When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. And each of them is marked by the undeniable fascination of one of the most brilliant imaginations of our time. the others were written in between some of Stephen King's most popular bestsellers to date.

The first two of these superlatively shocking novels were completed before Carrie was even begun. The Running Man, where you bet your life-literally. Here is rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an 'extra' ordinary high school student.a chilling glimpse into a future America where a macabre marathon, The Long Walk, is a contest with death.Roadwork, an eerie variation on the theme of 'Home Sweet Home'.and a nightmare vision of a ghoulish game show.

At last the secret is out-and so are these four spellbinding tales of future shock and suspense, now available in one volume. for years readers of these four novels wrote to 'Bachman,' asking if the author was really Stephen King writing under a pseudonym. The name on the cover was 'Richard Bachman,' but the imagination inside could only belong to one man-Stephen King.

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