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Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Cemetery Dance Publications special editon.
Physical Desc
58, 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
vii, 368 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
4) Christine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scarlet-and-white, 1958 Plymouth Fury -- salvaged over every rational dissent and objection, from decay -- possesses its new owner and brings hellish terror to him, his friends, and his classmates.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st Scribner ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Physical Desc
620 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine, encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.
7) Rose Madder
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After suffering a miscarriage brought on by a beating, an abused wife leaves her husband, using his ATM card to buy a bus ticket out of town. The novel describes her struggle to begin a new life, then her husband, a sadistic police officer, comes looking for her. After fourteen years of beatings and abuse, Rose runs away from her husband. Unfortunately, he is a detective, and he has ways of finding her.
Author
Series
Gwendy novels volume 1
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 461 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking place mere hours following the events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea -- a terrain filled with unearthly monstrosities that mean certain death if he lets his guard down. But there are other mysteries along this desolate shoreline as well: three arcane doorways standing freely in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 965 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
11) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Pocket Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
626 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of five short stories that have been made into movies includes "The Mangler," in which a skeptical writer investigates a supposedly haunted hotel room that has apparently caused at least forty-two deaths.
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