A perennial classic from Stephen King - timeless and topical.

Zusatztext King can make the flesh creep half a world away Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers, including the epic thrillers The Institute and Desperation. Some of King's recent bestsellers are Fairy Tale , Billy Summers and If It Bleeds . Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including IT , Stand By Me (adapted from The Body ) and The Shawshank Redemption , which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 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 Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Klappentext 'SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER' The house looks right! feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling! old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city. It's only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out unnerving threats. Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children walked in a procession with the solemn innocence of the young! taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe! but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams! to wake you! sweating with fear and foreboding... 'King can make the flesh creep half a world away' - The Times 'So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' - Guardian 'The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written' - Publisher's Weekly Zusammenfassung Now a major motion picture 'SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER' The house looks right! feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling! old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city. It's only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out unnerving threats. Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children walked in a procession with the solemn innocence of the young! taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe! but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams! to wake you! sweating with fear and foreboding... 'King can make the flesh creep half a world away' - The Times 'So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' - Guardian 'The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written' - Publisher's Weekly ...

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STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers, including the epic thrillers The Institute and Desperation. Some of King's recent bestsellers are Fairy Tale, Billy Summers and If It Bleeds.

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 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 Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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'SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER'

The house looks right, feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city.

It's only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out unnerving threats.

Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children walked in a procession with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.

A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding...

'King can make the flesh creep half a world away' - The Times

'So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' - Guardian

'The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written' - Publisher's Weekly

Zusammenfassung

Now a major motion picture

'SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER'

The house looks right, feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city.

It's only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out unnerving threats.

Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children walked in a procession with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.

A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding...

'King can make the flesh creep half a world away' - The Times

'So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' - Guardian

'The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written' - Publisher's Weekly