"'Salem's Lot Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem's Lot (or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, where he had lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires. The town is revisited in the short stories ""Jerusalem's Lot"" and ""One for the Road"", both from King's story collection ""Night Shift"" (1978). The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1976, and the Locus"
"mostly because of what it says about small towns. They are kind of a dying organism right now. The story seems sort of down home to me. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!"" The book is dedicated to King's daughter Naomi. Ben Mears, a writer who spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, has returned after twenty-five years. He quickly becomes friends with high-school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a passionate romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate. Ben has returned to the town to write a book about the"
"Sometimes They Come Back ""Sometimes They Come Back"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of ""Cavalier"" and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". In 1957, nine-year-old Jim Norman and his twelve-year-old brother, Wayne, walk to the local library to return Jim's books. They are attacked by a gang of local greasers. Wayne is stabbed to death by two of the older boys, but Jim escapes. Through random times in his life, Jim is haunted by nightmares vividly reenacting the murder. In 1974, Jim is married. He returns to his home"
"a version of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In the beginning of the book, Maxwell Kane is a young boy with low self-esteem. He lives with his grandfather, Grim, and grandmother, Gram. Max thinks of himself as a butthead. People are afraid of him because he looks like his father, Kenneth ""Killer"" Kane, a convicted murderer. Max sets the stage for the story by reminiscing about his time in daycare, when he had met a boy named Kevin, or Freak, as their classmates called him. Kevin has Morquio syndrome, wears leg braces and uses crutches, and thinks of himself as a robot"
"(""Sometimes They Come Back... for More""). Sometimes They Come Back ""Sometimes They Come Back"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of ""Cavalier"" and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". In 1957, nine-year-old Jim Norman and his twelve-year-old brother, Wayne, walk to the local library to return Jim's books. They are attacked by a gang of local greasers. Wayne is stabbed to death by two of the older boys, but Jim escapes. Through random times in his life, Jim is haunted by nightmares vividly reenacting the murder. In 1974, Jim is"
"Insomnia (novel) Insomnia is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, first published in 1994. Like ""It"" and ""Dreamcatcher"", its setting is the fictional town of Derry, Maine. The original hardcover edition was issued with dust jackets in two complementary designs. The first is pictured on the right; the second has the white and red colors reversed. In his memoir, """", King states that ""Insomnia"" and ""Rose Madder"" are ""stiff, trying-too-hard novels."" The story is set in Stephen King's multiverse in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. Ralph Roberts, who is retired, encounters his good-natured acquaintance Ed Deepneau at"
"coming-of-age literature is the voice Hornburg has created for Chrissie. Hornburg knows the rhythms of teenage world-weariness, a self-possessed patter that often belies the terror of straddling the worlds of adulthood and childhood."" The novel was adapted by Bret Easton Ellis into a film in 2015. Downers Grove (novel) Downers Grove is a 1999 American coming-of-age horror novel by Michael Hornburg. Its plot centers on the last two weeks of teenage girl's life as a high school student growing up in Downers Grove, Illinois. The novel was originally published by William Morrow and Company in 1999, and reprinted in 2001"
"own life in the process, but dies peacefully with Lois and the two bald doctors who are agents of the Purpose at his side. ""Insomnia"" was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1994. Insomnia (novel) Insomnia is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, first published in 1994. Like ""It"" and ""Dreamcatcher"", its setting is the fictional town of Derry, Maine. The original hardcover edition was issued with dust jackets in two complementary designs. The first is pictured on the right; the second has the white and red colors reversed. In his memoir, """", King"
"praised by Stephen King in a cover blurb, is similar to King's ""It"" (1986) in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood. In the sequel to ""Summer of Night"", ""A Winter Haunting"" (2002), Dale Stewart (one of the first book's protagonists and now an adult), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life. Between the publication of ""Summer of Night"" (1991) and ""A Winter Haunting"" (2002), several additional characters"
"citizens of the British Commonwealth. Salon.com chose the novel as one of the best books of 2009.. In autumn 2018, a film adaptation, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson, was released. The Little Stranger The Little Stranger is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. Departing from her earlier themes of lesbian and gay fiction, Waters' fifth novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with an old gentry family of declining fortunes who own"
"they tortured before mutilating and murdering in Dennis’ home, a converted windmill, two weeks before the letter was written. Julian travels to Amsterdam with Kevin to find out if the murders in the letters are true or just a cruel fantasy. Frisk (novel) Frisk is a 1991 novel by Dennis Cooper. In 1995, the book was made into a film of the same name directed by Todd Verow. Frisk is narrated by Dennis, who had a troubled childhood. In 1969, aged 13, he was regularly allowed to read pornographic magazines and was particularly affected by snuff pornography, even though he"
"depicted as white, and his first name was changed from Henry to Monk. The Monster (novella) The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the town's physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he saves Trescott's son from a fire. When Henry is branded a ""monster"" by the town's residents, Trescott vows to shelter and care for him, resulting in his family's exclusion from the community. The novella reflects upon the 19th-century social"
"in 1991, during which he visited the small desert community of Ruth, Nevada, near U.S. 50. His first thought was that the town's inhabitants were all dead. He then wondered who had killed them, and the idea occurred to him that the town's sheriff had done so. ""Desperation"" was released simultaneously with the novel ""The Regulators"" (published by King under the name Richard Bachman). Desperation (novel) Desperation is a horror novel by Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its ""mirror"" novel, ""The Regulators"". It was made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom"
"spraying the rats. However, he is overwhelmed and eaten alive by the hordes of mutated rats. Meanwhile, the other team of workers on the surface wonders what has happened to them and, with no idea what kind of horror awaits them, prepares to descend into the basement. Graveyard Shift (short story) ""Graveyard Shift"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the October 1970 issue of ""Cavalier"" magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". It was adapted into a 1990 film of the same name. ""Graveyard Shift"" is set in a small town in Maine,"
"series was uploaded to YouTube by Geek & Sundry. The Morganville Vampires The Morganville Vampires is a series of young adult urban fantasy/vampire novels written by Rachel Caine. The novels feature Claire Danvers, a student at Texas Prairie University, and her housemates in the vampire-controlled city of Morganville, Texas. While the mayor of Morganville is human, unbeknownst to most of the population the town is actually run in cooperation with a group of vampires. Morganville is also home to an unusually large number of second-hand thrift stores. Several of the novels have made the ""New York Times"" bestseller list. In"
"Black House (novel) Black House is a horror novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. Published in 2001, it is the sequel to ""The Talisman"". This is one of King's numerous novels, which also include ""Hearts in Atlantis"" and ""Insomnia"", that tie in with the ""Dark Tower"" series. ""Black House"" was nominated to the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. The novel is set in Straub's homeland Wisconsin, rather than in King's frequently used backdrop of Maine. The town of ""French Landing"" is a fictionalized version of the town of Trempealeau, Wisconsin. Also, ""Centralia"" is named after the"
"and heads back to New York. Somewhere in the Darkness Somewhere in the darkness is a 1993 young adult realistic fiction novel written by Walter Dean Myers. It was published by Scholastic inc. The novel was a John Newbery Honor Award and a Coretta Scott King honor award. Jimmy Little is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in a New York City apartment with his legal guardian that he calls ""Mama Jean"". His mother died and his father was imprisoned for murder and robbery. One day as Jimmy comes home from school, he finds that Mama Jean is not home. Instead,"
"a gender studies class."" The Yorker gave it a negative review, saying that the """"stench of a quick money-making scheme was quite potent."""" Books: A True Story gave it a 4 out of 5 stars even after calling the book """"copied down"""" from Twilight. Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined 'Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined' (stylized as 'life and death: TWILIGHT REIMAGINED) (2015) is a young adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is a reboot/gender flip of the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Beaue Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. He is"
"gets. In 1990, the novel was adapted into a film directed by Stephen Frears. John Cusack, Annette Bening and Anjelica Huston played the principal roles. It has a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes out of 39 reviews. The Grifters (novel) The Grifters is a noir fiction novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1963. Roy Dillon is a 25-year-old con artist living in Los Angeles. At the start of the novel, he gets hit in the stomach with a baseball bat when a simple con goes wrong. He seems to be well but when Lilly — his mother — visits"
"in and around Toronto about an 800-year-old vampire who becomes a member of the Metropolitan Toronto Police and attempts to regain his humanity. The local references, landmarks and street names intrigued fans as part of a city of vampires. Torontonian fantasy author, Tanya Huff, wrote a series of supernatural detective novels known as the ""Blood Books"" between 1991 until present, featuring a fictional historical romance author, Henry Fitzroy, who happens to be a vampire. The series is set in Toronto and uses familiar landmarks. In 2007, this series was adapted for television under the title ""Blood Ties"" and airs on"
"The Tommyknockers The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods. King would later look back on the novel unfavorably, describing it as ""an awful book."" While walking in the woods near the small town of Haven, Maine, Roberta (Bobbi) Anderson, a writer of Wild West-themed fiction, stumbles upon a metal object that turns out to be a"
"in this bizarre and somewhat dysfunctional home. Coady's second book, ""Play the Monster Blind"" (2000), was a national bestseller and a ""Best Book"" of 2000 for ""The Globe and Mail"". ""Saints of Big Harbour"" (2002) was a ""Globe and Mail"" ""Best Book"" in 2002. ""Mean Boy"" was recognized as a ""Best Book"" in 2006. The novel is a first person account of 19-year-old Lawrence Campbell during his first year of university in a small New Brunswick town. The year is 1975 and Campbell has dreams of becoming a poet. He was drawn away from his rural Prince Edward Island home"
"house itself. The film was adapted into a 1976 film of the same name starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis. Burnt Offerings (Marasco novel) Burnt Offerings is a 1973 American horror novel by Robert Marasco. Its plot follows a family who move into a summer home where each member is plagued by unusual experiences and personality changes. Published by Delacorte Press, the novel had originally been conceived as a screenplay before Marasco rewrote it into a novel. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1976. The novel was reprinted in 2015 by Valancourt Press."
"concept for his run on DC Comics' ""Swamp Thing"", even naming the main villain Matango. ""Gray Matter"", a short story by Stephen King first published in the October 1973 issue of ""Cavalier"" magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"", is the story of a man who, having become reclusive after a work-related accident, drinks a bad can of beer and is ultimately overtaken by fungal growth from within. John Brosnan's novel ""The Fungus"" from 1985 has a similar plot, in which mutated fungi destroy England, and those infected die or become mutated mushroom people, depending on which"
"demon is a changeling - during the day it works to subvert, and at night morphs into a giant hyena-like creature to feed on the homeless living in the ruins under modern Seattle. Nest Freemark, now a 19-year-old college student, has returned to Hopewell, Illinois for the weekend before Halloween. She muses on events over the last five years, including her grandfather's death in the spring, Wraith's disappearance when she turned 18, and the fact that she is no longer in touch with most of her childhood friends (or John Ross). She has not used her magic in years and"
"not well. Calvin and Bowie arrive and decide to stay. The Crystal City The Crystal City (2003) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the sixth book in Card's ""The Tales of Alvin Maker"" series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son. Alvin and Arthur stay at a boarding house where mixed-blood children are cared for by Papa Moose and Mama Squirrel. While there, Alvin uses his knack to cleanse the mosquitoes and disease from a well. A young woman, whom the people call Dead Mary, sees what he"
"The Revelation (Little novel) The Revelation is horror author Bentley Little's first published novel. It was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best novel by a new author in 1990. The novel (as many of Little's works do) deals with a series of unexplained events in a small town in Arizona. A church is defaced with goat's blood, the pastor and his family disappear, and several townspeople begin having terrifying visions of deformed infants. Eventually, an unknown force begins to attack and murder several of the townspeople. Gordon, the main protagonist, discovers that his wife is pregnant and begins to"
"The Revelation (Little novel) The Revelation is horror author Bentley Little's first published novel. It was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best novel by a new author in 1990. The novel (as many of Little's works do) deals with a series of unexplained events in a small town in Arizona. A church is defaced with goat's blood, the pastor and his family disappear, and several townspeople begin having terrifying visions of deformed infants. Eventually, an unknown force begins to attack and murder several of the townspeople. Gordon, the main protagonist, discovers that his wife is pregnant and begins to"
"blended Lakefield, Ontario with Barriefield, just outside the city of Kingston. ""The Red Dress"" was long-listed for the 2009 ReLit award. Mason's third novel, ""The Night Drummer"", was published by Vancouver's Now or Never in January 2015. It is the story of two teenage friends—white middle-class Peter Ellis, and Otis James, a native boy adopted by an evangelical Christian couple old enough to be his grandparents. Peter and Otis grow up in small town Ontario in the 1970s, and the novel follows them through their high school years. ""As Ellis sleeplessly anticipates his high school’s looming 25-year reunion, his recollections"
"The Dark (Herbert novel) The Dark is a 1980 horror novel by James Herbert. Beginning in a small suburban street where an empty house is haunted by a malevolent, sentient darkness, the scope of the story expands as the darkness escapes and begins to engulf the city. The main character is Chris Bishop, a paranormal investigator called in initially to investigate claims that the house is haunted. There he discovers that those engulfed by the darkness are driven to savage and murderous frenzies, in connection with a mysterious cult leader whose spirit inhabits the darkness. Herbert's seventh book, ""The Dark"""
"Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined 'Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined' (stylized as 'life and death: TWILIGHT REIMAGINED) (2015) is a young adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is a reboot/gender flip of the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Beaue Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. He is turned into a vampire since he gets bitten by Joss after falling in love with Edythe Cullen, a vampire. Mirroring the plot of ""Twilight"", ""Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined"" follows 17-year-old Beaufort Swan as he leaves the sunny environment of Phoenix, Arizona where he"
"been performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a full length theatrical play, directed by television actor David Oakes. In 2010, Irish film-maker Gerard Lough adapted it into a 27-minute movie. In 2018, writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods announced that they would be adapting the story. The Boogeyman (short story) ""The Boogeyman"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine ""Cavalier"", and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". The majority of the story occurs in the office of Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings"
"2006. William Browning Spencer William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel ""Resume With Monsters"" conflates soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs. His story ""The Death of the Novel"" was a 1995 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Story. In 2005, his short story ""Pep Talk"" was turned into a short film by writer Eric B. Anderson and director Scott Smith (Project Greenlight) and premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival in"