The Goldfinch

It is the children who see - and feel - what made the small town of Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing...Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as it sirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

King And Chizmar Join Forces Again With A Powerful Stand-alone Novel That Is Also The Final Chapter In The Gwendy Trilogy. When Gwendy Peterson Was Twelve, A Stranger Named Richard Farris Gave Her A Mysterious Box For Safekeeping. It Offered Treats And Vintage Coins, But It Was Dangerous. Pushing Any Of Its Seven Coloured Buttons Promised Death And Destruction. Years Later, The Button Box Re-entered Gwendy's Life. A Successful Novelist And A Rising Political Star, She Was Once More Forced To Deal With The Temptations That The Box Represented - An Amazing Sense Of Wellbeing, Balanced By A Terrifyingly Dark Urge Towards Disaster. With The Passing Of Time, The Box Has Grown Ever Stronger And Evil Forces Are Striving To Possess It. Once Again, It Is Up To Gwendy Peterson, Now A United States Senator Battling The Early Symptoms Of Alzheimer's Disease, To Keep It From Them. At All Costs. But Where Can You Hide Something From Such Powerful Entities? Gwendy's Final Task Is A Wildly Suspenseful And At The Same Time Deeply Moving Novel In Which 'horror Giants' (publishers Weekly) Stephen King And Richard Chizmar Take Us On A Journey From Castle Rock To Another Famous Cursed Maine City To The Mf-1 Space Station, Where Gwendy Must Execute A Secret Mission To Save The World. And, Maybe, All Worlds.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year Dan has been drifting for decades desperate to shed his fathers legacy of despair alcoholism and violence Finally he settles in a New Hampshire town an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying Aided by a prescient cat he becomes Doctor Sleep Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone and it is her spectacular gift the brightest shining ever seen that reignites Dans own demons and summons him to a battle for Abras soul and survival S