King, Stephen

"Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be normal . . . until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget"--OCLC.

English teacher Jake Epping learns that the local diner contains a time portal to a specific day in 1958. The diner's owner enlists Jake for a special mission to prevent John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jake travels back in time and begins to make changes to history, even falling in love, before he realizes the consequences of his actions.

When overweight Billy Halleck accidentally hits a gypsy woman as she is crossing the street, he senses a curse upon him and begins to lose weight with horrifying results.

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

A collection of twelve short stories that delve into the darker parts of life.

"Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work--in fact, his hometown is under siege from the forces of darkness. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town"--OCLC.

A Face in the Crowd: Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It's Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier.

Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.