Stephen King
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
xix, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before; something no one wants to see.
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
xix, 1,153 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old...
84) Doctor Sleep
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child, spending his days self-medicating away the 'shine' with alcohol. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift.' Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
816 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (approximately 2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emily escapes to the secluded Vermillion Key off of Florida's coast after the death of her infant child. Her new neighbor also enjoys the privacy of the key, but the women he brings with him never return home. Emily's curiosity leads her right into the hands of the madman, but it's her legs that are her only hope for survival.
90) Lisey's story
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
16 sound discs (approximately 19 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The book is a parable about love and imagination, that affirms love as the more salvific of the two.
91) Blood & smoke
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (approximately 3 hr. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including 1408, now a feature film! Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small town is shaken when children suddenly start killing their parents. Based on the classic short story from horror master Stephen King.
A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the town's only hope of survival.
93) UR
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else? He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams ... and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares. Vintage...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
95) The sun dog
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The Sun Dog, the concluding novella in Stephen King's best-selling Four Past Midnight, the source of terror is a simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (approximately 9 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having overdue library books is often one of the least offenses that people partake in throughout their lives. Sam Peebles, however, realizes that in Junction City, Iowa, overdue library books can be a cause for threats, harassment, and even torture.
98) 11.22.63
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who is trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...