Stephen King
"Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door..."
On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny...
62) The Dark Half
After thirteen years of international bestseller stardom with his works of violent crime fiction, author George Stark is officially declared dead—revealed by a national magazine to have been killed at the hands of the...
63) Quitters, Inc
67) The Regulators
"The red van rolls past...humming and glinting. ...Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet."
It's a gorgeous midsummer afternoon along Poplar Street in the peaceful suburbia of Wentwort, Ohio, where...
68) Stationary Bike
Climb aboard Stationary Bike — a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and...
70) Roadwork
"I listened to myself. But people talk a different language inside."
It's all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city's Highway 784 extension is in the process...
71) Blockade Billy
Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first—and only—player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played
...An intense, eerie, and instantly compelling collection of unabridged stories from Stephen King!
"The face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him, but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest."
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Novellas from Transgressions by Lawrence Block, John Farris, and Stephen King; Edited by Ed McBain
"Keller's Adjustment" by Lawrence Block: Keller, everyone's favorite hit man, is back—dealing out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip across America.
"The Ransome Women" by John Farris: A young and beautiful artist is flattered when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a modeling contract.
78) 101 Seconds
Thirteen "dazzling" (Associated Press) and "wonderfully wicked" (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating—and...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and "Riding the Bullet," which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade, as well as stories first published...