alcoholic Jack Torrance arrives there one snowbound winter to serve as the hotel’s new caretaker, little does he know that the evil place will exert its insidious influence to liberate his personal demons and add to its legacy of terror.


Stephen King: Three Novels


(Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics Series) By Stephen King Sterling


This collection brings high-school together King’s


first three published novels for a trilogy of terror that is unparalleled in modern fiction. Carrie is the story of Carrie White, an outcast and alienated


student who discovers that


she possesses formidable paranormal powers. While Carrie struggles privately to understand the full scope of her wild talents, her classmates escalate their cruel taunts, provoking her in dangerous ways that no one could dream of in their worst nightmares. In Salem’s Lot, writer Ben Mears returns to his hometown in Maine to write a book on the local Marsten House, the site of an unsettling childhood experience


that has haunted him ever since. The


Marsten House has recently been purchased by an unseen new owner, and when the townspeople begin disappearing—and then reappearing as blood thirsty revenants—Ben realizes that house is a locus of evil that has attracted a master member of the Undead. The Shining takes place at the sinister Overlook Hotel, a retreat in Colorado that has catered for decades to the wealthy and absorbed the malignant spirit of horrors that have happened on its premises. When recovering


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77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz


Random House Publishing Group


The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon’s dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents— among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager—the Pendleton’s magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in


strange tongues, not-quite-human


figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton’s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again.


THE GRAVEYARD EXAMINER • DEC 20, 2011 - JAN 9, 2012


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