New Releases by Stephen King

The sixth volume in THE DARK TOWER series - the most anticipated series of publications in Stephen King''s legendary career - THE DARK TOWER VI; SONG OF SUSANNAH is a pivotal instalment in the epic saga. It provides the key to the quest that defines Roland''s life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah''s date with destiny, while he himself uses ''the persistence of magic'' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called SALEM''S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest''s conclusion.

Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller''s magnum opus" (Locus).

Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fictionin 1978, the publication of Stephen King''s epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Towerseries is King''s most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement. In November 2003, the fifth installment, Wolves of the Calla, will be published under the imprint of Donald M. Grant, with distribution and major promotion provided by Scribner. Song of Susannah, Book VI, and The Dark Tower, Book VII, will follow under the same arrangement in 2004. With these last three volumes finally on the horizon, readers-countless King readers who have yet to delve into The Dark Towerand a multitude of new and old fantasy fans-can now look forward to reading the series straight through to its stunning conclusion. Viking''s elegant reissue of the first four books ensures that for the first time The Dark Towerwill be widely available in hardcover editions for this eager readership.

The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.

The author of Bag of Bones presents a story about how men experience memories and find their courage, in a tale of stark survival and heroism in the face of a haunted past.

From international bestseller Stephen King the first ebook ever published—a novella about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side. Riding the Bullet is “a ghost story in the grand manner” from the bestselling author of Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and The Green Mile—a short story about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side.

Five interconnected, sequential tales set in the years between 1960 and 1999 center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery.

Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off-season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to defend against the evil that is driving his father insane. Terribles eventos ocurren en un hotel aislado durante la temporada baja, cuando un nino pequeno, con poderes psiquicos lucha por defenderse de la maldad que esta enloqueciendo a su padre.

Fourth in the Epic Dark Tower Series… Wizard and Glass In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has been the same since. More than twenty years later, the quest for the Dark Tower continues to take readers on a wildly epic ride. Through parallel worlds and across time, Roland must brave desolate wastelands and endless deserts, drifting into the unimaginable and the familiar. A classic tale of colossal scope—crossing over terrain from The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, The Talisman, Black House, Hearts in Atlantis, ’Salem’s Lot, and other familiar King haunts—the adventure takes hold with the turn of each page. And the Tower awaits.... Roland and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world and slipped into the next. There Roland tells them a tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And there they will be drawn into an ancient mystery of spellbinding magic and supreme menace…

An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself. By the author of The Regulators.

In King''s #1 bestselling book, the master of the horror genre takes readers to his famous fictional town for one final visit. A wonderful new store has opened in Castle Rock, Maine. It''s a place where you can get anything your heart desires--sexual pleasure, wealth, power . . . but for a nerve-shattering price. "Ranks with King''s best!"--Publishers Weekly. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

From the author of THE SHINING, CARRIE and THE DEAD ZONE, this is Stephen King''s most mesmerizing and menacing novel yet...It is the story of a sinister government agency, a fteful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. As PLAYBOY said, ''King does this better than anyone else. We finished the book about three non-stop hours after we picked it up.

Twenty-three short works include vampire thrillers, ingenious imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, a teleplay from "Tales of the Darkside," and a nonfiction Little League story

At last, the undisputed grandmaster of horror, Stephen King, talks candidly and revealingly about the perils and passions of the writer''s life, and, most of all, about terror--as he lives it, as he creates it, as he evokes it in the souls of millions of fans who love nothing more than to be scared out of their wits. Book jacket.

To coincide with the publication of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s extraordinary new thriller, BLACK HOUSE, here is the story that started it all. On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother''s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .

""Sometimes dead is better...."" When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they''ve got it all...right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.