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The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

The Dark Tower IV: Wolves of the Calla

From a Buick 8

Everything's Eventual

Talisman: Black House

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2004)

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
With 10 full-colour illustrations by Darrel Anderson
Roland Deschain, gunslinger, hero, continues his perilous adventures in search of the key to the quest that will define his life.
Roland’s loyal followers Jake, Father Callahan and Oy, set out to break Susannah’s date with destiny. She has used the power of Black Thirteen to transport her from the farming community of Calla Bryn Sturgis to New York where she prepares to give birth to an unknown entity.
Meanwhile, Roland and Eddie brave the state of Maine in the summer of 1977. It is a frightful world, a real world, where bullets are flying. A world inhabited by the author of a novel called Salem’s Lot...
Driven by revelation and suspense, Song of Susannah continues the Dark Tower saga from Wolves of the Calla; its dual climaxes will leave readers gasping to read the next volume - the electrifying conclusion. The Dark Tower.
The penultimate volume in Stephen King’s seven volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is a pivotal installment in the most anticipated series of publications in Stephen King’s legendary career.

Darrel Anderson’s work has appeared in various Science Fiction books and magazines over the last three decades. More recently he has contributed to CDs, web site designs, and other electronic publications. His work has also been featured in Computer Graphics World, Mac Week, Mac World, Computer Pictures and Computer Artist.
He is a guest artist/instructor at California State University, Tufts University and Modesto Junior College.
‘Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping well-honed plot’ Daily Express on Wolves of the Calla

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2003)

The Dark Tower IV: Wolves of the Calla
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower
With 12 full colour illustrations by Bernie Wrightson
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland’s youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future’s only promise. Readers of Stephen King’s epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland’s world; and Oy, the billy humbler.
In this eagerly awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers in Mid-World’s borderlands. Beyond the town the rocky ground rises towards the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community’s soul. One of the town’s residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined priest who, like Susannah, Eddie and Jake, passed through one of the portals that lead both into and out of Roland’s world.
As Father Callahan tells the ka-tet the astonishing story of what happened following his shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower becomes clear, as does the danger lacing a single red rose in a vacant lot off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger gathers in the cast like a stormcloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the Calla folken both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not he enough.

Paperback - NEL (2003)

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2002)

From a Buick 8

Come close, children, and see the living crocodile.

A vintage ‘54 blue Buick Roadmaster. At least, that’s what it looks like...
There is a terrifying secret shrouded in Shed B out the back of the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret which lures its victims, terrified yet irresistibly tempted, to look at its beautiful chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system. None of which works. Because the power of the Buick 8 is not turbocharged or fuel-injected.
For twenty years, the Buick has lured curious officers to watch its terrifying displays - from blinding light-shows to feeding time. Come take a look. Because the Buick is a conduit to a world beyond.
Young Ned Wilcox will be next. Ned has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow. It’s the boy’s way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick.
And Ned can feel it pulling him, whispering for him to come in and take a look.
And so he peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret.
And like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir...
From a Buick 8 will suck you into the powerful force of the imagination of the world’s bestselling writer. It is a riveting and moving novel about the fascination deadly things have for us. About our need to map out the road ahead and make the pieces of the jigsaw fit. It is about the chains we forge - that can hold us captive, or set us free.
‘A fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it’ Express
`Excellent on police lore and procedure ... enriched by a double plot that shows men ageing, changing and disappearing over two decades ... Impressive in its handling of narrative voice and structure as well as character’ The Sunday Times
`A voice as distinctive as it is compelling’ Scotsman
`One of his freshest and most original books ... a beautifully balanced book. What really elevates this novel is its clever construction ... From a Buick 8 is a beautiful excursion into new narrative territory showing an accomplished storyteller making unusual choices and resisting the obvious at every turn. This book shrugs off interpretation and is as alien and bewitching as the Buick 8 itself, a portal into King’s incredible imagination’ Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday
`One of his freshest and most original books ... a beautiful excursion into new narrative territory, showing an accomplished storyteller ... a portal into King’s incredible imagination’ Independent on Sunday
`One of the great storytellers of our time’ Guardian
`He’s a very accomplished writer and one of his many endeavours is to raise his craft’ John Sutherland, Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London
`It’s the suspense rather than the whirring of the chainsaw that keeps me reading.’ Terry Pratchett, Observer
`If you still think of King as just a churner-out of horror stories, you’ve got him badly wrong. And you’re missing some tremendous stuff’ Evening Standard
`An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing .. is so fluid that you often forget that you’re reading’ Guardian
`King is blessed with an apparently inexhaustible imagination and a talent for storytelling... In his hands, at least, the art is far from being lost’ Daily Mail (Everything’s Eventual)
‘Still on top of his game… An unusual and disturbing mix that no other modern writer could pull off’ The Times (Everything’s Eventual)

Paperback - NEL (2003)

Everything's Eventual
A compelling and captivating collection - the first volume of stories from the bestselling author in almost a decade.
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book `Riding the Bullet’. Terror becomes déjà vu all over again when you get `That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French’. ‘LT’s Theory of Pets’ will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn.
Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
`King is blessed with an apparently inexhaustible imagination and a talent for storytelling. . . In his hands, at least, the art is far from being lost’ Daily Mail
`Still on top of his game ...An unusual and disturbing mix that no other modern writer could pull off’ The Times

Paperback - Harpercollins (2002)

First British Edition Harpercollins (2001)

Talisman: Black House
With Peter Straub

The house appears to have been painted a uniform black not only the boards, but every inch of the exterior, the porch, the trim, the rain gutters, even the windows. Black, from top to bottom. And that cannot be possible; in this guileless, good-hearted corner of the world, not even the most crazily misanthropic builder would turn his house into its own shadow.

French Landing, Wisconsin - home of Kingsland Ale, Goltz’s farm implements, Maxton’s old folks’ home and Radio KDCU, the voice of the Coulee Country. A comfortable, solid middle-American town inhabited by comfortable, solid middle-Americans; and a serial killer.
Ten-year-old Irma Freneau’s mutilated body lies in the rotting ruins of Ed’s Eats & Dawgs in the woods close to the Black House. No one has discovered her yet; no one, that is, except for a host of flies and a wild dog. But her severed foot, complete with size 5 New Balance sneaker and an obscene note, is about to make its way home to French Landing, packed into a shoebox.
Slippage is occurring in the Coulee Country. Three children have been lost to the world. Three children: slaughtered by a fiend with a taste for child’s flesh. Linking the murders with those carried out by a previous century’s serial killer, the local newspaper has dubbed the perpetrator `The Fisherman’, and if local police chief Dale Gilbertson doesn’t catch the Fisherman soon, he’ll lose his job, and another French Landing mother will lose her child.
If only Jack `Hollywood’ Sawyer-the ex-detective from LA who cracked their last case for them - would help, Dale might save his neck. But, plagued by visions of another world, Jack has retired to this pretty rural retreat precisely to avoid such horrors. And having recognized the touch of madness on this case, he has no wish to revisit the Territories whence such madness issues.
Soon, he’ll have no choice: for the Fisherman is about to select his fourth victim. Tyler Marshall, left behind one afternoon by his bullying friends, pedals past Maxton Elder Care and is accosted by a crow. ‘Gorg!’ it caws, and ‘Ty!’ What ten-year-old could resist a bird that speaks his name? Not Ty, that’s for sure. And as he follows the crow towards the old folks’ home, he is grabbed by the neck and dragged into a hedge.
The Fisherman has made another catch...
Black House is a masterwork from two of the greatest storytellers of our time.
'One of the most brilliant and chilling thrillers of modern times' Daily Mail
'Fabulous. It's the best of the best. No argument. The ultimate in storytelling by two masters of the craft' Independent on Sunday
'A new horror epic… Impossible to put down once you have started' Sunday Express
‘Fabulous. Black house is sad, sentimental, raucous, rude, laugh-out-loud funny and look-under-the-bed scary’ Independent on Sunday
‘One of the most eagerly anticipated blockbusters in recent years - and for once the hype is entirely justified. Black house is a thrill-a-minute ghost train ride of a novel, filled with astonishingly vivid characters. Never letting the reader settle for a second, it hurtles through its pages. Reading it is like holding on to a live electric wire. You may want to put it down, but you find that you can’t’ Daily Mail
‘A masterpiece of modern terror. As the book races towards the final confrontation between good and evil, the two masters of modern terror crank up the tension to an unbearable level before dealing a knock-out twist’ Irish Independent
‘Grotesque, scary and amusing as ever’ The Times
‘A virtuoso performance’ TLS