four of Stephen King's most well-loved horror stories: The Mist
and warmly familiar way only he could tell it—Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices)
it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War
luring growling bellies to the Night Owl
Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel by Francine Prose Direct from Author four of Stephen King's mostIn the summer of 1857, when British newspapers warned of an approaching comet about to destroy the earth, an unusual looking stranger arrived at Charles Dickens's home, Gad's Hill, in the countryside outside London. Dickens had met Hans Christian Andersen at a dinner party, a decade before, and, in a moment of desperation, had invited him to visit. The visit did not go well. The eccentric Danish author of classic fairy tales, who barely spoke English,