Stephen King

Stephen King's collection is a virtuoso demonstration of his astonishing narrative talent. Stories of vampires and lurking spirits, of inexplicable evil cloaked in the guise of childish innocence, of ordinary individuals driven to unthinkable extremes by the perversities of fate—they're all here, told with King's …

Dark Visions is a 1989 horror fiction compilation, with three short stories by Stephen King, three by Dan Simmons, and one by George R. R. Martin. The book has also been issued, with the same seven stories, under the titles Dark Love, The Skin Trade, and Night Visions 5. Two of the stories by King, "Sneakers" and …

In The Sun Dog, the concluding novella in Stephen King's best-selling Four Past Midnight, the source of terror is a simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking …