Soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring John Lithgow Jason Clarke
and Amy Seimetz! King's iconic beloved classic is 'so beautifully paced that you cannot help
but be pulled in' Guardian 'SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER' The house looked right felt right to
Dr Louis Creed. Rambling old unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle
the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world
away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane
highway grinding up through the gears hammering down the long gradients growled out an
intrusive threat. But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe. Just a
carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed
with the solemn innocence of the young taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A
sad place maybe but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams to wake
you sweating with fear and foreboding. 'King can make the flesh creep half a world away' - The
Times 'So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in' - Guardian 'The most
frightening novel Stephen King has ever written' - Publisher's Weekly 'Wild powerful
disturbing' - Washington Post Book Review
