Stephen King
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
82) Insomnia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ralph Roberts has trouble sleeping, but so does everyone else in the small town of Derry, Maine, where terrifying forces are at work.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
Author
Series
Gwendy's button box volume 2
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out to bring them home alive.In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer,...
86) Dreamcatcher
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
87) Big driver
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, faces a long drive home following a book signing. On a lonely New England road, her tire blows out, leaving her stranded. Relieved when another driver stops and offers assistance, Tess quickly discovers her savior is actually a serial killer who assaults her. Left for dead, Tess escapes, determined to find her attacker and seek revenge.
89) American vampire
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"A new vampire for a new century. Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet has a reputation for cussedness as long as he is ornery. As the first vampire conceived on American soil, however, he's not your usual creature of the night. Stronger, fiercer and powered by the sun, Sweet is the first of a new breed of bloodsucker: the American Vampire. Forty-five years after rising from his grave, Sweet finds himself in 1920s Los Angeles, where...
Author
Series
Sleeping beauties volume 1
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A bizarre sleeping sickness, called Aurora, has fallen over the world. Its victims can't wake up. And all of them are women. As nations fall into chaos, those women still awake take desperate measures to stay that way, and men everywhere begin to give in to their darkest impulses. Meanwhile, in the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; she calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage in her wake. Strangest of all,...
Author
Series
Sleeping beauties volume 2
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
English
Description
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
94) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
95) Road rage
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Duel: A businessman finds himself pitted against an anonymous truck driver in a deadly game of cat and mouse on a Californian highway.
Throttle: A faceless trucker is pitted against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws, in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down.
96) Cujo
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
A lovable St. Bernard becomes rabid and terrorizes a small community. In rural Maine, married couple struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son befriends the hulking, but lovable St. Bernard owned by the town's mechanic. With her husband out of town, she and her son take their decrepit car for repairs at the mechanic's remote farmhouse. As the aging Pinto sputters, stops and dies, Cujo appears. The once docile dog has undergone...
97) Sleepwalkers
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Sleepwalkers are vampire-like creatures who prey on virginal girls. A mother/son pair come to a small, quiet town and and set their sights on one girl.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Season two of Under the Dome, the people of Chester's Mill struggle to break free of their nightmare, as a mysterious stranger and diminishing food supply threaten their very survival. Big Jim, driven by his lust for power, assumes the role of town sheriff. Meanwhile, someone has discovered a way out of the dome; will the rest escape?
99) Pet sematary
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After moving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect for the Creed family, but not for long. Louis and Rachel Creed and their two young children settle into a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery--built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysterious new neighbor, Jud Crandall, hides the cemetery's darkest secret until a family tragedy brings the secret to life. Now, an unthinkable evil is about to be resurrected.
100) The dark half
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share.