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Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine ...He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop ...Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats.And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him ...

'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. <br/>I think I can make you believe in them.<br/> <i>'Stephen King, from the Introduction.</i> <br/> <br/>'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with 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. <br/>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. <br/> A newcomer with a strange allure. <br/> 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.Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror ...

<b>Now with a stunning new cover look, King's 'propulsively intriguing . . . staggeringly addictive' (<i>USA Today</i>) </b><b>No. 1 bestseller, that inspired the hit television series, centres on a small town suddenly cut off from the rest of the world.</b><br/><br/><i>Time isn't just running short. It's running out.</i><br/><br/>On a beautiful autumn day, a small New England town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into the dome and rain down flaming wreckage. A gardener's hand is severed as it descends. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts.<br/><br/>No one can fathom what the barrier is, where it came from, or when - and if - it will go away.<br/><br/>Now, a few intrepid citizens, led by an Iraq War veteran turned short-order cook, face down a ruthless politician dead set on seizing the reins of power in the town. But their main adversary is the dome itself . . .

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy. <br/><br/>When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.<br/><br/>Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. <br/><br/>A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.<br/><br/>With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs.<br/><br/>But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? <br/><br/><br/><br/>Gwendy's Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' (Publishers Weekly)<br/><br/>Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.

<b>Take three of the leading names in contemporary horror writing, commission one-third of a book's worth of stories from each, and the result is DARK VISIONS.</b><br/><br/>Stephen King leads off with three stories, including "Sneakers", about a very unusual haunting, and "Dedication", one of the most powerful and unsettling of all his works.<br/><br/>Dan Simmons pays homage to Philip K Dick with "Metastasis", one of three highly accomplished stories.<br/><br/>And George Martin rounds off the book with the brilliant werewolf novella, "The Skin Trade".<br/><br/>DARK VISIONS is a brilliantly original showcase from three masters of the macabre.