremde Welt führt. Dort treiben mächtige Kreaturen ihr Unwesen. Die unterdrückten Einwohner sehen in Charlie ihren Retter. Aber dazu muss er erst die Prinzessin, die rechtmäßige Herrin des fantastischen Märchenreichs, von ihrem schrecklichen Leiden befreien.

You'll lose a lot of sleep.... Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his hometown is about to become the new Armageddon....

LT has a theory about pets, particularly his Siamese cat. It had been their cat, not just his cat, but that was until he came home one day to find a note on the fridge from his wife saying she had left him. Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in London, this story demonstrates yet again that no one can tell a tale like Stephen King. Available only in audio!

Durante as férias escolares de 1958, em Derry, pacata cidadezinha do Maine, Bill, Richie, Stan, Mike, Eddie, Ben e Beverly aprenderam o real sentido da amizade, do amor, da confiança e... do medo. O mais profundo e tenebroso medo. Naquele verão, eles enfrentaram pela primeira vez a Coisa, um ser sobrenatural e maligno que deixou terríveis marcas de sangue em Derry. Quase trinta anos depois, os amigos voltam a se encontrar. Uma nova onda de terror tomou a pequena cidade. Mike Hanlon, o único que permanece em Derry, dá o sinal.

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….

Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA. In the second novel of King's best-selling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort.

«Al menos en un sentido nuestras vidas son ciertamente como las películas. El elenco principal se compone de la familia y los amigos. Los actores son los vecinos, los compañeros de trabajo, los profesores y los conocidos.[...] » Pero a veces entra en nuestra vida una persona que no encaja en ninguna de estas categorías.[...] » Cuando pienso en Charles Jacobs—mi quinto en discordia, mi agente del cambio, mi maldición—se me hace imposible creer que su presencia en mi vida tuvo que ver con el destino.»

Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo. When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancée has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men's souls. He's had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man....

What if you could go back in time and change the course of history?11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless.... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill who becomes the love of Jake's life.