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After his wife loses interest in him, 50-year-old Dave Barndon turns to the dark side of the internet and sex chat rooms. There, he finds willing partners who are happy to fulfill his needs with no strings attached. But they aren't the only ones looking to play. When a woman he had an affair with is murdered, he becomes the prime suspect. He thinks his alibi is solid, until a second woman is murdered, and then, a third.

Climb aboard Stationary Bike, a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist. When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many 30-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly.

Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time. In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes listeners down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster audiobook Riding the Bullet. Terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'.

He aquí una serie de historias - unas horripilantes en su extravagancia, otras tan terroríficas que disparan el corazón - que son el producto mejor acabado de una de las más poderosas imaginaciones de nuestro tiempo.

Listeners can chill to this dramatic unabridged production of 6 short stories from the consummate master of horror, Stephen King. Culled from his best-selling book Night Shift, it brings the demonic stories fully to life - and the terror even closer to home.

Stephen King is one of the world's most successful authors, with a long list of hit novels to his name including Carrie, Misery, The Shining and Doctor Sleep. Here he discusses his life, his writing career and his many achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archives.

En mitad de la noche en un barrio tranquilo de Minneapolis raptan a Luke Ellis, de doce años, tras haber asesinado a sus padres. Una operación que dura menos de dos minutos. Luke se despierta en la siniestra institución conocida como el Instituto, en un cuarto que se asemeja al suyo pero sin ventanas. En habitaciones parecidas hay más niños: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris y Avery Dixon, entre otros, que comparten capacidades especiales como la telequinesia o la telepatía.

Manchmal ist der Tod besser... Hinter dem kleinen Tierfriedhof liegt eine verwünschte indianische Grabstätte. Ob Katze oder Mensch: Wer hier beerdigt wird, wird zum Albtraum für die Hinterbliebenen.

When Gwendy Peterson was 12, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life, and she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented. With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger, and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, to keep it from them.

Bienvenue à l'Institut. Quand les enfants y entrent, ils n'en sortent plus. Au cœur de la nuit, à Minneapolis, des intrus pénètrent dans la maison de Luke Ellis, jeune surdoué de 12 ans, tuent ses parents et le kidnappent. Luke se réveille à l'Institut, dans une chambre semblable à la sienne, sauf qu'elle n'a pas de fenêtre.

«Al menos en un sentido nuestras vidas son ciertamente como las películas. El elenco principal se compone de la familia y los amigos. Los actores son los vecinos, los compañeros de trabajo, los profesores y los conocidos.[...] » Pero a veces entra en nuestra vida una persona que no encaja en ninguna de estas categorías.[...] » Cuando pienso en Charles Jacobs—mi quinto en discordia, mi agente del cambio, mi maldición—se me hace imposible creer que su presencia en mi vida tuvo que ver con el destino.»

Rick McCoy of the Major Crime Squad is trying to repair his marriage when he is sent to the South of Western Australia. A young girl's body has been found in a cave, with flowers on her chest. A search finds five more bodies. Beautiful criminal psychologist, Patricia Holmes, has recovered from her stab wounds inflicted by the serial killer PPP. As their desire for each other grows and the pressure on their marriages increase, they close in on the man responsible for the beautiful deaths.

Each autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature, the Board of Directors of the Foundation presents a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The recipient is a person who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work. The 2003 recipient of this distinguished award was presented to one of the great voices of American literature, Stephen King.

Stephen Kings Holly betekent de triomfantelijke terugkeer van het geliefde personage Holly Gibney. Lezers hebben kunnen genieten van Holly's ontwikkeling van verlegen (maar ook stoere en morele) einzelgänger in Mr. Mercedes, naar Bill Hodges' partner in De eerlijke vinder, tot ervaren, intelligente, soms wat harde privédetective in De buitenstaander. In Kings nieuwste boek moet Holly het in haar eentje opnemen tegen een stel sluwe en wrede vijanden.

In der Vorweihnachtszeit richtet eine Paketbombe an einer Schule nahe Pittsburgh ein Massaker an. Kinder sterben. Holly Gibney verfolgt die furchtbaren Nachrichten im Fernsehen. Der Reporter vor Ort erinnert sie an den gestaltwandlerischen Outsider, den sie glaubt vor nicht allzu langer Zeit zur Strecke gebracht zu haben. Ist jene monströse, sich von Furcht nährende Kreatur wiedererwacht?

Foncer sur une foule dans sa SL500 douze cylindres : le moment le plus grisant de la vie de Mr Mercedes. Et le carnage lui a tellement plu qu’il n’a qu’une envie : recommencer. Au plus vite... Délaissant le fantastique, Stephen King se glisse avec une jubilation contagieuse dans le moule du polar. Revenu de tout mais toujours tenace, son inspecteur Bill Hodges rejoint les figures emblématiques du roman noir américain.

Quatre nouvelles puissantes et dérangeantes, quatre personnages confrontés à des situations extrêmes qui vont les faire basculer du côté obscur, plus une nouvelle inédite vraiment inquiétante... "1922", "Grand Chauffeur", "Extension Claire" et " Bon ménage".

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. His adopted Florida baseball team, the Rays, is going strong. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone he knows from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't even be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, people he has wronged, all of them behind home plate.

Paul Williams is an ex-SAS soldier who suffered physical and psychological injuries during an Afghanistan battle. After his wife Amanda leaves him, Williams begins a search to find and murder her. The army has trained him never to fail, never give up, and survive at all costs, and he is determined to succeed on his final, sacred mission. Using disguises, Williams passes for "normal" but he strikes ruthlessly when he finds any woman who resembles Amanda because he is incapable of mercy.

Quand un garçon de onze ans est retrouvé violé et assassiné dans un parc municipal de la petite ville de Fint City, des témoins désignent le coach Terry Maitland comme coupable. Bientôt, ADN et empreintes confirment la culpabilité de ce père de famille aimé de tous. Horrifié par ce meurtre brutal, le détective Ralph Anderson, dont le fils a été entraîné par Maitland, ordonne une arrestation rapide et publique. L'enquête s'accélère et il s'avère que Maitland a un alibi : des preuves indiquent qu'il était en dehors de la ville ce jour-là.