King, Stephen

Jack Sawyer, a twelve-year-old boy, begins a terrifying quest for the Talisman--for only the Talisman can save his dying mother and defeat their enemy.

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that draws them back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without an end and the evil without a name.

A violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness.

A collection of fourteen short horror stories by Stephen King, including several prize winning selections, as well as "Riding the Bullet," which was originally published online.

Still haunted by his experiences at the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one winter as a child, Dan Torrence has settled in New Hampshire to try to escape those and other ghosts of his past. When he meets Abra Stone, a twelve-year-old girl who shares Dan's gift of "shining," and discovers that a tribe of traveling paranormals called True Knot want to steal her power by slowly torturing her to death, he becomes determined to save the child.