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Todd Bowden starts life as an innocent boy, but he discovers that his neighbour Arthur Denker is really Kurt Dussander a wanted war criminal. Todd blackmails Dussander, but not for money - for stories of the horrific things that happened during the war. Starting with animals, together they start a new wave of killing, but that only lasts a short time, and they progress to killing homeless people. The school counsellor discovers Todd's secret life and threatens to expose his actions, but is murdered by Todd before he can. Finally cracking, Todd takes his gun and starts randomly shooting near the expressway, before being shot five hours later.
Bag of Bones been described as a "haunted love story" by some, and the best thing that King has ever written by others. It's about a man, a best-selling writer named Mike Noonan, who is suffering writer's block after the death of his wife Johanna. Mike seeks solitude, and the answers to his strange dreams at his lakeside house on Dark Score Lake, but that is just the start of his problems. You see his is not the only one inhabiting his house - it's haunted, and the ghost is not always nice! To further complicate Mike's life, he saves Kyra, the daughter of recently widowed Mattie Devore, and the two of them quickly become good friends. But Kyra's grandfather, millionaire Max Devore, is not happy with the situation and wants Kyra to live with him.
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest to encounter obscene and ferocious evils.
This audio only book released by King contains 3 short stories. In the first tale, "Lunch at the Gotham Café," (From Everythings's Eventual) Steve Davis quits smoking two days after his wife dumps him. King cleverly compares the two kinds of withdrawal: obsession blends with emotional flatness, and you're left "with a feeling the world has taken on a decidedly dreamy cast." Driven, Steve meets with his wife and her lawyer at a midtown Manhattan restaurant, where the nightmare begins. "I was pretty sure something was wrong with the maitre d' almost as soon as I saw him," says Steve, and gothic café events soon prove him right. The second story, 1408, appears in Everything's Eventual. Mike Enslin, a writer who once studied with James Smiley, dreamed of being a Yale Younger Poet, and "starved on the payroll of The Village Voice," is reduced to hacking out stuff like "10 Nights in 10 Haunted Houses." For a follow-up, he visits room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel in the hope of gaining more information for his new book - 10 Nights in 10 haunted Hotel rooms". Finally, In The Deathroom, also appears in Everything's Eventual. In a bloodstained basement of the Ministry of Information Fletcher, a reporter with the New York Times is questioned by Escobar and his assistants - Ramon and the Bride of Frankenstein. He asks them for a last cigarette and understands that he might be dead before it burned down to the filter.
The story of a teenage girl with telekinetic powers. Carrie White was an outcast, who is pushed beyond human limits when she is cruelly taunted in front of her Prom, and she unleashed her frightening power upon the small New England town of Chamberlain in 1979. Leaving the school and town looking like a warzone, Carrie turns her power on the only person she truly loves and hates - her fanatically religious mother, with devastating results.
Some of the Night Shift short stories were combined along with a common theme (The Cat), and put into the one $6 Million movie.
What starts as an ordinary October day soon turns into a fight to save the human race. A strange signal, known as The Pulse is sent through every cell phone, and instead of destroying technology, it destroys the user. Hell bent on muderous rampage, they seek out the 'normies' that were lucky enough to escape the attack, but the headmaster of Gaiten Academy, and one of the students may have devised a way to stop them.
A fairly uninteresting movie with Linda Hamilton (Terminator) and Peter Horton (thirtysomething) playing along with a young cast and making us believe that there is something supernatural living behind the rows of corn.
A belated sequel to the 1984 film. 8 years after the first, authorities discover the mutilated bodies of adults in the secluded town of Gatlin, Nebraska and children hiding in the corn.
Two young Gatling residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. So, the terror of Gatling goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents. The evil younger brother brings some corn seeds along and plants them in the courtyard of an abandoned warehouse.
All the kids in a town over night become feverish and have convulsions. The next day they start to become evil, change their names for those of kids killed long ago, and then start killing any adult in their path, in vicious and mysterious forms.
Stephen King's deadly cornfields of yore beckon still more unaware out-of-towners, this time road-tripping college kids who misnavigate into a backwater town populated only by children controlled by a mysterious power. The movie seems to rely on blood and gore to make it scary, rather than real thrills and mystery.
On a trip to find her mother, Hannah Martin picks up a stranger who kicks off a mysterious chain of events. Little does Hannah know that her journey may help fulfill a sinister prophecy made 19 years earlier by Isaac, the cult's original evil leader! It's a hair-raising movie event you don't want to miss as Isaac makes his terrifying return and the frightening Children Of The Corn achieve their ultimate destiny. (Description from Amazon.Com) Children Of The Corn: Revelation
Yet another innocent girl, this time named Jamie, enters Omaha, Nabraska she awakens an evil force that wants Jamie dead! This movie is actually very scary and fairly well written.
Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom painted Red and White 1958 Plymouth Fury and the teenage boy, Arnold Cunningham, who buys it from the strange Roland LeBay. Helped by Arnold's girlfriend Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder embarks to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: From murder, to suicide, and a strange feeling that surrounds Christine - she gets even with anyone that crosses her! Can Dennis save Arnold from the evil that is Christine?
This book consists of 5 stories comprising a total of 424 individual comic strip panels. Father's Day, The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill, The Crate, Something to Tide You Over, They're Creeping Up On You.
In another of the non-connected story films "The Raft" is based on King's Skeleton Crew story and it's the only one that really works well in this movie.
The second of the Castle Rock novels based in the Summer of 1980, where young Tad Trenton thinks there is a monster in the closet, but this time the monster in the closet turns out to be a rabid dog called Cujo. It's a great example of bad things happen to good people, when Donna and Tad are trapped in a broken down Pinto with Cujo keeping them at bay, and there is no one around to help! I was never happy with the changes made between the book and the movie.
A novel set in Tarkers Mills, Maine, where each month a victim is slain by a savage werewolf. Age, sex and status mean nothing to the roving beast. Finally a 10 year old disabled boy finds out that the werewolf is really one of the local town residents - one that would normally not be under investigation. Planning carefully, he lures the werewolf into his trap and plans a final explosive night of revenge for all the deaths it has caused.
One of Stephen King's few non-fiction pieces, this time dealing with the horror in books, films, and TV from the 1950's through to the 1970's. It is in this book that King's famous quote comes from: I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. Initially the book was an idea put forward by Bill Thompson, King's editor at Doubleday, and it bloomed into one of the best collections of horror anecdotes and memorabilia that has ever been written.
Thad Beaumont is a writer in Castle Rock who suffered from writer's block. He decided that he may be able to overcome his problem by writing under a different name, and so he came up with the fictitious George Stark. The Stark books were a huge success, but once he decides to get rid of George by 'burying' him in an empty grave, his problems begin! You see, George Stark does not like being dead, and he needs Thad to keep writing so he can live, and while he is living, he takes out his revenge on all the people that were involved is his 'death'. But not everything is as it seems, because "The Sparrows are flying again!"
The story of the Gunslinger, Roland. The story starts with his pursuit of the Man in Black, but flashes back to his entry into Tull from Princetown, and the trap that is set by the Man in Black that causes Roland to kill the 39 Men, 14 Women and 5 Children in Tull. Walking across the Mohaine desert for 16 days, he finally meets and befriends Jake, a 9 year old boy that has died in his own world and entered Roland's. Together they walk to the hills beyond, where Roland and Jake follow the mysterious Man in Black. Roland is confronted by the Man in Black on the far side of the mountains, but has to make a hard decision - catch the man in Black and obtain the information on the Dark Tower or save the life of his new friend Jake. This choice will haunt Roland for a long time, but the Dark Tower is never far from his mind.
Roland continues his quest for the tower. Injured from attacks by strange creatures, he fights both sickness and the first man he brings back to his world, Eddie Dean. Eddie is a drug addict that was saved from the police when he was caught smuggling drugs in a plane in 1997. He resents Roland, and the new life that was thrust upon him, and this is made worse by his need for drugs - something that does not exist in Roland's world. The two continue the quest and find a second person - a schizophrenic woman who causes more than a few problems for them all. Odetta Holmes is a black woman with a good side, and an evil side known as Detta Walker. She had her legs chopped off on August 19, 1959, and the evil Detta starts coming forward more often. The two sides battle themselves, along with Roland and Eddie, with interesting consequences. Eventually the 2 personalities combine to form a new person: Susanna Dean. The third person they encounter ties back into both Jake Chambers life, and that of Odetta Holmes. He pushed Jake in front of the car and dropped the brick on Odetta as a child, and pushed Odetta in front of the train that caused her to loose her legs. Roland thinks this man should be punished, rather than being brought into his world.
Roland and his group continue their journey along the beach, and meat one of the 12 guardians - Shardik, a diseased mechanical bear. Once the bear is defeated, Roland and his ka-tet follow the path of the beam towards the centre, and the Dark Tower. On their way they make a startling discovery - a doorway into Jake's world, and Jake is once again united with Roland. But once they reach Lud, Jake is cruelly ripped from the group. Roland and Oy, Jake's pet, work to find Jake, who is being kept by the Tick-Tock man - a twisted individual. They all meet once again and gain a ride with Blaine the nasty monorail, who insists on taking them to their deaths at the far end of his track.
A rather unusual tale of Roland and his group. After defeating Blaine, the group arrive in Topeka, Kansas, after the plague if 'Captain Tripps' has wiped out the living. This Kansas is different to the one each of the group knows, but Mother Abagail and the Dark Man are still here. Roland tells the group of his past, loosing the one he loved, and their unborn child. They continue walking from Kansas until they come upon a set of red slippers on the road to a crystal palace. It now appears as though the group has arrived in the land of Oz, and come face to face Randall Flagg and Blaine the monorail, but like all things in this land, things are not as they appear.
Roland, Jake, Eddie and Susannah arrive in Calla Bryn Sturgis. Each generation or so Wolves raid the town taking one from each set of twin children. The stolen children were returned some time later 'Roont', unable to do more than basic tasks. Roland and the group listen to stories of the townspeople, including the local priest, Donald 'Pere' Callahan - a man from Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean and Jake Chamber's world!
Roland and his group go back through the Unfound Door in search of Susannah Dean and Calvin Tower, but find themselves split into 2 groups. Eddie and Roland follow the trail to Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau, and also the mysterious author Stephen King. Jake and Donald Callahan go after Susannah Dean in a different time, and possibly a different reality to that of Roland and Eddie.
Roland and his group go back through the Unfound Door in search of Susannah Dean and Calvin Tower, but find themselves split into 2 groups. Eddie and Roland follow the trail to Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau, and also the mysterious author Stephen King. Jake and Donald Callahan go after Susannah Dean in a different time, and possibly a different reality to that of Roland and Eddie.
After being in a coma for almost 5 years as the result of an auto accident, Johnny Smith awakens with a strange power, after touching someone he can see their life, past, present and future. After shaking the hand of a politician he sees a very dark future. Torn by a sense of right and wrong, John decides that it is up to him to act against the evil politician, and he risks, and gives, his life in order to save the world from certain destruction. He fails in his task of killing the politician, but his actions are enough to save humanity. The links to the right also include the excellent TV series starring Anthony Michael Hall. Also included is the Music from the TV series. 15 songs from artists such as Longwave, Grant Lee Phillips, The Woods and Stereophonics. There are actually 2 versions of the soundtrack, and this is the 'later' version as sold on Amazon.Com (I have both, and some tracks are the same, but this version is probably a little more 'Rock' based).
Desperation has been taken over by the evil Tak, an ancient beast, who takes over the bodies of people in order to get them to do his evil wishes. Tak escaped from an ancient mine and then slowly takes over the bodies of the inhabitants of Desperation, a small mining town, and kills some, imprisoning others. Can a small boy defeat this ancient beast?
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
Hyperion is putting out a tie-in book due called The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, reportedly a journal kept by one of the miniseries' key characters. It's edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D, which is likely a pseudonym of the real author, but this was not written by King himself. Ellen Rimbauer is played by Nancy Travis in the movie.
A collection of 4 stories, each taking place in one season of the year. See also "Apt Pupil" and also "Shawshank Redemption"
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't exactly the story the police are expecting to hear. Suspected of murdering Vera Donovan, the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores admits the two women hadn't always got along.
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
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