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Стивен Кинг хотел понять, что стало с Дэнни Торренсом, одним из главных героев романа «Сияние», после всего того, что случилось с ним в отеле «Оверлук». Из этого импульса и родился увлекательный бестселлер «Доктор Сон». Перед вами история эпической битвы между добром и злом, которая понравится всем ценителям хоррора вообще и тем, кого очаровал один из самых известных романов короля ужасов, в частности • Дэнни Торранс тяготится воспоминаниями об алкоголизме и жестокости его отца; даже много десятилетий спустя ему тяжело даётся поиск своего места в мире. В конечном счёте, он оседает в небольшом городке в штате Нью-Хэмпшир. Там Дэнни заручается поддержкой общества анонимных алкоголиков и устраивается в хоспис. Его «сияние» и помощь чувствительного к смерти кота облегчают страдания пациентов, и вскоре Дэн становится известен как «Доктор Сон»

Роман Стивена Кинга и Оуэна Кинга «Спящие красавицы» – наглядная демонстрация вершин, которых могут достичь король ужасов и его сын, работая сообща. Ставки в этой истории выше некуда: как-никак, мужчины этого мира могут остаться одни… • С женщинами происходит что-то странное. Заснув, они покрываются тонкими коконами. И если кто-то повредит этот кокон и разбудит спящую раньше времени, она придёт в самое настоящее бешенство • Этот вирус распространяется и в женской тюрьме городка Дулинг, расположенного в штате Западная Вирджиния. Но одна из заключённых решительно отказывается его подхватывать. Вскоре о загадочной красавице Иви, не утратившей способность просыпаться ото сна, начинают ходить слухи. В чём же её секрет? Неужели речь о самой обычной медицинской аномалии? А вдруг она демон в человеческом облике? • Мужчины, которые уже начинают дичать, заняты склоками и междоусобицами, а Лайла Норкросс, шериф Дулинга, изо всех сил пытается бодрствовать и держаться от царства Морфея подальше

A murder to solve. A reporter on the case • Crimes of the past won't stay buried • In the woodland community of Shady Hollow, you'll discover a secret. Moose and mice, owls and bears live side by side in civilised harmony. The town has a coffee shop and a bookshop, a haberdasher and a bank. Life is peaceful, until a skeleton is found buried deep under an apple tree. Danger has returned to Shady Hollow • Ace reporter Vera Vixen only wants a good news story as harvest time arrives with the promise of glorious feasts ahead. But the discovery of the body casts a darker shadow. Soon enough, the coffeeshop's owner is being dragged down to the police station. Vera can't believe gentle Joe the moose is a killer. To get to the bottom of the matter, she will have to dig into the secrets her neighbours would rather leave buried forever

Вошедшие в данный сборник рождественские рассказы Энид Блайтон по праву считаются нестареющей классикой детской литературы. Эта книга - отличный подарок для тех, кто насладился этими историями в детстве и хочет познакомить с ними новое поколение читателей • Книга «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories» оказалась столь популярной, что издательство Hodder & Stoughton по просьбам читателей выпустило второй праздничный сборник, и именно его вы держите в руках! Энид Блайтон передаёт атмосферу Рождества с несравненным мастерством, какой бы аспект праздника она ни описывала: колядки, ожидание подарков, праздничный стол и, конечно, посиделки с родными и близкими… Да, в историях Блайтон, как обычно, нашлось место для озорства и хаоса, но добро и веселье в них всегда на первом месте! • Рассказы из этой книги ранее не публиковались в «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories»

An anthology of turbulent tales edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill • Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill • Stephen King hates to fly • Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you • Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like - gulp! - a coffin) with hundreds of strangers

Every Winter, the human population hibernates • During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity • Well, not quite • Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses • You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind • When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling • When you get the dreams too, it's weird • When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity • But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk

Words sting. Songs kill • he Cruel Prince meets To Kill a Kingdom in this seductive YA fantasy debut, in which a siren must choose between protecting her family and following her heart in a prejudiced kingdom where her existence is illegal • Saoirse Sorkova survives on secrets. As the last siren in her kingdom, she can sing any man to an early grave - but her very existence is illegal, and if her true identity were ever discovered, it would be her life on the line • By day, Saoirse disguises herself as a fae, pretending to be the perfect soldier-in-training. By night, she satisfies her darker urges working as an assassin for dangerous mercenaries. And all the while, she keeps the biggest secret of all: that she is not always in control of her Siren powers, or her desire to kill

1552. Fifteen years after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries, Catholics in England still live in fear. When thirteen-year-old Celia da Bohun first meets Stephen Marsdon, a young Catholic priest, protestant Edward VI has been on the throne for five years. Reluctantly, Stephen agrees to be her teacher but as Celia grows older, her girlish adoration of him and his affection for her deepens into a passionate love that will not be extinguished - even by her violent death • 400 years later, history seems poised to repeat itself. Not long after the marriage of Richard Marsdon and his American wife Celia, something seems to go terribly wrong between them. It is only when Celia is forced to look deep in to the past that she has a chance to prevent another tragedy

The ultimate thriller writer's first large-scale, ticking clock standalone thriller. An escaped convict takes hostage a bus of deaf children. He will kill one an hour • A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone has the same agenda. And the killers will kill one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met

He's arrogant, domineering, and... To. Die. For • Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn't chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he's saddled with something he's never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy • Serena Cross didn't believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something...unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend's murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret • Hunter stirs Serena's temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he's doing the unthinkable - breaking the rules he's lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe

The right cause can topple a kingdom • Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict - and eighteen-year-old Mererid 'Mer' is well-acquainted with both. As the last living water diviner, she can manipulate water with magic - a unique elemental power many would kill to possess • For years, Mer has been running from the prince who bound her into his service - and forced her to kill thousands with her magic. Now, all Mer truly wants is a safe, quiet life, far from power and politics • But then Mer's old handler - the king's spymaster - returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both

It's the night of the full Cold Moon - the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer's obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth • Lincoln Rhyme, Amelia Sachs and the rest of the crew are approached to handle the case and stop the Watchmaker and his partner, Vincent Reynolds, a repulsive character with a special interest in the female victims of the killer • Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation - her first case as lead detective