Stephen King

Misery Chastain ha muerto. Paul Sheldon la ha matado. Con alivio y hasta con alegría. Misery lo ha hecho rico. Porque Misery es la heroína que ha protagonizado sus exitosos libros.Paul quiere volver a escribir. Algo diferente, algo autentico. Pero entonces sufre un accidente y despierta inmóvil y atravesado por el dolor en una cama que no es la suya, tampoco la de un hospital.

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a moment thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse.The delivery method is a cell phoneeveryones cell phone. Now Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilizations darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a relentless human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.Theres really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points the way home to his family in Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north, they begin to see the crude signs confirming their direction. A promise of a safe haven, perhaps, or quite possibly the deadliest trap of all

Una vez más, Stephen King nos ofrece atmósferas sobrecogedoras y emociones incontrolables a traves de los relatos reunidos en este libro.Ya nadie disputa a Stephen King el primer puesto en la literatura de terror: sus muchos millones de lectores son prueba fehaciente de ello. Su brillante imaginación revela las sombras que subyacen en lo evidente y hace que todos nos sintamos menos seguros de la realidad."La expedición", que da título a este volumen de escalofriantes cuentos, advierte angustiosamente contra los riesgos de la curiosidad; la anciana de la "Abuela" quizá no sea la compañía adecuada para un niño cuando este queda aislado en una casa distante; el protagonista de "Superviviente" no tiene nada que comer, excepto...; y la locura está agazapada en la máquina de escribir del redactor de "La balada del proyectil flexible"...

com Opinión:In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona WebsterOpinión:"Classic King...full of twists and turns and mounting suspense." — Boston Globe"King's best...genuinely scary." — USA Today"May be his greatest triumph." — New Haven Register“Solid character delineation and terrifying insight. In addition to being able to scare the reader breathless, King says a tremendous amount about writing itself. We delight in his virtuosity.”— The Washington Post“Dazzlingly well-written.”— The Indianapolis Star“Terrifying…King is a terrific storyteller.”— San Francisco Chronicle“Truly gripping…some of the best writing King has ever done…the master has returned with a vengeance.”— Publishers WeeklySobre el autor:Stephen King lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. He has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story “The Man in the Black Suit,” and is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.