Gwendy's button box from Stephen King

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What would Maine be without Stephen King? Or maybe it really is that Stephen King owes much of its inspiration to Maine. Be that as it may, the telluric acquires a special dimension in this literary tandem that widely exceeds the reality of one of the most recommended states for ...

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Winter's tale, by Stephen King

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Subtitled Breathing method. As I have already pointed out on some other occasion, the link that unites «Hope, eternal spring», «Summer of Corruption», «The autumn of innocence« and this last installment is a rope that is thrown into the well of the human soul, there where instincts and responses lie outside of ...

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The autumn of innocence, of Stephen King

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Also titled as "The Body." What of Stephen King and the plots around kids or teenagers is a recurring theme. I don't know, it seems as if the author seeks an empathy with that young soul that once occupied us. A spirit open to fantasy or fear, ...

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The Whisperer, by Malenka Ramos

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One never ceases to be amazed at the creativity of authors like Malenka Ramos. While he was recently talking about his previous horror novel What Dwells Inside, shortly after I learned of his parallel performance in the erotic genre. If the issue is to baffle readers, Malenka has ...

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The Chalk Man, by CJ Tudor

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When Stephen King blessing a book assures you that you are in front of a good novel in several respects. Because once you read his autobiographical book about the profession of writer that occupies his life: As I write, you discover that this same profession is full of formal, argumentative and ...

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The Terror, by Dan Simons

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In the middle of the XNUMXth century, the seas and oceans of the planet still conserved an old aura of mystery and great doses of adventure for all those who ventured to travel them for any purpose. Beyond the oceanographic cartographies that already outlined lands and seas, the old myths and the ...

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The Book Collector, by Alice Thompson

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It was the early years of the twentieth century, Violet lived comfortably in her mansion with her beloved husband… This is how the tale of a Perrault transported to those early twentieth century in the England of King Edward VII could begin. Only we already know that Perrault was able to delve into ...

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Sleeping beauties, by Stephen King

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Writing science fiction novels with a distinctly feminist point is becoming common and very fruitful. Very recent cases such as The Power by Naomi Alderman, attest to this. Stephen King he wanted to join the current to contribute much and good to the idea. A project between ...

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Dark Times, by John Connolly

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John Connolly does it again. From a narrative halfway between terror and black genre, it catches every reader to the point of reading exhaustion. Facing evil can never come for free. Every hero must face his natural nemesis, the one that stands as a fundamental balancing act so that he ...

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The Survivors, by Riley Sager

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Surviving a massacre is traumatic enough already, the subsequent social labeling only saturated Quincy, Lisa, and Sam. The last girls, as they ended up calling them with that kind of popular wit, unable to miss an opportunity, no matter how macabre, to put a ...

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The lady number thirteen, by José Carlos Somoza

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Fear, as an argument for the fantastic, offers a vast terrain by which to surprise the reader, a space where you can overwhelm him at your whim and make him feel those chills that uncertainty causes. If the story is also the responsibility of José Carlos Somoza, you can be sure of ...

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Zone One, by Colson Whitehead

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The biological threat, whether as a predesigned attack or as an uncontrolled pandemic, continues to be a subject that, to be glimpsed with certain certainty and regret, sustains so many apocalyptic stories in literature or in the cinema. But put to fiction, so that a plot of ...

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