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Misery is a psychological horror novel by US author Stephen King, first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. The novel hinges on the relationship between its two main characters – novelist Paul Sheldon and his self-proclaimed number one fan Annie Wilkes. When Sheldon is seriously injured following a car accident, former nurse Annie rescues him and keeps him prisoner in her isolated farmhouse. Misery, which took fourth place in the 1987 bestseller list, was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film directed by Rob Reiner, in 1990, and into a theatrical production starring Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis in 2015.
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections. His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand by Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and It (2017). He has published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000).
Among other awards, King has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honors for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities.
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Charles Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues and The Woman Chaser. According to crime novelist Lawrence Block, "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought."
The Belmont Book publishers commissioned "The Machine in Ward Eleven" as a paperback original. The manuscript -- even before it went to press -- had begun to scare the wits out of readers. In this collection of six related works of pulp fiction, Willeford tries his hand at psychological horror, weird fables and twist-ending stories popularized by The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock.
"The most eloquently brainy and exacting pulp fiction ever fabricated!" -- Village Voice
Scene from the movie 1408 starring John Cusack as Michael Enslin and Samuel L. Jackson playing Gerald Olin. The movie 1408 is an American psychological horror story based on Stephen King's short story directed by Mikael Håfström. I just wanted to upload this because it is not everyday Samuel L. Jackson plays Olin! Get it?
Here's what's inside my new book:
"Weird Horror Tales" is an anthology of psychological horror, SF, fantasy and mainstream short stories set in a fictional town on the coast of Maine.
The book’s over-riding theme is the condition of the human heart. Its assumption is there is something Other, larger than man and greater than our narrow view of reality. Each story, written to stand on its own, is related by setting, history, several prominent families, and a macro plot that is not the principal focus of the individual stories. It encompasses the Azrealites who work tirelessly to reinstate that something Other back on Earth through the manipulation of science and the occult, but the series will not include that incarnation.
Light's End is full of broken hearts and lies, of self-deception and greed, of power and weakness, loneliness and pride. It is a town that has commercialized its eldrich ruins, doors in cellar floors, flying saucers, nasty secrets and the cult of the Azrealites. This series of suspenseful, macabre tales begins when the town was founded in 1630, and ends in the 22nd century. Several poems are companion pieces.
Legendary, Emmy-Award winning actor William Windom has recorded twenty of these stories, and these will soon be released by Cornerstone Book Publishers.
I have graciously been called “Tulsa’s Master of Suspense” (Infinity Press). These stories have been characterized as “[a] meshing of myth and reality, [of] stack details of place, and...unromantic vision of horror...”.
What’s inside “Weird Horror Tales”?
Cover by Keith Birdsong; interior art by Earl Geier.
1653 Picked Clean (horror)
Caleb Elliott flees England for Maine only to sire an abomination on a horror in Dead Bay. Caleb, and Ezekiel and Hiram Azreal, all inadvertently found Light’s End and leave a monstrosity that writhes under the cliffs of Dead Bay. Or do they?
1838 The Well Sunk In The Sky (horror)
Does a lighthouse warn ships of a deadly reef or welcome ships from the stars? Under the watchful eye of Jake Horne, is it the site of an Azrealite prenuptial ritual for Charlotte Elliott and Obediah Azreal, or a human womb for The Other?
1928 Billie Hell
Raised in the notorious red-light district of Light’s End, Billie is a cut below the rest.
1949 Off the Hook
Senator (and Azrealite) David Block goes fishing on a lake over the town and dirty secret he buried there.
1957 Wishful Thinking
Sara Lagle sets a fire under her lascivious Azrealite husband and his lover and decorates her home with childish memories.
1934 Unhinged
A young boy named Schlomo Nantier discovers an old lie about relativism when his best friend reaps what he doesn’t sow.
1959 Blind Faith
An old vaudevillian and a psychologist encourage Faith Williams to develop her imagination by attending the State Theater. They had no idea that what would attend Faith there would wear hooves.
2012 Knock Off
An insurance fraud between twins to resurrect the lighthouse as a restaurant buries a brother.
1984 The Lighter Side
The First Emanation of the Blind God and Master of the Material Universe, Pat Azreal, saves Light’s End from the Girlie Gang, but almost loses her soul.
2012 Random Pairings
Herbert Wells must perform a final ritual to enter the High Priesthood of the Azrealites and trigger the reincarnation of The Other, the murder of Schlomo Nantier.
2040 Face Off
Doctor Carla Ashe invents a substitute for human flesh but not for the human heart out of love for her lonely, ‘odd child’.
2231 Fall Guy
The man who “jumps from buildings and gets up” comes to Light’s End. Jake Horne is his manager.
3180 The Zoo
A monster lurks behind the genetically sculpted, mythological animals at the Doolittle Zoo in Light’s End.
The World Roars On/poem
Backword/A Day in the Life of Light’s End
Creator’s Credits
SEVEN-X is "Shutter Island," "Dante's Inferno" and "The Exorcist" all rolled into one American Horror Classic. A spine-tingling pendulum of extremes where the purest love and deepest evil cut into your soul and take you on a journey deep into the heart of the human condition.
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Promotional photo of Justin Moore, as his character Benji, in Heidi Moore's DOLLY DEADLY. Photograph by Cassandra Sechler.
Promotional photo of Justin Moore, as his character Benji, in Heidi Moore's DOLLY DEADLY. Photograph by Cassandra Sechler.