Stewart O’Nan Books In Order

Emily Maxwell Books In Publication Order

  1. Wish You Were Here (2002)
  2. Emily, Alone (2011)
  3. Henry, Himself (2019)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Snow Angels (1994)
  2. The Names of the Dead (1996)
  3. The Speed Queen (1997)
  4. A World Away (1998)
  5. A Prayer for the Dying (1999)
  6. Everyday People (2001)
  7. The Night Country (2003)
  8. The Good Wife (2005)
  9. Last Night at the Lobster (2007)
  10. Songs for the Missing (2009)
  11. The Odds (2012)
  12. West of Sunset (2015)
  13. City of Secrets (2016)
  14. Ocean State (2022)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Last Night at the Lobster (2007)
  2. Monsters (2012)
  3. A Face in the Crowd (With: Stephen King) (2012)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. In the Walled City (1993)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Circus Fire: a True Story (2000)
  2. Faithful (2004)

Stephen King Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Quitters, Inc. (By:Stephen King) (1978)
  2. The Mist (By:Stephen King) (1980)
  3. The Body (By:Stephen King) (1982)
  4. The Shawshank Redemption (By:Stephen King) (1982)
  5. Apt Pupil (By:Stephen King) (1983)
  6. Cycle of the Werewolf (By:Stephen King) (1983)
  7. Silver Bullet (By:Stephen King) (1983)
  8. The Breathing Method (By:Stephen King) (1984)
  9. Dolan’s Cadillac (By:Stephen King) (1989)
  10. My Pretty Pony (By:Stephen King) (1989)
  11. The Langoliers (By:Stephen King) (1989)
  12. The Library Policeman (By:Stephen King) (1990)
  13. The Sun Dog (By:Stephen King) (1990)
  14. Secret Window, Secret Garden (By:Stephen King) (1991)
  15. Three Carols (By:Stephen King) (1991)
  16. Children of the Corn (By:Stephen King) (1993)
  17. Umney’s Last Case (By:Stephen King) (1995)
  18. Riding the Bullet (By:Stephen King) (2000)
  19. LT’s Theory of Pets (By:Stephen King) (2001)
  20. Stationary Bike (By:Stephen King) (2006)
  21. The Gingerbread Girl (By:Stephen King) (2008)
  22. UR (By:Stephen King) (2009)
  23. 1922 (By:Stephen King) (2010)
  24. Blockade Billy (By:Stephen King) (2010)
  25. Mile 81 (By:Stephen King) (2011)
  26. Throttle (By:Stephen King,Joe Hill) (2012)
  27. Stephen King’s Battleground (By:Stephen King) (2012)
  28. A Face in the Crowd (With: Stephen King) (2012)
  29. Big Driver (By:Stephen King) (2012)
  30. In the Tall Grass (By:Stephen King,Joe Hill) (2012)
  31. A Good Marriage (By:Stephen King) (2014)
  32. Drunken Fireworks (By:Stephen King) (2015)
  33. Elevation (By:Stephen King) (2018)

Kyle Murchison Booth Books In Publication Order

  1. The Bone Key (By:Sarah Monette) (2007)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Vietnam Reader (1998)
  2. Boston Noir (2009)
  3. Halloween (2009)
  4. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 (2009)
  5. Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014)
  6. Detours (2016)

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Stewart O’Nan Books Overview

Wish You Were Here

Award winning writer Stewart O’Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of today’s most accomplished novelists and hailed by The New York Times as ‘a master of voices and the place they resonate from, of human rhythms and the universal rhythms they cut across.’ Now, with Wish You Were Here, he reaches a new level of achievement, weaving together the lives and desires of three generations of an American family gathered together for one final summer week at their summer cottage. A year after the death of her husband, Henry, Emily Maxwell summons her family to their vacation house on Lake Chautauqua, in western New York, one last time before selling the place. Joining her is her sister in law Arlene, a retired schoolteacher who silently mourns the passing of the lake house from her family’s hands and is still wounded from a love lost long ago. Emily’s firebrand daughter, Meg, a recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, brings her children from Detroit the blossoming Sarah and the timid Justin. Emily’s son, Ken, a struggling photographer who quit his job and mortgaged his future to pursue his art, brings his wife, Lisa, who is secretly heartened to be visiting the house for the last time and not so secretly cool to her prickly mother in law and their children, the bookish Ella and the troubled Sam. With honesty and generosity, O’Nan inhabits each character during the course of their week together, illuminating the many lives of the Maxwell family as memories of past summers resurface, old rivalries flare up, and love is rekindled and born anew. Poignant and resonant, Wish You Were Here is a magical book whose beauties are as moving as a summer storm and as brilliant as the glint of sun on water.

Emily, Alone

From the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a moving vision of love and family. A sequel to the bestselling, much beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O’Nan’s intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of vists by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood, but when her sole companion and sister in law Arlene faints at their favorite breakfast buffet, Emily’s days change. As she grapples with her new independence, she discovers a hidden strength and realizes that life always offers new possibilities. Like most older women, Emily is a familiar yet invisible figure, one rarely portrayed so honestly. Her mingled feelings of pride and regret, joy and sorrow are gracefully rendered in wholly unexpected ways. Once again making the ordinary and overlooked not merely visible but vital to understanding our own lives, Emily, Alone confirms O’Nan as an American master.

Snow Angels

Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents divorce. His world is shattered further by the sudden and violent death of Annie Marchand, his beloved former baby sitter. Narrated by the adult Arthur, who continues to be haunted by memories, the story of a young man’s unraveling family and the circumstances leading up to Annie s death forms the backdrop for an intimate tale of the price of love and belonging, told in a spare, translucent, and unexpectedly tender voice.

The Speed Queen

‘Hours away from execution by the state of Oklahoma, Marjorie Standiford is dictating her memoirs…
. Marjorie, whose robbery spree with her husband, Lamont, and her lover, Natalie, splattered a trail of blood across the Southwest, steadfastly maintains that she didn’t kill anybody. Now, to assure her young son’s future, the woman called The Speed Queen for both her drug and driving style is fulfilling her deal with the big time writer who has paid handsomely for her story. It’s worth every penny. Liberally jazzed with humor, both gallows and otherwise, Majorie’s account combines the manic rush of Natural Born Killers with the dreamy lyricism of Badlands…
. An unflinching take on the land of fast food and fast cars, where everyone is juiced to the max and no one is really going anywhere.’ PeopleA PEOPLE PAGE TURNER OF THE WEEK

A World Away

A World Away reveals one of America’s most versatile writers at his romantic and elegiac best. In following the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, Stewart O Nan brilliantly captures the mood of this lost world and the changing fate of a country aware that when the war ends, nothing will ever be the same.

A Prayer for the Dying

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearSet in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town’s residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship’s sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, A Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once decent man.

Everyday People

Stewart O’Nan’s critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly rendered, Everyday People is a lush, dramatic portrait that vividly captures the experience of the day to day struggle that is life in urban America. ‘A unique and tantalizing novel that celebrates the lives of Everyday People in an extraordinary way.’ Mike Maiello, San Francisco Chronicle ‘An important book…
Beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting.’ Manuel Luis Martinez, Chicago Tribune

The Night Country

A ghost story that begins in everday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a ‘scary, sad, funny…
mesmerizing read’ Stephen King At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living. A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, The Night Country creeps through the leaf strewn streets and quiet cul de sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle’s mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts. Macabre and moving, The Night Country elevates every small town’s bad high school crash into myth, finding the deeper human truth beneath a shared and very American tragedy. As in his highly prized Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, once again Stewart O’Nan gives us an intimate look at people trying to hold on to hope, and the consequences when they fail.

The Good Wife

On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break into a house they believe is empty. It isn t, and within minutes an old woman is dead and the house is in flames. Soon after, the men are caught by the police. Across the county, a phone rings in a darkened bedroom, waking a pregnant woman. It’s her husband. He wants her to know that he and his friend have gotten themselves into a little trouble. So Patty Dickerson s old life ends and a strange new one begins. At once a love story and a portrait of a woman discovering her own strength, The Good Wife follows Patty through the twenty eight years of her husband s incarceration, as she raises her son, navigates a system that has no place for her, and braves the scorn of her community.

Last Night at the Lobster

Stewart O Nan has been called the bard of the working class and has now crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction. Perched in the far corner of a run down New England mall, The Red Lobster hasn t been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift. With only four shopping days left until Christmas, Manny must convince his near mutinous staff to hunker down and serve the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics, and holiday office parties. All the while, he’s wondering how to handle the waitress he s still in love with, his pregnant girlfriend at home, and the perfect present he still needs to buy. Last Night at the Lobster is a poignant yet redemptive look at what a man does when he discovers that his best might not be good enough.

The Odds

In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O’Nan’s thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine’s weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls’ ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.

In the Walled City

Stewart O’Nan is one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, selected by Granta as one of the Best Young American Novelists and hailed by The New York Times as ‘a master.’ Grove Press is proud to issue his award winning debut In the Walled City in paperback. Winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz Prize in 1993 selected by a panel chaired by Tobias Wolff O’Nan’s collection In the Walled City features twelve stories that delve into the lives and souls of an astonishing range of characters, from an old Chinese grocer to a young policeman separated from his family and descending into madness. Intimate and generous, these stories brilliantly illuminate the connections that bind us and the obligations and sorrows of love.

The Circus Fire: a True Story

One of America’s most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in this powerful re creation of the great Hartford circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and its people.

On July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, the big top of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus caught fire during the middle of the afternoon performance. Nine thousand people were inside. The canvas of the big tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline. In seconds, the big top was burning out of control. Bleacher seats were fronted by steel railings with narrow openings; the main exits were blocked by caged chutes in which leopards and lions, having just performed, raged, maddened by the fire.

In re creating the horrific events of one of America’s most cataclysmic civic tragedies, Stewart O’Nan has fashioned both an incomparably gripping narrative and a profound, measured glimpse into the extremes of human behavior under duress. In the madness of the inferno, some like animal trainer May Kovar and the tragic Bill Curlee who tossed dozens of children to safety over the lion’s chute, would act with superhuman bravery. Others, like the sailor who broke a woman’s jaw to get past her, would become beasts. The toll of the fire, and its circumstances, haunt Hartford to the present day the identity of one young victim, known only as Little Miss 1565, remains an enduring mystery and a source of conflict in the city.

But it is the intense, detailed narrative before, after, and especially during the panic under the burning tent that will remain with readers long after they finish this exceptional book.

Faithful

A fan’s notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O’Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo. From the supposed Curse of the Bambino to f in’ Bucky Dent to the recent off season battle for Alex Rodriguez, Sox fans have seen it all since 1918…
except for that elusive World Championship. Baseball history has transformed these fans into a ‘nation’ not to mention the most dedicated, knowledgeable fanbase on the planet. Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King, proud members of Red Sox Nation, will chronicle the 2004 baseball season from spring training to the last game of the season the important plays, the controversial managerial decisions, the significant front office moves, and the spectacular finish whether heartbreaking or joyous. Attending games together, keeping a running diary of observations and arguments, and occasionally evoking great or tragic events in Red Sox history. King and O’Nan will cheer on their beloved team with the eternal hope that this just might be the year. If you don’t have season ticket box seats right behind the firstbase dugout, you can’t beat Faithful.

Quitters, Inc. (By:Stephen King)

Read by Eric Roberts Dick Morrison’s life has become a nightmare of addictions, filling his days with overeating, overworking, and smoking way too much. When an old friend tells him about a surefire way to quit, he’s more than willing to give it a shot. But what Dick doesn?t know is that Quitters, Inc. demands a high price from anyone who strays from their rigid rules?like a few volts of electricity for the nearest and dearest…
or maybe a missing thumb? Forced to choose between his desperate need for cigarettes and the dire consequences of giving in to his addiction, Dick must decide just how important another drag really is.

The Mist (By:Stephen King)

Sound so visual you’re literally engulfed by its bonechilling terror! Stephen King’s sinister imagination and the miracle of 3 D sound transport you to a sleepy all American town. It’s a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist…
creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and you’re forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light? The Mist has you in it grip, and this masterpiece of 3 D sound engineering surrounds you with horror so real that you’ll be grabbing your own arm for reassurance. To one side and whipping around your chair, a slither of tentacles. Swooping down upon you, a rush grotesque, prehistoric wings. In the impenetrable mist, hearing is seeing and believing. And what you’re about to hear, you’ll never forget.

The Body (By:Stephen King)

In 1960s America, four young boys go on a journey to search for the body of a boy killed by a train. As they travel, they discover how cruel the world can be, but also how wondrous. ‘Penguin Readers’ is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series’ combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre 20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. ‘Penguin Readers’ are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from ‘Easystarts’ with a 200 word vocabulary, to Level 6 Advanced with a 3000 word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub categories: ‘Contemporary’, ‘Classics’ or ‘Originals’. At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying ‘Penguin Readers Factsheets’ which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.

The Shawshank Redemption (By:Stephen King)

10th Anniversary re issue of cult gaolhouse classic to coincide with re release on 9 September Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison. Based on a Stephen King short story, Frank Darabont’s screenplay follows the complex 20 year relationship between two convicts who have little in common beyond a will to survive. Darabont personally wrote and assembled all of the extensive material, in this, the best selling of the Shooting Script series: Introductions by Stephen King and Frank Darabont The Shooting Script in its original form Detailed analysis of script to screen changes 29 pages in all showing how and why scenes were cut and amended Two storyboard sequences, with commentary Stills section of 35 photos in all Afterword by Darabont about his experience in Hollywood

Apt Pupil (By:Stephen King)

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander’s darl past. The torture. The death. The decades old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power and the seductive lure of evil.

This acclaimed collection of four novellas by Stephen King also includes ‘Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption’ basis for the Academy Award nominated film The Shawshank Redemption, ‘The Body’ inspiration for the motion picture Stand By Me, and ‘The Breathing Method.’

Cycle of the Werewolf (By:Stephen King)

When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.

The Breathing Method (By:Stephen King)

From the world’s bestselling novelist comes the third tale in the Different Seasons collection. In this masterful horror story, thirteen men gather in their gentlemen’s club to hear the story of ‘The Breathing Method.’ And they will be forever transfigured by this terrifying story of a woman who was determined to give birth at all costs. The Breathing Method is one of four novellas in a collection that includes The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil.

The Langoliers (By:Stephen King)

The first of a four part audio series from Stephen King’s best selling book, Four Past Midnight. On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive but landing in a dead world makes them wish they hadn’t.

The Library Policeman (By:Stephen King)

This is the third gripping tale in the four part audio series from Stephen King’s best selling book Four Past Midnight. Set in Junction City, Iowa, The Library Policeman is the story of Sam Peebles, a middle aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offense but not to Junction City s malevolent monster of a librarian. What follows is spine tingling suspense as only Stephen King can deliver it.

Secret Window, Secret Garden (By:Stephen King)

Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we use to order our sense of reality. It bends, stretches, turns back, or snaps, and sometimes reality snaps with it. And what happens to the wide eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality shatters? This chilling story, part two of Stephen King’s bestselling Four Past Midnight, provides some shocking answers…
. Secret Window, Secret Garden draws the listener into the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shores of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.

Umney’s Last Case (By:Stephen King)

This ‘Penguin 60s’ book contains a short story taken from ‘Nightmares And Dreamscapes’.

Riding the Bullet (By:Stephen King)

A Stephen King ghost story in the grand tradition, Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhiking. A college student’s mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark landscape that could only be drawn by Stephen King.

LT’s Theory of Pets (By:Stephen King)

A Rare Live Stephen King Recording! Stephen King delivers a haunting, heartfelt performance as he shares a story about the bonds between husbands, wives and pets. LT has a theory about pets, particularly his Siamese cat. It had been their cat not just his cat, but that was until he came home one day to a note on the fridge. His wife had left him. The cat stayed behind…
Recorded live at London’s Royal Festival Hall, LT’s Theory of Pets demonstrates yet again that Stephen King is a master storyteller.

Stationary Bike (By:Stephen King)

New on audio from Stephen King…
an unabridged novella’as artful as anything he has ever written.’ Booklist 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 his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty something, junk food eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly. Unlike many a mid life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he’s spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard’s mural is no ordinary picture and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn’t want to go…
and can’t stay away from. A riveting riff on artistic frustration, midlife mortality, and hard won redemption, Stationary Bike is a thrill ride that could come only from the mind of Stephen King.

The Gingerbread Girl (By:Stephen King)

In the emotional aftermath of her baby’s sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. Will Em be next?

UR (By:Stephen King)

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything’s Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Lisey’s Story and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Blockade Billy (By:Stephen King)

From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die hard 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 professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse…
and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25. 00 limited edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of Blockade Billy, with an on sale date of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book and the Simon & Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ‘Morality’.

Mile 81 (By:Stephen King)

Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid. At Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play paratroopers over the side. Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud covered station wagon which is strange because there hadn t been any rain in New England for over a week veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says closed, no services. The driver s door opens but nobody gets out. Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls the ultimate insurance manual, but it isn t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates. Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton s cracked cell phone near the wagon door and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids Rachel and Blake Lussier and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.

The Bone Key (By:Sarah Monette)

The dead and the monstrous will not leave Kyle Murchison Booth alone, for an unwilling foray into necromancy has made him sensitive to and attractive to the creatures who roam the darkness of his once safe world. Ghosts, ghouls, incubi: all have one thing in common. They know Booth for one of their own…

The Vietnam Reader

The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O’Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are incisive reader’s questions useful for educators and book clubs in a volume that makes an essential contribution to a wider understanding of the Vietnam War. This authoritative and accessible volume is sure to become a classic reference, as well as indispensable and provocative reading for anyone who wants to know more about the war that changed the face of late twentieth century America.

Boston Noir

There was only ever one candidate for the job of assembling Boston Noir: Dennis Lehane!

Halloween

Shivers and spirits…
the mystical and macabre…
our darkest fears and sweetest fantasies…
the fun and frivolity of tricks, treats, festivities, and masquerades. Halloween is a holiday filled with both delight and dread, beloved by youngsters and adults alike. Celebrate the most magical season of the year with this sensational treasury of seasonal tales spooky, suspenseful, terrifying, or teasing harvested from a multitude of master storytellers.

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

Darkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town’s annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children whose nightlights have vanished; and flickers between us at the movie theater. Darkness crawls from the past and is waiting in our future; and there’s always a chance that Halloween really is a door opening directly into endless shadow. Welcome to the dark. You may never want to leave. This inaugural volume of the year’s best dark fantasy and horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique. Chosen from a variety of sources, these stories are as eclectic and varied as the genre itself.

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