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• The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah Bk. 6

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• Dracula (Wordsworth Classics)

  Bram Stoker

  
  
   

• Mist, The

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Bk. 1 (Dark Tower)

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla v. 5

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• The Dark Tower

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• The Dark Tower: Waste Lands Bk. 3 (Dark Tower)

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three Bk. 2 (Dark Tower)

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus - The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics)

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  
  
   

• The Long Walk

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• Frankenstein: Or "The Modern Prometheus" - The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics)

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  
  
   

• Dracula (Penguin Classics)

  Bram Stoker

  
  
   

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics)

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  
  
   

• The Living Dead

  Stephen King, Joe Hill, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe R. Lansdale, Poppy Z. Brite, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Kelly Link, Susan Palwick

  
  
   

• It

  Stephen King

  
  Stephen King's idea for It came from a favorite childhood image: the entire cast of the Bugs Bunny Show coming on at the beginning. He thought of bringing on all the monsters, one last time: Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Werewolf, the Crawling Eye, Rodan, It Came from Outer Space.

  It is about a group of adults who were once troubled children in the late '50s--"The Losers." One of them is a best selling horror writer much like Stephen King (or his friend and collaborator Peter Straub). In order to defeat the protean "It" that threatens their hometown, they have to go back- -not only to the town itself, but deep into their childhood memories, to regain the talent for magic they once had. King says It is for "the buried child in us, but I'm writing for the grown-up, too. I want grown-ups to look at the child long enough to be able to give him up."

  This huge, baggy beast of a novel is a favorite of Stephen King fans--second in popularity only to The Stand. Perhaps longtime fans develop mental filters for King's sloppy storytelling to tune out the repetitions and silliness. King is like the pointillist painter Seurat: if you stand too close to the little dots, the picture falls apart, and it looks meaningless. That's why he makes the storyscape so big--to take you up to that macro-level where you like the book in spite of its flaws. --Fiona Webster

  
   

• A Night in Terror Tower (Goosebumps (Unnumbered Paperback))

  R. L. Stine

  
  
   

• Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics): Or, the Modern Prometheus (Wordsworth Classics)

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  
  
   

• Just After Sunset Collector's Set

  Stephen King

  
  
   

• Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower)

  Stephen King

  
  Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long. It begins with the series' star, world-weary Roland, and his world-hopping posse (an ex-junkie, a child, a plucky woman in a wheelchair, and a talking dog-like pet named Oy the Bumbler) trapped aboard a runaway train. The train is a psychotic multiple personality that intends to commit suicide with them at 800 m.p.h.--unless Roland and pals can outwit it in a riddling contest. It's a great race, for the mind and pulse. Films should be this good. Then comes a 567- page flashback about Roland at age 14. It's a well-marbled but meaty tale. Roland and two teenage friends must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch. The love scenes are startlingly prominent and earthier than most romance novels (they kiss until blood trickles from her lip).

  After an epic battle ending in a box canyon to end all box canyons, we're back with grizzled, grown-up Roland and the train-wreck survivors in a parallel world: Kansas in 1986, after a plague. The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King's most ambitious series has too many pages--almost 800--but few will deny it's a page-turner.

  
   

• Dracula (Vintage Classics)

  Bram Stoker