Paul left his hometown in a desperate attempt to flee the nightmares of his youth - among them, the memory of his childhood friend Charlie Crabtree murdering a classmate. An “absorbing…play on classic horror with an inventiveness of its own” ( New York Times Book Review), The Shadows follows Paul Adams as he returns home to care for his ailing mother. We also recommend North’s follow-up, The Shadows, for its deliciously eerie plot and King-esque examination of the lasting impact of childhood trauma. The bestselling author’s serial killer–focused book The Whisper Man is sure to delight King fans with its multigenerational tale of a predator haunting a small English village. Alex North explores similar territory in his dark thrillers. Themes of childhood trauma, aching memories, and being plagued by one’s past course through King classics like Carrie, Pet Sematary, or Doctor Sleep. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.Ī tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.King excels at infusing his otherworldly tales with all-too-human realities. He enlists Jake on an insane-and insanely possible -mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

He receives an essay from one of the students-a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination-a thousand page tour de force.įollowing his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment-a real life moment-when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. Soon to be a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review

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