Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne

But Jessie’s about to have company: all of her worst nightmares.

Welcome back to Castle Rock, Maine… for the last time. Seems a new store has opened up, Needful Things, and it’s definitely somewhere you have never been. Whatever your heart’s desire, it’s now for sale just across the street at that nice shop. And even though every item carries a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to strike a deal.

Evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless.

Imagine, if you dare: you are strapped to an airline seat on a flight beyond hell; you are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid; you are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer’s worst nightmare; you are focusing in on a beast bent on shredding your sanity.

Imagine, if you dare: you are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind-blowing best. Imagine no more.

America has been destroyed by a vast killer plague. With the countryside destroyed, great cities decimated, the population desperately, but futilely, seeks safety. But for those few remaining survivors, their greatest challenge still awaits: defeating a far greater evil.

Here is Stephen King’s most terrifying vision, now available in its complete, uncut version.

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.

“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.”

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