Stephen King

Owen King

The authors tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

A Novel

Sleeping Beauties

Regiane Winarski

Pelo mundo todo, algo de estranho começa a acontecer quando as mulheres adormecem: elas são imediatamente envoltas em casulos. Se despertadas, se o casulo é rasgado e os corpos expostos, as mulheres se tornam bestiais, reagindo com fúria cega antes de voltar a dormir. Em poucos dias, quase cem por cento da população mundial feminina pegou no sono. Sozinhos e desesperados, os homens se dividem entre os que fariam de tudo para proteger as mulheres adormecidas e aqueles que querem aproveitar a crise para instaurar o caos. Grupos de homens formam as "Brigadas do Maçarico",incendeiam em massa casulos, e em diversas partes do mundo guerras parecem prestes a eclodir. Mas na pequena cidade de Dooling as autoridades locais precisam lidar com o único caso de imunidade à doença do sono: Evie Black, uma mulher misteriosa com poderes inexplicáveis.

Belas Adormecidas

Mark Jude Poirier

In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus. Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned on just another lonely Spring Break on campus. But when a hurricane batters the small college town, downing power lines and knocking out cell phone reception, Stacey and her friends are stranded with no way to communicate with the outside world at the worst possible moment: in the midst of an alien invasion. As space insects begin to burrow into students and staff, transforming them into slobbering, babbling monsters, a conglomeration of misfits must band together to prevent the infestation from spreading. Meanwhile, Stacey’s long-stifled romantic feelings for her friend Charlotte begin to surface, while the professor she had admired and respected becomes the students’ worst enemy. Illustrated with enormous wit and dynamism—mixing classic tropes from science fiction, indie comics, B-movies, and campus culture—this graphic novel is something different, a large-scale action/adventure story as seen from the point-of-view of a contemporary, realistic heroine. The result is a funny and singular work unlike anything else you’ve ever read.

Intro to Alien Invasion

Sharing a difficult relationship with his father, Sam struggles to come to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film while juggling with complicated ambitions and his feelings for eccentric family members and friends.

Double Feature

Bellas durmientes

"An exceptional debut...Funny and poignant, these stories are textured gems."—People (four-star critic's pick) The stories in this collection, along with Owen King's brilliant title novella set in Maine after the 2000 election, carry the weight of real emotion and revelation and showcase the impressive versatility of a rising talent. An adolescent encounters a giant reptile in the unlikeliest of places, a rundown shopping mall; a baseball player in a fantastic 1930s Coney Island is assailed by the guilt of an illicit romance; a nineteenth-century itinerant dentist finds himself snowed in with a group of trappers for a long evening of primitive surgery and laughing gas reveries. The stories in this collection, along with King's brilliant title novella set in Maine after the 2000 election, carry the weight of real emotion and revelation and showcase the impressive versatility of a rising talent.

A Novella and Stories

We're All in This Together

Een geheimzinnige ziekte treft alle vrouwen ter wereld waardoor ze in slaap vallen en niet meer wakker worden.

Schone slaapsters

At first glance, the world has not changed: the trams on the boulevards, the grand hotels, the cafes abuzz with conversation. The street kids still play on the two great bridges that divide the city, and the smart set still venture down to the Morgue Ship for an evening's entertainment. Yet it only takes a spark to ignite a revolution.

For young Dora, a maid at the university, the moment brings liberation. She finds herself walking out with one of the student radicals, Robert, free to investigate what her brother Ambrose may have seen at the Institute for Psykical Research before he died. But it is another establishment that Dora is given to look after, The Museum of the Worker. This strange, forgotten edifice is occupied by waxwork tableaux of miners, nurses, shopkeepers and other disturbingly lifelike figures.

As the revolution and counter-revolution outside unleash forces of love, betrayal, magic and terrifying darkness, Dora's search for the truth behind a mystery that she has long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the very edge of worlds. In The Curator, Owen King has created an extraordinary time and place - historical, fantastical, yet compellingly real, and a heroine who is courageous, curious and utterly memorable

The Curator

Uyuyan Güzeller

Stephen King és Owen King szuperprodukciójában, apa és fia közösen írt könyvében a fő kérdés: mi történhet, ha a nők eltűnnek a férfiak világából? Valamikor a jövőben (amely olyan valóságos, hogy akár napjainkra is felcserélhető lehetne) a nőket elalvás közben beburkolja egy ismeretlen fehérjéből képződő hártya, olyan, mint a selyemgubó. Ha a Csipkerózsikákként alvó nőket felébresztik, vagy bármi módon megsérül a gubójuk, akkor állatiasan vadak és erőszakosak lesznek. Alvás közben viszont egy másik, a miénknél jobb világba jutnak, ahol harmónia uralkodik, és szinte nincsenek konfliktusok. Egy isten háta mögötti helyen, a nyugat-virginiai Dooling női börtönében azonban van egyvalaki, egy titokzatos idegen, bizonyos Eve Black, aki normális módon elalszik és felébred. De vajon az ő esetében orvosi anomáliáról van szó, amit tanulmányozni kellene, hátha megoldást ad erre az egész alvásproblémára? Vagy talán Eve Black démon, a megmagyarázhatatlan jelenség okozója, és a legjobb lenne megsemmisíteni? A magukra maradt, egyre inkább ősi ösztöneikre hallgató férfiak egymással vetélkedő frakciókra szakadnak: ki megölni, ki megmenteni akarja Eve-t. Mások a zűrzavart kihasználva személyes ellenségeiken állnának bosszút. A csupa férfi világban elszabadul a pokol és tombol az erőszak... Fordította: Dranka Anita

Csipkerózsikák

Růženky

The official graphic novel adaptation of the horror novel by Stephen King and Owen King concludes in this haunting interpretation of the chilling, timely bestseller. The mysterious plague known as Aurora has blanketed the world, and, to the men, all but a handful of sleep-deprived women seem trapped--cocooned--in seemingly endless slumber. In reality, their minds have been transported to a strange, utopic dream world. It's a world where small-town sheriff Lila Norcross and the other women can build their own society. And from which they might not want to wake. In the real world of Dooling, West Virginia, Lila's husband, beleagured prison psychiatrist Clint Norcross, is struggling. He's trying to protect the woman called Eve Black from the ill-thought-out actions of increasingly desperate men. But Eve, as the only woman capable of waking up, has her own plans: a test with global consequences. A test Clint will have to pass if he ever hopes to see his wife again. Collects Sleeping Beauties issues #6-10, by writer Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and artist Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard), from the novel by Stephen King (The Institute, The Stand) and Owen King (Intro to Alien Invasion).

Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel)

Över en natt faller världens kvinnor i en märklig sömn. Pandemin sprider sig i takt med att tidszonerna släcks. Om de väcks blir kvinnorna livsfarliga. Och medan de sover befinner de sig på en helt annan plats. I en småstad i Appalacherna kämpar sheriff Lila Norcross för att hålla sig vaken medan männens ociviliserade sidor tar över allt mer. I jakten på botemedel utspelas en kamp på liv och död. Översättare: Boo Cassel, Omslagsformgivare: Kerstin Hanson

Törnrosor

John McNally

Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure. Edited and with contributions by Owen King (We're All in This Together) and John McNally (America's Report Card), Who Can Save Us Now? enriches the superhero canon immeasurably. With mutations stranger than the X-Men and with even more baggage than the Hulk, this next generation of superheroes is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill caped crusader. From the image-conscious and not-very-mysterious masked meathead who swoops in and sweeps the tough girl reporter off her feet; to the Meerkat, who overcomes his species' cute and cuddly image to become the resident hero in a small Midwestern city; to the Silverfish, "the creepy superhero," who fights crime while maintaining the slipperiest of identities; to Manna Man, who manipulates the minds of televangelists to serve his own righteous mission, these protectors (and in some cases antagonizers) of the innocent and the virtuous will delight literary enthusiasts and comic fans alike. With stunning illustrations by artist Chris Burnham, Who Can Save Us Now? offers a vibrant, funny, and truly unusual array of characters and their stories.

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