Featuring Stephen King, Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene, and many others! Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web! This anthology includes both original stories like a brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like 'The Blue Air Compressor' by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age! Now, let's join Lilja . . . He's already waiting for us, there ahead in the darkness . . . You see him, don't you? Just keep walking, you'll find him soon enough, we promise . . . He's there, shining and waiting for you . . . Take his hand and then you, too, will shine in the dark! Table of Contents: 'Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library (An Introduction)' by Hans-Åke Lilja - read by Jacques Roy 'The Blue Air Compressor' by Stephen King - read by Robert Petkoff 'The Net' by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek - read by Pete Simonelli, Madeleine Maby, and Corey Brill 'The Novel of the Holocaust' by Stewart O'Nan - read by Jacques Roy 'Aeliana' by Bev Vincent - read by Madeleine Maby 'Pidgin and Theresa' by Clive Barker - read by Matthew Lloyd Davies 'An End to All Things' by Brian Keene - read by Pete Simonelli 'Cemetery Dance' by Richard Chizmar - read by Corey Brill 'Drawn to the Flame' by Kevin Quigley - read by Jacques Roy 'The Companion' by Ramsey Campbell - read by Pete Simonelli 'A Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe - read by Jacques Roy 'A Mother's Love' by Brian James Freeman - read by Pete Simonelli 'The Keeper's Companion' by John Ajvide Lindqvist - read by Corey Brill 'Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library (An Afterword)' by Hans-Åke Lilja - read by Jacques Roy (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

Shining in the Dark

Crest has lost the use of his legs after falling off a walkway while trying to write graffiti on a roadside wall; his best friend, Bean, fell too and died. Now Crest must try to repair his relationship with Vanessa, the mother of his child, whose night-school class is alerting her to a wider world. Crest's older brother Eugene, an ex-con turned born-again Christian, is facing the temptations of his past, while their parents confront their own crisis. Powerful and moving, tender and resonant, Everyday People is an unforgettable novel that vividly captures the experience of the day-to-day struggle that is life in urban America.

Everyday People

Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honour. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple any more. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife, Emily, and dog, Rufus, stand by him. Once so confident, as Henry's strength and memory desert him, he weighs his dreams against his regrets and is left with questions he can't answer: Is he a good man? Has he done right by the people he loves? And with time running out, what, realistically, can he hope for? Henry, Himself is a wry, warmhearted portrait of an American original - a man who believes he's reached a dead end only to discover life is full of surprises.

Henry, Himself

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter, Scottie. Written with striking grace and subtlety, this wise and intimate portrait of a man trying his best to hold together a world that's flying apart, if not gone already, is an American masterpiece.

West of Sunset

From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War. In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine in their tens of thousands. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided - like his new identity - by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war - honest, strong, capable of moral choice. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history. A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.

City of Secrets

A year after the death of her husband, Emily Maxwell gathers her family at Lake Chautauqua for what will be a last holiday at their summer cottage. Joining her is her sister-in-law Arlene, silently mourning both the loss of the lake house and a bygone love affair. Emily's firebrand daughter Meg, a recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, brings her children from Detroit. Emily's son Ken, who has quit his job and mortgaged his future to pursue his art, comes accompanied by his children and his wife, who is secretly heartened to be visiting the house for the last time. Memories of past summers resurface, old rivalries flare up and love is rekindled and born anew, resulting in a timeless novel that 'succeeds beautifully [and] showcases some of the finest character studies a contemporary reader could ask for' ( Boston Globe).

Wish You Were Here

'A book that embodies what's best in us.' - Stephen King Washington Post Best Book of the Year,2017 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, 2017 E ntertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year,2017 The Red Lobster chain restaurant perched in the far corner of a run-down American mall hasn't been making its numbers and has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous staff and the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics, and office parties. All the while, Manny wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with, what to do about his pregnant girlfriend, and how to find the Christmas present that will make everything better. Stewart O'Nan has been called 'the bard of the working class', and Last Night at the Lobster is a American cult classic and a masterpiece of precision and empathy.

Last Night at the Lobster

In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high-school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers

Ocean State

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Dean Evers trompe l'ennui de ses vieux jours devant les matchs de baseball à la télévision. Quand soudain, dans les gradins, il découvre au cœur de la foule un visage surgi du passé. Quelqu'un qui ne devrait pas être là, au stade… ni même parmi les vivants. Soir après soir, Dean se laisse hypnotiser par les visages de ceux qu'ils n'espérait – ou ne voulait – plus voir. Mais le pire est à venir… Stephen King, le maître du fantastique, et son acolyte Stewart O'Nan tordent le quotidien et le réalisme jusqu'à leur point de rupture, avec brio, naturellement.

Un visage dans la foule

Der Gründer der #1 Stephen-King-News-Website Lilja's Library präsentiert eine schaurig-schöne Anthologie von Horrorgeschichten – darunter eine seltene Erzählung von Stephen King selbst, Klassiker von Clive Barker und Edgar Allan Poe sowie eine Novelle von John Ajvide Lindqvist ( Let the Right One In). Anlässlich des zwanzigjährigen Jubiläums der umfangreichen Stephen-King-Fanseite »Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King« ist diese Anthologie die perfekte Lektüre für Horrorfans aller Couleur. Shining in the Dark umfasst Kurzgeschichten von einigen der bekanntesten und talentiertesten Autoren des Genres und enthält eine furchterregende Geschichte, die bisher in keiner anderen Sammlung von Stephen King enthalten war. Zu den Geschichten gehören: »Der blaue Kompressor« von Stephen King »Internet« von Jack Ketchum und P. D. Cacek »Der Roman des Holocaust« von Stewart O'Nan »Aeliana« von Bev Vincent »Pidgin und Theresa« von Clive Barker »Das Ende aller Dinge« von Brian Keene »Totentanz« von Richard Chizmar »Die Verlockung der Flamme« von Kevin Quigley »Der Gefährte« von Ramsey Campbell »Das verräterische Herz« von Edgar Allan Poe »Mutterliebe« von Brian James Freeman »Das Handbuch des Hüters« von John Ajvide Lindqvist

SHINING IN THE DARK

HORROR - "Se non avete letto O'Nan, rimediate al più presto." Stephen King Sarebbero stati mostri, per la chiesa... Creature della Laguna Nera. Mark e il suo miglior amico Derek avrebbero indossato una tuta con una cerniera sulla schiena, completata da una testa che si infilava come un casco da palombaro. Avrebbero spaventato i bambini piccoli e disgustato le ragazze. E nessuno avrebbe saputo chi erano. Poi il destino ci mette lo zampino, e per Mark e Derek il giorno di Halloween si trasforma in una giornata molto speciale, più di quanto avrebbero mai potuto immaginare... Stewart O'Nan è il pluripremiato autore di dozzine di romanzi, tra cui: Snow Angels, Last Night at the Lobster, The Night Country e Emily Alone. Nel 1996 è stato incluso dalla rivista Granta tra le migliori nuove voci della letteratura americana. Nel 1999, con un articolo sul Boston Review, contribuì a rispolverare le opere di Richard Yeats, tra cui Revolutionary Road, dal quale il regista Sem Mendes trasse l'omonimo film con protagonisti Leonardo Di Caprio e Kate Winslet. Seppure la produzione letteraria di O'Nan è rimasta misconosciuta al grande pubblico, non mancano nel mercato italiano alcune tra le sue opere più celebri, quali: Canzoni per la scomparsa (Songs For the Missing) edito da Fazi nel 2010 e Mi chiamavano Speed Queen (The Speed Queen) edito da Feltrinelli nel 1999, mentre Sperling & Kupfer ha da poco pubblicato in ebook il racconto Un volto tra la folla (A Face in the Crowd) firmato insieme a Stephen King. Stewart O'Nan oggi vive a Pittsburgh.

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