In the introduction to Skeleton Crew (1985), his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for 'literary elephantiasis,' makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), an...

Rice's new work brings readers once more into the midst of the dynasty of witches introduced in her phenomenal runaway bestseller The Witching Hour. The novel moves around the globe, backward and forward in time, and between the world...

For 100 years, the name Nathaniel has been synonymous with terror in the town of Prairie Bend. Who is Nathaniel: a myth, a former resident, a ghost bent on vengeance? When young Michael begins to hear an eerie voice calling to him acr...

In this prequel to the Dollanger series, Olivia comes to Foxworth Hall as Malcom Foxworth's happy new bride. But secrets are lurking in the shadows of the family mansion, and Olivia is powerless to stop the evil that is breeding befor...

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur and spine-tingling terror descends to this 'edge of paradise.' Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives. Tessa Locklan...

Two lonely teenagers suffer the consequences of dealing in black magic in this offering from a popular writer of horror and suspense. Angel Sullivan, a shy teenager, moves into a Massachusetts house haunted by witches burned at the st...

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-...

On the werewolf reservation of Ripple Creek, a killer is on the loose. Three women are dead, their bodies mutilated and faces slashed. A fourth, Neva Grant's twin, lies in the hospital, fighting for her life.Psychically linked, Neva s...

Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent's darkest fears. Something is taking the children...

The second of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's bestselling book, Four Past Midnight. Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake-that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing ...

When a mysterious stranger rescues her from a deranged kidnapper, Pamela soon discovers that her situation is even more dire when her so-called savior, trapping her in a bus full of mannequins, takes her to a tiny, isolated town where...

Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town.... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family...

The haunting collection that comes from the unique place where Ripley's Believe It or Not! ® meets The Twilight Zone: Stephen King's unparalleled imagination....Nightmares & Dreamscapes includes the tale 'Dolan's Cadillac,' soon t...

Ted and Mary Anderson return to Villejeune with trepidation. They remember their home town as a strange and uninviting place, however, they have nowhere else to go. But Villejeune is home to a secret society with hallowed, depraved ri...

Every parent's nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom during the night. The police suspect that the girl is just another moody teenage runaway, angry over leaving behind her s...

One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the '10 Best' lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science...

Dale Stewart, the protagonist in Simmons's 1991 horror novel SUMMER OF NIGHT, returns. Now he's 51, with his university career and marriage in shambles after an obsessive affair, and he's off to his boyhood home in Illinois to hole up...

The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it ...

Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,  jealously guarded against outsiders. But now  strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is  suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since  birth... His sister is...

Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real....

Commander Rochelle 'Rocky' Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the 'unsinkable' naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanica...

Despite his brilliance, Paul Skoglund hasn't held a steady job for years, partly because of his Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disorder that forces his body into wild swings and to blurt out words that are hilariously, often trag...

These five tales by a winner of the British Fantasy Award include a bloody parable of the body in revolt, a conundrum centered in a piece of string, a fable of Hell on Earth, a story of an unholy coupling of the living and the dead, a...

There's no such thing as a happy family in John Saul's dark imagination. He made this chillingly clear in Suffer the Children and The Right Hand of Evil, and he deepens this impression in Nightshade, a perfectly macabre tale of a hous...

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen — from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New Y...

As bulldozers raze the ruins of one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its cemetary, a grisly discovery is made, and Louis Kincaid must go head-to-head with a sadistic killer who is using the dark tunnels underneath this ...

On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville.For years it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies.But its ignorance is not bliss. Opening the door between ...

Seeking to destroy an evil force that threatens the planet Erna, warrior priest Damien Vryce renews a dangerous alliance with Gerald Tarrant, an immortal sorcerer known as the Hunter, and begins a treacherous quest to the eastern cont...

Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him--and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But...

Stephen King introduces this collection of master horror writer Richard Matheson's short stories. Informing a generation of would-be writers, and burrowing their way into the public consciousness, these stories have become modern clas...