S = BOOKS
SALEM'S LOT.
1975.
PLOT
1975.
PLOT
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R = BOOKS
ROSE MADDER.
1995.
PLOT
In the present tense, which takes place in 1985, Rose Daniels's husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to suffer a miscarriage.
The story then jumps ahead to a morning nine years later, when Rose is making the bed. She notices a drop of blood on the sheet that had probably leaked from her nose the night before — Norman had punched her in the face for spilling some iced tea on him. Rose realizes that she has passively suffered through Norman's abuse for fourteen years and that if she continues to put up with this treatment, she might be killed. But then Rose wonders: what if Norman doesn't kill her? What will she be like after fourteen more years of Norman "talking to her right up close", as he puts it?
Rose (who whimsically begins to think of herself as "Rosie Real", in homage to the Carole King album) then makes the difficult decision to leave her home,
A few weeks later Rose decides to pawn her engagement ring, but learns that it is worthless. Before she leaves the pawnshop, however, she notices a painting of a woman in a rose madder gown and immediately falls in love with it.
She trades her ring for the painting, which strangely enough has no artist's signature. Outside, a stranger asks her to read a passage from a novel, and is so impressed that he offers her a job recording audio books.
Then, one of the workers at the pawnshop, Bill Steiner, asks her out. It seems that after suffering for years, Rose finally has everything she could want: a great job, a home of her own, friends and a man who loves her..................................................................................
1995.
PLOT
In the present tense, which takes place in 1985, Rose Daniels's husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to suffer a miscarriage.
The story then jumps ahead to a morning nine years later, when Rose is making the bed. She notices a drop of blood on the sheet that had probably leaked from her nose the night before — Norman had punched her in the face for spilling some iced tea on him. Rose realizes that she has passively suffered through Norman's abuse for fourteen years and that if she continues to put up with this treatment, she might be killed. But then Rose wonders: what if Norman doesn't kill her? What will she be like after fourteen more years of Norman "talking to her right up close", as he puts it?
Rose (who whimsically begins to think of herself as "Rosie Real", in homage to the Carole King album) then makes the difficult decision to leave her home,
A few weeks later Rose decides to pawn her engagement ring, but learns that it is worthless. Before she leaves the pawnshop, however, she notices a painting of a woman in a rose madder gown and immediately falls in love with it.
She trades her ring for the painting, which strangely enough has no artist's signature. Outside, a stranger asks her to read a passage from a novel, and is so impressed that he offers her a job recording audio books.
Then, one of the workers at the pawnshop, Bill Steiner, asks her out. It seems that after suffering for years, Rose finally has everything she could want: a great job, a home of her own, friends and a man who loves her..................................................................................
P = BOOKS
PET SEMATARY,
1983.
PLOT
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill (Church for short). From the moment they arrive, the family runs into misfortune: Ellie hurts her knee after falling off of a tire swing, and Gage is stung by a bee. Fortunately their new neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, comes to help. He warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house; it is constantly used by big trucks from a nearby chemical processing plant.
A few weeks after the Creeds move in, Jud puts the friendship on the line when he takes the family on a walk in the woods behind their home. A well-tended path leads to a pet cemetery (misspelled "sematary") where the children of the town bury their deceased animals.
then the family cat dies........................................................................
THE PLANT.
2000.
PLOT
Stephen King wrote a few parts of a story by the same name and sent out as chapbooks to his friends instead of Christmas cards in 1982, 1983, and 1985.
In 2000, Stephen King picked up The Plant again.
The story tells of a person working as editor on a paperback publishing house. One day he gets a manuscript from what seems like a crackpot. It's about magic, but it also contains photographs that seem very real. He writes a rejection slip about the book, but on grounds of the photographs, he also notifies the police where the author lives. This enrages the author who sends a mysterious plant to the editor's office.................................................................................................
1983.
PLOT
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill (Church for short). From the moment they arrive, the family runs into misfortune: Ellie hurts her knee after falling off of a tire swing, and Gage is stung by a bee. Fortunately their new neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, comes to help. He warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house; it is constantly used by big trucks from a nearby chemical processing plant.
A few weeks after the Creeds move in, Jud puts the friendship on the line when he takes the family on a walk in the woods behind their home. A well-tended path leads to a pet cemetery (misspelled "sematary") where the children of the town bury their deceased animals.
then the family cat dies........................................................................
THE PLANT.
2000.
PLOT
Stephen King wrote a few parts of a story by the same name and sent out as chapbooks to his friends instead of Christmas cards in 1982, 1983, and 1985.
In 2000, Stephen King picked up The Plant again.
The story tells of a person working as editor on a paperback publishing house. One day he gets a manuscript from what seems like a crackpot. It's about magic, but it also contains photographs that seem very real. He writes a rejection slip about the book, but on grounds of the photographs, he also notifies the police where the author lives. This enrages the author who sends a mysterious plant to the editor's office.................................................................................................
N = BOOKS
NEEDFUL THINGS.
1991.
PLOT
The story is set in the small fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, where a new shop named "Needful Things" opens, to the curiosity of the townspeople. The story starts out in first person with the narrator greeting the reader and revealing the back stories on the book's main characters. One by one, they start to come into the shop, drawn there by something they want more than anything else. In young Brian Rusk's case, it's a Sandy Koufax baseball card with Brian's name signed by the ball player. In Danforth "Buster" Keeton's case, it's a machine that simulates a horse race, and will, if each tin horse is named for the participants in actual, future races, correctly predict the winner. They are all greeted by the seemingly kind old man, Leland Gaunt, and they all ignore the sign Leland has in his store, "Caveat emptor". When they realize that they can't buy the object of their desire, Leland offers them a trade — perform a small "favor" for him, in the form of a prank on someone else (almost all of the time the prank is on somebody they know of, but have no real relationship or quarrel with) in the town, and the object is theirs. These betrayals and pranks (some of which deceptively seem to be harmless) cause Castle Rock's citizens to turn on each other, gradually leading the entire town into complete chaos..................................................................................................
1991.
PLOT
The story is set in the small fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, where a new shop named "Needful Things" opens, to the curiosity of the townspeople. The story starts out in first person with the narrator greeting the reader and revealing the back stories on the book's main characters. One by one, they start to come into the shop, drawn there by something they want more than anything else. In young Brian Rusk's case, it's a Sandy Koufax baseball card with Brian's name signed by the ball player. In Danforth "Buster" Keeton's case, it's a machine that simulates a horse race, and will, if each tin horse is named for the participants in actual, future races, correctly predict the winner. They are all greeted by the seemingly kind old man, Leland Gaunt, and they all ignore the sign Leland has in his store, "Caveat emptor". When they realize that they can't buy the object of their desire, Leland offers them a trade — perform a small "favor" for him, in the form of a prank on someone else (almost all of the time the prank is on somebody they know of, but have no real relationship or quarrel with) in the town, and the object is theirs. These betrayals and pranks (some of which deceptively seem to be harmless) cause Castle Rock's citizens to turn on each other, gradually leading the entire town into complete chaos..................................................................................................
M = BOOKS
MISERY.
1987.
PLOT
Paul Sheldon is the author of a best-selling series of romance novels featuring the Victorian-era heroine Misery Chastain. Since 1974, he has finished the first drafts of all his books in the same suite at the Boulderado Hotel in Boulder, Colorado. He is determined to finish his new novel, Fast Cars. After he has completed his manuscript, he has an impulse (fueled by three bottles of champagne) to drive to L.A. rather than back to his home in New York. In his inebriated state he is unaware that the Colorado Western Slope is going to be hit with one of the biggest snowstorms of the year in a few hours. Determined to drive through this, he loses control of his car, drives off the road, and tumbles down the steep hill, falling unconscious.
Paul is rescued from the car wreck by a woman named Annie Wilkes,HIS NUMBER 1 FAN,
THAT IS WHEN HIS LIFE IS TURNED UP SIDE DOWN..........................................................................
1987.
PLOT
Paul Sheldon is the author of a best-selling series of romance novels featuring the Victorian-era heroine Misery Chastain. Since 1974, he has finished the first drafts of all his books in the same suite at the Boulderado Hotel in Boulder, Colorado. He is determined to finish his new novel, Fast Cars. After he has completed his manuscript, he has an impulse (fueled by three bottles of champagne) to drive to L.A. rather than back to his home in New York. In his inebriated state he is unaware that the Colorado Western Slope is going to be hit with one of the biggest snowstorms of the year in a few hours. Determined to drive through this, he loses control of his car, drives off the road, and tumbles down the steep hill, falling unconscious.
Paul is rescued from the car wreck by a woman named Annie Wilkes,HIS NUMBER 1 FAN,
THAT IS WHEN HIS LIFE IS TURNED UP SIDE DOWN..........................................................................
L = BOOKS
LISEY'S STORY.
2006.
PLOT
Lisey Landon is the widow of an award winning novelist, Scott Landon. In the middle of cleaning out Scott's study, Lisey realizes that there's a great deal about Scott's past (and the past they shared together) that she has blocked out--and with the introduction of a crazy man named Dooley, Lisey must figure out what she's hidden from herself (and what Scott has planned for her) if she's to remain alive. The story is deeply psychological in nature, capturing every essence of the psyche of Lisey as she engages on her quest...................................................................................
2006.
PLOT
Lisey Landon is the widow of an award winning novelist, Scott Landon. In the middle of cleaning out Scott's study, Lisey realizes that there's a great deal about Scott's past (and the past they shared together) that she has blocked out--and with the introduction of a crazy man named Dooley, Lisey must figure out what she's hidden from herself (and what Scott has planned for her) if she's to remain alive. The story is deeply psychological in nature, capturing every essence of the psyche of Lisey as she engages on her quest...................................................................................
I = BOOKS
INSOMNIA.
1994.
PLOT
The novel deals with Ralph Roberts, a retired widower who begins to suffer from insomnia. As the condition worsens, he begins to see things that are invisible and intangible to others: colorful manifestations of life-force surrounding people (auras), and diminutive white-coated beings he calls "little bald doctors", due to their appearance. Roberts becomes perceptive of other planes of reality and their influence upon the "real" world. ......................................................
A LARGE BOOK, WELL WORTH PICKING UP ( IF YOU NEED TO GET TO SLEEP )
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IT.
1986.
PLOT
The novel is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, where a malevolent, shape-shifting, child-killing monster (referred to simply as "It") lurks in the sewers and storm-drains. In 1958, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Ben Hanscom, and Stan Uris (who call themselves the Losers' Club) each have horrifying encounters with the creature, which takes on the shape of their biggest fears.
But Its most prominent form is that of a sadistic, balloon-wielding clown called Pennywise.
They are also being terrorized by the neighborhood bully, Henry Bowers, which only strengthens their bond. The Losers decide to hunt down the creature and destroy it. They eventually track It down and in the ensuing enormous battle of wills (known as the Ritual of Chüd), hurt It badly. The Losers promise that if It ever comes back, they'll confront It again.
THEN FOWARD TO 1985, where murders are once again taking place in Derry. Mike Hanlon, the only one of the Losers who has remained in Derry, is convinced that the creature has returned and calls each of the Losers..........................................................................................
1994.
PLOT
The novel deals with Ralph Roberts, a retired widower who begins to suffer from insomnia. As the condition worsens, he begins to see things that are invisible and intangible to others: colorful manifestations of life-force surrounding people (auras), and diminutive white-coated beings he calls "little bald doctors", due to their appearance. Roberts becomes perceptive of other planes of reality and their influence upon the "real" world. ......................................................
A LARGE BOOK, WELL WORTH PICKING UP ( IF YOU NEED TO GET TO SLEEP )
..............................................................................................................................
IT.
1986.
PLOT
The novel is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, where a malevolent, shape-shifting, child-killing monster (referred to simply as "It") lurks in the sewers and storm-drains. In 1958, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Ben Hanscom, and Stan Uris (who call themselves the Losers' Club) each have horrifying encounters with the creature, which takes on the shape of their biggest fears.
But Its most prominent form is that of a sadistic, balloon-wielding clown called Pennywise.
They are also being terrorized by the neighborhood bully, Henry Bowers, which only strengthens their bond. The Losers decide to hunt down the creature and destroy it. They eventually track It down and in the ensuing enormous battle of wills (known as the Ritual of Chüd), hurt It badly. The Losers promise that if It ever comes back, they'll confront It again.
THEN FOWARD TO 1985, where murders are once again taking place in Derry. Mike Hanlon, the only one of the Losers who has remained in Derry, is convinced that the creature has returned and calls each of the Losers..........................................................................................
H = BOOKS
HEARTS IN ATLANTIS.
1999.
PLOT
This book is not quite a novel, but not quite a short story collection either. It consists of five novellas, each connected to the next by recurring characters and taking place in chronological order.
All of the stories are about Baby Boomers, and in all of them, the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part.
THE FIRST PART, and longest, part, "Low Men in Yellow Coats", takes place in 1960 and revolves around a young boy, Bobby Garfield. He lives in Harwich, Connecticut with his self-centered mother, Liz, a widow, and he really wants a bicycle. His mother claims they do not have the money for a bike, despite her constant purchases of new clothing. For his eleventh birthday, Bobby's mother gives him a birthday card containing an adult library card. During this time, Bobby doesn't realize that his mother is having a relationship with her boss. Bobby spends his time with his two best friends, John "Sully" Sullivan and Carol Gerber.
An older man named Ted Brautigan moves into an adjacent apartment on the floor above Bobby and his mother. It is obvious from the start that she doesn't like Ted, but Bobby does. Ted spends a lot of time discussing books with Bobby and gives him Lord of the Flies, which makes a huge impression on the boy. Bobby's mother claims to be worried that Ted might be sexually abusing Bobby, though in fact she feels guilty about neglecting her son. Bobby, understanding the situation but unable to articulate it, solves the problem by keeping the two apart.......................................
SECOND PART, explores how the university of the 1960s was an "Atlantis", an imaginary kingdom isolated from the troubles of the world. However, as more and more of the students become addicted to playing Hearts, their grades begin to suffer...and the only way they are escaping the draft for the Vietnam War is through their student deferments. If they flunk out of college, they will be drafted and sent to the war in Southeast Asia.
Peter Riley quickly falls behind in his studies, but even though he knows he might flunk out, he is unable to stop himself. Meanwhile, he meets Carol Gerber, Peter Riley falls in love with her, and with her help tries to cure himself of the addiction to Hearts. However, he is too self-involved and therefore unaware that Carol herself has become caught up in an escapist addiction of her own: student terrorism. As Peter Riley and his friends' self-destructive addiction to Hearts continues, the Vietnam War grows closer, drawing Carol into an activist group and taking part in bloody demonstrations................................
THE THIRD PART, is about a Vietnam veteran's penance after the war. The main character in this story is Willie Shearman, and the story takes place over a single day in December 1983. At first we see him commuting from Connecticut to New York City like any normal businessman; we then discover that he elaborately disguises himself as a blind beggar who takes hundreds of dollars a day in donations from passersby, keeping the bills for himself and distributing the coins to various churches and charities. We also learn that he was in combat with John Sullivan, and saved his life; and that Willie keeps a scrapbook about Carol Gerber, and has never forgotten the day that she was beaten up by Harry Doolin while he and Richie O'Meara held her down..........................................................
THE FORTH PART, describes a reunion of two veterans, one being John Sullivan, at the funeral of a third and recounts an incident that almost escalated into a My Lai Massacre involving a former student and player in the Hearts game in Hearts In Atlantis, Ronnie Malenfant. Throughout the story, Sullivan sees an old Vietnamese woman, "mama-san" whom Ronnie killed during this incident. In the end Sullivan dies of an apparent heart attack during a traffic jam on the way home..............................................
1999.
PLOT
This book is not quite a novel, but not quite a short story collection either. It consists of five novellas, each connected to the next by recurring characters and taking place in chronological order.
All of the stories are about Baby Boomers, and in all of them, the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part.
THE FIRST PART, and longest, part, "Low Men in Yellow Coats", takes place in 1960 and revolves around a young boy, Bobby Garfield. He lives in Harwich, Connecticut with his self-centered mother, Liz, a widow, and he really wants a bicycle. His mother claims they do not have the money for a bike, despite her constant purchases of new clothing. For his eleventh birthday, Bobby's mother gives him a birthday card containing an adult library card. During this time, Bobby doesn't realize that his mother is having a relationship with her boss. Bobby spends his time with his two best friends, John "Sully" Sullivan and Carol Gerber.
An older man named Ted Brautigan moves into an adjacent apartment on the floor above Bobby and his mother. It is obvious from the start that she doesn't like Ted, but Bobby does. Ted spends a lot of time discussing books with Bobby and gives him Lord of the Flies, which makes a huge impression on the boy. Bobby's mother claims to be worried that Ted might be sexually abusing Bobby, though in fact she feels guilty about neglecting her son. Bobby, understanding the situation but unable to articulate it, solves the problem by keeping the two apart.......................................
SECOND PART, explores how the university of the 1960s was an "Atlantis", an imaginary kingdom isolated from the troubles of the world. However, as more and more of the students become addicted to playing Hearts, their grades begin to suffer...and the only way they are escaping the draft for the Vietnam War is through their student deferments. If they flunk out of college, they will be drafted and sent to the war in Southeast Asia.
Peter Riley quickly falls behind in his studies, but even though he knows he might flunk out, he is unable to stop himself. Meanwhile, he meets Carol Gerber, Peter Riley falls in love with her, and with her help tries to cure himself of the addiction to Hearts. However, he is too self-involved and therefore unaware that Carol herself has become caught up in an escapist addiction of her own: student terrorism. As Peter Riley and his friends' self-destructive addiction to Hearts continues, the Vietnam War grows closer, drawing Carol into an activist group and taking part in bloody demonstrations................................
THE THIRD PART, is about a Vietnam veteran's penance after the war. The main character in this story is Willie Shearman, and the story takes place over a single day in December 1983. At first we see him commuting from Connecticut to New York City like any normal businessman; we then discover that he elaborately disguises himself as a blind beggar who takes hundreds of dollars a day in donations from passersby, keeping the bills for himself and distributing the coins to various churches and charities. We also learn that he was in combat with John Sullivan, and saved his life; and that Willie keeps a scrapbook about Carol Gerber, and has never forgotten the day that she was beaten up by Harry Doolin while he and Richie O'Meara held her down..........................................................
THE FORTH PART, describes a reunion of two veterans, one being John Sullivan, at the funeral of a third and recounts an incident that almost escalated into a My Lai Massacre involving a former student and player in the Hearts game in Hearts In Atlantis, Ronnie Malenfant. Throughout the story, Sullivan sees an old Vietnamese woman, "mama-san" whom Ronnie killed during this incident. In the end Sullivan dies of an apparent heart attack during a traffic jam on the way home..............................................
G = BOOK
GERALD'S GAME.
1992.
PLOT
The story begins with Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald in the bedroom of their solitary cabin in western Maine, where they have gone for an off-beat romantic weekend. Gerald, a successful lawyer with an aggressive personality, has been able to reinvigorate the couple's sex life by handcuffing Jessie to the bed. Jessie has been into the game before, but suddenly balks. As Gerald starts to crawl on top of her, pretending that her protests are fake, she kicks him hard in the groin, causing him to have a fatal heart attack.
Jessie is alone in the cabin and unable to move or summon help. There is nothing to do but see if anyone shows up.
The only things that do show up are a hungry stray dog that starts feeding on Gerald's body and an unpleasant, deformed apparition that may or may not be real;..............................................
THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON.
1999.
PLOT
The story is set in motion by a family hiking trip, during which Trisha's brother, Pete, and mother constantly squabble about the mother's divorce with her father, as well as other topics. Trisha falls back to avoid listening and is therefore unable to find her family again after she wanders off the trail to take a bathroom break.
She attempts to head them off at an upcoming turn in the trail but somehow ends up hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the heart of the forest. She is left with a bottle of water, two Twinkies, a boiled egg, a sandwich, a large bottle of Surge, a poncho, a Game Boy, and a Walkman. Now and then she listens to her Walkman to keep her mood up, either to learn of news of the search for her, or to listen to the baseball game featuring her favorite player, and "heartthrob," Tom Gordon.
As she starts to take steps to survive by conserving what little food she has with her, and consuming edible flora such as beech nuts, checkerberries, and fiddleheads; her mother and brother return to their car without her and call the police and start a search. Naturally, the rescuers search in the area around the path, but not as far away as she has gone. The girl decides to follow a creek (though it soon turns into a swamp-like river) ...............................................................................
THE GREEN MILE.
1996.
PLOT
Stephen King published this story as a serial in six parts.
The story centers on John Coffey, an almost seven-foot black man who is convicted of raping and killing two small white girls. He is notable because of his size and also for his strange behavior.
Whilst on the green mile the prison gaurds realise that John Coffey is not like other prisoners on death role.................................................................................................................
A moving and wonderful storie, it will have you in tears.
1992.
PLOT
The story begins with Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald in the bedroom of their solitary cabin in western Maine, where they have gone for an off-beat romantic weekend. Gerald, a successful lawyer with an aggressive personality, has been able to reinvigorate the couple's sex life by handcuffing Jessie to the bed. Jessie has been into the game before, but suddenly balks. As Gerald starts to crawl on top of her, pretending that her protests are fake, she kicks him hard in the groin, causing him to have a fatal heart attack.
Jessie is alone in the cabin and unable to move or summon help. There is nothing to do but see if anyone shows up.
The only things that do show up are a hungry stray dog that starts feeding on Gerald's body and an unpleasant, deformed apparition that may or may not be real;..............................................
THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON.
1999.
PLOT
The story is set in motion by a family hiking trip, during which Trisha's brother, Pete, and mother constantly squabble about the mother's divorce with her father, as well as other topics. Trisha falls back to avoid listening and is therefore unable to find her family again after she wanders off the trail to take a bathroom break.
She attempts to head them off at an upcoming turn in the trail but somehow ends up hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the heart of the forest. She is left with a bottle of water, two Twinkies, a boiled egg, a sandwich, a large bottle of Surge, a poncho, a Game Boy, and a Walkman. Now and then she listens to her Walkman to keep her mood up, either to learn of news of the search for her, or to listen to the baseball game featuring her favorite player, and "heartthrob," Tom Gordon.
As she starts to take steps to survive by conserving what little food she has with her, and consuming edible flora such as beech nuts, checkerberries, and fiddleheads; her mother and brother return to their car without her and call the police and start a search. Naturally, the rescuers search in the area around the path, but not as far away as she has gone. The girl decides to follow a creek (though it soon turns into a swamp-like river) ...............................................................................
THE GREEN MILE.
1996.
PLOT
Stephen King published this story as a serial in six parts.
The story centers on John Coffey, an almost seven-foot black man who is convicted of raping and killing two small white girls. He is notable because of his size and also for his strange behavior.
Whilst on the green mile the prison gaurds realise that John Coffey is not like other prisoners on death role.................................................................................................................
A moving and wonderful storie, it will have you in tears.
F = BOOKS
FIRESTARTER.
1980.
PLOT.
Charlene "Charlie" McGee, a young girl possessing many potential abilities, amongst them most notably pyrokinesis; the ability to create fire with her mind.
Charlie is a mutant, she was born with her abilities due to her parents, Andrew "Andy" McGee and Vicky Tomlinson, having participated in a mysterious government-funded experiment during college.
Both parents had been injected amounts of a drug known as Lot Six, which, among other things, had been proven to alter the subject's chromosomes and pituitary gland.
Andy developed telepathic hypnosis, a mind control ability he calls the "push", the ability to create a state of extreme suggestion in the victim's mind. Vicky developed minor telekinesis, the extent of her power being able to close a refrigerator door from across the room.
The government agency that sponsored the original drug trials, The Shop, regarded the experiment as a failure, with one member stating that humans were simply not evolved yet to make full use of the drug. However, although they unanimously regarded Andy and Vicky as useless test subjects and dead ends, it was also unanimously agreed that Charlie was a groundbreaking development, and as a result, the McGee family was placed under surveillance for around seven years..........................................
FROM A BUICK 8.
2002.
PLOT
The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a police barracks in western Pennsylvania. After Curt Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit Troop D. The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him, and soon begin telling him about the "Buick 8" locked up in a shed.
It is in some sense a ghost story in the way that the novel is about a group of people telling an old but unsettling tale. And while the Buick 8 is not a traditional ghost, it is indeed not of their world.
The Buick 8 resembles a vintage 1954 Buick Roadmaster, and was left at a gas station by a mysterious man dressed in black, who disappeared soon after leaving the car to be refueled. The "car" is later held by the Troop D police of rural Pennsylvania in one of their sheds. The car, they discover, is not a car at all. It appears to be a Buick, but the steering wheel doesn't move, the dashboard instruments are unmovable props, the car heals itself when scratched or dented, and all dirt and debris disappear from it.................................................................................
1980.
PLOT.
Charlene "Charlie" McGee, a young girl possessing many potential abilities, amongst them most notably pyrokinesis; the ability to create fire with her mind.
Charlie is a mutant, she was born with her abilities due to her parents, Andrew "Andy" McGee and Vicky Tomlinson, having participated in a mysterious government-funded experiment during college.
Both parents had been injected amounts of a drug known as Lot Six, which, among other things, had been proven to alter the subject's chromosomes and pituitary gland.
Andy developed telepathic hypnosis, a mind control ability he calls the "push", the ability to create a state of extreme suggestion in the victim's mind. Vicky developed minor telekinesis, the extent of her power being able to close a refrigerator door from across the room.
The government agency that sponsored the original drug trials, The Shop, regarded the experiment as a failure, with one member stating that humans were simply not evolved yet to make full use of the drug. However, although they unanimously regarded Andy and Vicky as useless test subjects and dead ends, it was also unanimously agreed that Charlie was a groundbreaking development, and as a result, the McGee family was placed under surveillance for around seven years..........................................
FROM A BUICK 8.
2002.
PLOT
The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a police barracks in western Pennsylvania. After Curt Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit Troop D. The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him, and soon begin telling him about the "Buick 8" locked up in a shed.
It is in some sense a ghost story in the way that the novel is about a group of people telling an old but unsettling tale. And while the Buick 8 is not a traditional ghost, it is indeed not of their world.
The Buick 8 resembles a vintage 1954 Buick Roadmaster, and was left at a gas station by a mysterious man dressed in black, who disappeared soon after leaving the car to be refueled. The "car" is later held by the Troop D police of rural Pennsylvania in one of their sheds. The car, they discover, is not a car at all. It appears to be a Buick, but the steering wheel doesn't move, the dashboard instruments are unmovable props, the car heals itself when scratched or dented, and all dirt and debris disappear from it.................................................................................
E = BOOKS
THE EYES OF THE DRAGON.
1987.
THIS BOOK WAS WROTE FOR STEPHEN KING'S DAUGHTER. This book is a work of classic fantasy, At the time it was a surprising deviation from the norm for King,
PLOT.
The Eyes of the Dragon takes place entirely within the realm of Delain.
The opening concerns itself with establishing five characters: King Roland, Queen Sasha, Prince Peter, Prince Thomas, and the wizard and royal adviser, Flagg ( Randall Flagg )
Randall Flagg the villain of this story, is directly involved with the Dark Tower series, appearing as one of Roland of Gilead's main antagonists. He is also the main antagonist in The Stand.
The story centers around the 2 prince's and the evil Flagg.
This story was wrote with a different kind of reader in mind,
If you decided to pick this book up you will see a different side to Stephen King,
IT IS WELL WORTH THE READ.
1987.
THIS BOOK WAS WROTE FOR STEPHEN KING'S DAUGHTER. This book is a work of classic fantasy, At the time it was a surprising deviation from the norm for King,
PLOT.
The Eyes of the Dragon takes place entirely within the realm of Delain.
The opening concerns itself with establishing five characters: King Roland, Queen Sasha, Prince Peter, Prince Thomas, and the wizard and royal adviser, Flagg ( Randall Flagg )
Randall Flagg the villain of this story, is directly involved with the Dark Tower series, appearing as one of Roland of Gilead's main antagonists. He is also the main antagonist in The Stand.
The story centers around the 2 prince's and the evil Flagg.
This story was wrote with a different kind of reader in mind,
If you decided to pick this book up you will see a different side to Stephen King,
IT IS WELL WORTH THE READ.
D = BOOKS
THE DARK HALF.
1989.
PLOT
Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic who lives in the tiny Maine town of Ludlow (the setting of Pet Sematary and about an hour away from the fictional town of Castle Rock, often used in King's novels).
Thad writes gritty crime novels about a violent killer named Alexis Machine, under the pen name George Stark,
When it's learned that Thad Beaumont, who writes cerebral literary fiction, is really Stark, he and his wife Elizabeth decide to stage a daylight funeral for the fictional Stark.
Thad decices its time to but Stark to rest, he even set it up in a cemetery, with a head stone saying " NOT A VERY NICE MAN ".
However, that is not the end of Stark and over the weeks to come he resurrects himself from his mock-grave and kills,
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THE DEAD ZONE.
1979.
PLOT
It is about Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident and enters a coma for nearly five years. When he emerges, he can see horrifying secrets, ( by touching people ) but he cannot identify all the details. His "dead zone", is an area of his brain that suffered permanent damage as the result of his accident.
The story properly begins in 1970. Johnny is now a high school teacher, and dating a fellow teacher named Sarah Bracknell. A few days before Halloween, Johnny takes Sarah to a county fair, but Sarah gets ill from eating a tainted hot dog. As they leave, Johnny decides to try his luck at a Wheel of Fortune stand. A small crowd gathers around Johnny as he keeps winning. After winning a substantial amount of prize money, Johnny takes Sarah home, and decides to take a taxicab home. As he heads back to his home, the taxicab is hit by two cars..............................................................................
DESPERATION.
1996.
PLOT
1989.
PLOT
Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic who lives in the tiny Maine town of Ludlow (the setting of Pet Sematary and about an hour away from the fictional town of Castle Rock, often used in King's novels).
Thad writes gritty crime novels about a violent killer named Alexis Machine, under the pen name George Stark,
When it's learned that Thad Beaumont, who writes cerebral literary fiction, is really Stark, he and his wife Elizabeth decide to stage a daylight funeral for the fictional Stark.
Thad decices its time to but Stark to rest, he even set it up in a cemetery, with a head stone saying " NOT A VERY NICE MAN ".
However, that is not the end of Stark and over the weeks to come he resurrects himself from his mock-grave and kills,
............................................................................................................................
THE DEAD ZONE.
1979.
PLOT
It is about Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident and enters a coma for nearly five years. When he emerges, he can see horrifying secrets, ( by touching people ) but he cannot identify all the details. His "dead zone", is an area of his brain that suffered permanent damage as the result of his accident.
The story properly begins in 1970. Johnny is now a high school teacher, and dating a fellow teacher named Sarah Bracknell. A few days before Halloween, Johnny takes Sarah to a county fair, but Sarah gets ill from eating a tainted hot dog. As they leave, Johnny decides to try his luck at a Wheel of Fortune stand. A small crowd gathers around Johnny as he keeps winning. After winning a substantial amount of prize money, Johnny takes Sarah home, and decides to take a taxicab home. As he heads back to his home, the taxicab is hit by two cars..............................................................................
DESPERATION.
1996.
PLOT
C = BOOKS
CARRIE.
1974.
Stephen King's first published novel.
PLOT.
The story of Carietta "Carrie" White, a teenage girl from Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality, and over the years has ruled Carrie with an iron rod and repeated threats of damnation. Margaret's mentally and emotionally abusive behavior has occasionally crossed over into physical abuse as well.
Carrie does not fare much better at her school, Thomas Ewen High School, where her frumpy looks, unfashionable attire, lack of friends and no popularity make her the butt of ridicule; at the beginning of the novel, she has her first period while showering after a physical education class, at the age of sixteen. The terrified Carrie has no understanding of menstruation; her mother never spoke to her about it, and being a social outcast throughout high school had no friends who might have discussed it with her.
Meanwhile, Sue Snell, another popular girl who had earlier teased Carrie, begins to feel remorseful about her participation in the locker room antics. With the prom fast approaching, Sue convinces her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, one of the most attractive and popular boys in the school, to ask Carrie to the prom (Sue suspects that she is pregnant by Tommy). Carrie is suspicious but accepts, and makes her own outfit, a red velvet gown. Carrie's mother won't hear of her daughter doing anything so "carnal" as attending a school dance and reveals much of her own past as she explains why. She believes that sex in any form is sinful, even after marriage. She also knows all about Carrie's telekinetic powers, which she considers a form of witchcraft; it seems that they appear every third generation in her family. Carrie, however, is tired of hearing that everything is a sin; she wants a normal life and sees the prom as a new beginning..........................................................................................
CELL.
2006.
PLOT.
The plot concerns a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell-phone network turns masses of his fellow humans into groups of nearly-mindless, murderous telekinetic hive-minds called Flocks.
WILL YOU EVER USE YOUR PHONE AGAIN AFTER READING THIS BOOK?????????
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CHRISTINE.
1983.
PLOT
The story revolves around teenage nerd Arnie Cunningham and his 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury, dubbed "Christine" by the previous owner. The story is set in Libertyville (supposedly a suburb of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania between the summer of 1978 and the spring of 1979. The novel is divided into three parts, the first and third of which are written in first person, from the point of view of Dennis Guilder, Arnie's best (and only) friend. The middle part of the book is written in the omniscient third person style (while Guilder is in the hospital, and thus removed from the action).
While driving home one evening from a summer job on a building site, Dennis Guilder and Arnie Cunningham drive past Christine, sitting on the dilapidated lawn of a small house on a suburban street. Arnie makes Dennis stop his car, and sets about examining the ancient Fury. Dennis initially thinks Arnie is joking with him, but soon realises that he is deadly serious. The car's owner, an old man in a back brace called Roland D. LeBay, comes out onto the lawn, and offers the car to Arnie for $250. Unable to pay the full amount, he settles on a $25 deposit (in which Arnie has $9 lent from Dennis) and agrees to come back the next day with the rest of the money.
As his parents refuse to allow Christine to be parked at the family home, Arnie takes the car to Darnell's, a local do-it-yourself auto repair facility. As he restores the automobile, he becomes withdrawn, yet more confident and self-assured. He becomes humorless and cynical. Dennis is scared of these changes, and of Christine's changes. The car is repaired haphazardly (quote from the film: "Look how cock-eyed he works! He's got... brand new windshield wipers for a busted windshield."), and not all of the repairs seem to be done by Arnie. Also, Arnie's appearance (e.g. his normally poor complexion) improves in tandem with Christine's. When Roland LeBay dies, Dennis meets his younger brother, George, who relates to him Roland's past destructive and violent behavior. He is also told that Roland's young daughter choked to death on a hamburger in the back of the car, and then his wife, traumatised by this death, apparently committed suicide in the car by carbon monoxide poisoning. Dennis's further investigations with others around town who had known Roland confirm to him that Arnie's new personality is in simpatico with that of his car's former owner......................................................
THE COLORADO KID.
2005.
PLOT
the body of an unidentified man found on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. Lacking any identification or obvious clues, the case reaches nothing but repeated dead-ends. Well over a year later the man is identified, but all further important questions remain unanswered. The two-man staff of the island newspaper maintain a longstanding fascination with the case, and twenty-five years later use the mysterious tale to ply the friendship and test the investigative mettle of a postgrad intern rookie reporter.
THE BOOK WAS ONLY ISSUED IN ONE PAPER-BACK FORMAT, FOR crime and mystery publishing house.
The Colorado Kid was the first King novel published after the finale of the Dark Tower series.
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CUJO.
1981.
PLOT
The story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock, Maine. Mundane marital and financial difficulties plague disgraced advertising man Vic Trenton and his adulterous wife Donna. Their domestic problems are dwarfed by mortal danger when Donna and her four-year-old son Tad are terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard named Cujo.
WROTE THOUGH THE EYES OF THE DOG, YOU WILL FEEL SO SAD FOR HIM, EVEN THOUGH HE IS A WALKING KILLER.
( FILM ) VERSION YOU FEEL SORRY FOR THE FAMILY.
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CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF.
1983.
PLOT
The story is set in the fictional small town of Tarker's Mills, Maine. A werewolf is viciously killing people and animals and a strange incident takes place at each full moon. The otherwise normal town is living in fear. The protagonist of the story is Marty Coslaw, an eleven-year-old boy in a wheelchair. The story goes back and forth from the terrifying incidents to Marty's youthful day-to-day life and how the horror affects him.
The first victim is Arnie Westrum, who is murdered in a tool-shack during a blizzard when the full moon comes in January...............................................................................................................
STEPHEN KING WAS ASKED TO WRITE 12 CHAPTERS FOR A WEREWOLF - THEMED CALENDER, BUT WE ALL KNOW STEPHEN KING CAN NOT WRITE SHORT STORIES ONCE HE GETS GOING,
The story was adapted as a film in 1985, named Silver Bullet.
1974.
Stephen King's first published novel.
PLOT.
The story of Carietta "Carrie" White, a teenage girl from Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality, and over the years has ruled Carrie with an iron rod and repeated threats of damnation. Margaret's mentally and emotionally abusive behavior has occasionally crossed over into physical abuse as well.
Carrie does not fare much better at her school, Thomas Ewen High School, where her frumpy looks, unfashionable attire, lack of friends and no popularity make her the butt of ridicule; at the beginning of the novel, she has her first period while showering after a physical education class, at the age of sixteen. The terrified Carrie has no understanding of menstruation; her mother never spoke to her about it, and being a social outcast throughout high school had no friends who might have discussed it with her.
Meanwhile, Sue Snell, another popular girl who had earlier teased Carrie, begins to feel remorseful about her participation in the locker room antics. With the prom fast approaching, Sue convinces her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, one of the most attractive and popular boys in the school, to ask Carrie to the prom (Sue suspects that she is pregnant by Tommy). Carrie is suspicious but accepts, and makes her own outfit, a red velvet gown. Carrie's mother won't hear of her daughter doing anything so "carnal" as attending a school dance and reveals much of her own past as she explains why. She believes that sex in any form is sinful, even after marriage. She also knows all about Carrie's telekinetic powers, which she considers a form of witchcraft; it seems that they appear every third generation in her family. Carrie, however, is tired of hearing that everything is a sin; she wants a normal life and sees the prom as a new beginning..........................................................................................
CELL.
2006.
PLOT.
The plot concerns a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell-phone network turns masses of his fellow humans into groups of nearly-mindless, murderous telekinetic hive-minds called Flocks.
WILL YOU EVER USE YOUR PHONE AGAIN AFTER READING THIS BOOK?????????
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CHRISTINE.
1983.
PLOT
The story revolves around teenage nerd Arnie Cunningham and his 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury, dubbed "Christine" by the previous owner. The story is set in Libertyville (supposedly a suburb of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania between the summer of 1978 and the spring of 1979. The novel is divided into three parts, the first and third of which are written in first person, from the point of view of Dennis Guilder, Arnie's best (and only) friend. The middle part of the book is written in the omniscient third person style (while Guilder is in the hospital, and thus removed from the action).
While driving home one evening from a summer job on a building site, Dennis Guilder and Arnie Cunningham drive past Christine, sitting on the dilapidated lawn of a small house on a suburban street. Arnie makes Dennis stop his car, and sets about examining the ancient Fury. Dennis initially thinks Arnie is joking with him, but soon realises that he is deadly serious. The car's owner, an old man in a back brace called Roland D. LeBay, comes out onto the lawn, and offers the car to Arnie for $250. Unable to pay the full amount, he settles on a $25 deposit (in which Arnie has $9 lent from Dennis) and agrees to come back the next day with the rest of the money.
As his parents refuse to allow Christine to be parked at the family home, Arnie takes the car to Darnell's, a local do-it-yourself auto repair facility. As he restores the automobile, he becomes withdrawn, yet more confident and self-assured. He becomes humorless and cynical. Dennis is scared of these changes, and of Christine's changes. The car is repaired haphazardly (quote from the film: "Look how cock-eyed he works! He's got... brand new windshield wipers for a busted windshield."), and not all of the repairs seem to be done by Arnie. Also, Arnie's appearance (e.g. his normally poor complexion) improves in tandem with Christine's. When Roland LeBay dies, Dennis meets his younger brother, George, who relates to him Roland's past destructive and violent behavior. He is also told that Roland's young daughter choked to death on a hamburger in the back of the car, and then his wife, traumatised by this death, apparently committed suicide in the car by carbon monoxide poisoning. Dennis's further investigations with others around town who had known Roland confirm to him that Arnie's new personality is in simpatico with that of his car's former owner......................................................
THE COLORADO KID.
2005.
PLOT
the body of an unidentified man found on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. Lacking any identification or obvious clues, the case reaches nothing but repeated dead-ends. Well over a year later the man is identified, but all further important questions remain unanswered. The two-man staff of the island newspaper maintain a longstanding fascination with the case, and twenty-five years later use the mysterious tale to ply the friendship and test the investigative mettle of a postgrad intern rookie reporter.
THE BOOK WAS ONLY ISSUED IN ONE PAPER-BACK FORMAT, FOR crime and mystery publishing house.
The Colorado Kid was the first King novel published after the finale of the Dark Tower series.
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CUJO.
1981.
PLOT
The story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock, Maine. Mundane marital and financial difficulties plague disgraced advertising man Vic Trenton and his adulterous wife Donna. Their domestic problems are dwarfed by mortal danger when Donna and her four-year-old son Tad are terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard named Cujo.
WROTE THOUGH THE EYES OF THE DOG, YOU WILL FEEL SO SAD FOR HIM, EVEN THOUGH HE IS A WALKING KILLER.
( FILM ) VERSION YOU FEEL SORRY FOR THE FAMILY.
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CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF.
1983.
PLOT
The story is set in the fictional small town of Tarker's Mills, Maine. A werewolf is viciously killing people and animals and a strange incident takes place at each full moon. The otherwise normal town is living in fear. The protagonist of the story is Marty Coslaw, an eleven-year-old boy in a wheelchair. The story goes back and forth from the terrifying incidents to Marty's youthful day-to-day life and how the horror affects him.
The first victim is Arnie Westrum, who is murdered in a tool-shack during a blizzard when the full moon comes in January...............................................................................................................
STEPHEN KING WAS ASKED TO WRITE 12 CHAPTERS FOR A WEREWOLF - THEMED CALENDER, BUT WE ALL KNOW STEPHEN KING CAN NOT WRITE SHORT STORIES ONCE HE GETS GOING,
The story was adapted as a film in 1985, named Silver Bullet.
B = BOOKS
BAG OF BONES.
1998 NOVEL
MAIN CHARACTER MIKE NOONAN HAS WRITERS BLOCK.
Four years after Jo's death, Mike begins to experience nightmares set at his summer house in TR-90, an unregistered township in Maine. He decides to confront his fears and moves to the house, known to locals as "Sara Laughs". On his way to town, Mike encounters a small child, Kyra Devore, walking down the middle of the road. Mike worries that something might happen to the child if she continues walking like that, so he scoops her up and returns to his car with her. A moment later, Kyra's mother, Mattie Devore comes flying up the road in her old jeep. Mike's initial reaction is that Mattie is a "white trash" mom who will yell at the child and possibly beat it due to her own inattentions, but he is pleasantly surprised when Mattie clutches the child for dear life and begs her never to run off again. The two talk for a few minutes and Mattie drives off.
Later, while in town, Mike learns from the locals that Mattie's late husband, Lance, was the son of Max Devore, a rich and influential man from the town who didn't approve of his son's marriage to Mattie. Max, now well into his 80's and bound to a wheelchair, wants custody of his granddaughter, and is using his money and influence to paint Mattie as an irresponsible mother. Through his caretaker, Bill, Mike learns of Mattie's past, her marriage, and her custody woes.
When Max finds out that Mike ran into Mattie and Kyra, he threatens him via telephone. Despite the threats, or perhaps because of them, Mike hires John Storrow, a custody lawyer, for Mattie as an act of kindness, and he gradually develops feelings for Mattie despite the almost twenty year age difference between them. Through his various crooked connections, Max manages to drag Mike into the custody battle even further by forcing him to make a deposition for the impending custody hearing. Accompanied by a local lawyer, Romeo Bisonette, Mike makes the custody lawyer hired by Devore look foolish by beating him at his own game and calling his bluff.
Mike begins to write again, while both Kyra and Mike experience hauntings in their homes. The author realizes that the ghost of Jo is assisting him in solving the mystery of Sara Tidwell, a blues singer whose spirit is haunting Mike's house. Mike asks the locals about what happened to Sara Tidwell, and is warned to refrain from digging in old scandals. He also learns that Jo frequently returned to the town in the year before her death, without telling him. .....................................................................
BLACK HOUSE.
PUBLISHED IN 2001.
Twenty years earlier, in (The Talisman), a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her "twinner" (a similar person in this other world) from premature and agonizing deaths.
Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the small town of French Landing, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. However, a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish. The new killer is dubbed "The Fisherman." Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. The investigation, which takes place on several levels and in at least two parallel universes, reawakens Jack to his previous experiences..........................................................................
This is one of King's many mainstream novels, which also include Hearts in Atlantis and Insomnia, that tie in with the Dark Tower series.
1998 NOVEL
MAIN CHARACTER MIKE NOONAN HAS WRITERS BLOCK.
Four years after Jo's death, Mike begins to experience nightmares set at his summer house in TR-90, an unregistered township in Maine. He decides to confront his fears and moves to the house, known to locals as "Sara Laughs". On his way to town, Mike encounters a small child, Kyra Devore, walking down the middle of the road. Mike worries that something might happen to the child if she continues walking like that, so he scoops her up and returns to his car with her. A moment later, Kyra's mother, Mattie Devore comes flying up the road in her old jeep. Mike's initial reaction is that Mattie is a "white trash" mom who will yell at the child and possibly beat it due to her own inattentions, but he is pleasantly surprised when Mattie clutches the child for dear life and begs her never to run off again. The two talk for a few minutes and Mattie drives off.
Later, while in town, Mike learns from the locals that Mattie's late husband, Lance, was the son of Max Devore, a rich and influential man from the town who didn't approve of his son's marriage to Mattie. Max, now well into his 80's and bound to a wheelchair, wants custody of his granddaughter, and is using his money and influence to paint Mattie as an irresponsible mother. Through his caretaker, Bill, Mike learns of Mattie's past, her marriage, and her custody woes.
When Max finds out that Mike ran into Mattie and Kyra, he threatens him via telephone. Despite the threats, or perhaps because of them, Mike hires John Storrow, a custody lawyer, for Mattie as an act of kindness, and he gradually develops feelings for Mattie despite the almost twenty year age difference between them. Through his various crooked connections, Max manages to drag Mike into the custody battle even further by forcing him to make a deposition for the impending custody hearing. Accompanied by a local lawyer, Romeo Bisonette, Mike makes the custody lawyer hired by Devore look foolish by beating him at his own game and calling his bluff.
Mike begins to write again, while both Kyra and Mike experience hauntings in their homes. The author realizes that the ghost of Jo is assisting him in solving the mystery of Sara Tidwell, a blues singer whose spirit is haunting Mike's house. Mike asks the locals about what happened to Sara Tidwell, and is warned to refrain from digging in old scandals. He also learns that Jo frequently returned to the town in the year before her death, without telling him. .....................................................................
BLACK HOUSE.
PUBLISHED IN 2001.
Twenty years earlier, in (The Talisman), a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her "twinner" (a similar person in this other world) from premature and agonizing deaths.
Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the small town of French Landing, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. However, a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish. The new killer is dubbed "The Fisherman." Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. The investigation, which takes place on several levels and in at least two parallel universes, reawakens Jack to his previous experiences..........................................................................
This is one of King's many mainstream novels, which also include Hearts in Atlantis and Insomnia, that tie in with the Dark Tower series.
UNPUBLISHED
THE AFTERMATH.
STEPHEN KING STARTED WRITTING THIS IN 1963, WHEN HE WAS JUST 16.
50,000 WORD MANUSCRIPT DESCRIBES LIFE AFTER A NUCLEAR WAR.
WRITTEN AT THE TIME OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.
Larry Talman tries to destroy the law and order organisation called the Sun Corps and their evil computer DRAC (Digital Relay Analogue Computer) because they are the front for spies from the planet Ebora 9 that are planning on taking over the Earth.
STEPHEN KING STARTED WRITTING THIS IN 1963, WHEN HE WAS JUST 16.
50,000 WORD MANUSCRIPT DESCRIBES LIFE AFTER A NUCLEAR WAR.
WRITTEN AT THE TIME OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.
Larry Talman tries to destroy the law and order organisation called the Sun Corps and their evil computer DRAC (Digital Relay Analogue Computer) because they are the front for spies from the planet Ebora 9 that are planning on taking over the Earth.
Novels by Richard Bachman
THE LONG WALK....
A walking race you would not want to be picked to join. 100 boys are picked, Each walker must maintain a constant speed, you are allowed 3 warnings, after the 3rd warning....... you need to read to findout,,,, but what happens when you win???????
THE REGULATORS.....
The story takes place in the fictional town of Wentworth, Ohio. On Poplar Street, an autistic boy named Seth has gained the power to control reality through the help of a being known as Tak. Soon, Poplar Street begins to change shape, transforming into a wild west caricature based on what Seth has seen on his television. Meanwhile, the other residents of the street are being attacked by the many beings that Seth's imagination is creating, due to Tak's control over them. These residents are forced to work together to stop Seth and Tak from completely transforming the world around them and stop Tak before he kills anyone else.
ROADWORK....
The novel starts with a "man on the street interview" where Barton, currently unknown, gives his acidic opinion of the extension to the highway. (He will meet with this reporter again at the end of the book, neither man recognizing the other.) Barton then begins, seemingly unaware of his own actions, to procure means to defend himself. As the book progresses, it is revealed that his son had succumbed to an inoperable brain tumor, and that Barton is unable (or unwilling) to sever the emotional tie between the memory of his son and the house that he grew up in. His wife is aware of the order to demolish their house and cannot understand why he is unwilling to finalize the sale, and eventually leaves him. He quits his job after making some disastrous decisions involving the purchase of a new facility for the laundry business he works for. He begins a working relationship with an auto dealer with ties to the Mob, and through him purchases explosives and the use of his services to sweep his house for listening devices. He even launches an attack on the construction equipment that will be used to raze his home and build the highway, using Molotov cocktails to burn the machines. Throughout the novel, he systematically severs ties with all connections to the community, until the last day runs out, and his house is scheduled for demolition. THEN ALL HELL BRAKES LOSS.
THE RUNNING MAN.... NO WAY LIKE ANYTHING OF THE FILM,
The protagonist, Ben Richards, needs money to get medicine for his gravely ill daughter Cathy. Not wanting his wife Sheila to continue prostitution to pay the bills, Richards turns to the Games Federation, which runs several violent TV game shows seen on the Network. Contestants win money by surviving challenges such as Treadmill to Bucks, where a person with a heart or respiratory condition runs on a treadmill, or the self-explanatory Swim the Crocodiles. After rigorous testing, both physical and mental, Richards is selected for the most popular game, The Running Man.
Ben Richards ( who will be ) deemed an enemy of the state and then released with a twelve hour head start before an elite group of "Hunters" set out to kill him. The contestant earns $100 per hour they remain alive, an additional $100 for each law enforcement officer or Hunter he kills, and $1 billion if he should survive for 30 days. The current record is eight days and five hours. The Network pays civilians for confirmed sightings of the fugitive.
Rage (novel)....
The narrator, Charlie Decker, a high school senior, details how he had long been fighting his growing rage against the authority figures which populate his world. He finally snapped and hit one of his teachers with a heavy wrench he had taken to carrying in his pocket; after much wrangling and discussion, the incident was dropped and he was allowed to return to school. His mental problems only worsened, and, as the story begins, during a meeting with the school principal, he snaps again. This time, he storms out of the meeting, goes to his locker and gets a gun he had taken from his father's desk. He sets the locker contents on fire, then proceeds to his classroom where he kills his math teacher Mrs. Underwood. The locker-fire sets off an alarm, and the school begins to be evacuated. Another teacher, Mr. Vance, enters the classroom to tell the kids to leave, and Charlie shoots him as well. The school is evacuated even more quickly and the police and media arrive on the scene.
This begins a long afternoon's discussion with his hostages/fellow students
Blaze (novel)....
The story concerns Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. (known as "Blaze" for short, thus the title), a mentally challenged small-time con artist who kidnaps a millionaire's infant child, in the hopes of fulfilling the dreams of George, Blaze's deceased best friend and partner in crime. The chapters alternate between Blaze's past -- which covers his childhood (including how he came to be brain damaged) and his entry into a life of crime despite an otherwise sweet demeanor -- and his current caper, in which he imagines that he is still constantly advised by his friend George. Despite the helpfulness of (the imaginary) George's advice, Blaze's world begins to crumble during his kidnapping venture, especially as he bonds with the baby.
The Bachman Books....
The book was published by King in 1985 in order to introduce Bachman's work to fans who did not know about his pseudonym's work and wanted to be able to get copies of them (few of Bachman's early novels were still in circulation at the time). It opens with an introduction by King called "Why I Was Bachman", explaining how and why he took on the persona of Bachman, as well as how it was found out by the public.
These are the novels that are in The Bachman Books, They appear in the following order:
Rage
The Long Walk
Roadwork
The Running Man
Note that this is not a complete collection of Bachman's works. Thinner (1984), The Regulators (1996) or the recently released Blaze (2007) were not included in this collection.
A walking race you would not want to be picked to join. 100 boys are picked, Each walker must maintain a constant speed, you are allowed 3 warnings, after the 3rd warning....... you need to read to findout,,,, but what happens when you win???????
THE REGULATORS.....
The story takes place in the fictional town of Wentworth, Ohio. On Poplar Street, an autistic boy named Seth has gained the power to control reality through the help of a being known as Tak. Soon, Poplar Street begins to change shape, transforming into a wild west caricature based on what Seth has seen on his television. Meanwhile, the other residents of the street are being attacked by the many beings that Seth's imagination is creating, due to Tak's control over them. These residents are forced to work together to stop Seth and Tak from completely transforming the world around them and stop Tak before he kills anyone else.
ROADWORK....
The novel starts with a "man on the street interview" where Barton, currently unknown, gives his acidic opinion of the extension to the highway. (He will meet with this reporter again at the end of the book, neither man recognizing the other.) Barton then begins, seemingly unaware of his own actions, to procure means to defend himself. As the book progresses, it is revealed that his son had succumbed to an inoperable brain tumor, and that Barton is unable (or unwilling) to sever the emotional tie between the memory of his son and the house that he grew up in. His wife is aware of the order to demolish their house and cannot understand why he is unwilling to finalize the sale, and eventually leaves him. He quits his job after making some disastrous decisions involving the purchase of a new facility for the laundry business he works for. He begins a working relationship with an auto dealer with ties to the Mob, and through him purchases explosives and the use of his services to sweep his house for listening devices. He even launches an attack on the construction equipment that will be used to raze his home and build the highway, using Molotov cocktails to burn the machines. Throughout the novel, he systematically severs ties with all connections to the community, until the last day runs out, and his house is scheduled for demolition. THEN ALL HELL BRAKES LOSS.
THE RUNNING MAN.... NO WAY LIKE ANYTHING OF THE FILM,
The protagonist, Ben Richards, needs money to get medicine for his gravely ill daughter Cathy. Not wanting his wife Sheila to continue prostitution to pay the bills, Richards turns to the Games Federation, which runs several violent TV game shows seen on the Network. Contestants win money by surviving challenges such as Treadmill to Bucks, where a person with a heart or respiratory condition runs on a treadmill, or the self-explanatory Swim the Crocodiles. After rigorous testing, both physical and mental, Richards is selected for the most popular game, The Running Man.
Ben Richards ( who will be ) deemed an enemy of the state and then released with a twelve hour head start before an elite group of "Hunters" set out to kill him. The contestant earns $100 per hour they remain alive, an additional $100 for each law enforcement officer or Hunter he kills, and $1 billion if he should survive for 30 days. The current record is eight days and five hours. The Network pays civilians for confirmed sightings of the fugitive.
Rage (novel)....
The narrator, Charlie Decker, a high school senior, details how he had long been fighting his growing rage against the authority figures which populate his world. He finally snapped and hit one of his teachers with a heavy wrench he had taken to carrying in his pocket; after much wrangling and discussion, the incident was dropped and he was allowed to return to school. His mental problems only worsened, and, as the story begins, during a meeting with the school principal, he snaps again. This time, he storms out of the meeting, goes to his locker and gets a gun he had taken from his father's desk. He sets the locker contents on fire, then proceeds to his classroom where he kills his math teacher Mrs. Underwood. The locker-fire sets off an alarm, and the school begins to be evacuated. Another teacher, Mr. Vance, enters the classroom to tell the kids to leave, and Charlie shoots him as well. The school is evacuated even more quickly and the police and media arrive on the scene.
This begins a long afternoon's discussion with his hostages/fellow students
Blaze (novel)....
The story concerns Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. (known as "Blaze" for short, thus the title), a mentally challenged small-time con artist who kidnaps a millionaire's infant child, in the hopes of fulfilling the dreams of George, Blaze's deceased best friend and partner in crime. The chapters alternate between Blaze's past -- which covers his childhood (including how he came to be brain damaged) and his entry into a life of crime despite an otherwise sweet demeanor -- and his current caper, in which he imagines that he is still constantly advised by his friend George. Despite the helpfulness of (the imaginary) George's advice, Blaze's world begins to crumble during his kidnapping venture, especially as he bonds with the baby.
The Bachman Books....
The book was published by King in 1985 in order to introduce Bachman's work to fans who did not know about his pseudonym's work and wanted to be able to get copies of them (few of Bachman's early novels were still in circulation at the time). It opens with an introduction by King called "Why I Was Bachman", explaining how and why he took on the persona of Bachman, as well as how it was found out by the public.
These are the novels that are in The Bachman Books, They appear in the following order:
Rage
The Long Walk
Roadwork
The Running Man
Note that this is not a complete collection of Bachman's works. Thinner (1984), The Regulators (1996) or the recently released Blaze (2007) were not included in this collection.
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