Monday, September 3, 2007

Stephen King, Master of Horror





His name will be forever linked with best-selling novels blending horror, fantasy and science fiction in a scary mix guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. His career began with Carrie a horror novel, which was published in 1974 and later made as a motion picture. A career that spans 32 years with accomplishments ranging from bestsellers to movies to directing and Theater not to mention his numerous awards.

Listed below are comments given by his fans about his novels. If you are interested in seeing more of his work click here .

Carrie

Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction,Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time ....

Bag of Bones

The hero of this story is Mike Noonan, a novelist. Noonan begins by describing the death of his wife four years ago, and his subsequent grief and the resulting writer's block. Up until just after his wife's death, Noonan had been publishing a book a year. But he'd written four other manuscripts in the meantime and put them in a safe-deposit box. One at a time, these are the manuscripts that he has been sending to his publisher since his writer's block....

Cell

In King's book "Cell", the main character (a comic book illustrator who is unhappily estranged from his wife and misses his young son) has just signed a great deal and decides to celebrate by buying a few treats for himself and his son. While stopping for an ice cream, he observes two teenage girls suddenly "lose it" and begin attacking each other and random passers-by....

Lisey's Story

Lisey Landon shared a profound and sometimes frightening intimacy with her husband, Scott, a celebrated bestselling novelist -- and a man with many secrets. One was the place where his gifts of imagination came from, a place that could heal or destroy him. Now, two years after his death, it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons on a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited....

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