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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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Horror fiction
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Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon has defined the horror story as a piece of fiction in prose of variable length, which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere, Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. The genre of horror has ancient origins with roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and these were manifested in stories of beings such as witches, vampires, werewolves and ghosts. 18th century Gothic horror drew on these sources with the seminal and controversial The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and this marked the first incorporated elements of the supernatural instead of pure realism. In fact, the first edition was published disguised as a medieval romance from Italy discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. Once revealed as contemporary, many found it anachronistic, reactionary, or simply in poor taste — but it proved to be immediately popular. That first novel of Gothic horror inspired such works as Vathek by William Beckford, A Sicilian Romance, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk by Matthew Lewis. A significant amount of fiction of this era was written by women and marketed at a female audience. The Gothic tradition blossomed into the modern readers call horror literature in the 19th century. Each of these novels and novellas created an icon of horror seen in modern re-imaginings on the stage. The proliferation of periodicals, as early as the turn of the century. One writer who specialized in fiction for mainstream pulps such as All-Story Magazine was Tod Robbins, whose fiction dealt with themes of madness. Later, specialist publications emerged to give horror writers an outlet, including Weird Tales, influential horror writers of the early 20th century made inroads in these mediums. Early cinema was inspired by aspects of horror literature, and early horror cinema started a strong tradition of horror films. This imagery made these comics controversial, and as a consequence they were frequently censored, many modern novels claim an early description of the living dead in a precursor to the modern zombie tale, including Dennis Wheatleys Strange Conflict, H. P. Lovecraft stories such as Cool Air, In The Vault, richard Mathesons novel I Am Legend would also influence an entire genre of apocalyptic zombie fiction emblematic of the films of George A. Romero
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Charles Scribner's Sons
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The firm published Scribners Magazine for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, in 1978 the company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. In turn it merged into Macmillan in 1984, Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994. By this point only the book and reference book operations still bore the original family name. The former imprint, now simply Scribner, was retained by Simon & Schuster, as of 2012, Scribner is a division of Simon & Schuster under the title Scribner Publishing Group which also includes the Touchstone Books imprint. The president of Scribner as of 2017 is Susan Moldow, the firm was founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner I and Isaac D. Baker as Baker & Scribner. After Bakers death, Scribner bought the remainder of the company, in 1865, the company made its first venture into magazine publishing with Hours at Home. In 1870, the Scribners organized a new firm, Scribner and Company, after the death of Charles Scribner I in 1871, his son John Blair Scribner took over as president of the company. His other sons Charles Scribner II and Arthur Hawley Scribner would also join the firm and they each later served as presidents. When the other partners in the sold their stake to the family. The company launched St. Nicholas Magazine in 1873 with Mary Mapes Dodge as editor and Frank R. Stockton as assistant editor, when the Scribner family sold the magazine company to outside investors in 1881, Scribner’s Monthly was renamed the Century Magazine. The Scribners brothers were enjoined from publishing any magazine for a period of five years, in 1886, at the expiration of this term, they launched Scribners Magazine. The firms headquarters were in the Scribner Building, built in 1893, on lower Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, both buildings were designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style. The childrens book division was established in 1934 under the leadership of Alice Dalgliesh and it published works by distinguished authors and illustrators including N. C. Wyeth, Robert A. Heinlein, Marcia Brown, Will James, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, as of 2011 the publisher is owned by the CBS Corporation. Simon & Schuster reorganized their adult imprints into four divisions in 2012, Scribner became the Scribner Publishing Group and would expand to include Touchstone Books which had previously been part of Free Press. The other divisions are Atria Publishing Group, Simon & Schuster Publishing Group, the new Scribner division would be led by Susan Moldow as president. Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Wolfe Simon & Schuster has published thousands of books from thousands of authors and this list represents some of the more notable authors from Scribner since becoming part of Simon & Schuster
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Hardcover
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A hardcover or hardback book is one bound with rigid protective covers. It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Hardcover books are printed on acid-free paper, and are much more durable than paperbacks. Hardcover books are more costly to manufacture. If brisk sales are anticipated, an edition of a book is typically released first. Some publishers publish paperback originals if slow hardback sales are anticipated, for very popular books these sales cycles may be extended, and followed by a mass market paperback edition typeset in a more compact size and printed on shallower, less hardy paper. In the past the release of an edition was one year after the hardback. It is very unusual for a book that was first published in paperback to be followed by a hardback, an example is the novel The Judgment of Paris by Gore Vidal, which had its revised edition of 1961 first published in paperback, and later in hardcover. Hardcover books are sold at higher prices than comparable paperbacks. Hardcovers typically consist of a block, two boards, and a cloth or heavy paper covering. The pages are sewn together and glued onto a flexible spine between the boards, and it too is covered by the cloth, a paper wrapper, or dust jacket, is usually put over the binding, folding over each horizontal end of the boards. On the folded part, or flap, over the front cover is generally a blurb, the back flap is where the biography of the author can be found. Reviews are often placed on the back of the jacket, bookbinding Paperback How to make a simple Hardcover book
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Pop-up book
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Also included, because they employ the same techniques, are three-dimensional greeting cards. Design and creation of books in arts is sometimes called paper engineering. This usage should not be confused with paper engineering, the engineering of systems to mass-produce paper products. The artistic aspect of engineering is related to origami in that the two arts both employ folded paper. However, origami in its simplest form doesnt use scissors or glue and tends to be made with very foldable paper, by contrast, pop-ups rely more on glue, cutting, what they have in common is folding. Animated books combine three elements, story, colored illustrations which include text, and two or more animated illustrations with their movement mechanisms working between a doubled page. In 1938, Julian Wehrs animations for childrens books were patented as moving illustrations that move the picture up and down, transformations show a scene made up of vertical slats. When a reader pulls a tab on the side, the slide under and over one another to transform into a totally different scene. Ernest Nister, one of the early English childrens book authors, many of these have been reproduced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volvelles are paper constructions with rotating parts, an early example is the Astronomicum Caesareum, by Petrus Apianus, which was made for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles in 1540. The book is full of nested circular pieces revolving on grommets, tunnel books consist of a set of pages bound with two folded concertina strips on each side and viewed through a hole in the cover. Openings in each page allow the viewer to see through the book to the back. This type of book dates from the century and was inspired by theatrical stage sets. Traditionally, these books were created to commemorate special events or sold as souvenirs of tourist attractions. In the United States, tunnel books were made for such attractions as Worlds Fairs, recently the tunnel book format has been resurrected by book artist Carol Barton and others as a sculptural book form. The audience for early movable books were adults, not children, the first known movable in a book was created by Benedictine monk Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora, which covers a period beginning in 1240. Paris attached volvelles onto some of the pages which were used by the monks to help calculate holy days, throughout the centuries volvelles have been used for such diverse purposes as teaching anatomy, making astronomical predictions, creating secret code, and telling fortunes. By 1564 another movable astrological book titled Cosmographia Petri Apiani had been published, in the following years, the medical profession made use of this format, illustrating anatomical books with layers and flaps showing the human body
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Twinkies
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A Twinkie is an American snack cake, marketed as a Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling. It was formerly made and distributed by Hostess Brands, the brand is currently owned by Hostess Brands, Inc. having been formerly owned by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company as the incarnation of Hostess Brands. Twinkies are produced in Canada by Saputo Incorporateds Vachon Inc. which owns the Canadian rights to the product and were available during the absence in the U. S. market. In Egypt, Twinkies are produced under the company Edita, Twinkies are also available in the United Kingdom and Ireland under the Hostess brand name where theyre sold in Sainsburys, Tesco, ASDA and B&M stores. Twinkies are produced and distributed by commercial bakeries in China. Twinkies were invented in Schiller Park, Illinois on April 6,1930, by James Alexander Dewar, ritchy Koph said he came up with the name when he saw a billboard in St. Louis for Twinkle Toe Shoes. During World War II, bananas were rationed and the company was forced to switch to vanilla cream and this change proved popular, and banana-cream Twinkies were not widely re-introduced. The original flavor was occasionally found in limited-time promotions, but the company used vanilla cream for most Twinkies, in 1988, Fruit and Cream Twinkies were introduced with a strawberry filling swirled into the cream. Vanillas dominance over banana flavoring would be challenged in 2005, following a promotion of the movie King Kong. Hostess saw its Twinkie sales rise 20 percent during the promotion, on January 11,2012, parent company Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Twinkie sales for the year ended December 25,2011, were 36 million packages, Hostess said customers had migrated to healthier foods. Bakery operations were suspended at all plants, on November 19,2012, Hostess and the Bakers Union agreed to mediation, delaying the shutdown for two days. On November 21,2012, U. S. bankruptcy judge Robert Drain approved Hostess request to shut down, on March 12,2013, it was reported that Twinkies would return to store shelves in May of that year. Twinkies, along with other famed Hostess Brands, were purchased out of bankruptcy by Apollo Global Management, Twinkies returned to U. S. shelves on July 15,2013. Apollo subsequently sold Hostess for $2.3 billion, before Hostess Brands filed for bankruptcy, Twinkies were reduced in size. They now contain 135 kilocalories and have a mass of 38.5 grams, the new Twinkies also have a longer shelf life of 45 days, which was also a change made before bankruptcy, compared to the 26 days of the original Twinkies. Twinkies have notably been used as a component ingredient in other dishes, a deep-fried Twinkie involves freezing the cake, dipping it into batter, and deep-frying it to create a variation on the traditional snack cake
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Boiled egg
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Boiled eggs are eggs cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water. Hard-boiled eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while for an egg the yolk, and sometimes the white, remain at least partially liquid. A few different methods are used to make boiled eggs other than simply immersing them in boiling water, Boiled eggs can also be cooked below the boiling temperature, via coddling, or they can be steamed. The egg timer was named due to its usage in timing the boiling of eggs. Boiled eggs are a popular breakfast food in countries around the world. There are variations both in desired doneness and in the method of how eggs are boiled, and a variety of gadgets for eggs exist. These variations include, Baked eggs Baking eggs in an oven instead of boiling in water, Baked eggs are identical to boiled eggs but the shells peel more easily. Starting temperature Room temperature or from a refrigerator, eggs may be left out overnight to come to room temperature, preparation Some pierce the eggs beforehand with an egg piercer to prevent cracking. There is much debate on this subject, ekelund et al. in Why eggs should not be pierced claimed that pricking caused egg white proteins to be damaged and was therefore to be discouraged. Others recommend against this, or add vinegar to the water to prevent the white from billowing in case of cracking, for this purpose, table salt can also be used. A cradle is also advocated as reducing cracking, since the eggs do not then roll around loose, to remove, one may allow the water to cool, pour off the boiling water, or remove the cradle. Steaming Eggs are taken straight from the refrigerator and placed in the steamer at full steam, the eggs will not crack due to sudden change in temperatures. At full steam, soft-boiled eggs are ready in 6 minutes, as the eggs are cooked by a steam source, there is no variation of water temperature and hence cooking time, no matter how many eggs are placed in the steamer. Sous vide Rather than cooking in boiling water, boiled eggs can be made by cooking/coddling in their shell sous vide in hot water at temperatures anywhere from 60 to 85 °C. It turns out that the egg white cooks at 75 °C and the yolk. Cooking time There is substantial variation, with cooking time being the variable affecting doneness. It usually varies from 10–17 minutes for large hard-boiled eggs, 1–4 minutes for large soft-cooked eggs. Cooling After eggs are removed from heat, some cooking continues to occur, particularly of the yolk, due to residual heat, for this reason some allow eggs to cool in air or plunge them into cold water as the final stage of preparation
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Tuna fish sandwich
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A tuna fish sandwich, also known as a tuna salad sandwich or a tuna sandwich, is a sandwich made from canned tuna, usually combined with mayonnaise and other ingredients such as celery or onion. Common variations include the boat and tuna melt. In the United States, 52% of canned tuna is used for sandwiches, the tuna fish sandwich has been called the mainstay of almost everyones American childhood, and the staple of the snatched office lunch for a generation. Other recipes may use oil, Miracle Whip, salad cream, mustard. The sandwich may be topped with lettuce, tomato or other vegetables and fruits, such as cucumbers, a tuna melt has melted cheese on top of the tuna or on a tomato slice and is served on toasted bread. A tuna boat is a fish sandwich served in a hot dog bun or long-split bread roll. Tuna is a high protein food and it is very high in omega-3 fatty acids. A sandwich made from 100 grams of tuna and two slices of toasted white bread has approximately 287 Calories,96 Calories of which are from fat and it also has 20 grams of protein and 27 grams of carbohydrates. According to the StarKist company, The nutritional content of albacore may vary naturally from catch to catch, in particular, the fat and calorie content will differ depending on the region or depth where the fish are caught. Albacore tuna that swim close to the surface can be higher in fat than tuna caught in deep ocean waters—but they are also lower in mercury content. Because availability of albacore tuna may vary from season to season, a larger, commercially prepared tuna fish sandwich has more calories than noted above, based on its serving size. A 6-inch Subway tuna sub of 238 grams has 480 calories,210 of those from fat,600 miligrams of sodium, and 20 grams of protein
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Surge (drink)
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Surge is a citrus flavored soft drink developed by the New Products team at Coca Cola Atlanta in 1997. Surge was first produced by The Coca-Cola Company to compete with Pepsis Mountain Dew during the 1990s, Surge was advertised as having a more hardcore edge, much like Mountain Dews advertising at this time, in an attempt to further take customers away from Pepsi. It was originally launched in Norway as Urge, and was so popular that it was released in America as Surge. Lagging sales caused production to be ended in 2003 for most markets, however, popular fan bases such as Facebooks SURGE Movement led Coca-Cola to re-release the soft drink on September 15,2014 for the US market via Amazon. com Prime in 12-packs of 16 oz. cans. In February 2015, Coca-Cola initiated a test market for the beverage in stores primarily in the Southeastern United States, some locations outside of the test region have also been found to sell Surge. Surge was re-released to stores in the Southeast, Northeast, parts of the Midwest, in 1997, Coca-Cola started production of Surge in the United States, with its original whitepaper name being MDK, or Mountain Dew Killer. It was developed to converge with Mello Yello as a means of slowing Mountain Dew growth, cokes attempts to draw users away with divergent products like OK Soda or with similar ones like Mello Yello had not succeeded. Surge was intended to improve on Mountain Dew by using maltodextrin for a longer-lasting blast of energy and its release was accompanied by a 50 million dollar nationwide marketing campaign that led to initially high sales and popularity. A few years after the release, sales began to slip, Surge continued to be sold in vending machines, bottles, cans and as a fountains drink until its eventual discontinuation in 2003. While preparations for the US launch were underway, a cry for help came in from the Norwegian Division, because the Surge brand was already registered by another party, the product was launched as Urge. Local food regulation prevented the bright green color being used, so it was launched with a pale, more natural juice drink look, Surge was widely associated with the extreme sports lifestyle, with television commercials similar to those used by Mountain Dew at the time. Coca-Cola also used provocative catchphrases to market Surge to extreme sports enthusiasts, some of these catchphrases included Feed the Rush, Lifes a Scream and the references to Surge as A Fully Loaded Citrus Soda. After its inception, Surges logo was updated and redesigned to a sharper, in 1997 Coca-Cola settled trademark dispute with Babson Bros. an industrial cleaning product company whose cow-milking machine has been known as Surge since 1925. After the discontinuation of Surge in cans, a community was formed by web designer Eric Karks Karkovack entitled Save Surge, the community initially mapped the locations at which Surge could be purchased in fountain form. Upon cancellation of the syrup, the community continued, adopting an approach of activism that led to the creation of the citrus soda Vault in June 2005. As a result of Vaults discontinuation, a group was started on Facebook called the Surge Movement, the movement gained around 200,000 Facebook likes in the months after it was started and continues to grow. On September 15,2014, Surge was re-released as an Amazon. com exclusive in packs of twelve 16 oz cans, on February 10,2015, Coca Cola announced that it had begun test-marketing Surge with independent resellers and vending machines across the Southeast United States. Coca Cola plans to re-introduce Surge to other regions in the US pending successful sales in test markets, the test run ended in late-May 2015
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Game Boy
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It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line and was created by Satoru Okada and Nintendo Research & Development 1. This same team, led by Gunpei Yokoi at the time, is credited with designing the Game & Watch series as well as popular games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Redesigned versions were released in 1996 and 1998 in the form of Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Light, the Game Boy is Nintendos second handheld system following the Game & Watch series introduced in 1980 and it combined features from both the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game & Watch. It was either bought as a unit or bundled with the puzzle game Tetris. During its early lifetime, the Game Boy mainly competed with Segas Game Gear, Ataris Lynx, the Game Boy beat its rivals and became a tremendous success. The Game Boy and its successor, the Game Boy Color, have sold over 118 million units worldwide, upon the Game Boys release in the United States, it sold its entire shipment of one million units within a few weeks. The Game Boy and Game Boy Color were discontinued in the early 2000s in favor of the subsequent Game Boy Advance, the Game Boy has four operation buttons labeled A, B, SELECT, and START, as well as a directional pad. There is a control dial on the right side of the device. At the top of the Game Boy, a sliding on-off switch, the on-off switch includes a physical lockout to prevent users from either inserting or removing a cartridge while the unit is switched on. Nintendo recommends users leave a cartridge in the slot to prevent dust, the Game Boy also contains optional input and/or output connectors. On the left side of the system is an external 3. 5mm x 1. 35mm DC power supply jack that allows users to use a rechargeable battery pack or AC adapter instead of four AA batteries. The Game Boy requires 6 V DC of at least 150 mA, a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack is located on the bottom side of the unit which allows users to listen to the audio with the bundled headphones or external speakers. The right-side of the device offers a port which allows a user to connect to another Game Boy system via a link cable, the port can also be used to connect a Game Boy Printer. The link cable was designed for players to play head-to-head two-player games such as in Tetris. However, game developer Satoshi Tajiri would later use the cable technology as a method of communication. CPU Custom 8-bit Sharp LR35902 at 4.19 MHz and this processor is similar to an Intel 8080 in that none of the registers introduced in the Z80 are present. However, some of the Z80s instruction set enhancements over the 8080, still other instructions are unique to this particular flavor of 8080/Z80 CPU. The IC also contains integrated sound generation, the unit only has one speaker, but headphones provide stereo sound Display, Reflective STN LCD160 ×144 pixels Frame Rate, Approx
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Walkman
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Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette/tape players in the late 1970s. In the 2010s, it was used to market Sonys portable audio, the original Walkman actually introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry recorded music with them and listen to music through lightweight headphones. Owners of the Walkman were able to back their lost time, commuting for example. It was the privatization and personalization offered by the Walkman that led to its success, the prototype was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka. Ibuka wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips, the original idea for a portable stereo is credited to Brazilian-German inventor Andreas Pavel. The first Walkman was marketed in 1979 in Japan, using the name Walkman, from 1980, it was known as the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden, and the Stowaway in the UK. Advertising, despite all the languages, still attracted thousands of buyers in the US specifically. The names Walkman, Pressman, Watchman, Scoopman, Discman, and Talkman are trademarks of Sony, the name Walkman was based on its precursor, the Pressman tape recorder. An initial prototype of the Walkman was in fact made by replacing the monophonic recording circuit, head and speaker from the Pressman with a stereo playback-only head and amplifier. Sony continues to use the Walkman brand name for most of their portable audio devices, the marketing of the Walkman introduced the idea of Japanese-ness into global culture, synonymous with miniaturization and high-technology. The Walk-men and Walk-women in advertisements were created to be the ideal reflections of the subject watching, the advertising of the Sony Walkman served to portray it as a possession that was not only fashionable but culturally definitive. Owning one proved the owner was up to date and financially able to buy newly marketed commercial products, rather than waiting for them to become established and it became one of the most successful launches of any new product in the past half-century. A major component of the Walkman advertising campaign was personalization of the device, prior to the Walkman, the common device for portable music was the portable radio, which could only offer listeners standard music broadcasts. Having the ability to customize a playlist was a new and exciting revolution in music technology, potential buyers had the opportunity to choose their perfect match in terms of mobile listening technology. The ability to play your own music and listen privately was a selling point of the Walkman, especially amongst teens. Despite all this technological diversity, there must be one which is the choice for you. Sony accomplished the feat of mass individualized and targeted advertisement. Today, Walkman still maintains its role in culture, albeit a diminished one due to the large number of competitors in mobile audio devices today
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Tom Gordon
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Thomas Flynn Gordon, nicknamed Flash, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He pitched for the Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 1998 he won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award and led the American League in saves and in games finished, Gordon attended Avon Park High School in Avon Park, Florida, and was a letterman in baseball. Gordon began his career as a pitcher with the Kansas City Royals. He became a sensation in Kansas City the following year, posting a 17-9 record and a 3.64 ERA in his first full season. Gordon also recorded 153 strikeouts in 1989, the tenth highest total in the American League, Gordon continued to post top-10 strikeout totals during the 1990 and 1991 seasons, but his number of wins dropped each year while his ERA crept upwards. Finally, in 1992 Gordon had one of the worst season of his career, posting a 6-10 record and he bounced back with seasons of 11 or 12 wins from 1993 to 1995, but he never quite regained his rookie form. Prior to the 1996 season, Gordon left Kansas City and signed as an agent with the Boston Red Sox. In his first season in Boston, Gordon had a 12-9 record, over the next two years, however, the Red Sox converted Gordon from a starting pitcher to a closer and his career reignited. In 1998, Gordon set the clubs record for saves, with 43 of them in a row. After subsequent stops in Houston and both sides of Chicago, Gordon landed in New York and he was an invaluable addition to the Yankees bullpen, serving as a set-up for closer Mariano Rivera, or as a middle reliever in tough situations. At this point, Gordon had compiled a career 122-111 record with 1733 strikeouts, a 3.99 ERA,114 saves and he signed a three-year deal worth $18 million with the Phillies before the 2006 season. Gordon debuted in Philadelphia as a closer during the 2006 season, replacing Billy Wagner, who signed with the Mets after the 2005 season. On May 2,2007, Gordon was placed on the disabled list due to a rotator cuff inflammation, following both pitchers return from the DL, Myers retained the closer position, while Gordon was shifted to a late-inning reliever. Flash was named to the 2006 NL All Star Team as the leading vote getter from the players, Gordon had fully rehabilitated his arm and was prepared for the 08 season. However, on July 6,2008, Gordon was placed on the 15-day disabled list for tenderness in his right elbow, fellow reliever Brad Lidge praised Gordon calling him a stud and said that the Phils were hoping for him to return to the team after his 15-day stint. Prior to being placed on the disabled list, Gordon recorded a 13.45 earned run average giving up six runs in four total innings since June 11. He eventually was ruled out for the season but was able to earn his only World Series ring on the bench in the 2008 World Series, on February 6,2009, Gordon signed a one-year deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks
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Little House on the Prairie
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Little House on the Prairie is a series of American childrens novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her childhood in the northern Midwest during the 1870s and 1880s. Eight were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers from 1932 and 1943, of which the last covers her courtship with Almanzo Wilder, the first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly included in the Little House series. The Little House series is based on memories of Laura Ingalls Wilders childhood in the northern Midwest region of the United States late in the 19th century. Wilders daughter Rose Wilder Lane assisted her mother with the editing of the works, the depth of her involvement, and the extent of her influence on the theme and content of the books, has been the subject of some scholarly debate in recent years. The original Little House books have remained continuously in print since their publication in the 1930s and they are considered classics of American childrens literature and remain widely read. The eight childrens novels were originally illustrated primarily by Helen Sewell and those five were all among the annual Newbery Medal runners-up. In 1953 Harper issued a complete set re-illustrated by Garth Williams, modern editions generally retain the Williams illustrations. The books have been adapted for stage or screen more than once, most successfully as the American television series Little House on the Prairie, the last concluded with a note, The end of the Little house books. In 1953, the eight were reissued in an illustrated, uniform edition with cover and interior illustrations by Garth Williams. The nine alone are summarized in the subsections below, other titles include sticker and craft books, cookbooks, diaries, calendars, dishes, and so on. Four series of books expand the Little House series to five generations of Laura Ingalls Wilders family. The Caroline Years series narrates Lauras mother, Caroline Quiners, childhood in Wisconsin, the Rose Years series follows Rose Wilder Lane from childhood in Missouri to early adulthood in San Francisco. It was written by her surrogate grandson Roger MacBride, in fact, Young Pioneerss main characters are even named Charles and Caroline, the names of Lauras parents. Two volumes of Lauras letters and diaries have also issued under the Little House imprint, On The Way Home and West From Home. In 2011 Wendy McClure published The Wilder Life, My Adventures in The Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, McClure brings her somewhat reluctant boyfriend Chris with her on her journeys. The story of the first book in the series, Little House in the Big Woods revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their home near Pepin, Wisconsin. The family includes mother Caroline Ingalls, father Charles Ingalls, elder daughter Mary Amelia Ingalls, also in the story, though not yet born historically, is Lauras baby sister Carrie. In the book, Laura herself turns five years old, when the author had only been three during the events of the book
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George A. Romero
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His other works contributed include The Crazies, Creepshow, Martin, Monkey Shines, and The Dark Half. Romero was born in the New York City borough of The Bronx, to a Cuban-born father and his father has been reported as born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the Galician town of Neda, although Romero once described his father as of Castilian descent. His father worked as a commercial artist, Romero was raised in the Bronx, and would frequently ride the subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. Romero attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after graduating in 1960, he began his career shooting short films and commercials. One of his commercial films was a segment for Mister Rogers Neighborhood in which Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy. With nine friends, Romero formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s, directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, the movie became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema. Among the inspiration for Romeros filmmaking, as told to Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was the 1951 British film, The Tales of Hoffmann. It was the filmmaking, the fantasy, the fact that it was a fantasy and it had a few frightening and it was really a movie for me, and it gave me an early appreciation for the power of visual media—the fact that you could experiment with it. He was doing all his tricks in-camera, and they were sort of obvious and that made me feel that, gee, maybe I could figure this medium out. It was transparent, but it worked, three films that followed were less popular, Theres Always Vanilla, Jacks Wife / Season of the Witch and The Crazies were not as well received as Night of the Living Dead or some of his later work. Like many of his films, they were shot in or around Pittsburgh, in 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with Dawn of the Dead. Shot on a budget of just $500,000, the film earned over $55 million worldwide and was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly in 2003, Romero made the third entry in his Dead Series with Day of the Dead. Romero updated his original screenplay and executive produced the remake of Night of the Living Dead directed by Tom Savini for Columbia/TriStar in 1990. Savini is also responsible for the makeup and special effects in many of Romeros films including Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Romero had a cameo appearance in Jonathan Demmes Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 as one of Hannibal Lecters jailers. In 1998, he directed a commercial promoting the videogame Resident Evil 2 in Tokyo. The 30-second advertisement featured the two main characters, Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, fighting a horde of zombies while in Raccoon Citys police station. The project was obvious territory for Romero, the Resident Evil series has been influenced by the Dead Series. The commercial was rather popular and was shown in the weeks before the actual release
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Stephen King bibliography
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The following is a complete list of books published by Stephen King, an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies. King has published 55 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been compiled in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. Stephen King short fiction bibliography Unpublished and uncollected works by Stephen King Stephen King works related to The Dark Tower series Stephen King bibliography timeline on Histropedia
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Carrie (novel)
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Carrie is an American novel and author Stephen Kings first published novel, released on April 5,1974, with an approximate first print-run of 30,000 copies. Set primarily in the year of 1979, it revolves around the eponymous Carrietta N. King has commented that he finds the work to be raw and with a surprising power to hurt. It is one of the most frequently banned books in United States schools, the book is dedicated to Kings wife Tabitha, This is for Tabby, who got me into it – and then bailed me out of it. Carietta Carrie White is a 16-year-old girl from Chamberlain, Maine, Carrie does not fare much better at school, where her frumpy looks and lack of friends make her the subject of ridicule. At the beginning of the novel, Carrie has her first period while showering after an education class. She has no understanding of menstruation as her mother never told her about it and her classmates use the event as an opportunity to taunt her, led by Chris Hargensen, they throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her. When gym teacher Rita Desjardin happens upon the scene, she at first berates Carrie for her stupidity, however, she realizes that Carrie has no idea what is happening to her. In the midst of the commotion a lightbulb shatters above Carries head, Miss Desjardin excuses this and helps Carrie clean up and tries to explain. Carries mother shows no sympathy for her, she beats her and locks her into a closet, however, the principal instead punishes the girls by forcing them to attend boot-camp style detention with Miss Desjardin. When Chris, after an altercation with Miss Desjardin, refuses to appear for the detention, at her behest, her father, a prominent local lawyer, tries to intimidate the assistant principal into reinstating her privileges. Carrie gradually discovers her dormant telekinetic powers which she had possessed since birth. They were once again awoken during the incident which caused her to unknowingly shatter the light bulb. She also begins to understand that she is telepathic. Meanwhile, Sue Snell, another girl who had earlier teased Carrie. With the prom fast approaching, Sue convinces her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, one of the most popular boys in the school, Carrie is suspicious but accepts his offer, and makes a red velvet gown. Carries mother wont hear of her doing anything so carnal as attending a school dance, as she believes that sex in any form is sinful. She also reveals that she knows about Carries telekinetic powers, which she considers a form of witchcraft, Carrie, however, is tired of hearing that everything is a sin, she wants a normal life and sees the prom as a new beginning. The prom initially goes well for Carrie, Tommys friends are welcoming, Chris, still furious, devises her own revenge with her boyfriend Billy Nolan, they fill two buckets full of pigs blood and suspend the buckets over the stage
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'Salem's Lot
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Salems Lot is a 1975 horror fiction novel written by the American author Stephen King. It was his published novel. The town is revisited in the short stories Jerusalems Lot and One for the Road, the novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1976, and the Locus Award for the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987. In two separate interviews King said that, of all his books, Salems Lot was his favorite, in 1987 he told Phil Konstantin in The Highway Patrolman magazine, In a way it is my favorite story, mostly because of what it says about small towns. They are kind of a dying organism right now, the story seems sort of down home to me. I have a cold spot in my heart for it. The book is dedicated to Kings daughter Naomi, For Naomi Rachel King, Ben Mears, a writer who spent part of his childhood in Jerusalems Lot, Maine, has returned after twenty-five years. He quickly becomes friends with high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton. Ben starts writing a book about the Marsten House, a house where he had a bad experience as a child. Barlow is on a buying trip, only his business partner. Danny fails, however, to infect Mark Petrie, who resists him successfully by holding a cross in Dannys face. Within several weeks many of the townspeople are turned into vampires, Ben Mears and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor, Jimmy Cody, along with young Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, in an effort to fight the spread of new vampires. Susan is captured by Barlow and made into a vampire, eventually being staked through the heart by Mears, Marks parents are killed next, but Barlow does not infect them, so they are later given a clean burial. Barlow holds Mark and Father Callahan hostage, but Father Callahan has the hand, securing Marks release, agreeing to Barlows demand that he toss aside his cross. Barlow says Sad to see a mans faith fail him, Callahan then has to drink blood from Barlows neck, Callahan resists but is forced to drink, leaving him in a netherworld, as Barlow has left his mark. When Callahan tries to re-enter his church he receives an electric shock, Callahan never goes near another church again. Ben Mears and Mark Petrie succeed in destroying the master vampire Barlow, Mark is received into the Catholic Church by a friendly local priest and confesses for the first time what they have experienced. The epilogue has the two returning to the town a year later, intending to renew the battle, while teaching a high school Fantasy and Science Fiction course at Hampden Academy, King was inspired by Dracula, one of the books covered in the class
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. Published in 1977, it is Kings third published novel and first hardback bestseller, the setting and characters are influenced by Kings personal experiences, including both his visit to The Stanley Hotel in 1974 and his recovery from alcoholism. The novel was followed by a sequel, Doctor Sleep, published in 2013 and his family accompanies him on this job, including his young son Danny Torrance, who possesses the shining, an array of psychic abilities that allow Danny to see the hotels horrific past. Soon, after a storm leaves them snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jacks sanity, leaving his wife. The novel was adapted into a 1980 feature film of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick, a television mini-series later premiered in 1997, with the making closely monitored by King to ensure it had followed the novels narrative. King wrote the series himself and was unable to criticize the Kubrick version due to his contract. The Shining mainly takes place in the fictional Overlook Hotel, an isolated, haunted resort located in the Colorado Rockies. The plot centers on Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy Torrance, and their 5-year-old son Danny Torrance, Jack hopes that the hotels seclusion will help him reconnect with his family and give him the motivation needed to work on a play. Danny, unknown to his parents, possesses telepathic abilities referred to as the shining that enable him to read minds and experience premonitions. Dick Hallorann, the chef at the Overlook, also possesses similar abilities to Dannys and helps to explain them to him, giving Hallorann, as the Torrances settle in at the Overlook, Danny sees ghosts and frightening visions. Although Danny is close to his parents, he not tell either of them about his visions because he senses that the care-taking job is important to his father. Wendy considers leaving Jack at the Overlook to finish the job by himself, Danny refuses, however, Danny soon realizes that his presence in the hotel makes the supernatural activity more powerful, turning echoes of past tragedies into dangerous threats. Apparitions take form and the topiary animals come to life. The Overlook has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack by frustrating his need, Jack starts to develop cabin fever and becomes increasingly unstable. One day, after a fight with Wendy, Jack finds the hotels bar fully stocked with alcohol despite being previously empty, as he gets drunk, the hotel urges Jack to kill his wife and son. He initially resists, but the influence of the hotel proves too great. He becomes a monster under the control of the hotel, succumbing to his dark side. Wendy and Danny get the better of Jack, locking him inside the walk-in pantry, Jack attacks Wendy with one of the hotels roque mallets, but she escapes to the caretakers suite and locks herself in the bathroom
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The Stand
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The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. The novel was published in 1978 in hardcover, with a setting date of 1980. The first paperback release in 1980 changed the date to 1985. The Stand was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1979 and it marks the first appearance of Randall Flagg, Kings recurring antagonist, whom King would bring back many times in his later writings. King dedicated the book to his wife, Tabitha, For Tabby, depending upon the edition of the novel, the dates of The Stands three parts may be 1980,1984, or 1989. June 16 – July 4,1980 At a remote U. S. Army base, Charles Campion, a soldier charged with security, manages to escape the base by car with his wife and child. A pandemic of apocalyptic proportions is triggered, which kills off 99. 4% of the worlds human population. As the pandemic intensifies it gains many names, Captain Trips, the emotional toll is also dealt with, as the few survivors must care for their families and friends, dealing with confusion and grief as virtually everyone they know succumbs to the disease. It also expands upon the Armys response to the outbreak, scenes of civil unrest, looting, and vigilantism, and deaths caused not by the pandemic itself, the woman, Abagail Freemantle—better known as Mother Abagail—becomes the spiritual leader for the survivors. Mother Abagail directs them to Boulder, Colorado, where they struggle to re-establish a democratic society called the Free Zone, meanwhile, another group of survivors is drawn to Las Vegas by Randall Flagg, an evil being with supernatural powers. Flaggs governance is brutally tyrannical, using methods of torture. Flaggs group is able to reorganize its society, restore power to Las Vegas. Flaggs group launches a program, searching what remains of the United States for suitable arms. Mother Abagail, feeling that she has become prideful due to her pleasure at being a public figure, during her absence, the Free Zones leadership committee decides to secretly send three people to Flaggs territory to act as spies. Harold Lauder and Nadine Cross, who are disaffected Free Zone inhabitants tempted by Flagg, the explosion kills several people, but most of the committee members avoid the explosion thanks to Mother Abagails return. The Complete & Uncut Edition expands on a character only in flashbacks in the original novel, The Kid. The Kid travels west through Colorado with Trashcan Man, one of Flaggs recruited henchmen and he states to Trashcan Man that he intends to kill Flagg and take over as leader in Las Vegas when he arrives. In response, Flagg causes a pack of wolves to descend on the two travelers, allowing Trashcan Man to flee unharmed, but the wolves kill The Kid after a standoff
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The Dead Zone (novel)
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The Dead Zone is a science-fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. It concerns Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident, upon emergence, he exhibits clairvoyance and precognition with limitations, apparently due to a dead zone, an area of his brain that suffered permanent damage as the result of his accident. The Dead Zone was nominated for the Locus Award in 1980, the book is dedicated to Kings son, Owen. The book spawned a 1983 film adaptation, and a television series, the prologue introduces the two main characters. In 1953, a boy named John Smith is knocked unconscious while ice-skating. The knot on Johnnys head fades after a few days, a few months later, the adult is seriously injured while jump starting a car battery. By 1970, Johnny is now a school teacher in eastern Maine. Christopher medallion owned by a skeptical reporter, Johnny shrugs off local media reports of his supposed psychic talents and accepts an offer to resume teaching, but begins to suffer from severe headaches. Johnnys extra sense provides enough detail to identify the killer, who commits suicide, Stillson, now a successful businessman and elected mayor of Ridgeway, N. H. still suffers from his emotional problems. Asked to straighten out a friends teenaged nephew for wearing an obscene T-shirt, he sets the shirt on fire and terrorizes the youth with a broken bottle, threatening to kill him if he tells anyone. In 1976 he decides to run an independent campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives, Johnnys offer to return to his teaching job is rescinded due to his being too controversial to be effective as a teacher. He moves to New Hampshire and takes a job as tutor for a young man named Chuck. He also takes up an interest in politics, and becomes concerned when he watches a rally for Stillson, Johnny attends a rally for Stillson and on touching his hand has a horrific vision of an older Stillson as President causing a massive, worldwide nuclear conflict. He contemplates how he might prevent Stillsons presidency and compares the matter to the question one would kill Hitler in 1932 if time travel were possible. Chucks father agrees to host a party for Chuck and other students. Johnny also learns that the FBI agent investigating Stillson has been murdered with a car bomb, Johnny moves to Phoenix, where he takes a job as a road maintenance technician for the local Public Works Department. He learns that his headaches and blackouts are due to a brain tumor, Johnny takes the fire at the party as a warning, that he knew the fire would happen but had not taken it seriously enough and as a result people had died. Realizing that he will not live much longer whatever he decides, Johnny refuses surgery, at the rally, Stillson begins his speech and Johnny attempts to shoot Stillson, but misses and is wounded by Stillsons bodyguards
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Firestarter (novel)
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Firestarter is a science fiction novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni, in 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award. In 1984, it was adapted into a movie, the book is dedicated to author Shirley Jackson, In Memory of Shirley Jackson, who never needed to raise her voice. Andy and Charlene Charlie McGee are a pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop. During his college years, Andy had participated in a Shop experiment dealing with Lot 6, the drug gave his future wife, Victoria Tomlinson, minor telekinetic abilities and him an auto-hypnotic mind domination ability he refers to as the push. They both also developed telepathic abilities, the novel begins in medias res with Charlie and Andy on the run from Shop agents in New York City. He then uses his ability to track the slightly-cold trail of Charlie and The Shop agents. He uses the push to incapacitate The Shop agents, leaving one blind, Charlie and Andy flee, and begin a life of running and hiding, using assumed identities. They move several times to avoid discovery before The Shop catches up to them in New York, at Andys instruction, Charlie unleashes her power, incinerating the entire farm and fending off the agents, killing a few of them. With nowhere else to turn, the pair flees to Vermont, with the Manders farm operation disastrously botched, The Shops director, Captain James Cap Hollister, calls in a Shop hitman named John Rainbird to capture the fugitives. Rainbird, a Cherokee and a Vietnam veteran, is intrigued by Charlies power and eventually becomes obsessed with her, determined to befriend her and this time the operation is successful, and both Andy and Charlie are taken by The Shop. The pair is separated and imprisoned at The Shop headquarters, located in the fictional Washington, D. C. suburb of Longmont, with his spirit broken, Andy becomes an overweight drug addict, seemingly loses his power, and is eventually deemed useless by The Shop. Charlie, however, defiantly refuses to cooperate with The Shop, by pretending to still be powerless and addicted, Andy manages to gain crucial information by pushing his psychiatrist. Under Rainbirds guidance, Charlie begins to demonstrate her power, which has grown to fearsome levels. After the suicide of his psychiatrist, Andy is able to meet and push Cap, using him to plan his and Charlies escape from the facility, Rainbird discovers Andys plan, however, and decides to use it to his advantage. Andys plan succeeds, and he and Charlie are reunited for the first time in six months, Rainbird then interrupts the meeting at a barn, planning to kill them both. A crucial distraction is provided by Cap, who is losing his mind from an effect of being pushed. Andy pushes Rainbird into leaping from the level of the barn
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Cujo
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Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a rabid dog. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982, and was made into a film in 1983, Cujos name was based on the nom de guerre of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Hearsts kidnapping and indoctrination into the Symbionese Liberation Army. Stephen King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he barely remembers writing at all, the book was written during a period when King was drinking heavily. King goes on to say that he likes the book and that he wishes he could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them down on the page, the story takes place in the setting of numerous King works, the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Revolving around two families, the narrative is interspersed with vignettes from the seemingly mundane lives of various other residents. There are no chapter headings but breaks in between passages to indicate when the narration switches to a different point of view, the principal characters are the Trenton and the Camber families. The middle-class Trentons have recently moved to Castle Rock from New York City, bringing them their four-year-old son. Father, Vic, discovers that his wife, Donna, has concluded an affair. In the midst of this tension, Vics advertising agency is failing. The blue-collar Cambers are longtime residents, Joe is a mechanic who dominates and abuses his wife, Charity, and their ten-year-old son, Brett. Charity wins a $5,000 lottery prize and uses the proceeds to trick Joe into allowing her to take Brett on a trip to visit Charitys sister, Holly, Joe acquiesces, secretly planning to use the time to take a pleasure trip to Boston. Soon after Charity and Brett leave town, Cujo goes mad and kills their alcoholic neighbor, when Joe calls on Gary, Cujo kills him, as well. Donna, home alone with Tad, takes their failing Ford Pinto to the Cambers for repairs, the car breaks down in Cambers dooryard, and as Donna attempts to find Joe, Cujo appears, ready to pounce. She climbs back in the car as Cujo starts to attack, Donna and Tad are trapped in their vehicle, the interior of which becomes increasingly hot in the sun. During one escape attempt, Donna is bitten in the stomach and leg but manages to survive and escape back into the car. She plans to run for the Cambers home but abandons the idea due to her fears that the door will be locked, to explore all leads, the state police send Castle Rock Sheriff George Bannerman out to the Cambers house, but Cujo attacks and kills him. Donna, after witnessing the attack and realizing Tad is in danger of dying of dehydration, battles Cujo, Vic arrives on the scene with the authorities soon after, but Tad has already died from exposure. Donna is rushed to the hospital, and Cujos head is removed for a prior to cremation of his remains
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Christine (novel)
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Christine is a horror novel written by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces, a film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released in the same year, this adaptation starred Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. In April 2013, PS Publishing released Christine in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition, while riding home from work with his friend, Dennis Guilder, nerdy teen Arnold Arnie Cunningham spots a dilapidated red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury parked in front of a house. Arnie makes Dennis stop so he can examine the car, despite Denniss attempts to talk Arnie out of it, the cars owner, Roland D. LeBay, an elderly man wearing a back brace, sells the car—which he had named Christine—to Arnie for $250. While waiting for Arnie to finish the paperwork, Dennis sits inside Christine and he has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they were 20 years ago, when the car was new. Frightened, Dennis gets out of Christine, deciding he dislikes Arnies new car, Arnie brings Christine to a do-it-yourself auto-repair facility run by Will Darnell, who is suspected of using the garage as a front for illicit operations. As Arnie restores the automobile he becomes withdrawn, humorless and cynical, yet more confident, Dennis is puzzled by the changes in both his friend and Christine, the repair work proceeds haphazardly and the more extensive repairs do not appear to be done by Arnie himself. Arnies appearance improves in tandem with Christines, as time passes, Dennis observes that Arnie is taking on many of LeBays personality traits. He also begins dressing like a 1950s greaser and wearing his hair in a 1950s ducks ass style, Dennis also sees that Arnie has become close to Darnell since going to work for him, even acting as a courier in Darnells interstate smuggling operations. When Arnie is almost finished restoring Christine, a girl named Leigh Cabot transfers to his high school. She is regarded as the beauty and her decision to go out with Arnie puzzles everyone. While on a date with Arnie, she chokes to death on a hamburger and is saved only by the intervention of a hitchhiker who uses the Heimlich maneuver. Leigh notices that Christines dashboard lights seemed to become glaring green eyes, watching her during the incident, and she realizes that she and Christine are competing for Arnies affection and vows to never get into the car again. Arnies mother refuses to let him keep Christine at home, after several arguments, Arnies father purchases a 30-day pass for the airport parking lot, helping to restore peace in the family. The car is wrecked to the point the habitues at Darnells think it will never roll another foot, Arnie strains his back in the process and begins wearing a back brace all the time, as LeBay did. His relationship with Leigh declines and they break up at least partly over Christine, a number of inexplicable car-related deaths occur around town, starting with Moochie Welch and all but one of Reppertons accomplices in the vandalism and ending with Will Darnell. The police find evidence linking Christine to the murders at the scene of each death, a State Police detective named Rudy Junkins becomes suspicious of Arnie, convinced he is involved. Junkins suspicions are not allayed even though Arnie has airtight alibis for each death and it is revealed that Christine, possessed by LeBays vengeful spirit, is committing these murders independently and repairing herself after each one
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Pet Sematary
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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by Stephen King, nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and adapted into a 1989 film of the same name. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition, Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maines campus health service. He moves to a house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel. From the moment they arrive, the family runs into trouble, Ellie hurts her knee after falling off a swing and their new neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, comes to help. He warns Louis and Rachel about the highway runs past their house. Jud and Louis quickly become close friends, since Louis father died when he was three, he sees Jud as a surrogate father. A few weeks after the Creeds move in, Jud puts the friendship on the line when he takes the family on a walk in the woods behind their home, a well-tended path leads to a pet cemetery where the children of the town bury their deceased animals. This provokes an argument between Louis and Rachel the next day. Rachel disapproves of discussing death, and she worries about how Ellie may be affected by what she saw at the sematary, Louis himself has a traumatic experience during the first week of classes. Victor Pascow, a student who has been injured in an automobile accident, addresses his dying words to Louis personally. Louis wakes up in bed the next morning convinced it was, in fact, a dream—until he finds his feet, nevertheless, Louis dismisses the dream as the product of the stress he experienced during Pascows death, coupled with his wifes lingering anxieties about the subject of death. Louis is forced to confront the subject of death at Halloween, thanks to Louiss prompt attention, Norma makes a quick recovery. Jud is grateful for Louiss help and decides to repay him after Church is run over outside his home at Thanksgiving, Rachel and the kids are visiting Rachels parents in Chicago, but Louis frets over breaking the bad news to Ellie. Sympathizing with Louis, Jud takes him to the pet sematary, but instead of stopping there, Jud leads Louis farther on a frightening journey to the real cemetery, an ancient burial ground that was once used by the Micmac Indians. There Louis buries the cat on Juds instruction, with Jud saying that animals buried there have come back to life, not really believing, Louis thinks that the subject is finished – until the next afternoon when the cat returns home. But it is obvious that Church is not the same as before, while he used to be vibrant and lively, he now acts ornery and a little dead, in Louiss words. Church hunts for mice and birds much more often, but he rips them apart without eating them, the cat also smells so bad that Ellie no longer wants him in her room at night. Jud confirms that this condition is the rule, rather than the exception, Louis is deeply disturbed by Churchs resurrection and begins to wish that he had never done it
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Cycle of the Werewolf
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Cycle of the Werewolf is a short horror novel by Stephen King, featuring illustrations by comic-book artist Bernie Wrightson. Each chapter is a short story unto itself and it tells the story of a werewolf haunting a small town as the moon turns full once every month. It was published as a hardcover in 1983 by Land of Enchantment. The book is dedicated to the author Davis Grubb, In memory of Davis Grubb, Marty Coslaw, A 10-year-old paraplegic, he serves as the novella’s protagonist. He hears the howling in March and is attacked by the beast in July. He discovers the identity of the creature to be Reverend Lester Lowe in October, nan Coslaw, Marty’s mother, she tries to treat him as if he were no different from any other 10-year-old boy. Herman Coslaw, Marty’s father, he is interacting with his disabled son. He is the coach at Tarker’s Mills High School, kate Coslaw, Marty’s 14-year-old sister, she seems jealous of all the attention Marty gets throughout much of the novella. Grandpa Coslaw, Marty’s paternal grandfather, he lives with the family, Marty has a good relationship with his grandfather, who is described as being the typical grandfather. He is noted for being a heavy sleeper, uncle Al, Marty’s wild-living maternal uncle, he always seems to be in the doghouse with his sister. Al treats Marty better than anyone else in the story, and he also supplies Marty with the silver bullets and the gun he uses to kill the beast in December. Reverend Lester Lowe, Reverend Lowe is first mentioned in the story in April, in May, he has a dream in which his entire congregation—and then himself—transforms into werewolves before he awakens. The next morning, he finds Clyde Corliss, a custodian and he is seen as a pillar of the community and has been viewed that way for years, coming to call Tarker’s Mills home. Lowe has not been a werewolf his entire life, nor has he been a werewolf since he first arrived in Tarker’s Mills and he went to put them in vases at the church vestry, but they turned black and died before he could finish the relatively quick job. He has no reason to pinpoint this event as the beginning of his curse, as the werewolf, he serves as the primary antagonist of the novella. Lowe comes to realize that he is the werewolf after having awakened with fresh blood on his fingernails and he also discovers clothes are missing and sometimes finds scratches and bruises which appear to have come from running through the woods. The dream in May serves as an omen to his curse, but he does not fully realize his curse until July 5. In November, he acknowledges that he is the werewolf and decides that he cannot risk going out in the woods, to avoid the vigilantes, he travels to Portland, where he kills Tarker’s Mills resident Milt Sturmfuller outside a cheap motel
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The Talisman (King and Straub novel)
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The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub. The plot is not related to that of Walter Scotts 1825 novel of the same name, the Talisman was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. The book is dedicated to the mothers, This book is for Ruth King. Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, sets out from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire in a bid to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding a crystal called the Talisman. Jacks journey takes him simultaneously through the American heartland and the Territories, individuals in the Territories have twinners, or parallel individuals, in our world. Twinners births, deaths, and other life events are usually paralleled. Twinners can also flip or migrate to the world. When flipped, the Twinner, or the person, will automatically start speaking and thinking the language of where they are flipping into subconsciously. In rare instances, a person may die in one world but not the other, making the survivor single-natured with the ability to back and forth, body and mind. Jack is taught how to flip by a figure known as Speedy Parker. In the Territories, the beloved Queen Laura DeLoessian, the twinner of Jacks mother is dying as well, various people help or hinder Jack in his quest. Of particular importance are the werewolves, known simply as Wolfs, a sixteen-year-old Wolf, simply named Wolf, is pulled into America by Jack Sawyer and adopts Jack as his pack, serving as his companion. Wolf is extremely likeable, kind, loyal and friendly, much like a dog, on the other hand, some Wolfs have joined the malevolent faction which is trying to stop Jack. He wants to seize their business from Jacks mother, Morgan Sloats twinner, Morgan of Orris, also plans to seize the Territories in the event of Queen Lauras death. The idea of writing The Talisman first took form when Stephen King moved with his family to London in early 1977 and it was there he met Peter and Susan Straub, and their children. The two writers became friends, both being fans of each others work, King and his family left London three months later to return to the United States. According to King, after Straub moved, the talk got serious and their literary friendship continued after The Talisman was published, in 1999 they began working on the sequel, Black House, which deals with Jack Sawyer as an adult. A third and final book in the Jack Sawyer series is planned, when Jack flips, he finds himself in a parallel world, which is physically smaller than the world from which he comes
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It (novel)
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It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous being and it primarily appears in the form of a clown in order to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel is told through narratives alternating between two periods, and is largely told in the third-person omniscient mode. It deals with themes that eventually became King staples, the power of memory, childhood trauma, the novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987, and received nominations for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards that same year. Publishers Weekly listed It as the book in the United States in 1986. During the beginning of a particularly perilous storm in Derry, Maine, the boat is washed down a storm drain to the dismay of George, who had received the boat as a present from his older brother Bill. After peering into the drain, George sees a pair of glowing eyes which he first believes to be a cat trapped in the sewers. Startled, George watches in confusion as he is confronted by a man dressed in a silver clown suit with tufts of red hair and orange pom poms who introduces himself as Mr. Bob Gray. Many neighbors on the block immediately hear Georges screams and rush to find the boy dead, the following June, Ben Hanscom, an overweight child, is harassed by a gang of bullies led by the psychopathic Henry Bowers. The three boys later befriend fellow misfits Richie Tozier, Stan Uris, Beverly Marsh, and Mike Hanlon, meanwhile, an increasingly sadistic Henry begins focusing his attention on his neighbor, Mike Hanlon, and his father due to their ethnicity. Henry and his gang initiate a fight with the Losers. The bullies are left defeated and embarrassed, however, with an injured Henry swearing revenge on the Losers before departing, Bill then discovers the Ritual Of Chüd, an ancient ritual that allows him to enter the Macroverse from where It originated. Bill encounters Mataurin or The Turtle, the creator of the universe and the enemy of It. In late July, Eddie is hospitalized after an attack by a vengeful Henry Bowers, later, the Losers discover a message from It written in Patricks blood warning them that It will kill them. After Eddie is released from the hospital with a broken arm, the kids return to the house on Neibolt Street where Eddie, Bill, and Richie had previously seen It and It attacks them in the form of a werewolf. Beverly shoots a slug from Bills slingshot at the werewolf, injuring It, in late August, It, now fearing the Losers and seeing them as a threat, manipulates the mind of Henry Bowers, making him kill his violent alcoholic father and providing him with a switchblade. Henry, driven insane, continues to chase the Losers and gets lost and he eventually washes out of the sewers into a nearby river and is blamed for all of the child murders. Bill enters the mind through the Ritual of Chüd and discovers that the true form of It is a mass of destructive orange lights known as the deadlights
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The Eyes of the Dragon
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The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by Stephen King that was first published as a limited edition slipcased hardcover by Philtrum Press in 1984, illustrated by Kenneth R. Linkhauser. The novel would later be published for the market by Viking in 1987. This trade edition was revised for publication. The 1995 French edition did not reproduce the American illustrations, it included new illustrations by Christian Heinrich. At the time of publication, it was a deviation from the norm for King and this book is a work of epic fantasy in a quasi-medieval setting, with a clearly established battle between good and evil, with magic playing a lead role. The Eyes of the Dragon was originally titled Napkins, the Eyes of the Dragon takes place entirely within the realm of Delain. It is told from the perspective of an unnamed storyteller/narrator, who speaks casually and frankly to the reader, frequently adding his own commentary on characters motivations and the like. King Rolands magician, Flagg, seeking to destroy the Kingdom of Delain, after Sasha gives birth to Peter, a noble and worthy future king, Flagg realizes that his position, his plans, and his life may be in danger because of Peter. When Sasha is pregnant with a son, Flagg seizes the opportunity. He forces the Queens midwife to cut Sasha as the second son, Sasha bleeds to death and Flagg begins plotting to remove Peter. As Peter becomes a teenager, he begins the custom of bringing a glass of wine to his father before bed each night, Flagg decides to use this as a means of framing Peter. He dissolves a poison called Dragon Sand in a glass of wine, previously, in an attempt to win Thomas friendship, Flagg had shown him a secret passage where Thomas could spy on his father. Unbeknownst to Flagg, when he delivers the poison, Thomas is watching through the eyes of the mounted head of Rolands greatest trophy. After a brief trial, during which the judge decides Peter is guilty, Thomas is then crowned King, although he is only twelve years old, due to his youth and his fearful inexperience, he allows Flagg enormous amounts of power. Peyna is puzzled by the requests, but, seeing no harm in them, five years later, Peter escapes from the Needle, having used the toy loom in the dollhouse and threads from the napkins to make a rope. After the escape he and his allies rush to get Rolands bow and arrow, however, it is not to be found because Thomas had it once they got into the kings sitting room. Flagg, now revealed as a demonic being, is about to them when Thomas reveals himself. Thomas shoots Flagg in the eye, but Flagg uses magic to disappear, at the end of the novel, Peter is declared to be the rightful king
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Misery (novel)
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Misery is a 1987 psychological horror thriller novel by Stephen King. The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988, and was made into a Hollywood film. When King was writing Misery in 1985 he planned the book to be released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, the novel focuses on Paul Sheldon, a writer famous for Victorian-era romance novels involving the character of Misery Chastain. Paul Sheldon is the author of a series of Victorian era romance novels surrounding the character Misery Chastain. He has just finished the manuscript of his new novel, Fast Cars. Since 1974, he has completed the first draft of one of his novels in the same hotel room in Colorado. With his latest project finished, he has an impulse to drive to Los Angeles rather than fly back home to New York City. However, a snowstorm hits while he is driving through the mountains, Sheldon drives off a cliff and crashes upside down into a snowbank. Paul is rescued from the car wreck, which has resulted in shattered legs, by Annie Wilkes and she takes him to her own home rather than a hospital, putting him in the guest bedroom. Using her nursing skills and stockpiled food and medical supplies, including an illicit stash of codeine-based painkillers, instead of setting his legs, as a doctor would have done, she puts them in makeshift splints. This results in his legs looking somewhat like a childs doodle and she proclaims herself as Pauls number one fan, being an avid reader of the Misery Chastain series. However, when she reads the manuscript for Fast Cars, Annie argues with Paul on its violent content and profanity, saying that the accident was his fault, she punishes him by withholding his medication, then forcing him to wash it down with soap water. Paul, who has extensive research into mental disorders, suspects that Annie is dangerously disturbed. Prior to the accident, when Sheldons latest novel, Miserys Child, had hit the shelves and she does not know, however, that Paul has killed Misery Chastain off at the end, intending to end the Misery series and re-establish himself as a mainstream writer. Upon learning of the characters demise, Annie rages at Paul before leaving him alone in her house without food. During this time, Paul suffers from extreme pain and withdrawal symptoms due to the painkillers, by the time Annie returns, Paul bides his time and writes the book as Annie wants, believing her fully capable of killing him. He manages to escape his room while Annie is on an errand and he manages to reach her telephone as well, only to discover it to be for show. He is almost caught by Annie, but manages to return to his room before she enters the house, on another occasion when Annie is absent, Paul escapes his room again and steals a knife from her kitchen, intending to kill her
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The Tommyknockers
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The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King. King would later look back on the novel unfavorably, describing it as an awful book, once exposed, the spacecraft begins to release an invisible gas into the atmosphere that gradually transforms people into beings similar to the aliens who populated the ship. The transformation, or becoming, provides them with a form of genius which makes them very inventive. The books central character is James Eric Gardener, a poet and friend of Bobbi Anderson and he is somewhat immune to the ships effects because of the steel plate in his head, a souvenir of a teenage skiing accident. Gard is also an alcoholic and is prone to binges that result in violent outbursts followed by lengthy blackouts, as Bobbi is almost totally overcome by the euphoria of becoming one with the spacecraft, Gard increasingly sees her health worsen and her sanity disappear. Ev Hillman, David and Hillys grandfather, helps Gardener escape into the woods in exchange for saving David Brown from Altair-4, Gard enters the ship near death after his struggle with the townspeople. With his last ounce of strength, he activates the ship and this results in the eventual deaths of nearly all of the changed townspeople but prevents the possibly disastrous consequences of the ships influence spreading to the outside world. In the last pages, David Brown is discovered safe and sound in Hilly Browns hospital room, in his autobiography On Writing, King attributes the basic premise to the short story The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft. He also used a poem from his childhood for the preamble, which went, Late last night, I want to go out, dont know if I can, cause Im so afraid of the Tommyknocker man. The novel was written during the height of Kings experiences with his own addictions and is filled with metaphors for the stranglehold of substance abuse. In an interview with Rolling Stone, King acknowledged that the quality of his writing suffered during his period of use, saying. That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act, the original 1987 hardcover edition was issued with three different dust jackets. The most common have the name in gold or red lettering. The rarer dust jacket features the name in silver lettering and pale blue light shining from under the door. A two-part television miniseries based on the novel was shown in 1993 on ABC, starring Jimmy Smits as Jim Gardner, NBC announced in July 2013 that they would be producing a new miniseries based on The Tommyknockers. List of fictional assimilating races Stephen King bibliography
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The Dark Half
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The Dark Half is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1989. Publishers Weekly listed The Dark Half as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancys Clear, the novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993. Stephen King wrote several books under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, most of the Bachman novels were darker and more cynical in nature, featuring a far more visceral sense of horror than the psychological, gothic style common to many of Kings most famous works. When King was identified as Bachman, he wrote The Dark Half – about an author with a parasitic twin – in response to his outing. Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic who lives in the town of Ludlow, Thads own books – cerebral literary fiction – are not very successful. However, under the pen name George Stark, he highly successful crime novels about a violent killer named Alexis Machine. Starks epitaph says it all, Not A Very Nice Guy and he then goes on a killing spree, gruesomely murdering everyone he perceives responsible for his death – Thads editor, agent, and the People interviewer, among others. Thad, meanwhile, is plagued by surreal nightmares, starks murders are investigated by Alan Pangborn, the sheriff of the neighboring town of Castle Rock, who finds Thads voice and fingerprints at the crime scenes. This evidence, and Thads unwillingness to answer his questions, causes Pangborn to believe that Thad – despite having alibis – is responsible for the murders. Later, it is discovered that George Stark has the same fingerprints as Thad Beaumont, Thad eventually discovers that he and Stark share a mental bond, and begins to find notes from Stark written in his own handwriting. The notes tell Thad what activity Stark has been engaging in, observing his son and daughter, Thad notes that twins share a unique bond. They can feel each others pain and at times appear to read the others mind, using this as a key to his own situation, he begins to discover the even deeper meaning behind himself and Stark. Pangborn eventually learns that Thad had a twin, the unborn brother was absorbed into Thad in utero and later removed from his brain when the author was a child. He had suffered severe headaches and it was originally thought to be a tumor causing them. The neurosurgeon who removed it found the following inside, part of a nostril, some fingernails, some teeth, and a malformed human eye. This leads to questions about the nature of Stark, whether he is a malevolent spirit with its own existence, or Thad himself. The novel was adapted as a film, The Dark Half, by George A. Romero in 1990 and it was filmed in part at Washington and Jefferson College and other locations in southwestern Pennsylvania. It starred Timothy Hutton as Thad/Stark, Michael Rooker as Alan Pangborn, in 1992 an adventure video game with SCUMM like mechanics, based on the novel was developed by Symtus and published by Capstone Software
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Needful Things
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Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first novel King wrote after his rehabilitation from drugs, according to the cover, it is The Last Castle Rock Story. It was made into a film of the name in 1993 which was directed by Fraser C. A new shop named Needful Things opens in the town of Castle Rock, Maine, the proprietor, Leland Gaunt, is a charming elderly gentleman who always seems to have an item in stock that is perfectly suited to any customer who comes through his door. Sheriff Alan Pangborn becomes wary of Gaunt as soon as the shop opens, however, his lover, Polly Chalmers, dismisses his suspicions and buys an ancient charm that relieves the arthritis pain in her hands. Tensions rapidly grow after Nettie Cobb, Pollys housekeeper, and her enemy Wilma Jerzyck kill each other in a confrontation sparked by pranks played on them by others, many other rivalries begin to fester, spurred by the personal motives of the people involved. For centuries, he has tricked unsuspecting people into buying worthless junk that appears to be whatever they treasure most and they become so paranoid about keeping their items safe that they eagerly buy up the weapons that he inevitably offers and trade away their souls. Ace begins to suspect the supernatural background of his new employer, but Gaunt keeps him in line through intimidation and promises of revenge against Alan and the town. With the violence in Castle Rock rapidly escalating, Ace and the towns head selectman Danforth Buster Keeton plant dynamite all over town, using the caps Ace brought back. Alan sets out to kill Ace, wrongly believing him to be responsible for a car accident that killed his wife and son, as the dynamite bombs explode, Keeton is wounded by one of Alans deputies and is put out of his misery by Ace. Taking Polly hostage, Ace demands that Alan hand over a hoard of cash he stole from one of the sites Ace dug up. The deputy kills Ace, leaving Alan to face off against Gaunt, using sleight of hand and magic novelties that suddenly come to life, Alan forces Gaunt back and grabs his valise, which contains the souls of his customers. Gaunt flees the scene, his car turning into a wagon as he becomes a hunchbacked dwarf. Brian Rusk, An 11-year-old boy who becomes the first customer of Needful Things, Alan Pangborn, the Sheriff of Castle Rock and the main protagonist. Patricia Polly Chalmers, known as the towns most eccentric woman, norris Ridgewick, one of the towns deputies and Sheriff Pangborns closest ally. John Ace Merrill, the resident bad boy and petty criminal. Danforth Buster Keeton, the towns head selectman, who uses the authority of his office to intimidate others. He is also a gambling addict, Wilma Jerzyck, Town bully and first victim of one of Mr. Gaunts pranks, performed by Brian Rusk, which starts the cycle
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Gerald's Game
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Geralds Game is a 1992 suspense novel by Stephen King. The story begins with Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald in the bedroom of their cabin in western Maine. Gerald, a lawyer with an aggressive personality, has been able to reinvigorate the couples sex life by handcuffing Jessie to the bed. Jessie has been into the game before, but suddenly balks, as Gerald starts to crawl on top of her, knowing her protests are real but ignoring them anyway, she kicks him in the stomach and in the groin. He falls from the bed to the floor, cracks his head, has a heart attack, Jessie is alone in the cabin, unable to move off the bed, or summon help. Jessie begins to think of this bizarre visitor as The Space Cowboy, a combination of panic and thirst eventually causes Jessie to hallucinate. These voices represent different parts of her personality which help her extract a painful childhood memory she has kept suppressed for many years and she was sexually abused by her father at age ten during a solar eclipse that occurred in her Maine hometown. She also begins to realize how unhappy her marriage had been, and she is then able to move behind the bed, push it over to the bureau and use one of the keys to unlock her left handcuff. However, she has lost a lot of blood and passes out shortly after, when she awakens, it is now nighttime, and the Space Cowboy has made his way back into the house. Jessie confronts him and throws her ring at his box of jewelry and bones, thinking that is what he wanted all along. She is able to make it into her car and finally escape the house, Jessie crashes out of fear and is knocked unconscious, and it is later revealed that she only imagined the Space Cowboy in the backseat. The story cuts to months later with Jessie recuperating from the incident, an ambitious associate attorney at Geralds law firm assists her in covering up the real incident to protect her and the law firm from scandal, as well as assisting her in her recuperation. At the end, we get to read the letter that Jessie writes to Ruth Neary, detailing what happened after the incident and her recuperation process and he also repeated her frightened exclamations that Joubert was not anyone, and that he was only made of moonlight. Jessie also mentions what became of Prince who gnawed on Gerald, Prince was shot and killed by the police. Initially, his owner had abandoned him in Maine and driven back to Massachusetts, in May 2014, Deadline. com reported that Mike Flanagan was set to direct a film adaptation. In an interview with Rue Morgue in September 2016, Mike Flanagan said that the adaptation would premiere on Netflix. He did not state when the film would premiere or whether Stephen King would be involved, in October 2016, Deadline reported that Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood will star in the film as Jessie and Gerald Burlingame. On October 17,2016, Flanagan tweeted indicating the first day of production had begun
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Dolores Claiborne
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Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King. The novel is narrated by the title character and it was the best-selling novel of 1992 in the United States. The book is dedicated to Kings mother, For my mother, while being interrogated, Dolores Claiborne wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years. She does, however, confess to orchestrating the death of her husband, Joe St. George, almost 30 years before, after finding out that he sexually molested their fourteen-year-old daughter, Selena. Doloress confession develops into the story of her life, her troubled marriage, the novel was adapted into a 1995 film directed by Taylor Hackford. It starred Kathy Bates as Dolores, with Jennifer Jason Leigh as her daughter Selena, and Judy Parfitt as Vera Donovan
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Insomnia (novel)
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Insomnia is a novel written by Stephen King and first published in 1994. Like It and Dreamcatcher, its setting is the town of Derry. The original hardcover edition was issued with dust jackets in two complementary designs, the first is pictured on the right, the second has the white and red colors reversed. The story is set in Stephen Kings multiverse in the town of Derry. He realizes that Ed Deepneau had also been seeing these things, Ralph and Lois encounter two bald doctors who act with dignity and free people from life when it is their time, and one bald doctor, Atropos, who is a crazed rogue. They are told that some kind of higher entity identified as the Crimson King has made a move, through Atropos, to manipulate Deepneau, in some manner that will upset the entire order of the universe. Their insomnia has been induced by the two bald doctors, who are agents of The Purpose, to help them gain access to this level of perception. The latters sentiments concerning abortion have been played upon by the Crimson King to the point that Ed has become fanatical and he intends to undertake a kamikaze attack, flying a small plane of C-4 explosives into the center during the talk. They feel resentful at being manipulated but also realize they must do what they can to prevent the attack, Ralph seeks Atropos and overcomes him, extracting a promise to stay out of their business, the doctors all being bound by their word. However when released, Atropos has his revenge by showing Ralph a glimpse of a car impact in the future in which he takes the life of Natalie Deepneau, Helens young daughter. Shortly afterwards, allies of Ed Deepneau attack and destroy the shelter where Helen Deepneau is staying, Ralph and Lois save the residents. They are unable to decide, and a higher level entity in which they are in awe, manifests briefly and he and Lois fall in love and become married, and gradually forget the matters which brought them together. In an epilogue some years later, Ralph again starts to wake up early and see auras, understanding that the time has come, he walks to the shops in time to see the car shown to him by Atropos arrive and veer towards Natalie. Ralph pushes Natalie to safety, losing his own life in the process, but dies peacefully with Lois, insomnia was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1994
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Rose Madder (novel)
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Rose Madder is a 1995 novel by Stephen King. It deals with the effects of violence and, unusually for a King novel. In his memoir, On Writing, King states that Rose Madder and Insomnia are stiff, in the prologue, which takes place in 1985, Rose Daniels husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to suffer a miscarriage. Rose briefly considers leaving Norman but dismisses the idea, Norman is a policeman, Norman also has a violent temper and was recently accused of assaulting a black woman named Wendy Yarrow. The subsequent lawsuit and Internal Affairs investigation has made him even more volatile. Nine years later, when Rose is making the bed, she notices a drop of blood on the sheet from her nose the night before, Norman had punched her in the face for spilling iced tea on him. Rose realizes that she has suffered through Normans abuse for 14 years. Rose decides to leave Norman, departing from her unidentified city on a bus, once Norman realizes that Rose is gone, he resolves to hunt her down and kill her. Rose arrives in a Midwestern city, disoriented and afraid, when she arrives at the bus station, she meets a man named Peter Slowik, who guides her to a womens shelter. There, she makes several friends and, with the help of the shelters director, Anna Stevenson, gets an apartment. Rose decides to pawn her engagement ring, only to learn that it is absolutely worthless, however, she notices a painting of a woman in a rose madder gown and immediately falls in love with it. She trades her ring for the painting, which has no artists signature. Outside, a patron of the pawnshop, who witnessed Roses ordeal with her ring, asks her to read a passage from a novel. Bill Steiner, the gentleman who owns the pawnshop, asks her for a date, Rose soon falls in love with him. Rose discovers that the painting seems to change, and is eventually able to travel through it. On the other side, she encounters a woman called Dorcas, Rose refers to her as Rose Madder because of her gown and her evident insanity. Rose Madder asks Rose to rescue her baby from an underground labyrinth inhabited by a one-eyed bull called Erinyes who relied on his sense of smell. Dorcas, leads Rose to the edge of the grounds and warns Rose of several dangers
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The Green Mile (novel)
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The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel written by Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombes encounter with John Coffey, the serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single volume work. The book is an example of magical realism, the Green Mile was first published in six low-priced paperback volumes. The first, subtitled The Two Dead Girls was published on March 28,1996, with new volumes following monthly until the final volume, the novel was republished as a single paperback volume on May 5,1997. On October 3,2000, the book was published in its first hardcover edition, every edition contained new illustrations by Mark Geyer, the novels original illustrator. Each version had its own design, and cost $150, $900, there were other versions published as well, including a pocketbook sized hardcover by Paw Prints. This year marks the arrival of John Coffey, a 6 ft 8 in powerfully built man who has been convicted of raping and murdering two small white girls. Jingles, a mouse, to whom Del teaches various tricks, Paul and the other guards are antagonized throughout the book by Percy Wetmore, a sadistic guard who enjoys antagonizing the prisoners. The other guards have to be civil to him despite their dislike of him because he is the nephew of the Governors wife, when Percy is offered a position at the nearby Briar Ridge psychiatric hospital as a secretary, Paul thinks they are finally rid of him. However, Percy refuses to leave until he is allowed to supervise an execution, Percy deliberately avoids soaking a sponge in brine that is supposed to be tucked inside the electrode cap to ensure a quick death in the electric chair. When the switch is thrown, the current causes Del to catch fire in the chair and suffer a prolonged, agonizing demise. Over time, Paul realizes that John possesses inexplicable healing abilities, simple-minded and shy, John is very empathic and sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others around him. Hals wife Melinda has a brain tumor, which John cures. When they return to the Mile, John passes the disease from Melinda into Percy, causing him to go mad, Percy is committed to Briar Ridge. Paul is unsure how to help John, but John tells him not to worry, as he is ready to die anyway, johns execution is the last one in which Paul participates. He introduces Mr. Jingles to Elaine just before the dies, having lived 64 years past these events. Elaine dies shortly after, never learning how Pauls wife died in his arms immediately after they suffered a bus accident, Paul seems to be all alone, now 104 years old, and wondering how much longer he will live. Paul Edgecombe — The protagonist and narrator of the book and the supervisor at Cold Mountain Penitentiary
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Desperation (novel)
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Desperation is a horror novel by Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the time as its mirror novel. It was made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skeritt, the two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novels world also exist in the other novels reality, albeit in different circumstances. Desperation is a story about people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for possession to rescuing a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak and they begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came. The novel begins with Peter and Mary Jackson, a couple driving cross-country in Peters sisters car after visiting their friends the Sodersons. Collie Entragian pulls over the Jacksons on the pretext of their rear license plate. The other captive in the cells is Tom Billingsley, the town veterinarian, Billingsley witnessed Entragian systematically murder almost every other person in the town of Desperation. Entragian plants the drug found in Peter and Marys car in one of his bike bags. While Entragian is burying his bike, Johnny manages to get a call through to Steve on his phone, however, due to the bad transmission. Steve senses that his boss is in trouble and his hitchhiker, Cynthia, agrees that they need to locate Johnny, Entragian throws Johnny in a cell in the Municipal Building before leaving all the captives. Johnny tells the others that Entragian is bleeding both internally and externally, leading the group to conclude that something is wrong with him. However, Entragian returns before the conversation can get further, taking Ellen away in the patrol car. It is revealed that David Carver has an ability to communicate with and receive guidance from God after a miracle involving his best friend, Brian, and a horrible accident. Upon some advice from Tom, the group arm themselves with weapons from the Municipal Building, Entragian returns to the Municipal Building in Ellens body to discover that the captives have escaped, and promptly sends out creatures to determine where they are hiding. While the others were distracted, David hid in a room of the theater to pray to God. Audrey comes across David while he is in a prayer trance, Steve and Cynthia burst into the room and separate Audrey from David, revealing that Audrey is being controlled by Entragian through the use of can-tahs
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Bag of Bones
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Bag of Bones is a 1998 novel by Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writers block and delusions at a lake house four years after the death of his wife. It won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1998, Stephen King had been publishing his books with Viking since The Dead Zone in 1979. King also wanted to move to a literary and prestigious publisher. The narrator, Mike Noonan, a bestselling novelist, suffers severe writers block after his pregnant wife Jo suddenly dies of an aneurysm, four years later, Mike, still grieving, is plagued by nightmares set at his summer house in TR-90, Maine. He decides to confront his fears and moves to his house on Dark Score Lake. On his first day, he meets Kyra, a 3-year-old girl and her widowed mother. Matties father-in-law is Max Devore, a rich man who will do anything to gain custody of his granddaughter. Drawn to Kyra and Mattie, Mike hires John Storrow, a lawyer, for Mattie. Mike begins to write again, and realizes that Jos ghost is helping him to solve the mystery of Sara Tidwell and he also learns that Jo frequently returned to the town in the year before her death, without telling him. Mike begins having recurring, disturbing dreams and visions, and realizes he shares a connection with Kyra. Max and his assistant, Rogette, try to drown Mike. Max unexpectedly commits suicide that same night, Mike sees a pattern when he sees that local inhabitants have names that begin with K or C and learns how relatives of townspeople have drowned in childhood. While Storrow and the detective he hired are celebrating the end of the custody battle. As they are embracing, Matties trailer is subjected to a shooting, injuring Storrow. The detective is able to kill the driver and incapacitate the shooter with Mikes help, Mike then grabs Kyra and drives back to his home. The shooters buddies try to stop them, but refuse to follow him to Sara Laughs, under the influence of Saras ghost, Mike is tormented to drown Kyra and commit suicide himself. Jos ghost prevents him and calls his attention to the novel he has begun to write, in the pages there are clues that lead Mike to discover documents Jo had hidden, among them a genealogy showing Mikes blood relationship to one of the town families
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The Plant
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The Plant is an unfinished serial novel published by Stephen King in 1982–85 privately and in 2000 as a commercial e-book. The manuscript is about magic, but it contains photographs that seem very real. The editor writes the author a rejection slip, but because of the photographs and this enrages the author, who sends a mysterious plant to the editors office. King wrote a few parts of a story by the name and sent them out as chapbooks to his friends, instead of Christmas cards, in 1982,1983. Philtrum Press produced just three installments before the story was shelved, and the editions have been hotly sought-after collectors items. In 2000, King published the novella Riding the Bullet over the Internet, however, there were technical problems with downloading, and hackers eventually cracked the encryption. Later that year, King released The Plant directly via his website, unencrypted, people could pay a one-dollar fee for each installment using the honor system. King said, however, hed drop the project if the percentage of paying readers fell below 75 percent. He viewed the release as an experiment in forms of distribution, writing on his website at the time, My friends. The book received more than the desired 75 percent for its first installment, with the third installment, the numbers surged back to 75 percent. All told, after six installments, King revealed that hed made nearly half a million dollars from the release of The Plant, the last installment was published on December 18,2000. The book has yet to be completed, the original installments are now available free of charge on Stephen Kings official website
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Dreamcatcher (novel)
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Dreamcatcher is a novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. The book, written in cursive, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, according to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer. His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title, a film adaptation was released in 2003. In 2014, King told Rolling Stone that I dont like Dreamcatcher very much, set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine, Dreamcatcher is the story of four lifelong friends, Gary “Jonesy” Jones, Pete Moore, Joe “Beaver” Clarendon and Henry Devlin. As young teenagers, the four saved Douglas Duddits Cavell, a boy with Down syndrome. Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete reunite for their annual hunting trip at the Hole-in-the-Wall, there, they become caught between an alien invasion and an insane US Army Colonel, Abraham Kurtz. The victim of an abduction, the man grows sicker. An extraterrestrial parasite eats its way out of his body and attacks the two men, killing Beaver, Jonesy inhales the spores of the strange reddish fungus that the stranger and his parasite have spread around the cabin, and an alien entity takes over his mind. On the return trip from their run, Henry and Pete encounter a woman from the same hunting party as the strange man at the cabin. She is also delirious and infected with a parasite, after crashing their car, Henry leaves Pete with the woman and attempts to regain the cabin by foot. From there, his telepathic senses let him know that Pete is in trouble, Beaver is dead, Mr. Gray, manipulating Jonesy’s body, is attempting to leave the area. With the infection of Jonesy, who can contain the alien within his mind and also spread the infection and it becomes up to Henry—by now a quarantined prisoner of the Army—to convince the military to go after Jonesy/Mr. Gray before it is too late, Jonesy himself, now a prisoner in his own mind, tries to help. Both of them are convinced that their old friend Duddits may be key to saving the world, book review on Entertainment Weekly Dreamcatcher - Characters
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Black House (novel)
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Black House is a Stoker Award nominated novel by horror writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. Published in 2001, this is the sequel to The Talisman and this is one of Kings numerous novels, which also include Hearts in Atlantis and Insomnia, that tie in with the Dark Tower series. Straub is from Wisconsin, which may be why the story is set there rather than Kings frequently used backdrop of Maine, the town of French Landing is a fictionalized version of the town of Trempealeau, Wisconsin. There you will find Chase Street, Sumner Street, Queen Street, also, Centralia is named after the nearby small town of Centerville, Wisconsin, located at the intersection of Hwy 93 and Hwy 35. A chapter of the book is written around Edgar Allan Poes poem The Raven, a series of murders has begun to plague the town of French Landing, Wisconsin. The murderer is dubbed The Fisherman, due to an effort by the killer to emulate the methods of serial killer Albert Fish. Like Fish, French Landings killer targets children and indulges in cannibalism of the bodies, two victims have already been discovered as the story opens, with a third awaiting discovery. Jack grew up to become a lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, when a series of murders in Los Angeles are traced to a farm insurance salesman from French Landing, Wisconsin, Jack cooperates with the French Landing Police to capture the killer. While in Wisconsin, Jack is irresistibly enraptured by the beauty of the Coulee Country. When he later intrudes upon an investigation in Santa Monica. He subsequently resigns from the LAPD, and he moves to French Landing to enjoy his early retirement, when the Fisherman begins to terrorize French Landing, the police all but beg Hollywood Jack Sawyer for his assistance and are surprised when he flatly refuses. Memories of the Santa Monica event threaten to overwhelm Jack, when a fourth child is taken by the Fisherman, events no longer allow Jack to remain aloof. It quickly becomes apparent to him that the Fisherman is much more than a serial killer, in fact, he is an agent of the Crimson King, and his task is to find children with the potential to serve as Breakers. As the Fisherman also proves capable of flipping into The Territories, Jack Sawyer is the hope of not just French Landing. Coppiceman, A word that Jack uses to refer to policemen, the word was taken from Wolfs erroneous pronunciation of policeman in the previous book, The Talisman. DYamba, A magic word Jack uses that invokes the power of good, opopanax, Jack is almost haunted by the word opopanax at the beginning of the story. Its meaning is given as, describing a word that cannot be found in the dictionary. It is also the name of the feather in Wolves of the Calla that is used to summon the Calla folken to a palaver -, twinner, A twinner is a persons counterpart or double in another world
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From a Buick 8
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From a Buick 8 is a novel by Stephen King. Published on September 24,2002, this is the novel by Stephen King to feature a supernatural car. The title comes from Bob Dylans song From a Buick 6, the novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a state police barracks in western Pennsylvania. After Curtis Wilcox, a member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver. The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him and it is in some sense a ghost story in the way that the novel is about a group of people telling an old but unsettling tale. And while the Buick 8 is not a traditional ghost, it is indeed not of their world, the car, they discover, is not a car at all. It is later suggested in the book that perhaps the Buick was a portal, after all, the gas station attendant who first reported the Buick sitting in front of the station was the same man who, years later, would kill his father. He realizes that Ned is determined to destroy the Buick. Sandy returns to the shed to find Ned sitting in it, Ned having poured gasoline under the car and holding a pistol and a match. Just as Sandy pulls Ned out, the Buick transforms into a portal and he sees Lippys Swastika necklace and cowboy boot, along with Enniss Stetson and Ruger. One last story is told, revealing that destroying the Buick actually was discussed, however, they come to theorize that the Buick functions as a sort of regulator valve, drawing in and out between the two worlds. And that destroying it would do more harm than good. They decide that it is safest to watch over the Buick, in the hope that whatever force that powers it will eventually dissipate, the book closes with Ned joining the police force after dropping out of college, and he pulls Sandy over to Shed B. The Buicks windshield is cracked, and remains cracked without healing itself, Ned believes that the Buick will one day fall apart, having expended the last of its energy in that final attempt to draw him over to the other universe. Chesapeake Films announced in 2005 that George Romero would direct a motion picture adaptation of From A Buick 8, the script was written by Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar. In 2007 Tobe Hooper replaced Romero, but production stalled in 2009 due to problems obtaining financing, from a Buick 8 at StephenKing. com
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The Colorado Kid
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The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime imprint, published in 2005. The book was issued in one paperback-only edition by the specialty crime, the third-person narrative concerns the investigation of the body of an unidentified man found on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. Lacking any identification or obvious clues, the case reaches nothing, over a year later the man is identified, but all further important questions remain unanswered. A television series inspired by The Colorado Kid, titled Haven. Stephen Kings next novel for Hard Case Crime was Joyland, which was published in June 2013, the friendly assessment becomes more intense as the elderly island natives and Stephanie return to the office, and she asks if the veteran reporters have ever come across a real unexplained mystery. Dave and Vince take turns recounting an incident and investigation. On April 24,1980, two teenagers stumbled across a body, early in the morning, slumped against a trash can, and carrying no identification, the body bore no clear indicators of foul play. Cause of death was determined to be asphyxiation, as a chunk of flesh was extracted from the victims throat. Every potential clue leads to small revelations, but bigger mysteries, more than a year later, thanks to a sharp-eyed rookie spotting an out-of-state cigarette tax stamp, the John Doe becomes known as The Colorado Kid. Eventually the mans identity is traced, and he is identified as James Cogan of Nederland, Colorado. Everyone involved with the case is at a loss as to how or why the man could have gotten to a beach on a Maine island in the five hours since he had last been seen alive in Colorado. Vince and Dave tell Stephanie that while they were the last people alive who know the thing, having heard the tale of The Colorado Kid, Now theres you. The warm proclamation seems to signal the young womans final approval by the old guard of the Islander, Dave Bowie – The 65-year-old managing editor of The Weekly Islander, the small-circulation newspaper servicing the island of Moose-Lookit, surrounding isles and some mainland communities. Stephanie McCann – A 22-year-old Ohio University graduate on summer internship at the Islander and her duties on the paper involve writing mostly ads and the Arts N Things column. Vince Teague – The 90-year-old founder of the Islander, who transformed the paper from the Weekly Shopper, the Colorado Kid – unidentified body found in 1980 on Hammock Beach, wearing gray slacks, and a white shirt. With little but a wad of meat lodged in his throat, Vince and Dave share tales that span locales ranging from neighboring Smack Island to Denver, Colorado. Don’t assume that’s a mistake on my part, the constant readers of the Dark Tower series may realize that is not necessarily a continuity error, but a clue. The Colorado Kid was originally published in 2005 as an original by Hard Case Crime
