Résultats de "Stephen King" dans Toutes les catégories

Four chiller novellas set to keep listeners awake long after bedtime. One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only 11 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.

Tard, la nuit dernière et celle d'avant, Toc ! Toc ! à la porte les Tommyknockers ! Les Tommyknockers, les esprits frappeurs... je voudrais sortir, mais je n'ose pas, Parce que j'ai trop peur du Tommyknocker. Tout commence par les rythmes apaisants d'une berceuse ; et pourtant, sous la plume de Stephen King, les vers anodins se muent en une inoubliable parabole de l'épouvante, qui entraîne les habitants pourtant bien sages et terre à terre d'un paisible village dans un enfer plus horrible que leurs plus abominables cauchemars... ou les vôtres.

Les retrouvailles du ka-tet de Dix-Neuf auront été de courte durée, car les pistoleros doivent à nouveau se séparer pour accomplir les deux tâches dont dépend le sort de la Tour Sombre : mettre fin à l'ignoble labeur des Briseurs détruisant les Rayons, et sauver l'écrivain Stephen King d'une mort programmée qui les condamnerait inéluctablement. Et ce n'est là qu'un prélude à l'affrontement avec Mordred - monstre hybride enfanté par Mia/Susannah -, le dernier héritier de la lignée d'Eld mais aussi du Roi Cramoisi, lequel n'a pas dit son dernier mot.

Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people's futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiancée married another man during his coma, and people clamor for him to solve their problems. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future.

Le génie narratif de Stephen King atteint de nouveaux sommets et bouscule les frontières de l'imaginaire. Conte de fées, c'est l'histoire magnifique et terrifiante d'un garçon de dix-sept ans qui hérite de clés ouvrant sur un univers parallèle où le Bien affronte le pouvoir écrasant du Mal. Une bataille dont l'enjeu est capital... pour notre monde.

Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.

Bienvenue à l'Institut. Quand les enfants y entrent, ils n'en sortent plus. Au cœur de la nuit, à Minneapolis, des intrus pénètrent dans la maison de Luke Ellis, jeune surdoué de 12 ans, tuent ses parents et le kidnappent. Luke se réveille à l'Institut, dans une chambre semblable à la sienne, sauf qu'elle n'a pas de fenêtre.

Stephen King's first full-length solo novel since Dreamcatcher, the long-awaited From a Buick 8 is "nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment," says Publishers Weekly. A strange car acts as a conduit between our world and some other...and the boogeyman of this creepy story is our collective fascination with deadly things.

In the wake of a destructive Maine summer thunderstorm, an impenetrable mist descends from the direction of a local military facility and infiltrates the small town of Bridgton. David Drayton and his son, Billy, are dragged into a living nightmare as unnatural and violent forces concealed by the mist begin to emerge, wreaking havoc in their wake.

"L'homme en noir fuyait à travers le désert, et le Pistolero le suivait..." Ce Pistolero, c'est Roland de Gilead, dernier justicier et aventurier d'un monde qui a "changé" et dont il cherche à inverser la destruction programmée. Pour ce faire, il doit arracher au sorcier vêtu de noir les secrets qui le mèneront vers la Tour Sombre, à la croisée de tous les temps et de tous les lieux. Roland surmontera-t-il les pièges diaboliques de cette créature ? A-t-il conscience que son destin est inscrit dans trois cartes d'un jeu de tarot bien particulier ?

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.

Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier until he's barely sleeping at all. During his late-night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people's heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep.

Les personnes que l'on aime ne meurent jamais. Depuis qu'elle n'est plus là, Mike n'écrit plus. Reclus dans sa maison, près du lac, son souvenir l'obsède, ses nuits sont des cauchemars. Entre deux mondes, égaré dans une zone incertaine, Mike la cherche. Mais elle n'est plus qu'une ombre... Une ombre parmi celles qui hantent le domaine de Sara Laughs, avides de vengeance, prêtes à faire payer des crimes que l'on croit oubliés.

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the convicted killers on E Block await their turn to walk the Green Mile and keep a date with the electric chair. Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working as a guard on the Mile, but he's never met anyone like John Coffey.

Mieux vaut ne pas pénétrer dans le monde Rose Madder sans y être invité... Quatorze ans de mariage, quatorze ans de mauvais traitements : toute la vie de Rosie. Un enfer ! Doublé d'une obsession : fuir son tortionnaire de mari, flic jaloux, bourreau sadique, prêt à la massacrer à la première occasion.

Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic getaway. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop, the evening ends with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, Jessie is trapped and alone. Over the next 28 hours, in the lakeside house that has become a prison, Jessie will come face to face with all the things she has ever feared.

Billy Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when his lack of attention results in the death of an old gypsy lady on the street. Overweight Halleck is a lawyer with connections, though, and he gets off with a slap on the wrist. After the trial, the victim's ancient father curses him with a single word: "thinner". Shedding weight by the week, Halleck is desperate enough for one last gamble...one that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection.

It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate - he needs money to treat his daughter's illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him.