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Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the Wisconsin town of French Landing, ten-year-old Ty Marshall is distracted by a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. Then it calls his name. Fascinated, Ty gets off his bike for a closer look: and as he does so, he is grabbed by an unseen assailant and dragged through the hedge. Is Ty destined to become the fourth victim of the Fisherman, the serial killer who is stalking this sleepy town? If so, only ex-detective Jack Sawyer, who left LA precisely to avoid such madness, may be able to save him. For nightmares and visions have been visiting Jack lately. It seems that the doomed place he knows as ‘the Territories’ may be reaching out for him once more …

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cannibalism
Murder
Kidnapping of children

The Dark Half by Stephen King

The Dark Half by Stephen King

Thad Beaumont is a writer, and for a dozen years he has secretly published violent bestsellers under the name of George Stark. But Thad is a healthier and happier man now, the father of infant twins, and starting to write as himself again. He no longer needs George Stark and so, with nationwide publicity, the pseudonym is retired. But George Stark won’t go willingly.

And now Thad would like to say he is innocent. He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his bestselling novels. He’d like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad deny the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it—and signs its crimes with Thad’s bloody fingerprints?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Nightmares
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Smoking
Surgery recounted
Murder
Animal attack (birds)

Cujo by Stephen King

Cujo by Stephen King

Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting… Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole, a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inexorably drawing in all the people around him.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cheating
Domestic violence
Stalking
Gun violence
Animal attack, including death from a dog attack (theme)
Animal death (dog)
Animal injury & illness

Cell by Stephen King

Cell by Stephen King

Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.` The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane.

A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Nightmares
Coerced suicide, suicide & self-sacrifice
Murder
Gun violence
Explosion

Blaze by Richard Bachman

Blaze by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

He’s got a plan but he hasn’t a clue…

Clayton Blaisdell’s capers are strictly small time until he meets George Rackley. With Blaze’s brawn and George’s brains, they pull off a hundred successful cons. Then George plans the one big score every small timer dreams of: kidnapping the infant heir to a family fortune. The trouble is that by the time the deal goes down, the brains of the operation has died. Or has he?

Now Blaze is running into the white hell of the Maine woods with a baby as hostage. The crime of the century just turned into a race against time…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Death of a friend
Kidnapping of a child (theme)

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work—in fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape recounted
Delusions
Nightmares
Suicide & attempted suicide
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a pregnant wife from a brain aneurysm
Murder by gun violence in a drive-by shooting
Murder & attempted murder by drowning
Infanticide
Kidnapping of a child

Fifty Shades Darker by EL James

Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James

Young people on the Midwich Estate don’t have much Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades.

While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Statutory rape recounted
Workplace sexual harassment
Attempted sexual assault
Alcohol consumption
Gun violence
Home invasion
Stalking

The Fallen Children by Stephen King

The Fallen Children by Stephen King

Young people on the Midwich Estate don’t have much hope for their futures. Keisha has lived there her whole life, and has been working hard to escape it; others have just accepted their lot. But change is coming…

One night everyone inside Midwich Tower falls mysteriously unconscious in one inexplicable ‘Nightout’. No one can explain what happened during those lost hours, but soon afterwards Keisha and three other girls find they’re pregnant – and the babies are growing at an alarming rate.

As the news spreads around the tower its residents turn against them and the situation spirals toward violence. Keisha’s life unravels as she realises that the pregnancy may not have just ruined her hopes for the future: she might be mother to the end of the world.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Sexual assault
Paedophilia
Drugging
Abortion
Anti-abortion discrimination
Bullying

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape
Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Cheating
Suicide mentioned
Alcoholism
Death of a child
Disappearance of a child

Christine by Stephen King

Christine by Stephen King

Christine, blood-red, faIt’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the looks or popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car . . . but Christine quickly changes all that. Arnie suddenly has the newfound confidence to stick up for himself, going as far as dating the most beautiful girl at Libertyville High—transfer student Leigh Cabot—even as a mysteriously restored Christine systematically and terrifyingly consumes every aspect of Arnie’s life.

Dennis and Leigh soon realize that they must uncover the awful truth behind a car with a horrifying and murderous history. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and heaven help anyone who gets in Christine’s way…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Death of a child from choking recounted
Death of a wife from suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning recounted
Murder
Car accidents (theme)
Bullying