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From a Buick 8

A Car, A Mystery, A Dark Legacy Author: Stephen King An odd man brings an old car into a gas station, asks for a fill-up, and disappears. The car sits there with a new tank of gas and no owner until the members of Troop D from the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania arrive to impound it. What they discover is unutterable, horrible, beautiful, and inexplicable, all in one. A mystery that will keep on taking for decades. The car – a beautiful Buick 8 – isn’t quite right. It’s a near perfect mimic of a car, but there [...]

2023-02-13T20:50:54-07:00February 13th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Joyland

Coming of Age and Killers Author: Stephen King Devin Jones is having a strange summer. It’s half magical, and half deadly. His long-time girlfriend has recently dumped him, and now that he is growing up, still a virgin, he is experiencing his first heartache. Everywhere at the college reminds him of the girl who left, and so this summer, instead of working at the college, he goes to a small-town amusement park in North Carolina, named Joyland, to get away from it all. He is seeking isolation, but what he finds is a strange kind of magic. Some of it is [...]

2022-09-17T21:03:10-07:00September 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Cujo

A Rabid Dog. A Trapped Mother. Author: Stephen King It’s pointless to summarize the story of Cujo – we all know it after all. A woman and her toddler son get stuck in a car out in the middle of nowhere, a rabid dog waiting outside to end their lives. It’s a claustrophobic story of real horror, a tragedy that bears weight because it could happen. But there is so much more to it, a feral sort of magic that takes it beyond reading and makes it into an experience that is both horrifying and oddly beautiful. Donna and Vic [...]

2022-03-13T17:13:07-07:00March 13th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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