Stephen King

Kings first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive...

Eighteen years ago Dolores Claiborne was accused of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now her employer lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.

"It's love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale--dubbed "Christine" by its original cantankerous owner--rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie's never had much luck in the popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car ... but Christine quickly changes...

In this collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen tales of supernatural suspense, including "In the tall grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, and the basis for the feature film from Netflix. Featuring two previously unpublished stories, and a brace of shocking chillers, [this] is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines...

Like the rest of the one percent who outlived the worldwide sweep of death known as Captain Trips, they are survivors. But as followers and acolytes of the Dark Man, Randall Flagg, they are enforcers of a nihilistic plan that will reshape the new world in his image. One of them, the Trashcan Man, satisfied his hunger for fire by burning Gary, Indiana, to the ground. And now that he's heard the Dark Man calling, drawing him halfway across the country...

This is the story of Sam Peebles, a middle-aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offense-but not to Junction City's malevolent monster of a librarian.

The Langoliers take a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only 10 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't.

A deadly biochemical virus called Captain Trips kills nearly everyone it infects, and the individuals who survive the virus are sought by the government that engineered it.