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"Needful Things"
Stephen King
'A wonderful new store has opened in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart's secret desire -- sexual pleasure, wealth, power, or even more precious things-- it's for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to make a bargain.
In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless.'----------
"Blaze"
Stephen King
(as Richard Bachman)
'Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote "Blaze" on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write "Carrie". Bachman died in 1985 ("Cancer of the Pseudonym"), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decade---an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense.
Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze's partner in crime is dead. Or is he?'----------
"Dolores Claiborne"
Stephen King
'Dark secrets, family torments, and two murders swirl around the stoic, hardened figure of Dolores Claiborne, a housekeeper accused of murdering her employer of 22 years. Then there was that timely accident that took Dolores's husband during the solar eclipse of 1975. Yet with all the somber suffering that follows Dolores like a miasma of pain, none of it compares with the heartache of a relationship she has with her grown daughter. Although this is rife with horror, it is not of the supernatural kind, but rather of the torment only real people can impose on one another.' (Description found HERE about the FILM - I removed names, etc.)----------
"Dreamcatcher"
Stephen King
'Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy--now men with separate lives and separate problems--reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past---and in the Dreamcatcher.
Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. "Dreamcatcher," his first full-length novel since "Bag of Bones," is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans of both new and old.'----------
"The Dark Half"
Stephen King
'In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.
Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination."' --Fiona Webster's Editorial Revew at Amazon.com (Here)----------
"The Stand:"
The Complete & Uncut Edition
Stephen King
'In 1978, Stephen King published "The Stand", the novel that is now considered one of his finest works. But as it was first published, "The Stand" was incomplete, because more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. Since then, Stephen King's apocalyptic vision has been restored to its entirety. "The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition" includes more than 500 pages of material deleted, along with material that King added as he reworded the manuscript for its next generation of fans. New characters were introduced and familiar ones endowed with new depths. Both the beginning and the ending were changed. What emerged was a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic. For the hundreds of thousands of fans who read "The Stand" in its original version and wanted more, this complete and uncut edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading "The Stand" for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imaginiation that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.'----------
Stephen King
'A wonderful new store has opened in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart's secret desire -- sexual pleasure, wealth, power, or even more precious things-- it's for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to make a bargain.
In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless.'----------
"Blaze"
Stephen King
(as Richard Bachman)
'Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote "Blaze" on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write "Carrie". Bachman died in 1985 ("Cancer of the Pseudonym"), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decade---an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense.
Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze's partner in crime is dead. Or is he?'----------
"Dolores Claiborne"
Stephen King
'Dark secrets, family torments, and two murders swirl around the stoic, hardened figure of Dolores Claiborne, a housekeeper accused of murdering her employer of 22 years. Then there was that timely accident that took Dolores's husband during the solar eclipse of 1975. Yet with all the somber suffering that follows Dolores like a miasma of pain, none of it compares with the heartache of a relationship she has with her grown daughter. Although this is rife with horror, it is not of the supernatural kind, but rather of the torment only real people can impose on one another.' (Description found HERE about the FILM - I removed names, etc.)----------
"Dreamcatcher"
Stephen King
'Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy--now men with separate lives and separate problems--reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past---and in the Dreamcatcher.
Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. "Dreamcatcher," his first full-length novel since "Bag of Bones," is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans of both new and old.'----------
"The Dark Half"
Stephen King
'In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.
Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination."' --Fiona Webster's Editorial Revew at Amazon.com (Here)----------
"The Stand:"
The Complete & Uncut Edition
Stephen King
'In 1978, Stephen King published "The Stand", the novel that is now considered one of his finest works. But as it was first published, "The Stand" was incomplete, because more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. Since then, Stephen King's apocalyptic vision has been restored to its entirety. "The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition" includes more than 500 pages of material deleted, along with material that King added as he reworded the manuscript for its next generation of fans. New characters were introduced and familiar ones endowed with new depths. Both the beginning and the ending were changed. What emerged was a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic. For the hundreds of thousands of fans who read "The Stand" in its original version and wanted more, this complete and uncut edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading "The Stand" for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imaginiation that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.'----------