Soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring John Lithgow, Jason Clarke, and Amy Seimetz
Sometimes...dead is better
The house looks right, feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city.
It's only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out unnerving threats.
Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children have walked in procession with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.
A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding...
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529378313
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 337 g
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 28 mm
King can make the flesh creep half a world away - The Times
So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in - Guardian
The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written - Publisher's Weekly
Wild, powerful, disturbing - Washington Post Book Review
Here King addresses one of the darkest taboos in society and the result is one deliciously dark book. The blackest. So dark, in fact, Stephen King admits to keeping it hidden in a drawer where it could not find him.... More
This is an excellent book - I read it about 10 years ago, and on this second reading again I found I couldn't put it down. It's dark and chilling, and although the plot could have descended into the realms... More
I really enjoyed this book. This was my 3rd Stephen King novel, as i previously read Full Dark, No Stars and Carrie and this has been my favourite so far. Brilliant development of the Characters and a wonderful dark... More
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