Hodder & Stoughton

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up,

The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed.Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable.Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding.

Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him ...

'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim.
I think I can make you believe in them.
'Stephen King, from the Introduction.

Now in paperback, King's collection of four darkly riveting novellas which went straight to the top of the bestseller list in hardcover.

Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage.

When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions start grow out of control and as winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own.

Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel...