It is 2025 and reality TV has progressed to
the point where people are willing to wager their lives in
exchange for a chance at enormous wealth. Ben Richards is
desperate - he needs money to treat his daughter's illness. His
last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where
the objective is to elude police and specially trained trackers
for a month. The reward is a cool billion dollars. The catch is
that everyone else on the planet is watching and willing to turn
him in for a reward.
The Cambers' once-friendly St. Bernard
turns into a killer after being bitten by a rabid bat. Donna
Trenton's husband is in New York trying to contain a disastrous
ad campaign. Feeling abandoned by her workaholic husband, who is
frequently out of town, Donna Trenton embarks on an affair with
a local handyman. Left to fend for herself, she takes her ailing
Pinto to Joe Cambers' garage for repairs only to be trapped with
her son Tad in the sweltering car by the monstrous dog.
In the near future, where America has
become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an
annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he
wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a
steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping.
Three warnings, and you're out - permanently.
Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable
existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway
construction puts him out of work and simultaneously forces him
out of his home. Dawes isn’t the sort of man who will take an
insult of this magnitude lying down. His single-minded
determination to fight the inevitable course of progress drives
his wife and friends away while he tries to face down the
uncaring bureaucracy that has destroyed his once comfortable
life.
The Department of Scientific Intelligence
(aka "The Shop") never anticipated that two participants in
their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie
McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had
been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at
college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie
and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.
A love triangle involving 17-year-old
misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958
Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's
first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.
A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls
seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they
battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children.
Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all
those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT
should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and
their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare
to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry's sewers once
more.
Once upon a time, in the Kingdom of Delain,
King Roland is murdered and his son and heir, Peter, is framed
for the crime. Peter and his loyal friends must battle an evil
wizard and Peter's usurper brother, Thomas, for the throne.
Imprisoned in a tower, Peter conceives an escape plan that will
take him years to execute before taking on Flagg, the powerful
sorcerer who has masterminded this coup.
Writer Bobbi Anderson becomes obsessed with digging up something
she's found buried in the woods near her home. With the help of
her friend, Jim Gardener, she uncovers an alien spaceship.
Though exposure to the Tommyknockers who piloted the alien craft
has detrimental effects on residents' health, the people of
Haven develop a talent for creating innovative devices under its
increasingly malignant influence.
For years, Thad Beaumont has been writing
books under the pseudonym George Stark. When a journalist
threatens to expose Beaumont's pen name, the author decides to
go public first, killing off his pseudonym. Stark isn't content
to be dispatched that easily, though. Beaumont's alter ego comes
to life and begins to stalk those responsible for his demise.
