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DVD

Secret Window
Johnny Depp gets high off another acting challenge in this tricky adaptation of a Stephen King yarn. Although the mood is too sinister to allow for the mischief of his Pirates of the Caribbean turn, Depp still manages to embroider his role here with plenty of quirky business. He plays ...more
US Release: 2004-06-22
UK Release: -
The Shawshank Redemption (Two-Disc Special Edition)
When this popular prison drama was released in 1994, some critics complained that the movie was too long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Those complaints miss the point, because the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of justice, and the growth of a ...more
US Release: 2004-10-05
UK Release: -
Stephen King's Desperation
Cross-country travelers on an isolated highway are arrested by a corrupt sheriff and jailed in a desolate town whose streets are littered with the dead bodies of local residents. The captives manage to escape, only to discover that Desperation, Nevada, is more than just a town gone wrong—it’s the terrifying ...more
US Release: 2006-08-29
UK Release: -
The Green Mile (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Miracles happen in unexpected places, even on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. There John Coffey, a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates. Tom Hanks leads a stellar cast (including Michael Clarke Duncan as Coffey) in this emotional, uplifting ...more
US Release: 2006-11-14
UK Release: 2006-10-30
Misery (Collector's Edition)
A "heart-stopping psychological thriller" (Joel Siegel) this Academy Award-winning film is "one of the best horror movies" (Time) ever. Adapted from a Stephen King story by Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman (All the President's Men) and directed by Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men), this chiller starring Kathy Bates (Titanic) and ...more
US Release: 2007-10-02
UK Release: -
Sometimes They Come Back
Based on a book by Stephen King. A school teacher returning to the town he grew up in 30 years earlier is haunted by the ghosts of highschool thugs that were killed in a freak accident along with his brother. ...more
US Release: 2007-09-18
UK Release: -
Cujo (25th Anniversary Edition)
In rural Maine, Vic and Donna Trenton (Hugh-Kelly and Wallace) struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son Tad (Danny Pintauro) befriends a hulking, lovable, 200-pound St. Bernard named Cujo. With Vic away on business, Donna and Tad take their decrepit car to be fixed at the remote ...more
US Release: 2007-10-02
UK Release: -
The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
A mysterious mist, thick with blood-thirsty creatures, descends on a small town, where a group of people holes up in a grocery store to fight for their lives. ...more
US Release: 2008-03-25
UK Release: -
Carrie [Blu-ray]
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie "catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go" (Time)! Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie (in OscarÂ(r)-nominated* performances), John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is "absolutely spellbinding" (Roger Ebert), "outrageously witty" (Los Angeles Times) and one ...more
US Release: 2008-10-13
UK Release: -
Children of the Corn (2009)
Uncut and Uncensored! From Donald P. Borchers comes the resurrection of the most unholy shocker of all: It's 1975, and a young married couple - Vietnam vet Burt (David Anders of Alias and Heroes) and preacher's daughter Vicki (Kandyse McClure of Battlestar Galactica) - are driving cross-country straight into the ...more
US Release: 2009-10-06
UK Release: -

Books

The Stand
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it. The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. ...more
US Release: 2001-08-21
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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glass
Lots of Stephen King fans feel that his horror novels are dwarfed by what they consider his masterpiece, the genre-bending Dark Tower books. They're a little like the sprawling epics of J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, and George Lucas, but then again, they're really like nothing else in this world (or ...more
US Release: 2003-10-01
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language." These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a ...more
US Release: 2004-05-04
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Pet Sematary
"Sometimes dead is better...." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the ...more
US Release: 2001-02-01
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The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)
At one point in this final book of the Dark Tower series, the character Stephen King (added to the plot in Song of Susannah) looks back at the preceding pages and says "when this last book is published, the readers are going to be just wild." And he's not kidding. ...more
US Release: 2004-09-21
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Cell: A Novel
Stephen King's return to the genre that made him famous. In a single moment, a pulse sent out through cell phones around the world turns every phone user into a crazed, murderous zombie. ...more
US Release: 2006-01-24
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Lisey's Story
Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children's books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember ...more
US Release: 2006-10-24
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Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now, ...more
US Release: 2007-11-07
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From a Buick 8
In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle.... ...more
US Release: 2003-11-25
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Duma Key: A Novel
Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: It would be impossible to convey the wonder and the horror of Stephen King's latest novel in just a few words. Suffice it to say that Duma Key, the story of Edgar Freemantle and his recovery from the terrible ...more
US Release: 2008-01-22
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, ...more
US Release: 2008-05-15
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Shawshank Redemption
Based on a a novella from Different Seasons, this unabridged tale focuses on a man convicted of murder, who finds himself in a prison ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly operated by a clever convict. Read by Frank Muller. ...more
US Release: 2008-10-07
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Just After Sunset: Stories
Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King ...more
US Release: 2008-11-11
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Movies

Stephen King's Riding The Bullet
The latest horror/thriller Stephen King adaptation to film. The Door of death has been opened. ...more
US Release: 2004-10-15
UK Release: -
Cell
Stephen King's return to the genre that made him famous. In a single moment, a pulse sent out through cell phones around the world turns every phone user into a crazed, murderous zombie. ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA
The Mist
Based on the Stephen King novel, average Joe David Drayton is caught up in a freak storm that unleashes a species of blood-thirsty monsters in his small town. It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake ...more
US Release: 2007-11-21
UK Release: TBA
From a Buick 8
The story focuses on a strange cherry Buick Roadmaster stored secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police. One of the troopers dies and his son becomes obsessed with the car. ...more
US Release: TBA
UK Release: TBA
Throttle
A motorcycle gang is chased through the desert by an 18-wheeler truck. ...more
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The Shawshank Redemption
Set in 1946 the movie follows banker Andy Defresne, played by Tim Robbins, who is falsely convicted of a double murder. Defresne is sentenced to life in the Shawshank State Prison, Maine. In the prison he befriends Ellis "Red" Redding, played by Morgan Freeman. Red helps Defresne deal with the grim ...more
US Release: 1994-09-24
UK Release: 1995-02-17

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