Bøger af Stephen King

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night.As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat.This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.

When Edgar Freemantle moves to Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma Key and its mysteries have been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. Even though he has lost an arm. And the hand he uses is the one he lost ...

The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear . . . 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide . . . Come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you.'Bill Hodges, who now runs a two-person agency called Finders Keepers with partner Holly Gibney, is intrigued by the letter Z written with a marker at the scene of the crime.As similar cases mount up, Hodges is stunned to discover the evidence points to Brady Hartsfield, the notorious 'Mercedes Killer' who they helped to convict. It should be impossible: Brady is confined to a hospital room in a seemingly unresponsive state.But Brady Hartsfield has lethal new powers. And he's planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. The clock is ticking in unexpected ways...BRADY IS BACK. AND SO IS HODGES.The extract above is abridged from End of Watch.

Stephen King's fan-favourite thriller. Also available in audio for the first time, read by Academy Award nominee James Franco.The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . .Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fianc e has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men's souls. He's had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man . . .

THE DARK TOWER is the seventh volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.The final book in King's epic The Dark Tower series, sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.And as he closes in on the Tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. Finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone... 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

En roman for alle dem, der ikke aner, at de er Stephen King-fan!Den 22. november 1963 lød tre skud i Dallas, John F. Kennedy døde, og verden var forandret for altid. Men hvad nu hvis man kan ændre historiens gang? Skal man så gøre det? Det spørgsmål må 35-årige Jake Epping stille sig selv, den dag hans gamle ven Al viser ham en tidstunnel skjult i den lokale diner. Jake er en helt almindelig mand; high school-lærer, fraskilt og sympatisk – og ikke mindst skeptisk over for tidstunneller.Men Al har forberedt sig godt og overtaler Jake til at tage turen tilbage til 1958, bo der i fem år og gøre et forsøg på at forhindre mordet på Kennedy. Men Jake er ikke på forlystelsestur, han er en mand med en mission; det er egentlig meningen, at han skal koncentrere sig om den problematiske enspænder Lee Harvey Oswalds færden, det er meningen han skal forhindre et mord. Til gengæld er det ikke meningen, at han skal forelske sig i den smukke bibliotekar Sadie Dunhill. Jake kommer til at finde sig rigtig godt tilrette i fortiden, og samtidig mærker han tydeligt, at fortiden modsætter sig at blive ændret; den kæmper imod.22.11.63 er en imponerende bedrift; veloplagt og tankevækkende. King formår at lege med tiden på troværdig vis, han formår at skabe en tidslomme, hvor ikke kun Jake ønsker at blive, men også læseren; man bliver ganske enkelt opslugt.Oversat af Alis Friis CaspersenJohn F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry, James Patrick Hosty, George de Mohrenschildt, Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova, mordet på John F. Kennedy, cuban missile crisis, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, USA, kærlighed, tidsrejser

Atlantis er fem sammenhængende fortællinger, der alle foregår i årene 1960 til 1999. Hver historie har rod i tresserne, og vietnamkrigen spøger i dem alle. Elleveårige Bobby Garfield opdager at livet ikke er retfærdigt. Hans fattige principfaste mor opdrager ham strengt, men da Ted Brautigan, en gammel mand, der flytter ind i hans mors hus, får han en ven. Samtidig finder han dog ud af, at verden er fuld af farlige rovdyr, og han indser, at voksne ikke altid er, hvad de giver sig ud for at være.Maine Universitetet 1966. En gruppe unge studerende med Pete i spidsen bliver grebet af kortspillet Hjerterfri. Mange dropper ud af universitetet, fordi de bruger al deres tid på at spille. Petes veninde Carol, går til en Vietnam-demonstration. Pete beundrer hende, men selvom hun beder ham om det, vil han ikke holde op med at spille Herterfri.To mænd, der voksede op med Bobby Garfield i Connecticut, prøver at udfylde tomheden i deres liv efter Vietnam-krigen. Blinde Willie tigger på Fifth Avenue, men må aflevere en stor del til den lokale betjent, som han hader. Han lever en dobbelttilværelse, er forvirret og blander både fortid og nutid sammen. Og hele tiden hviler Vietnam-krigen som skygge over dem begge.Men alle maskerne falder. Bobby vender tilbage til sin hjemby, hvor en hemmelighed, håbet om udfrielse og hans hjertes inderste ønske måske venter på ham. Atlantis tager nogle læsere med til et sted, hvor de aldrig har været, og andre til et sted, de aldrig rigtigt har kunnet forlade, og betragtes af mange som Kings mesterstykke.Som mange, mange andre læsere hører jeg til dem, der med stor fornøjelse har læst alt af mesteren af bl.a. horror-genren. Hans historier er altid suverænt velskrevne og de er evige historier om det Godes kamp mod det Onde. Nu overrasker ham mig positivt igen med denne novellesamling, der er noget af det bedste King jeg har læst. - Lektør: Carsten Nørby Sørensen

Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like"€"gulp!"€"a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." Book a flight

El escalofriante caso de una joven en apariencia insignificante que se transform en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en su ciudad. Con pulo m gico para mantener la tensi n a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atm sfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una seie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la vengaza. esta novela fue llevada al cina y obtuvo un imenso xito de p blico y de cr tica.

El gran gusano hediondo se ha ensenoreado de la aldea abandonada y no permitira que nadie acabe con sus misas negras.La maquina planchadora ha probado la sangre de una virgen y quiere mas, mucho mas, y su macabro deseo no se detendra ante nada.Los amplios maizales imponen a los chicos sus sanguinarios ritos...El umbral de la noche nos transporta a un mundo de terrores imposibles pero que están ahí: a la vuelta de la esquina, en un maizal, en un pueblo abandonado, en una lavandería, debajo de la cama o tras la puerta de ese armario que ni siquiera rechina..."

Charlie es una niña rubia, de ojos azules, educada y cariñosa.Pero también es piroquinética.Sí, puede encender fuego a distancia, desde inofensivas fogatas hasta hogueras capaces de arrasar amplias extensiones.Y si posee estas capacidades a los siete años, horroriza pensar en sus poderes destructores cuando sea adulta.Aunque, la verdad, tiene pocas probabilidades de llegar a la edad adulta.Porque el servicio secreto norteamericano encargado de realizar investigaciones científicas y paracientíficas para su aplicación militar, ha decidido estudiar a Charlie y luego eliminarla, tal como estudío y elimnó a sus padres después de haberlos utilizado en sus experimentos..."

Veinte años atrás, por una apuesta infantil, Ben Mears habáa entrado en la casa de los Marsten. Y lo que vio entonces aún poblaba sus pesadillas. Ahora, como escritor consagrado, había vuelto a Salem's Lot para exorcisar sus fantasmas. Salem's Lot era un pueblo tranquilo y adormilado donde nunca pasaba nada, excepto la vieja tragedia de la casa de los Marsten. Y el perro muerto colgado de la verja del cemeterio. Y el misterioso hombre que se instaló en la casa de los Marsten. Y los niños que desaparecían, los animales que morían desangrads. Y la espantosa presencia de "ellos," quienesquiera que fuesen. "Ellos."

I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up 1922, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In Big Driver, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. Fair Extension, the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil - never a stranger from most people with something to lose - not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage. Like "Different Seasons" and "Four Past Midnight," which generated such enduring films as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand by Me," "Full Dark, No Stars" proves Stephen King a master of the long story form."

A traves de los telefonos moviles se envia un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos. Pocos se escapan de su fuerza y estos tendran que sobrevivir en un mundo totalmente transformado. Clayton Riddell no tiene telefono movil, su esposa, Sharon, tampoco. Estan separados pero en contacto constante por su hijo Johnny Gee. Sus padres le han regalado un movil para cosas urgentes. Saben que muy a menudo no lo lleva encima y por eso le rinen.El uno de octubre Clay viaja a Boston por una entrevista de trabajo y de repente cuando pasea por el parque es testigo de escenas espeluznantes, escenas totalmente inexplicables: gente en la calle que hablando por el movil se convierten repentinamente en monstruos asesinos, atacan y matan a todos los de su alrededor. Los coches chocan entre si. Es una escena de caos sangriento, incendios, alarmas.. . incomprensible. Ya no hay canales de radio ni television, ni servicios de ningun tipo. Nada que pueda poner orden. Clay entiende que todo ha sido causado por un mensaje a traves de los moviles. Consigue refugiarse en un hotel junto con otro hombre Tom McCourt y una adolescente, Alice, los dos sin movil. Deciden abandonar la ciudad para averiguar si la situacion es la misma en el resto del pais. Para Clay, lo mas importante es localizar a su hijo que, espera que hoy no lleve su movil encima.Los tres emprenden su viaje a pie hacia la ciudad donde vive Johnny y su madre. Andan de noche cuando los locos no se mueven. De dia se esconden en casas abandonadas. En su camino se encuentran con otros que se han salvado pero son pocos y descubren que los locos se han convertido en una especie de zombies telepaticos. Estos se juntan de dia en grandes masas, llamados por musica transmitida por altavoces, en estadios de deportes. De noche duermen. Estan controlados por los sonidos. Andan y andan hacia un solo destino. La mujer de Clay ha sido victima de la gran destruccion pero su hijo parece haber sobrevivido y Clay y sus dos companeros siguen su pista. Van de ciudad en ciudad, entre cadaveres y zombies asesinos, entre el caos y la destruccion, hasta llegar a la ciudad de su destino. Y alli Clay encontrara a Johnny, no el Johnny de antes, pero quizas algun dia aprendera de nuevo a ser un nino normal . El mensaje de los moviles va perdiendo toda su fuerza pero...el mundo nunca volvera a ser lo mismo."

El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformo en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso magico para mantener la tension a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmosfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Esta novela fue llevada al cine con un inmenso exito de publico y critica."

Glæd dig til et gensyn med den geniale og elskelige Holly Gibney, der bliver sat til at efterforske en række forsvindinger i en lille flække i Midtvesten.Da Penny Dahl ringer til detektivbureauet De Der Søger for at få hjælp til at finde sin forsvundne datter, er Holly Gibney ikke meget for at tage sagen. Hendes partner, Pete, har corona, hendes mor (med hvem hun havde en indviklet relation) er lige død, og Holly skulle egentlig være på orlov. Men noget i Penny Dahls desperate stemme gør det umuligt for Holly at afvise hende.Blot få gader fra Bonnie Dahls forsvindingssted bor professorerne Rodney og Emily Harris. De er indbegrebet af borgerlige dyder: De har giftet sig i livets efterår, de er fulde af hengivenhed over for hinanden, og de har begge en livslang akademikerkarriere bag sig. Men i kælderen under det polerede og velholdte hjem med bøger fra gulv til loft skjuler de en modbydelig sandhed, som muligvis er relateret til Bonnies forsvinden. Det bliver en vanskelig opgave at blotlægge den velbevarede hemmelighed, for Rodney og Emily er både kloge, tålmodige og nådesløse.Holly er en rædselsvækkende krimi om en privatdetektiv, som må sætte alle kræfter ind for at afsløre to forskruede menneskers gerninger.

Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share.

For use in schools and libraries only. In this fourth installment of the Dark Tower series, Roland temporarily halts the gunslingers' journey in order to tell a story from his past.

For use in schools and libraries only. Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs while Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovers over him with drugs, an ax, and a blowtorch, demanding he bring his heroine back to life.

Stephen King’s #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem…"I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them." For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He's taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There's something very wrong here in Desperation...and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian's victims, young David Carver, seems to know—and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth—that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are of equal and opposite intensity...

Master storyteller Stephen King's classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle's right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Key?a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast?Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place. And as he heals, he paints?feverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. For Edgar's creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of Elizabeth's past…and their power cannot be controlled…

Guidebook with information and description of over 50 statues and sculptures in Aarhus, including location maps and photos.

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.

Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain—and the world of the Dark Tower...now presented in a stunning graphic novel omnibus form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With these unforgettable words, millions were introduced to Stephen King’s iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on,” as they say. In this desolate reality—a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways—Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower. Now, in the graphic novel series adaptation Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, originally published by Marvel Comics in single-issue form and creatively overseen by Stephen King himself, the full story of Roland’s troubled past and lifelong odyssey is revealed. Sumptuously drawn by Piotr Kowalski and Jonathan Marks, adapted by Stephen King expert Robin Furth, and scripted by New York Times bestselling author Peter David, The Drawing of the Three is an extraordinary and terrifying journey—ultimately serving as the perfect introduction for a new audience to Stephen King’s modern literary classic The Dark Tower, while giving longtime fans thrilling adventures transformed from his blockbuster novels. This single-volume omnibus edition includes the complete graphic novel series The Drawing of the Three: The Prisoner; House of Cards; The Lady of Shadows; Bitter Medicine.

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.