In the gloomy pre-dawn hours of a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of unemployed hopefuls are lined up for a job fair. Without warning, a merciless driver plows through the crowd in a roaring Mercedes. Eight people are killed; 15 are wounded. The killer escapes into the early-spring fog never to be seen from again. Until now…Detective Bill Hodges is a battle-hardened and streetwise crime fighter originally assigned to the Mercedes killings. Now retired, Hodges has lost his way in boredom and depression craving the thrills of taking down the region’s most notorious criminals. When a disturbing letter from the Mercedes Killer arrives at his door, Hodges soon finds himself uncontrollably drawn into a cat-n-mouse pursuit with stakes beyond comprehension.Mr. Mercedes is Stephen’s first “hard-boiled detective tale.” It will transport you into a vibrant and dangerous world filled with gritty characters living on the bleeding edge of reason. Be prepared…

The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Night Journey is Volume Five.Prison Warden Hal Moores isn’t just Paul Edgecombe’s boss—Hal and his wife Melinda are also friends with Paul and his wife Janice. When Paul learns that Melinda has a brain tumor, he realizes that John Coffey can use his astonishing gift to heal her. Though Paul understands that the warden would never allow John to leave the prison, and Melinda can’t enter it, he also knows that John is Melinda’s only hope for survival. And so Paul and other E Block guards devise a dangerous plan that risks their jobs—not something to take lightly in 1932—as well as their lives. They decide to spirit John away into the night and beyond the confines of the Green Mile.

Flagg, jeden z największych żyjących magów, znał wszystkie zabójcze substancje, a każda z nich była straszniejsza od poprzedniej. Najgorszą z nich trzymał z dala od pozostałych. W jego gabinecie znajdowało się biurko, a każda z szuflad była zamknięta na klucz. Jedna z nich miała potrójny zamek. Wewnątrz leżało pudełko rzeźbione w magiczne symbole i runy. A w środku leżał Smoczy Piasek, na który nie ma lekarstwa. Pochodził z pustyni Grenh. Do Grenh można zbliżyć się tylko wtedy, gdy nie wieje wiatr. Albowiem wystarczy raz odetchnąć oparami, by zginąć. Ale nie natychmiast. Dopiero po paru dniach płuca rozżarzą się, skóra zacznie dymić, a całe ciało skurczy się niczym ciało mumii. Po czym człowiek padnie nieżywy z włosami w płomieniach."Flagg w ciemnościach, niewidziany przez nikogo, zaczął się śmiać. W klatce wiszącej na długich czarnych kajdankach obudziła się dwugłowa papuga.– Śmierć! – wrzasnęła jedna z głów.– Mord! – krzyknęła druga".

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now.Review“Anthologist Adams presents readers with a wide variety of alternate Earths, some only slightly askew and others completely unfamiliar. […] Adams’s selections are mirrors reflecting one other with the best images of alternate realities. Readers will greatly enjoy this exploration of our world's foremost and ascendant speculative authors.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)“Reminds longtime readers of fantasy and sci-fi what we love about the genre, while also and aptly demonstrating to newcomers that these stories are about so much more than dragons and multitentacled monsters. It comes highly recommended to both and all.”—Bookgasm

Najnowszy zbiór opowiadań mistrza horroru, Stephena Kinga, zawiera 13 krótkich tekstów, w tym wiele nowych, nigdy dotąd niepublikowanych. Niewielka wyrwa w otaczającej nas rzeczywistości potrafi sprawić, że świat staje się przerażającym i zadziwiającym miejscem. Po zmroku, po zachodzie słońca to, co oczywiste, staje się inne, nierozpoznawalne i niepokojące. Poznaj obsesje dręczące Gingerbread Girl i dwóch sąsiadów, którzy bez reszty zaangażowani w spór o ziemię, trafiają do naprawdę paskudnego miejsca. Przeczytaj o człowieku, który chciał interweniować w przypadku przemocy domowej i starszych ludziach, którzy w poszukiwaniu sposobu na przerwanie monotonii codzienności, posunęli się ciut zbyt daleko, o głuchoniemym autostopowiczu pomagającym pewnemu kierowcy uporać się z romansem jego żony oraz niewidomej dziewczynie, której pocałunki mają niezwykłą moc. Granica pomiędzy życiem a śmiercią, realnością a szaleństwem, zaciera się z każdą kolejną stron…

A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs—including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family’s horrific loss. In his mid-thirties—addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate—Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It’s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.

A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.

Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology:Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they were published together in one book.Reader beware: the stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water or counting the spots on a leopard…

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare.One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world.Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.Review“This delicious first collaboration between Stephen King and his son Owen is a horror-tinged realistic fantasy that imagines what could happen if most of the women of the world fall asleep, leaving men on their own. The authors’ writing is seamless and naturally flowing. Once the action begins, [SLEEPING BEAUTIES] barrels along like a freight train.” (Publishers Weekly)“Another horror blockbuster, Mercedes and all, from maestro King and his heir apparent… In a kind of untold Greek tragedy meets Deliverance meets—well, bits of Mr. Mercedes and The Shawshank Redemption, perhaps—King and King, father and son, take their time putting all the pieces into play: brutish men, resourceful women who've had quite enough, alcohol, and always a subtle sociological subtext, in this case of rural poverty and dreams sure to be dashed… A blood-splattered pleasure.” (Kirkus (starred review))“Following the renewed interest in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and an increasing climate of wolf-whistle politics, this examination of gender stereotypes, systems of oppression, and pervasive misogyny within American culture feels especially timely… The large cast of characters allows for a multitude of narrative perspectives—from both the affected women and the men they’ve left behind. Violent, subversive, and compulsively readable. The true horror of this father-son-penned novel derives more from its unflinchingly realistic depiction of hatred and violence against women than from the supernatural elements.” (Library Journal)

Smalltown, USA, 1973. Die erste Energiekrise. Aber der Highway 784 wird trotzdem gebaut. Und die Planierraupe nähert sich unaufhaltsam dem Haus, in dem Barton Dawes 20 Jahre gelebt hat.Ist es da ein Wunder, wenn Dawes alle tut, um das zu verhindern? Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe ROADWORK.

Młody nauczyciel Johnny Smith pada ofiarą groźnego wypadku samochodowego. Przez kilka lat pozostaje w szpitalu w stanie śpiączki. Kiedy jednak odzyskuje świadomość, że jest bogatszy o niezwykły talent – zdolność jasnowidzenia. Dzięki temu będzie mógł zdemaskować seryjnego mordercę, a także przewidzieć tragiczny w skutkach pożar. Dar jasnowidzenia popchnie go do dramatycznej konfrontacji z charyzmatycznym i bardzo niebezpiecznym kandydatem na stanowisko prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych…