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New York Time Best sellers of Fiction / Supernatural: You Like It Darker (2024), The Outsider (2018), Doctor Sleep (2013), Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 6 (2009), Odd Hours (2008) and other 16 books.

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You Like It Darker

released in: 2024
You Like It Darker
"You like it darker? Fine, so do I' writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys and mysteries; each feels iconic. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, sees a grieving widower travel to Florida for respite and instead receive an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. '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 writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind' and his ability to surprise, amaze and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. You like it darker? You got it.

The Outsider

released in: 2018
The Outsider
There are two things Bix Carpenter is good at: making moonshine and surviving. However, now that she’s officially out of the family bootlegging business, those “getting by” skills are going to come in handy. But getting caught camping on Four Corners Ranch property isn’t the best way to kick off her newfound independence—especially when the man who catches her, unruffled ranch owner Daughtry King, makes an intriguing proposition. Daughtry offers Bix a job in exchange for room and board. The straitlaced cowboy doesn’t seem like the type who’d take to her feisty ways, but Bix reluctantly accepts. Daughtry is the best man Bix has ever met, and she’s never felt good enough, but she finds herself falling for the stoic cowboy. Can she get past his defenses so the two of them can go from just surviving to thriving? Four Corners Ranch Book 1: Unbridled Cowboy Book 2: Merry Christmas Cowboy Book 3: Cowboy Wild Book 4: The Rough Rider Book 5: The Holiday Heartbreaker Book 6: The Troublemaker

Doctor Sleep

released in: 2013
Doctor Sleep
Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in “The Shining,” helps another child with a spectacular gift.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 6

released in: 2009
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 6
The vampires hold the upper hand, but the slayers are about to get some help: Oz. Plus, more on the mysterious Twilight.

Odd Hours

released in: 2008
Odd Hours
Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, confronts evil forces in a California coastal town.

The Lovely Bones

released in: 2002
The Lovely Bones
A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her murder.

Everything's Eventual

released in: 2002
Everything's Eventual
Everything's Eventual is a collection of short stories by Stephen King, published in 2002. It includes fourteen stories, two of which ("Riding the Bullet" and "1408") were previously published on the Internet.

From a Buick 8

released in: 2002
From a Buick 8
When a Buick 8 is left at the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania, the troopers there are baffled. Curt Wilcox, the trooper who was the driver's best friend, becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the car.

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

released in: 2001
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
When Ellen Rimbauer moves into her new home, she starts to keep a diary. But as she chronicles the events of her life, she realizes that there is something strange going on in the house.

Bag of Bones

released in: 1998
Bag of Bones
After the death of his wife, writer Mike Noonan is unable to write. He suffers from terrifying nightmares, and is drawn to the vacation home he and his wife once shared. There, he discovers the truth about his wife's death, and must face the ghosts of his past.

Desperation

released in: 1996
Desperation
“The terror is relentless” (Publishers Weekly) in 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… Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. And it is a place where several travelers are abducted by Collie Entragian, the maniacal police officer of Desperation. Entragian uses various ploys for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to “rescuing” a family from a nonexistent gunman. There’s something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation’s landscape, and the evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But as one of the travelers, young David Carver, seems to know—though it scares him nearly to death to realize it—so are the forces summoned to combat them. “Stephen King’s knack for turning the stray junk of pop culture into sick, darkly engrossing thrills has rarely been this much in evidence as in Desperation” (Salon).

Memnoch the Devil

released in: 1995
Memnoch the Devil
Lestat is back--and this time he's on the trail of the Devil himself.

Insomnia

released in: 1994
Insomnia
Ralph Roberts is an old man. Lately, he has been troubled by insomnia.

Four Past Midnight

released in: 1990
Four Past Midnight
A collection of four novellas, each with its own unique horror and suspenseful elements, showcasing Stephen King's storytelling prowess.

Holly

released in: 1989
Holly
#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.

It

It
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 It: Welcome to Derry—about 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).

Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew
King's second collection, contains twenty short stories, a short novel THE MIST, and two poems, each tale showing the distinctive blend of unimaginable terror and realism that typifies King's early work. We meet GRAMMA - who only wants to hug little George, even after she's dead; a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite in THE RAFT; an innocent-looking monkey with evil powers in MONKEY and a host of other memorable King creations as he takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark, shadowy areas of our innermost fears.

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary
"Pet Sematary" by Stephen King is a horror novel that explores the consequences of tampering with the natural order of life and death. The story follows a family that discovers a burial ground with supernatural properties. King's novel delves into themes of grief, mortality, and the darkness that can lurk in the seemingly mundane.

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone
"The Dead Zone" by Stephen King is a supernatural thriller that follows Johnny Smith, who acquires psychic abilities after a near-fatal accident. As Johnny grapples with his newfound powers, he becomes entangled in a series of events with far-reaching consequences. King's exploration of the paranormal and moral dilemmas contributes to the novel's suspenseful and thought-provoking narrative.

The Exorcist

The Exorcist
"The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty is a horror novel that explores themes of faith and possession. The story revolves around the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempts of two priests to perform an exorcism. Blatty's novel, adapted into a highly successful film, is known for its chilling atmosphere and psychological horror.
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