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Insomnia

The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Dark Visions

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Hardback
Collins Crime (1994)

Insomnia
Ralph Roberts has a problem: he isn’t sleeping so well these days. In fact, he’s hardly sleeping at all. Each morning, the news conveyed by the bedside clock is a little worse: 3:15 . . . 3:02 . . . 2:45 . . . 2:15. The books call it ‘premature waking’; Ralph, who is still learning to be a widower, calls it a season in hell. He’s begun to notice a strangeness in his familiar surroundings, to experience visual phenomena that he can’t quite believe are hallucinations. Soon, Ralph thinks, he won’t be sleeping at all, and what then?
A problem, yes - though perhaps not so uncommon, you might say. But Ralph has lived his entire life in Derry, Maine, and Derry isn’t like other places, as millions of Stephen King readers will gladly testify. They remember It, also set in Derry, and know there’s a mean streak running through this small New England city; underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work. The dying, natural and otherwise, has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. Now Ralph is part of it. So are his friends. And so are the strangers they encounter.
You, Gentle Reader, may never sleep again. Welcome to Insomnia.
‘popular fiction at its best’ The Times
‘a supreme page-turner… and a plot that will keep you awake at night’ GQ
‘as accomplished as ever’ Interzone

Paperback - NEL (2003)

The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
With an new introduction by the author
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower
The Waste Lands
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares.
Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, a scarred urban wasteland. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward. A blend of thrilling action and powerful drama, The Waste Lands leaves readers breathlessly awaiting the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer...
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

Paperback - Indigo (2000)

Dark Visions
An impressive showcase from three masters of the macabre
With George R. R. Martin and Dan Simmons
Take three of the leading names in contemporary horror writing, commission one third of a book's worth of stories from each, and the result is Dark Visions.
Stephen King, the world's bestselling writer, leads off with three stories, including 'Sneakers', about a very unusual haunting, and 'Dedication', one of the most powerful and unsettling of all his works.
Dan Simmons, who won the World Fantasy Award with his first novel, The Song of Kali, pays homage to Philip K. Dick with 'Metastasis', one of three highly accomplished stories.
And George Martin, award?winning author of the modern horror classic Fevre Dream, rounds off the book with the brilliant werewolf novella, 'The Skin Trade'.
Edited and with an introduction by Douglas E. Winter.

Paperback - NEL (2003)

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
With an new introduction by the author
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower
The Drawing Of The Three
On his journey across the Mid-World to reach the Dark Tower, errant knight Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors - each leading to New York. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And must confront deadly serial killer Jack Mort.
As the titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies threatens to bring an end to Roland’s quest for the Dark Tower...
Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and gritty realism, The Drawing of the Three propels readers towards the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer...
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

Paperback - NEL (2003)

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Revised and expanded throughout
With an new introduction and foreword by the author
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower
The Gunslinger
This newly revised and expanded edition of The Gunslinger, for which Stephen King has written a special introduction and foreword, is the mesmerising first book in his spectacular, epic Dark Tower series.
In The Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.
In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.
Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer...
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.