King, Stephen

Arnie Cunningham, a bookish and bullied high school senior, becomes obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth he is restoring named Christine.

Cujo, a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, becomes infected with rabies after being bitten by a vampire bat, and goes on a killing spree, terrorizing a small Maine community.

Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.

Leland Gaunt opens a shop called Needful Things where there is something for everyone, but of course there is always a very high price to pay.

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? In Gwendy's Final Task, "horror giants" (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF\\\-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.

Presents four novellas by Stephen King, each of which corresponds to a different season of the year.

"On a cross-country flight, the passengers of American Pride Flight 29 undergo a terrifying ordeal. After falling asleep, a handful of passengers awaken to realize that they h ave broken the time-space continuum and landed in a static and lifeless world. As they tentatively explore their new surroundings, they begin to hear menacing crunching noises over the hills"--OCLC.

Roland, the Last Gunslinger, moves closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares through a world of the fiendish foes.

Stephen King reflects on how his writing has helped him through difficult times and describes various aspects of the art of writing.