The four children have perfect lives in a happy, golden family. Suddenly their father dies and the children now live alone, hidden in an airless attic. Their mother promised they would stay only long enough for her to inherit the fortune but gradually she forgets how much she adored them.

The hilarious (and ever so slightly sacrilegious) true story of the New Testament.

Hayley Phillips has come to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She isn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin, Roz just a job. What she finds is a home complete with resident ghost, and the best friends she's ever had.

One man's journal as he strives to survive the greatest disaster to hit mankind -- the zombie apocalypse!

Why read Carrie ? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine. <blockquote> News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966:"Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th." </blockquote> Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. -- Simon Leake

A thrilling tale of suspense from the bestselling author of Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead.

A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene has the power to entrap life. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides.

A collection of chilling ghost stories such as: 'A Warning to the Curious'; 'The Mezzotint'; 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral'; and, 'A Neighbour's Landmark'.

Why read Carrie ? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine. <blockquote> News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966:"Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th." </blockquote> Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. -- Simon Leake

A collection of chilling ghost stories such as: 'A Warning to the Curious'; 'The Mezzotint'; 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral'; and, 'A Neighbour's Landmark'.