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Vic McQueen can find lost things by riding her bicycle across a covered bridge that should not exist, and as a teenager it leads her to Charlie Manx, who takes children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce to a place called Christmasland.
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Swan Song
After a nuclear war leaves America a frozen wasteland, a girl called Swan who can make things grow, a former wrestler named Josh and a homeless woman known as Sister cross the ruins, hunted by an ancient evil that wants the world to stay dead.
The Stand
A superflu kills most of humanity, and the survivors are drawn into a final battle between good and evil across a devastated America.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
The Fireman
A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.
The Shining
A family moves into a haunted hotel for the winter, and the building's malevolence feeds on a father's alcoholism and a son's psychic gift.
The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night
Thirty-year-old twin siblings in pandemic New York learn their Chinese-immigrant parents are not quite what their cooking-show manners suggest.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.
Books of Blood: Volume One
The first collection of the stories that made Barker's name, framed as tales written in blood on the skin of a fake medium, from a butcher at work on the late-night New York subway to two Yugoslav villages that build giants out of their own people.
Summer of Night
In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a gang of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys on bicycles discover that something evil has woken in Old Central, the huge old school that is about to close for good.
The Changeling
Apollo Kagwa, a used-book dealer in New York, has just become a father when his wife, Emma, begins insisting that their baby is not their baby, and an act he cannot comprehend sends him across the city, and into its fairy tales, to find out why.
Blackwater
At Easter 1919 floodwaters cover Perdido, Alabama, and Oscar Caskey, son of the town's richest family, rows out to the drowned hotel and finds a young woman named Elinor Dammert waiting calmly in a room upstairs.
Odd Thomas
Odd Thomas, a twenty-year-old short-order cook in the desert town of Pico Mundo, California, sees the lingering dead and does what he can for them, and when a stranger arrives trailed by a swarm of shadowy creatures that feed on pain, he knows something terrible is coming.