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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovers this when she is nine years old. Lost in the woods.

Trisha has only veered a little way off the path. But in her panic to get back to her family, she takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth, deeper into the woods.

At first it’s just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon.

As darkness begins to fall and Trisha struggles for survival and a way out, she realizes that she is not alone. There’s something else in the woods – watching. Waiting…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Hallucinations
Pneumonia
Hospitalisation

Gerald’s Game by Stephen King

Gerald’s Game by Stephen King

Jessie is trapped: during an ill-fated S&M game, she kicks her husband and induces a fatal coronary. She is handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no means of escape. Voices in her head force her to confront a buried childhood trauma.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia & body shaming
Attempted martial rape, on-page
Paedophilia & incestuous child sexual assault (father-daughter)
Hallucinations, delusions & intrusive thoughts
Dehydration
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injury
Death of a husband from a heart attack

From a Buick Eight by Stephen King

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King

For twenty years the officers in the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in Shed B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Now young Ned Wilcox, son of the recently deceased officer Curt, has started hanging around the Barracks. One day he can`t resist peeking through the windows. And it`s time to share the secret. So the veteran troopers sit Ned down on the smoking bench and tell him every skin-curdling detail – from the Buick`s arrival to the terrifying light-shows and what it sucks in and breathes out. For the Buick is a conduit to another world.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Suicide
Death of a father in a car accident
Murder
Disappearance

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison.

While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King’s magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King’s elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father’s murder. And Thomas inherits the throne.

Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won’t get a second chance…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Murder of a pregnant wife
Murder of a father by poisoning
Wrongful incarceration

Duma Key by Stephen King

Duma Key by Stephen King

When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn’t expect to find much there.

But Duma has been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.

Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island’s secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon – and a family’s buried past reaching long hands into the present.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic violence
Suicidal ideation
Attempted suicide by gunshot recounted
Dementia
Blood depiction
Physical injuries from a workplace accident, including an amputated right arm and a head injury impairing speech, vision and memory
Death of a wife & daughter recounted
Death of a sister by drowning
Paternal flicide by drowning

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understood.

A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky.

Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past – and in the Dreamcatcher.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Terminal cancer (leukemia)
Contagion (theme)
Gun violence
Car accident
Fire
Loss of autonomy (possession)
Prison riot
Hunting
Bullying

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Suspected of murdering the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn’t the one the police are expecting to hear. It’s a little darker, a little stranger – and a lot more horrifying.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic abuse & violence
Marital rape
Paedophilia & incestuous child sexual abuse (father-daughter)
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Hallucinations
Dementia
Stroke recounted
Death of a husband in a car accident
Murder
Death from a fall

Desperation by Stephen King

Desperation by Stephen King

Desperation is a deserted mining town in the Nevada desert. It`s not a place to visit by choice, and the few unhappy travellers who are forced to stop there witness the familiar-looking town undergo a terrible transformation. In the struggle between good and evil, sacrifice may be the only answer.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Self-sacrifice
Death of a daughter
Murder & attempted murder
Explosion
Kidnapping & captivity
Loss of autonomy (possession)
Death from animal attack (cougar)

Colorado Kid by Stephen King

Colorado Kid by Stephen King

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There’s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues.

But that’s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still…?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Dead body
Death from asphyxiation
Murder discussed

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

It was as if his eyes were awake, and the rest of him still slept

Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.

When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancee has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men’s souls. He’s had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cheating
Coma, resulting in neural injury
Suicide
Death of a child
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Car accident
Explosion (car bomb)
Blackmail
Nuclear disaster discussed
Animal death (dog)