SHINING IN THE DARK

Zum zwanzigjährigen Jubiläum von 'Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King'
Deutsche Hardcoverausgabe
ISBN: 978-3-946330-54-7
Verlag: Buchheim Verlag

Buch, Deutsch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

Der Gründer der #1 Stephen-King-News-Website Lilja’s Library präsentiert eine schaurig-schöne Anthologie von Horrorgeschichten – darunter eine seltene Erzählung von Stephen King selbst, Klassiker von Clive Barker und Edgar Allan Poe sowie eine Novelle von John Ajvide Lindqvist ( ).

Anlässlich des zwanzigjährigen Jubiläums der umfangreichen Stephen-King-Fanseite »Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King« ist diese Anthologie die perfekte Lektüre für Horrorfans aller Couleur.

Shining in the Dark umfasst Kurzgeschichten von einigen der bekanntesten und talentiertesten Autoren des Genres und enthält eine furchterregende Geschichte, die bisher in keiner anderen Sammlung von Stephen King enthalten war.

Zu den Geschichten gehören:

»Der blaue Kompressor« von Stephen King
»Internet« von Jack Ketchum und P. D. Cacek
»Der Roman des Holocaust« von Stewart O’Nan
»Aeliana« von Bev Vincent
»Pidgin und Theresa« von Clive Barker
»Das Ende aller Dinge« von Brian Keene
»Totentanz« von Richard Chizmar
»Die Verlockung der Flamme« von Kevin Quigley
»Der Gefährte« von Ramsey Campbell
»Das verräterische Herz« von Edgar Allan Poe
»Mutterliebe« von Brian James Freeman
»Das Handbuch des Hüters« von John Ajvide Lindqvist

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Stephen

Ketchum, Jack

Cacek, P. D.

O'Nan, Stewart

Vincent, Bev

Barker, Clive

Keene, Brian

Quigley, Kevin

Chizmar, Richard

Campbell, Ramsey

Poe, Edgar Allan

Freeman, Brian James

Lindqvist, John Ajvide

Lilja, Hans-Åke

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lilja, Hans-Åke

Sammy, Vincent

Über Autor(innen)

Chizmar, Richard
RICHARD CHIZMAR is the coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Final Task, and the solo novella Gwendy’s Magic Feather. Recent books include Memorials and the New York Times bestsellers Becoming the Boogeyman and Chasing the Boogeyman, The Girl on the Porch, The Long Way Home, his fourth short story collection, and Widow’s Point, a chilling tale about a haunted lighthouse cowritten with his son Billy Chizmar, which was recently made into a feature film. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA’s Board of Trustees award. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, speaker, panelist, and guest of honor. Follow him on Twitter @RichardChizmar, or visit his website at RichardChizmar.com.

Lilja, Hans-Åke
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

O'Nan, Stewart
An accidental teacher, an accidental librarian, and a purposeful community Afrofuturist, MAURICE BROADDUS has had over a hundred short fiction pieces published in places such as Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Weird Tales, Asimov’s, and Uncanny Magazine. Some of his stories have been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His novels include the urban fantasy trilogy The Knights of Breton Court, the award-winning steampunk books Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship, the SF novels Sweep of Stars and Breath of Oblivion, and the middle-grade detective novels, The Usual Suspects and Unfadeable. Learn more about him at MauriceBroaddus.com.