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Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we employ to order our sense of reality. It bends, stretches, turns back, or snaps, and sometimes reality with it. And what happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality shatters, and the glass begins to fly? These four chilling novellas, a feast fit for King fans old and new, provide some shocking answers. After all, past midnight is Stephen King's favorite time of day.... One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.... Two Past Midnight: "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Three Past Midnight: "The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well--the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance. Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. With an introduction and prefatory notes to each of the tales, Stephen King discusses how these stories arose in what is the world's most fearsome imagination. But it is the stories themselves that will keep readers awake long after bedtime, into those dark, timeless hours past midnight. source: stephenking.com

Includes 5 of King's short stories that were adapted for Hollywood films, with his personal commentary and introductions.

El mal puede tener muchas caras... incluso podría tener la tuya. Tras el espectacular éxito de la Trilogía Bill Hodges ( Mr. Mercedes , Quien pierde paga y Fin de guardia ) King nos sorprende con un thriller tan escalofriante como original. Un niño de once años ha sido brutalmente violado y asesinado. Todas las pruebas apuntan a uno de los ciudadanos más queridos de Flint City: Terry Maitland, entrenador en la liga infantil, profesor de literatura, marido ejemplar y padre de dos niñas. El detective Ralph Anderson ordena su detención. Maitland tiene una coartada firme que demuestra que estuvo en otra ciudad cuando se cometió el crimen, pero las pruebas de ADN encontradas en el lugar de los hechos confirman que es culpable. Ante la justicia y la opinión pública Terry Maitland es un asesino y el caso está resuelto. Pero el detective Anderson no está satisfecho. Maitland parece un buen tipo, un ciudadano ejemplar, ¿acaso tiene dos caras? Y ¿cómo es posible que estuviera en dos sitios a la vez? La respuesta, como no podría ser de otra forma saliendo de la pluma de Stephen King, te hará desear no haber preguntado. La crítica ha dicho... «Una emocionante historia que trata de algunas de nuestras mayores fobias. Nos recuerda a It.» Kirkus Reviews «El inteligente uso de King de la medicina forense ayuda a cimentar la historia en una realidad clínica creíble, donde los miedos se muestran en su descarnada realidad.» Publishers Weekly «Fascinante. Otro libro asombrosamente oscuro, perfecto para sus millones de lectores.» Booklist «Hay mucho de oscuro y de sobrenatural en esta nueva novela de Stephen King. Pero lo más inquietante resulta ser el lado monstruoso de la naturaleza humana.» USA Today «Hazte un favor y léelo.» Associated Press

Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus? And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train?Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her. There on a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small, neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat.

It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow s biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest and bloodiest manoeuvres are yet to come.

Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room .' James Patterson The heart-pounding follow-up to The Poison Artist called ';an electrifying read' by Stephen Kingthat shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied

Zločinecká skupina Société Anonyme se inspiruje dílem slavného umělce Marcela Duchampa a jejími oběťmi se stávají mladí lidé z celého světa. Hlavní hrdinka románu, která se do jejich spárů rovněž dostává, se prostřednictvím studia Duchampových děl a výprav do opuštěných industriálních objektů snaží přijít věcem na kloub. Mysteriózní román s neobvyklým námětem tak provádí čtenáře prostředími, do nichž se v běžných dobrodružných knihách jen tak nedostane a v nichž většinou nejde o nic menšího než o život.