Stephen King

Una guida alle storie e ai personaggi di Stephen King più famosi e amati: da It a Shining, da Carrie a Cujo, da Pet Semetary a Misery. Attraverso interviste, analisi letterarie e cinematografiche e scoperte agghiaccianti, "La scienza di Stephen King" si addentra nell'universo horror del maestro del genere per scoprire cosa c'è dietro ai suoi leggendari romanzi e rispondere a domande come: «Qual è la scienza alla base dei viaggi nel tempo e degli universi paralleli nella serie La torre nera e in 22/11/'63? Come influisce la mancanza di sonno sul corpo umano in "Insomnia"? È possibile che esistano creature orribili come in A volte ritornano? Cosa si cela dietro le maledizioni e le leggende in "L'acchiappasogni" e "L'occhio del male"?» Raggruppati per decadi dal 1970 fino agli anni dieci del Duemila, questo libro indaga tutti i principali racconti e romanzi di Stephen King per raccontare le teorie scientifiche dietro i macabri scenari da lui immaginati e costruiti.

Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children.

King's fans will likely snap up this audio-only recording of King reading an unpublished short story to an audience at London's Royal Festival Hall. King warms up the audience, humorously warning them to beware of possible murderers lurking in the back seat of their cars as they drive home, adding, "I don't want to scare you…. " The story itself is mostly a comical one: a man tells how he gave his wife a cat for a present, and his wife gave him a dog, but each ended up with the other's pet. The antipathy each felt for their own pet (with anecdotes of the dog throwing up in the husband's shoes, the cat clawing at the wife's drapes, etc.) reflected the disharmony in the marriage itself, until the wife walked out. In typical King fashion, the humor turns to horror at the end. King has narrated many of his novels for audio and has an easy, relaxed style that works well here. He easily assumes the roles of both the man and his best friend, who tell different parts of the story, and makes his voice slightly higher for the woman's dialogue. King loyalists should be pleased to add this mid-range item to their collections, but those on the fringes might wonder if the story would perhaps be a better money value as part of a collection.

Everyone thinks of it as a harmless lightning storm. When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he thinks nothing of it. When he, his son, Billy Drayton, and his neighbor Brent Norton travel to the supermarket, the unthinkable happens. On their way to the market, they see the army, firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead", a secret military project that no one knows about. As they are shopping, they see three soldiers walk in, pick up a few things, then head toward the mist. All eighty of the store's shoppers have no clue what is going on until an old man runs in the market with a bloody nose and declares "Something in the mist!" He tells them to close the door. About five seconds after they close the door, the entire store shakes, as though it has been lifted several feet above the ground…

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom.