Stephen King
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four young boys stood together and did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways although they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Cemetery Dance Publications special editon.
Physical Desc
58, 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Miracles happen in unexpectred places, even in the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. There John Coffey, a gentle giant of a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates."
6) Mile 81
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (approximately 2.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Pete Simmons just wanted to have some fun and explore when he stumbled onto the old abandoned rest stop at Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike. Instead, he discovers a scene of bloodshed and carnage. A car has pulled into the boarded-up service station, a run-down, muddy station wagon without any plates, and without a driver. As the car claims the lives of one would-be good Samaritan after another, Pete decides that it's up to him to stop the evil...
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
xix, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before; something no one wants to see.
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
xix, 1,153 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
816 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (approximately 2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emily escapes to the secluded Vermillion Key off of Florida's coast after the death of her infant child. Her new neighbor also enjoys the privacy of the key, but the women he brings with him never return home. Emily's curiosity leads her right into the hands of the madman, but it's her legs that are her only hope for survival.
13) Lisey's story
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
16 sound discs (approximately 19 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The book is a parable about love and imagination, that affirms love as the more salvific of the two.
14) Blood & smoke
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (approximately 3 hr. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including 1408, now a feature film! Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.
16) UR
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else? He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams ... and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares. Vintage...
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 6
Pub. Date
[2004]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (approximately 9 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having overdue library books is often one of the least offenses that people partake in throughout their lives. Sam Peebles, however, realizes that in Junction City, Iowa, overdue library books can be a cause for threats, harassment, and even torture.
20) The sun dog
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The Sun Dog, the concluding novella in Stephen King's best-selling Four Past Midnight, the source of terror is a simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break...
