Ergebnis für "stephen king" in Comedy & Humor

When Lee Black - once the golden child of the crime community, now miserly creative writing lecturer - opens his student's work-in-progress, he is at first confused, then slightly disturbed, and then, finally, flattered. It's fanfiction. But what the awkward, brilliant Bella has done with his...

Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . . . Horror novelist Nick Steen is abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility with excellent conference parking, concealed deep on the Stalkford Downs. There he...

Dark, transgressive, and deeply unsettling, Woom is a disturbing splatterpunk horror story set at the Lonely Motel, where Angel enters the infamous Room 6 and uncovers a grotesque history of death, trauma, and transgressive secrets. "I believe pain lingers," Angel said. "Do I believe in spirits?...

Take a wildly entertaining tour through the horror paperback boom of the 1970s and ’80s as Grady Hendrix unearths forgotten authors, bizarre plots, publishing history, and gloriously lurid vintage book covers. Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer...

From the transgressive horror world of viral sensation Woom comes a brutal splatterpunk horror novel set at a horror convention, where authors, critics, and fans collide in a bloody weekend of revenge, obsession, extreme horror, and a notorious Gross Out contest. Revenge is on the program at...

Shortlisted for the Audio Publishers' Association Audie Award 2016 for Best Original Work. In this new tour-de-force from Stephen King - unavailable in print or any other format until November 2015 - a salt-of-the-earth Maine native recounts how a friendly annual summer fireworks show rivalry...

2016 Audie Award Finalist for Original Work A classic Stephen King short story from the bestselling collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams! Alden McCausland and his mother are what they call “accident rich”; thanks to an unexpected life-insurance policy payout and a winning Big Maine Millions...

Specially adapted for audio by the author. Fleabag meets I Am Legend in this extraordinary novel of one woman's survival in the face of the end of the world. Who will she be now that she is completely alone? THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNING It's November 2022. The human race has been...

L.T. has a theory about pets, particularly his Siamese cat. It had been their cat not just his cat, but that was until he came home one day to find a note on the fridge from his wife saying she had left him. From this simple beginning, Stephen King spins a tale as compelling as anything he's...

A brutal blend of cult horror, splatterpunk, and transgressive fiction, Cvlt returns to the Lonely Motel as a cult deprogrammer confronts an enigmatic member of the Children of Dinah—and three supposed miracles that may come at a horrifying price. "This isn't a story about forgiveness, Michael...

From author Duncan Ralston, the bestselling author of Puzzle House, comes a chilling new supernatural horror novel with a psychological bend. Every mind holds the key to its own subversion. Damien's childhood as a test subject in a paranormal research facility left him deeply reserved but...

A provocative blend of transgressive fiction and splatterpunk horror, Shoot returns to the Lonely Motel as an adult entertainment mogul recounts the filthy, heartbreaking stories behind his empire—and confronts the dark secret and deadly curse that have followed him for decades. Porn mogul...

Bloomsbury presents Reprieve by James Han Mattson, read by JD Jackson. An autumn 2021 pick for New York Times * Observer * Esquire * O Quarterly * Chicago Tribune * Shondaland '[A] gripping piece of storytelling' GUARDIAN 'Brilliantly conceived and unsettling' SUNDAY TIMES 'Clever, insightful...

A good citizen is someone who actively works to improve their country. While there are many interpretations of what it means to be a good citizen, the idea has been explored by various thinkers throughout history. Aristotle distinguished between a good citizen and a good person. He argued that a good citizen is defined by their role in both governing and being governed, while a good person is judged by a singular, absolute standard of virtue. This distinction highlights that one can fulfill the duties of a good citizen without necessarily meeting the moral ideals of a good person—likely ...

The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.

Latrine Technician vs. Dark Carnival? Yep. After his mother is diagnosed with dementia, Sunday McWhorter needs a job with flexible hours and a company vehicle. It just so happens that the local porta-potty company is hiring. The job stinks, but it’s a solid paycheck that allows Sunday to take...

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history. Sarah Vowell...

Life-long friends and longer Stephen King fans Meghan and Spencer dig up the haunted cemetery of the horror icon's bibliography - on occasion, jokes are told.

In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J...

What do bestselling writers Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, and Tom Clancy all have in common? They've all been murdered in a manner both gruesome and appropriate to their style. An extremely paranoid Stephen King is convinced that he will be the next victim, so he leaves his heavily-barricaded...