Bøger af Stephen King

”Rædslen, der ikke ville få ende før om otteogtyve år – hvis den nogensinde fik ende – begyndte så vidt jeg ved med en båd af avispapir, som sejlede i en rendesten, der svulmede af regn.” Sovebyen Derry i Maine, USA, ligner med sine parcelhuskvarterer, fastfoodrestauranter og butikker alle andre byer i provinsen. Men det er kun på overfladen. I byens kloaker ligger noget på lur og venter. Det onde. I halvtredserne besejrer en gruppe børn ondskaben. De føler sig alle udstødt og mislykkede, og den nye følelse af at høre til giver dem styrken til at drive det skrækkelige tilbage, hvor det kom fra. Siden lover de hinanden igen at samles, hvis byen nogensinde igen hjemsøges af ondskab. Mange år senere ryster en række gådefulde forsvindinger på ny Derry, og så griber Mike Hanlon telefonen og ringer til sine gamle venner. Alle forlader de hjem og familier, hverdagsliv og karrierer, for endnu en gang at trodse skrækken og møde Det onde.

En sen nattetime i en stille forstad til Minneapolis bryder ukendte gerningsmænd ind i Luke Ellis’ families hus, slår hans forældre ihjel og laster drengen ind i en sort varevogn. Hele operationen tager mindre end to minutter. Luke vågner på Anstalten, i et værelse som ligner hans eget, blot er rummet uden vinduer. Og når han åbner sin dør, er der andre døre; døre til værelser med andre børn som ham, børn med særlige evner inden for telekinese og telepati, som også er endt på Anstalten på samme måde som Luke. Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, den tiårige Avery Dixon og Luke, alle befinder de sig i Forhuset. Andre er flyttet til Baghuset, der ifølge Kalisha er som en stor insektfælde: ”Børnene tjekker ind, men de tjekker aldrig ud.” Anstaltens tilsynsførende, Mrs. Sigsby, og resten af personalet har kun ét for øje, nemlig skruppelløst at udvinde børnenes særlige evner. Hvis børnene samarbejder, giver personalet dem mønter til Anstaltens salgsautomater, og hvis de modsætter sig, er straffen brutal. Flere og flere børn forsvinder til Baghuset, og imens bliver Luke mere og mere desperat for at slippe ud og hente hjælp. Men ingen er nogensinde undsluppet Anstalten. Kom med til Anstalten, et sted hvor det gode ikke nødvendigvis besejrer ondskaben.

There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as 'the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down.Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in the vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.

En elleveårig drengs skamferede lig findes i en park i sovebyen Flint City. Øjenvidneberetninger og fingeraftryk peger utvetydigt på en af byens mest vellidte indbyggere: Terry Maitland, baseballtræner, engelsklærer, ægtemand og far. Opklarer Ralph Anderson, hvis søn Maitland har været træner for, beordrer en øjeblikkelig anholdelse, og da der findes DNA-spor på gerningsstedet, er sagen så godt som lukket. Men Maitland har et alibi, og det viser sig hurtigt, at der også i denne historie er ufravigelige beviser.Hvordan kan to modsatrettede forklaringer begge være sande? Hvad sker der med en familie, når så alvorlige anklager fremsættes? Og hvor stopper logik og rationale i forsøget på at forklare det uforklarlige? Følg med Stephen King til Flint City, hvor frygten stiger

'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a plague-decimated US, King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic.First come the days of the plague. Then come the dreams.Dark dreams that warn of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.When a man crashes his car into a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies and it doesn't take long for the plague which killed him to spread across America and the world.

I en nær fremtid rammer den mystiske Aurora-virus kvinder, når de lægger sig til at sove. De omsluttes af en tynd kokon, og i søvnen forlader deres bevidsthed denne verden. Forstyrrer man kokonens sarte ydre, vækkes kvinderne til en vild og voldelig trance.Klodens mænd er overladt til sine i stigende grad primale drifter. Men en eneste kvinde, Evie, er immun over for den sælsomme sovesyge. Er Evie en anomali, der bør studeres, eller en dæmon, der bør jages?Nye King-læsere kan starte her!Om forfatteren:Stephen King er født i 1947 i Portland, Maine. Som ung læste han engelsk på University of Maine, hvor han skrev en ugentlig klumme “King’s Garbage Truck” for universitetsbladet The Maine Campus. Henover en bogstak på universitetets bibliotek hvor han var studentermedarbejder, mødte han sin viv Tabitha Spruce som han har været gift med siden 1971.Med over 350 millioner bøger solgt verden over, er Stephen King en forfatter det er nærmest umuligt at overse. Den ultraproduktive herre har i løbet af sit 66-årige liv udgivet over 50 romaner såvel som en række samlede fortællinger og ikke-fiktion. Hans bøger er oversat til 38 sprog og mange af dem er blevet udødeliggjort på det hvide lærred. Disse tæller blandt andet filmene En verden udenfor, Ondskabens Hotel, It og Den grønne mil. Alt i alt er Stephen King en forfatter af imponerende format.

Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control.As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel - and that, too, is beginning to shine . . .

#1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them.

King's Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan.Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wants to get on to some real writing.That's when the car accident happens, and he wakes up in pain in a strange bed. But it isn't hospital. Annie Wilkes has pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs.The good news is that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news is that she has long been Paul's Number One Fan. And when she finds out what Paul had done to Misery, she doesn't like it. She doesn't like it at all. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive.

Charlie Reader ligner en helt almindelig high-school-dreng, han er fremragende til baseball og klarer sig glimrende bogligt. Men han bærer rundt på en tung bagage. Hans mor blev dræbt i en trafikulykke, da han var ti, og sorgen drev hans far til at drikke. Charlie har tidligt lært at passe på sig selv – og på sin far. Da han er sytten, møder han en hund ved navn Radar og dens aldrende herre, eneboeren Howard Bowditch, der bor i et stort hus på toppen af en høj bakke. I baghaven står der et aflåst skur, og nogle gange kommer der mærkelige lyde derindefra. Charlie begynder at hjælpe mr. Bowditch med gøremål, og han taber sit hjerte til Radar. Da Bowditch dør, efterlader han Charlie et kassettebånd med en utrolig historie til gengæld: Hele sit liv har Bowditch vidst, at skuret gemmer på en portal til en anden verden.I Et eventyr når Kings fortællekunst nye højder. Det er en storslået og rædselsvækkende historie om det godes kamp mod en overvældende ondskab, hvor en heltemodig dreng og hans hund skal stå i spidsen for striden.

Huset føles som det perfekte sted for dr. Louis Creed. Vidtstrakt, gammelt og hyggeligt. Et sted, hvor familien kan falde til ro, hvor børnene kan lege og gå på opdagelse. Maines bakker og marker er flere verdner væk fra Chicagos smogfyldte, farlige gader. Bag huset løber en sirligt holdt sti, som generation efter generation af lokale børn har betrådt på vej ind i skoven for at begrave døde kæledyr. Alvorsfulde børneansigter, højtelskede husdyr. Et trist sted, ja, men det kan umuligt være farligt, være noget, der trænger ind i drømmene og tvinger dig vågen, badet i angstens sved – kan det?

Paul Sheldon er bestsellerforfatter, og Annie Wilkes er langt mere end blot en lidenskabelig læser: Hun er Pauls sygeplejerske og tager sig af hans hårdt medtagne krop efter en bilulykke, og hun er rasende over, at Paul har slået hendes yndlingsromanfigur ihjel i sin seneste bog. Paul forstår snart, at hun er villig til at gå rigtig langt for at vække Misery til live igen: Men hvor langt? Annie har masser af metoder til at anspore Paul til at skrive. En nål. En økse. Og hvis det ikke er nok, må hun gribe til skrappere midler ...

Read the original stories which became the celebrated films STAND BY ME, APT PUPIL and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, voted the world's most popular movie. In this classic collection of four novellas, the grand master takes you on irresistible journeys into the far reaches of horror, heartache and hope.Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is the story of two men convicted of murder - one guilty, one innocent - who form the perfect partnership as they dream up a scheme to escape from prison.In Apt Pupil a golden schoolboy entices an old man with a past to join in a dreadful union. The Body sees four young boys venture into the woods and find life, death . . . and the end of innocence.The Breathing Method is the tale of a doctor who goes to his club and discovers a woman determined to give birth - no matter what.

Stephen King's international bestselling - and highly acclaimed - novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks

Suverænt underholdende, intelligent plot og stærke karakterer: Med sin seneste spændingsroman om en modvillig lejemorder med forkærlighed for litteratur demonstrerer Stephen King til fulde, at han er langt mere end blot gysets mester.Billy Summers er lejemorder med hjertet på rette sted. Han likviderer kun onde mennesker, ellers kan han ikke sove om natten. Grundlæggende opfatter han sig selv som en skraldemand med et skydevåben, og han er den bedste i branchen. Nu planlægger han at lægge sit tidligere liv bag sig, når han har fuldført sin sidste mission.Med en dækhistorie som forfatter installerer Billy sig i en lille flække mens han venter på, at det sidste bytte indfinder sig. Billy er en af verdens bedste snigskytter, han er dekoreret krigsveteran fra Irak og en ren Houdini, som forsvinder sporløst, når jobbet er eksekveret. Så hvad kan gå galt?Billy Summers er en roman om kærlighed, hævn og skæbne, og en tvivlsom helts sidste forsøg på at frelse sin sjæl – og så rummer bogen én af de mest uimodståelige og overraskende makkerpar i Kings oeuvre, der drager ud for at hævne en ualmindelig gemen mands forbrydelser.

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again. “Two Talented Bastids” explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption - about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.

THE DRAWING OF THE THREE is the second volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.In the second novel of Stephen King's bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doors which open - for Roland, and Roland alone - to different times in our world. He must draw the three who should accompany him on the road. In 1980s New York, Roland joins forces with defiant Eddie Dean. The second door leads to the 1960s and conflicted civil rights activist Odetta Holmes. The final door reveals Jack Mort, a deadly serial killer, in the 1970s. Mort is stalking Jake, the young boy Roland met in Mid-World.As titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies threatens to bring an end to Roland's journey toward the Dark Tower...JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER...THE DARK TOWER SERIES:THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

Unique fantasty and adventure from the number one bestselling writer now rejacketed in a brand new livery in B format and supported by a marketing campaign for King's reissue programme.

There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale . . .

En samling af fire fænomenale fortællinger, der inkluderer den enkeltstående efterfølger til den filmatiserede bestseller Outsideren.Journalister har et ordsprog: ”Historien gløder, hvis det bløder”. Og historien om en detoneret bombe på Albert Macready mellemskole indeholder store mængder af blodHolly Gibney fra detektivbureauet De Der S.øger arbejder på en sag om en forsvunden hund (og på sit eget behov for at være mere selvsikker), da hun ser den direkte tv-dækning fra bombeattentatet. Men da hun senere tænder for aftennyhederne, indser hun, at noget ikke stemmer ved den journalist, som var først på gerningsstedet. Sådan begynder Blodtørst, den enkeltstående efterfølger til bestselleren Outsideren, hvor den usædvanlige detektiv Holly skal opklare sin første solo-sag.Blodtørst er kun én af samlingens i alt fire fortællinger, der også rummer Mr. Harrigans telefon, Chucks liv og Rotten. Alle noveller illustrerer Kings alsidige storytelling med elegance, humor, skræk og åndeløs spænding. En King Classic, både for Kings mange fans og et godt sted at starte, hvis man er ny i det store forfatterskab

The iconic and terrifying collaboration from two of the greatest storytellers of our time...

The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' The iconic opening line of Stephen King's groundbreaking series, The Dark Tower, introduces one of his most enigmatic and powerful heroes: Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. Roland is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey toward the mysterious Dark Tower, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. On his quest, Roland begins a friendship with a kid from New York named Jake, encounters an alluring woman and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER...THE DARK TOWER SERIES:THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWERTHE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confide only in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition: he's losing weight, without getting thinner, and the scales register the same when he is in his clothes or out of them, however heavy they are. Scott also has new neighbours, who have opened a 'fine dining experience' in town, although it's an experience being shunned by the locals; Deidre McComb and her wife Missy Donaldson don't exactly fit in with the community's expectations. And now Scott seems trapped in a feud with the couple over their dogs dropping their business on his lawn. Missy may be friendly, but Deidre is cold as ice. As the town prepares for its annual Thanksgiving 12k run, Scott starts to understand the prejudices his neighbours face and he tries to help. Unlikely alliances form and the mystery of Scott's affliction brings out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.

Now a major TV series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King, starring James Franco (Hulu US, Fox UK and Europe, Stan Australia, SKY New Zealand).WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.

WIZARD AND GLASS is the fourth volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.In the fourth novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, the Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road.In a terrifying journey where hidden dangers lurk at every junction, the pilgrims find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by a superflu virus.While following the deserted highway toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of an evil harrier who ignited Mid-World's final war. JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER...THE DARK TOWER SERIES:THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

Soon to be a major motion movie in 2017 starring Finn Wolfhard, Bill Skarsgard (from Stranger Things) and Jaeden Lieberher. To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.