Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror's homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.
Cell: A Novel
The Dead Zone - The Complete Third Season now on DVD
Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror's homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.
Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny takes great pleasure in showing his young students the wonders of the natural world. He is also newly-engaged to a loving fiancée named Sarah, a fellow teacher he's known since childhood, and is a good son to his widowed mother, who lives nearby. Johnny's life is nearly perfect - until the day his life is interrupted by a near-fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma. Six years later, Johnny finally regains consciousness and discovers that life as he once knew it has completely changed. His mother has passed away, and Sarah has gone on to marry someone else - and now has a son...
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower - The Final Chapter
Riding the Bullet now on DVD
This seventh DARK TOWER book is the long-awaited conclusion to Stephen King's epic horror/dark fantasy/post-apocalyptic SF series, wrapping up the adventures of gunslinger Roland of Gilead and his companions as they fulfill their quest to locate the Dark Tower, a structure vital to the stability of all the worlds.
The long march to the Dark Tower began in 1970 when Stephen King, still a fledgling writer with outsized ambitions, was an undergraduate at the University of Maine. It was then that he wrote the opening chapters of the first book in the series. The project faltered for a while, was eventually revived and has since proceeded in fits and starts, with gaps as long as six years between installments. Recently, in the aftermath of his near-fatal accident in 1999, King turned his full attention to this long, protracted saga, producing three large volumes in rapid succession. The seventh and final volume, The Dark Tower, should more than satisfy his voracious readers. It is an absorbing, constantly surprising novel filled with true narrative magic, a fitting capstone to a uniquely American epic.
A vintage Stephen King concept unfolds in Riding the Bullet: a college kid, circa 1970, must hitchhike a very long (and very dark) hundred miles to visit his hospitalized mother. The ghosts waiting for him along the way are either real or of his own mind (which seems to be a dark place itself). As a King short story, this might have been a usefully frightening premise, but it's almost entirely literary; on screen, it boils down to a guy walking down a road at night. Jonathan Jackson is suitably tortured in the lead role (or roles--he frequently appears double on screen, arguing with himself), but the movie is stolen by David Arquette, rocking it up as a '50s greaser who died in a car crash years earlier.
Who is Stephen King?
Who is Richard Bachman?
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the younger of two sons. Apart from being raised without a father from the age of three, Stephen experienced a normal childhood. He enjoyed playing for his high school football team and was an enthusiastic member of a small rock band.
After graduating high school in 1966, King attended the University of Maine, where he studied English. While in college, Stephen wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper and served as a member of the student senate. He supported the anti-war movement on campus, reasoning that the Vietnam War was unconstitutional. After earning his B.S. in English in 1970, King was drafted by the U.S. military, but excused for having flat feet and poor vision.More...
Here is the official Biography of Richard Bachman:
Born in New York, Richard Bachman’s early years are somewhat of a mystery.
As a young man, Bachman served a four-year stint in the Coast Guard, which he then followed with ten years in the merchant marine.More..
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the younger of two sons. Apart from being raised without a father from the age of three, Stephen experienced a normal childhood. He enjoyed playing for his high school football team and was an enthusiastic member of a small rock band.
