Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The New York Times Book Review, AV Club, Variety, The Boston Globe, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vulture, Men’s Health, Book Riot, The New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste, and more! From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters. When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness. Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion—a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off. Thrilling, wildly fun, and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.

Never Flinch

Alt fra videnskabsfolk, klapperslanger og rumvæsener vækkes til live i denne samling af tolv fænomenale noveller. En mand plages af et mareridt så virkeligt, at det føles som et ildevarslende tegn: en afmagret hund, der febrilsk graver i jorden og trækker et kvindelig frem i lyset. Snart vågner han til en uhyggelig sandhed: Drømmen er blevet til virkelighed. En sørgende enke, der søger ro og fornyelse i Floridas varme, modtager i stedet en uventet arv med betingelser, der vil ændre hendes liv for altid. En fåmælt Vietnamveteran svarer på en tilsyneladende harmløs jobannonce, men opdager snart, at der er hjørner af universet, man aldrig bør udforske. Og en mand, der grubler over, om evnen til at se ind i fremtiden er en velsignelse eller en forbandelse, opdager, at selv et liv fyldt med ulidelig tragedie kan rumme en dybere mening. Drømmerne og andre fortællinger er en samling af Stephen Kings bedste noveller, der lader menneskesindets skyggesider få frit spil. King fører endnu en gang læseren dybt ind i en verden af uhygge, mystik og frydefuld rædsel – og beviser, at hver eneste historie er en klassiker i sin egen ret.

Drømmerne og andre fortællinger

*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING SEPTEMBER 12, 2025* In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives. In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping. The winner gets “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But the rules of the Long Walk are harsh and the stakes could not be higher. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—forever.

The Long Walk

The “propulsively intriguing, staggeringly addictive” (USA TODAY) novel from master storyteller Stephen King—a #1 New York Times bestseller. It is a typical October morning in Chester’s Mill, Maine: glorious weather, a perfectly blue sky, and quiet. Then, all hell breaks loose. Inexplicably, and simultaneously, a plane falls from the sky in flames; a woman’s hand is severed; and a farmer’s John Deere explores (with him on it). A few moments later, a pulp-truck crashes spectacularly. Somehow, an invisible and impermeable barrier—exactly following the town’s perimeter—has descended upon the town. Life under the dome quickly becomes a hothouse—with the best in some people and the worst in others flourishing. There are unambiguous heroes and villains, from a supremely corrupt local politician to a very enterprising newspaper reporter. The situation under the dome deteriorates by the minute: supplies of everything are diminishing quickly, the citizens are panicking, and the police force, under the control of the diabolically devious alderman Jim Rennie, implement their own version of martial law. Meanwhile, Barbie, brave Iraq war vet and short order cook, and a band of intrepid pals engage in a race against time to find the source of the dome and raise it before there’s nobody left alive in Chester’s Mill. Under the Dome is filled with a marvelous and enormous cast of over 100 characters. King’s trademark idiomatic language is pure pleasure to read. “Nowhere in Mr. King’s immense body of work have his real and fantasy world collided with such head-on force” (The New York Times Book Review).

Under The Dome

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 Caspersen John 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

22.11.63

Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—also an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn! An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens—Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King’s story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

The Outsider

#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 available as a standalone book. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King’s extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis “Red” Redding. Red’s a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine’s corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn’t count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne—an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone’s lives within these prison walls. Originally published in the 1982 collection Different Seasons, it was adapted into the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories.

The Shawshank Redemption

#1 New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of the Year Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil” (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down. Meanwhile, mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are also harboring a shocking, unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to…for they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Now Holly must summon all of her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver these unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries in this chilling and unforgettable masterwork from Stephen King.

Holly

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?

Dyrekirkegården

Mercedesmanden er Stephen Kings første rendyrkede kriminalroman, der – som altid, når det kommer til King – både er grufuld, smuk og fængende. En mørk forårsmorgen i Midtvesten står hundredevis af arbejdsløse i en kø og venter på, at en jobbørs skal åbne. Ud af tågen dukker pludselig en stor Mercedes SL 500 op, der skånselsløst gasser op og pløjer sig igennem menneskemængden. Det er en massakre uden lige og en af de uopklarede sager, som den pensionerede politimand, Bill Hodges, har svært ved at lægge bag sig. Da Hodges en dag modtager et hånende brev fra Mercedesmorderen selv, indser han at morderen langt fra er færdig med at hævne sig på omverdenen. Skjult planlægger Mercedesmanden sit næste træk – en terrorhandling uden sidestykke – som kun den næsten udbrændte Hodges og et par meget utraditionelle hjælpere måske vil være i stand til at forhindre. Den anmelderroste Mercedesmanden vandt i 2015 den prestigefyldte krimipris Edgar Award og fortsættes med bogen De der søger.

Bill Hodges-serien

Mercedesmanden

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, whose life is upended when his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And the dying Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in the world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere and to the small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love. Every turn leads eventually to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.

11/22/63

Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s series Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It. Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It. “Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).

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.

Anstalten

WINNER of the EDGAR AWARD for BEST NOVEL and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from murdering thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses” (The Washington Post). The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels… Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands—unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans. Stephen King takes off on a “nerve-shredding, pulse-pounding race against time” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) with this acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller.

Mr. Mercedes

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire—but not without exacting a terrible price in return. The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and—at the specific request of Leland Gaunt—a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer beware…

Needful Things

*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Featuring the novella “The Life of Chuck,” now a feature film adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep) and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—a Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner! From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form” (The Washington Post). Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there’s plenty of it. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward. “An adroit vehicle to showcase the…nature of evil” (The Boston Globe), If It Bleeds is “exactly what I wanted to read right now,” says Ruth Franklin in The New York Times Book Review.

If It Bleeds

Jack Torrance bliver fyret fra sit job på Stovington Highschool pga. en uheldig episode med en elev. Han er tørlagt alkoholiker og har et voldsomt temperament. En ven har hjulpet ham til jobbet som opsynsmand på hotel Overlook i Colorados bjerge, som hver vinter afskæres fra omverdenen, når sneen begynder at falde. Jack vil bruge vinteren til at komme på fode igen og få skrevet sit skuespil færdig. Med sig har Jack sin kone Wendy og sin søn Danny på 5 år. Danny har et særligt talent, som kokken Hallorann opdager, da familien ankommer til hotellet på sæsonens sidste dag. Danny kan skinne. Han kan finde ting, der er blevet væk, fornemme folks tanker - og han kan se ting, der sker i fremtiden. Hallorann kan også skinne lidt, og de to knytter en særlig kontakt, da Hallorann advarer Danny mod at opholde sig bestemte steder på hotellet. Overlook er nemlig ikke et helt almindelig hotel. I årenes løb er der sket en mængde mord, selvmord og ulykker her, og disse hændelser svæver stadig rundt i hotellets korridorer. Den første tid går alt dog godt. Jack får gang i skriveriet, og han og Wendy kommer tættere på hinanden igen. Kun Danny mærker, at der er noget galt, men som tiden går, bliver det også tydelig for Wendy. Selvom der ikke findes en dråbe spiritus i hotellet, begynder Jack nemlig at udvise de samme symptomer, som da han drak. Han bliver aggressiv, og det går op for Wendy, hvor isolerede de er i bjergene. Kings beskrivelse af Jacks gradvise nedbrydning er suverænt godt skrevet, og man sidder som læser og har både ondt af ham og skræmmes af hans karakterskift. Forholdet mellem ham og Danny er også meget smukt, så udover at være en yderst spændende thriller, kan man også læse den som en fortælling om mennesker, og hvor galt det kan gå, når en familie udsættes for stress og isolering

Ondskabens hotel

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 ...

Misery

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series. A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (Booklist).

The Dark Tower

Dark Tower I

Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk “the Green Mile,” the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain’s electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities over the years working the Mile, but he’s never seen anything like John Coffey—a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about John Coffey—a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs…

The Green Mile

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 blod Holly 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

Blodtørst

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.

Et eventyr

Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections Includes an afterword written by Stephen King and read by Sean Patrick Hopkins NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 HORROR BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HORROR “Stephen King knows You Like It Darker and obliges with sensational new tales” (USA TODAY): From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King, an extraordinary collection of stories that are “a master class in tension and full of King’s dark humor” (The New York Times Book Review). “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 skills as a storyteller remain undimmed” (The Minnesota Star Tribune) and his ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace is unsurpassed. “The titular darkness promised is as riveting and all-consuming as ever” (New York magazine). You like it darker? You got it.

You Like It Darker

NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO! Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer). From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. With the insight and good humor his fans appreciated in On Writing, Danse Macabre is an enjoyably entertaining tour through Stephen King’s beloved world of horror.

Danse Macabre

The #1 New York Times bestseller and “frightening” (The New York Times) thriller from master storyteller Stephen King about a clairvoyant man who must weigh his options when he sees the terrible future awaiting mankind. When Johnny Smith was six years old, head trauma caused by a bad ice-skating accident left him with a nasty bruise on his forehead and, from time to time, those hunches…infrequent but accurate snippets of things to come. But it isn’t until Johnny’s a grown man—now having survived a horrifying auto injury that plunged him into a coma lasting four-and-a-half years—that his special abilities really push to the fore. Johnny Smith has come back from the void with an extraordinary gift that becomes his life’s curse…presenting visions of what was and what will be for both the innocent and guilty alike. But when he encounters a ruthlessly ambitious and amoral man who promises a terrifying fate for all humanity, Johnny must find a way to prevent a harrowing predestination from becoming reality…

The Dead Zone

A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman. “Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” (Chicago Sun-Times). Ben Richards is a desperate man. With no job, no money, no way out, and a young daughter in need of proper medical attention, he must turn to the only possibility of striking it rich in this near-future dystopian America: participating in the ultra-violent TV programming of the government-sanctioned Games Network. Ben soon finds himself selected as a contestant on the biggest and the best that the Games Network has to offer: “The Running Man,” a no-holds-barred thirty-day struggle to stay alive as public enemy number one, relentlessly hunted by an elite strike force bent on killing him as quickly as possible in front of an audience all too eager to see that happen. It means a billion dollars in prize money if he can live for the next month. No one has ever survived longer than eight days. But desperation can push a person do things they never thought possible—and Ben Richards is willing to go the distance in this ultimate game of life and death...

The Running Man

Vera Donovan er den rigeste, mest arrige indbygger på Little Tall Island. Da hun pludselig findes død i sit hjem, falder mistanken øjeblikkeligt på hendes husholderske og plejer, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores kender alt til at være under mistanke. Det var hun også, da hendes mand for mange år siden døde under mystiske omstændigheder. Men hvis dommens dag virkelig er kommet for Dolores, er der et par ting, hun gerne vil ud med først. En gruopvækkende sandhed skal frem, og det, der står tilbage, er en kvindes ufravigelige vilje til at beskytte dem, hun elsker, koste hvad det vil.

Dolores Claiborne

”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.

It - Det onde

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.

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

Outsideren

Velkommen til Cold Mountain-fængslet, der er hjem for E-blokkens depressive mænd. De er alle dødsdømte mordere. Hver af dem afventer sin tur ad Den grønne mil til et stævnemøde med dødsgangens elektriske stol. Fængselsbetjent Paul Edgecombe har oplevet mange mærkværdige mennesker i de år, han har arbejdet på Den grønne mil. Men han har aldrig før mødt en mand som John Coffey, der har en krop som en kæmpe og en hjerne som et barn. Han er dømt til døden for en forfærdelig, rå forbrydelse. Men på dette sted, hvor alt håb lades ude, er Edgecombe ved at opdage den uhyggelige og vidunderlige sandhed om Coffey. En sandhed, der er en udfordring for hans hidtil faste tro på, hvad der er muligt og umuligt. Indlæst af Fjord Trier Hansen.

Den grønne mil

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.

Billy Summers

Stephen King delivers a haunting, heartfelt performance as he shares a story about the bonds between husbands, wives, and pets. LT has a theory about pets, particularly his Siamese cat. It had been their cat not just his cat, but that was until he came home one day to a note on the fridge. His wife had left him. The cat stayed behind... Recorded live at London's Royal Festival Hall, LT's Theory of Pets demonstrates yet again that Stephen King is a master storyteller.

LT's Theory of Pets

2020 THRILLER/SUSPENSE AUDIE AWARD WINNER! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose “storytelling transcends genre” (Newsday) comes “another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable” (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.” In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is “first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen” (The Washington Post).

The Institute

The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the penultimate installment.

The Dark Tower VI

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited—breathtakingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining. 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.

The Dark Tower VII

A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls “Sara Laughs,” Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie’s and Kyra’s struggle—and as he falls in love with both of them—he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs…now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and just what do they want of Mike Noonan?

Bag Of Bones

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Fiction and Best Male Narrator The fabulously suspenseful and "smashing" (The New York Times Book Review) final novel in the Bill Hodges trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers! For nearly six years, in Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Brady Hartsfield has been in a persistent vegetative state. A complete recovery seems unlikely for the insane perpetrator of the “Mercedes Massacre,” in which eight people were killed and many more maimed for life. But behind the vacant stare, Brady is very much awake and aware, having been pumped full of experimental drugs...scheming, biding his time as he trains himself to take full advantage of the deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. Brady Hartsfield is about to embark on a new reign of terror against thousands of innocents, hell-bent on taking revenge against anyone who crossed his path—with retired police detective Bill Hodges at the very top of that long list....

End of Watch

Stephen King’s “The Life of Chuck,” is a “phenomenal” (USA TODAY) tale of life and legacy—now a feature film directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—available for the first time in a beautiful stand-alone edition with a new introduction by Stephen King and a design surprise. Originally featured in the acclaimed story collection If It Bleeds, this unforgettable, mind-bending tale unfolds in reverse, taking readers through the extraordinary life of Charles “Chuck” Krantz. In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: “Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!” Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck’s life, seems to be approaching its end. Told in three acts, presented in reverse order, The Life of Chuck explores one man’s past. We see him in middle age on a business trip in Boston as he is seduced by a busker into spinning a gorgeous sidewalk dance. And we see him as a child, in a house haunted by a terrible secret, learning to dance with his grandmother. In these pages King reminds us that life’s quotidian pleasures are even more glorious because they are fleeting: the outrageous good fortune of a beautiful blue day after a string of gray ones; the delight of dancing when every move feels perfect; a serendipitous meeting. King’s ability to describe pure joy rivals his ability to terrify us. Now a major motion picture and winner of the Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award, The Life of Chuck is a glorious story about community and about humanity at its best, a celebration of joy, mystery, existential wonder, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

The Life of Chuck

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” (The Washington Post) novellas—including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film—that explore the dark side of human nature. “The pages practically turn themselves” (USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. In “Big Driver”, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In “Fair Extension,” making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In “A Good Marriage,” the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is. Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, King’s Full Dark, No Stars is a “page-turner” (The New York Times) “as gripping as his epic novels” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), and “an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point” (The Telegraph, UK).

Full Dark, No Stars

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—uniquely frightening suspense about a young girl lost in the woods as night falls, with only the voice of her beloved Red Sox relief pitcher to sustain her and help her survive—maybe. During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fears. For solace she tunes her headphones to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when the reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her—the protector from an enemy who may or may not be imagined…one who is watching her, waiting for her in the dense, dark woods…

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The #1 New York Times bestselling tale of terror from master storyteller Stephen King about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan”. Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such a change doesn’t come without consequences. After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Paul finds himself at the mercy of the terrifying rescuer who’s nursing him back to health—his self-proclaimed number one fan, Annie Wilkes. Annie is very upset over what Paul did to Misery and demands that he find a way to bring her back by writing a new novel—his best yet, and one that’s all for her. After all, Paul has all the time in the world to do so as a prisoner in her isolated house...and Annie has some very persuasive and violent methods to get exactly what she wants...

The #1 New York Times bestseller, Cujo “hits the jugular” (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, Maine. Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (THE MAN, THE WOMAN, and THE BOY) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes his mind even as his once affable thoughts turn uncontrollably and inexorably to hatred and murder. Cujo is about to become the center of a horrifying vortex that will inescapably draw in everyone around him—a relentless reign of terror, fury, and madness from which no one in Castle Rock will truly be safe…

Cujo

Master storyteller Stephen King presents this classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller. When a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death, the nightmare has only begun… *A Netflix film directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush) and starring Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood* “And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone.” Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald’s kinky sex games—something that she’s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a “romantic getaway” at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts—and Gerald crosses a line with his wife—the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison—and comes face-to-face with her deepest, darkest fears and memories. Her only company is that of the various voices filling her mind…as well as the shadows of nightfall that may conceal an imagined or very real threat right there with her…

Gerald's Game

The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture. In Part One, “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest, and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In “Blind Willie” and “Why We’re in Vietnam,” two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow—and as haunted—as their own lives. And in “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,” this remarkable book’s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart’s desire may await him. Full of danger and suspense, full of heart, this spellbinding fiction will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely forget. Nearly twenty years after its first publication, Hearts in Atlantis is powerful and astonishingly current. “You will see Stephen King in a new light. Read this moving, heartfelt tragedy and weep—weep for our lost conscience.” —BookPage

Hearts In Atlantis

Doktor Søvn er den længe ventede opfølger til Kings berømteste bog til dato – Ondskabens hotel. Kun tre overlevede Ondskabens hotel, heriblandt hovedperson Jack Torrances søn, Danny – dengang fem år og nu en voksen mand. Og det er ham vi nu følger. Danny kæmper med tre ting han arvede efter sin far; alkoholisme, et voldsomt temperament og resterne af spøgelset fra Ondskabens hotel. Indledningsvis er spøgelser det mindste af hans problemer… Men alkohol er ikke den eneste dæmon. De ydre dæmoner er The True Knot – en overnaturlig kult som ernæres ved dampene fra børn, som besidder ’the shining’. Kulten rejser rundt i mobilhomes forklædt som harmløse, ældre turister for at opsøge børn med overnaturlige evner. De får færten af Abra, en pige som til overmål besidder ’the shining’. Abra har imidlertid knyttet mental forbindelse til Danny, og fortællingen udfolder sig nu som et forrygende puslespil til det uundgåelige klimaks. Copyright © 2013 Stephen King Published by agreement with Stephen King c/o The Lotts Agency, Ltd. New York and Licht & Burr Literarty Agency, Denmark gys, overnaturlige evner, alkoholisme, USA

Doktor Søvn

En kold, mørk forårsmorgen et sted i Midtvesten står flere hundrede desperate arbejdsløse i kø og venter på at en jobbørs skal åbne. Pludselig dukker en stor Mercedes SL 500 ud af tågen, pløjer sig for fuld fart ind i menneskemængden og forsvinder igen. Et år senere er den pensionerede politimand Bill Hodges ved at forsumpe i dårlig dybfrostmad og endnu værre tv. Massakren på de arbejdsløse er en af de uopklarede sager han stadig ikke kan glemme, og til sin forbløffelse og rædsel modtager han en dag et hånende brev fra Mercedesmorderen selv. Hvad Hodges nemlig ikke ved, er at brevets forfatter på ingen måde er færdig med at hade og hævne sig på verden. Kælderen under det anonyme hus hvor den unge Brady Hartsley stadig bor sammen med sin fordrukne og nærgående mor, er lige så spækket med plastisk sprængstof som Bradys tanker konstant er det af forestillinger om at udløse nye katastrofer og menneskelige tragedier. Det er det bare kun ham selv der er klar over. Stille og tilsyneladende helt almindelig går han rundt blandt folk og passer smilende sine anonyme jobs, alt imens han planlægger en terrorhandling uden sidestykke – som kun den næsten udbrændte Hodges og et par meget utraditionelle hjælpere måske vil være i stand til at forudse og forhindre. Mercedesmanden er Stephen Kings første regulære kriminalroman og vandt i 2015 den amerikanske Edgar Award. Fortsættelsen De der søger udkommer på dansk i efteråret 2016. “Et opgør mellem godt og ondt som i alle Kings bedste værker, uanset genre.” – Los Angeles Times ”King brillerer med sit foruroligende portræt af Brady, et ægte uhyre i menneskeskikkelse der giver ny mening til udtrykket ‘ondskabens banalitet.’” – Publisher’s Weekly

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.

Rosernes torne

Sidste roman i Dark Tower-serien, eller Det mørke Tårn. Nogle kalder den nr. 8 andre kalder den nr. 4,5, men sikkert er det, at den er læng ventet på dansk af alle Kings dark tower fans. Vinden gennem nøglehullet er skrevet som den sidste i serien, men handlingsmæssigt placere den sig mellem nr. 4 og 5. King indledte faktisk Dark Tower serien helt tilbage i 1974, men først i løbet af 80’erne slog serien for alvor igennem, og fik kultstatus. De seneste bind i serien blev udgivet i 2003 og 2004, men efterfølgende besluttede King sig for at skrive Vinden gennem nøglehullet til stor begejstring for de mange fans. Faktisk kan romanen også læses uden at have læst de øvrige i serien, og kan på den måde udgøre en port ind til Kings forfatterskab. Dark Tower-serien er fantasy, når det er bedst. Læseren tages på en fascinerende og gribende rejse og følger fire forskellige hovedpersoner. Den verden King formår at skabe har beriget utallige læsere gennem årenes løb. Han mestrer fortællekunsten som kun de færreste.

Det mørke tårn

Vinden gennem nøglehullet

Fire fortællinger fra gysets mester Stephen King. “Jeg tror, at der lever en anden mand inden i alle mænd, en fremmed, en hensynsløs mand… ” Således skriver en af hovedpersonerne i Stephen Kings nye bog Helt mørkt, intet lys. Et udsagn, som udmærket kan danne ramme om alle fire fortællinger. I den første fortælling, ’1922’, vækkes denne fremmede til live i Wilfred Leland James, da hans kone insisterer på, at de skal flytte. I ’Den store chauffør’ møder hovedpersonen denne fremmede på en landevej efter at have skudt genvej hjem efter et bogklubs-arrangement. I ’En rimelig forlængelse’ sker mødet med denne fremmede efter at hovedpersonen har indgået en pagt med djævlen. Og i den sidste fortælling, ’Et godt ægteskab’, opdager den intetanende kone den fremmede i sin ægtemand gennem tyve år, da hun en dag tilfældigvis støder foden ind i en kasse ude i garagen. I Helt mørkt, intet lys er Stephen King optaget af spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt vi overhovedet kan komme til at kende et andet menneske fuldt og helt, og han er optaget af det gode og det onde i mennesket. Eller som han på underfundig vis siger: ”Jeg tror, at de fleste mennesker er fundamentalt gode. Jeg ved, at det gælder mig selv. Det er dig, jeg ikke er helt sikker på.”

Helt mørkt, intet lys

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