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Originally published in magazine form as Dark tower: the gunslinger born, #1-7. King's dark epic is set in a parallel world Old West touched with magic: falconry and witches mix with a knightly order known as "gunslingers." The epic spans seven novels drawing on themes from fantasy, sf, horror, and New Age. This graphic version will present the tale in chronological order for the first time.

The Road is set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world. A father and his young son wander through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last traces of their own humanity.

Part fantasy and part science fiction, these epic tales feature quests, magical objects, and shifting timelines. Both plot-driven novels come with danger, violence, and beauty; their fully realized worlds are seamless combinations of the imaginary and the very real.

This book is far from new, but the parallels to Dark Tower are incredible. Seven pilgrims are on a journey to save everything, to a creature called the Shrike on the planet Hyperion, a being that some worship and many fear. A gripping sci-fi story of hope at the end of the world.

If it was the weird West aspect that pulled you into the Dark Tower, then give this story a try. Isobel chooses on her sixteenth birthday to work for the devil out west past Mississippi. This is a world where the devil gives many deals, and they get what they deserve out in his land. Whether she realizes it or not, Izzy is being trained to become his left hand, which will definitely lead to magic, chaos, and death.

Graphic Novel adaptation of King's The Stand. A deadly biochemical virus called Captain Trips kills nearly everyone infected, and the individuals who survive the virus are sought by the government that engineered the disease.

A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day.

These compelling, atmospheric, and chilling horror novels both feature diverse casts of characters, mysterious plagues that wreak havoc on society, and and intrepid heroes confronting malicious, superhuman figures.

Global pandemics spark societal collapse, further dividing an already polarized America in these sprawling apocalyptic novels. Perspective shifts among multiple characters and across locations lend a cinematic aspect to intricately plotted narratives that converge in confrontations between good and evil.

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race.

One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.

King's novel about a writer held hostage by his "number-one fan,'' is terrifying. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident; rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be far worse than death.

Readers grow obsessed with authors in these compelling novels. Marina Willett has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the 'old gent' lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina, a psychiatrist, doesn't believe them. A tour de force of storytelling inspired by Lovecraft and his gang.

You're an underpaid civil servant who dreams of chucking it all to become a famous author. You live with your overbearing mother who always seems to interrupt when you're writing a key scene. Who always wants to know why you haven't brought home a nice girl. What you really are is a writer. A brilliant one, too, though like any writer, you sometimes have a dry spell. Your imagination is dark, your inspiration the terrible things that can happen to a young woman traveling alone . . . . Suddenly, success! You win a magazine contest--first prize is publication for your terrifying short story about a horrible murder on an underground train. A director wants to make a movie of your award-winning story and wants your input on the script. A pretty young journalist seems to be taking a personal interest in you and your career. Except. The family of a girl murdered on the underground threatens to sue you and the magazine for glorifying the grisly details of their daughter's death, despite your insistence that you didn't read the news coverage of the murder. The magazine asks you to supply a different story. The film director wants you to make a few changes in your story. Especially with the lawsuit hanging over everyone's head. The journalist's interest turns out to merely be professional. You've been fired. And, worst of all, your imagination has run dry. You don't have another story in you. You'll just have to kill someone new . . .

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades

Aging death-metal rock legend Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is as unique or as dreadful as his latest purchase off the Internet: a one-of-a-kind curiosity that arrives at his door in a black heart-shaped box...a musty dead man's suit still inhabited by the spirit of its late owner. And now everywhere Judas Coyne goes, the old man is there--watching, waiting, dangling a razor blade on a chain from his bony hand.

Odd sees the dead, some of whom enlist his help in avenging their deaths from foul play. His gift is a secret from everyone except his beautiful girlfriend and the Chief of Police, who never questions Odd's tips or presence at a murder scene.

"On Ned Dunstan's birthday, he experiences a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of slaughter perpetrated by a malevolent figure in black whom Ned calls Mr. X. On her deathbed, his mother tells him the truth about his father. His determination to find out as much as he can about his absent father ignites a series of extraordinary adventures that gradually reveal the heart of both his own identity and that of his fantastic family.

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-five years ago. Soon, Carly is mirroring her aunt's life, working as the night clerk at the motel, where a haunting presence still lingers and a possible serial killer stalks the night desk.

Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you checking the rearview mirror again and again.

In his latest soul-chilling novel, bestselling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children's book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes the her existence has come into question.

A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist.

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge. After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.