Stephen King

'Salem's Lot (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

NOW A NEW FILM STREAMING ON MAX • #1 BESTSELLER • Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. • With an introduction by Joe Hill "A master storyteller." -The Los Angeles Times When two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town. With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385528221
• Artikelnr.: 39169813

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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Rezensionen

Hugely impressive Guardian

A master storyteller. The Los Angeles Times

Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . He s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door. The Boston Globe

Peerless imagination. The Observer (London)

An unabashed chiller. Austin American Statesman

[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet. USA Today

[King is] the guy who probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe. Entertainment Weekly

Spine-tingling fiction at its best." Grand Rapids Press

A super exorcism. . . . Tremendous. Kirkus Reviews

A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil. Chattanooga Times