Horror & Dark Fantasy 2006
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2006
Robin Furth
Stepen King's Dark Tower: A Concordance Vol II
Published November 2005 by Hodder & Stoughton at £17.99
ISBN: 0 340 83067 0
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume II is the essential, final piece in every Dark Tower collection. It is a definitive and comprehensive guide to the many worlds, argots, characters and cross-references - within The Dark Tower series and among the rest of King’s work - that appear in Books V to VII: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower.
Originally prepared for Stephen King’s personal use and expanded for the general reader, the Concordance, Volume II is an informative and fascinating guide to the world of The Dark Tower.
• Characters and Genealogies
• Magical Objects and Forces
• Mid-World and Our World Places
• Portals and Magical Places
• Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps
• Timeline for the Dark Tower series
• Mid-World Dialects
• Mid-World Rhymes, Songs and Prayers
• Political and Cultural References
• References to Stephen King’s own Work
`I found this overview of In-World, Mid-World, and End-World both entertaining and invaluable. So, I am convinced, will you’ Stephen King, from the foreword to Volume I
'An invaluable aid' The New York Times on Vol I
‘Furth’s concordance anticipates – and answers – virtually every question the Constant Reader might come up with’ Locus on Volume I
About The Author
Robin Furth was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania. She was introduced to Stephen King at the University of Maine and has been working with him as a research assistant since 2001.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
A Stroke of Midnight
Pbk published July 2006 by Bantam at £6.99
ISBN: 0-553 81633 0
I am Meredith Gentry, PI. Others know me as Princess Meredith, heir to the darkest throne faerie has to offer. But at what price? To inherit a court that has ruled through bloodshed and violence for centuries, must I really become that which I dread most?
Enemies watch my every move. From his prison cell, my cousin strives to be rid of me while some amongst the Unseelie await the downfall of my aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness. And unforeseen others bide their time, poised to strike.
Such is the unease we feel that for the first time in our history we must allow human police into the world of faerie. And I confess I am in need of allies now more than ever - especially since fate will lead me into the arms of Mistral, Master of Storms and the new captain of the queen’s guard. Our desire will reawaken powers long forgotten among the warriors of the sidhe. Pain and pleasure await me. And danger too, but we are all running out of time...
So reader beware, for herein lies the twilight world of Meredith Gentry, where the erotic and the exotic, the decadent and the deadly come together.
About The Author
Laurell K. Hamilton is the bestselling author of nine acclaimed Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. She lives in Arnold, Missouri, with her husband, her daughter, two attack pugs, three birds, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Stephen King
'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition
Published April 2006 by Hodder & Stoughton at £20.00
ISBN: 0 340 92127 7
With previously unpublished material and a new introduction by the author
At last Stephen King’s classic bestseller is available as the author originally envisaged it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a
new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry
Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition of Stephen King’s second novel, first published in 1975, brings the terrifying story to life in
words and pictures as never before.
`Turn off the television - in fact, why don’t you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we’ll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.’ Stephen King, from the introduction
‘Salem’s Lot is a small New England town. Like so many others it contains the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.
Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow. And soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror...
A must-have for all Stephen King’s existing fans and a must-read for newcomers, ‘SALEM’S LOT: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right. No library will be complete without the ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great ‘SALEM’S LOT.
About The Author
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English, while his wife, Tabitha, got her degree.
It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptation that set him on his way to his present position as perhaps the bestselling author in the world.
Carrie was followed by a string of bestsellers including The Shining, It, Misery, Bag of Bones and On Writing (A Memoir of the Craft).
He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist, Tabitha King.
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Stephen King
Cell
Published February 2006 by Hodder & Stoughton at £17.99
ISBN: 0 340 92144 7
Is Your Number UP?
’Civilization slips into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood, but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. It is as if it has been waiting to go. On October first, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, and most of the planes are on time (except for those landing and taking off in Chicago, and that’s to be expected). Two weeks later the skies belong to the birds again and the stock market is a memory. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stinks to the empty heavens and the world as it was is a memory.’
The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cellular phone operating in the world. Within hours, those receiving calls would become insane - or die.
In Boston, a young artist, Clayton Riddell, flees the explosive heart of the city. He makes the connection between those using their cell phones and the mayhem that ensues. Clay’s son has a little red cell phone. Often out of juice. But what if this time the battery is full? Clay has to reach his son, before his son reaches for his phone ...
There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phone users in the United States alone. Who doesn’t have one? This utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn’t ask the question ‘Can you hear me now?’ It answers it with a vengeance.
High concept, ingenious, and terrifying: CELL is the perfect nightmare for a whole new generation of Stephen King readers.
`One of the great storytellers of our time’ Guardian
`King has inspired a whole generation to read. He’s made them read good, witty prose…a fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it’ Express
`King is unbeatable’ Mirror
`One of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel’ The Sunday Times
`One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep’ Sunday Express
About The Author
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English, while his wife, Tabitha, got her degree.
It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptation that set him on his way to his present position as perhaps the bestselling author in the world.
Carrie was followed by a string of bestsellers including The Shining, It, Misery, Bag of Bones and On Writing (A Memoir of the Craft).
He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist, Tabitha King.
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Stephen King
Cell
Pbk published January 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
Is Your Number UP?
’Civilization slips into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood, but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. It is as if it has been waiting to go. On October first, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, and most of the planes are on time (except for those landing and taking off in Chicago, and that’s to be expected). Two weeks later the skies belong to the birds again and the stock market is a memory. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stinks to the empty heavens and the world as it was is a memory.’
The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cellular phone operating in the world. Within hours, those receiving calls would become insane - or die.
In Boston, a young artist, Clayton Riddell, flees the explosive heart of the city. He makes the connection between those using their cell phones and the mayhem that ensues. Clay’s son has a little red cell phone. Often out of juice. But what if this time the battery is full? Clay has to reach his son, before his son reaches for his phone ...
There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phone users in the United States alone. Who doesn’t have one? This utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn’t ask the question ‘Can you hear me now?’ It answers it with a vengeance.
High concept, ingenious, and terrifying: CELL is the perfect nightmare for a whole new generation of Stephen King readers.
`One of the great storytellers of our time’ Guardian
`King has inspired a whole generation to read. He’s made them read good, witty prose…a fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it’ Express
`King is unbeatable’ Mirror
`One of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel’ The Sunday Times
`One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep’ Sunday Express
About The Author
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English, while his wife, Tabitha, got her degree.
It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptation that set him on his way to his present position as perhaps the bestselling author in the world.
Carrie was followed by a string of bestsellers including The Shining, It, Misery, Bag of Bones and On Writing (A Memoir of the Craft).
He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist, Tabitha King.
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