Carrie (Television Tie-In) - by Stephen King (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - New Original series from visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan coming soon to Prime Video. - "Stephen King's first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever" (Esquire) with a chilling vision of a world where bullies rule--and one girl's secret power turns her into a weapon of terror.

"A master storyteller." --The Los Angeles Times - "Guaranteed to chill you." --The New York Times - "Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." --Chicago Tribune

Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem.

When Carrie finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, she feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . until a cruel, unexpected prank unleashes the full destructive potential of her gift.

Review Quotes

Praise for Stephen King and Carrie

"A master storyteller." --The Los Angeles Times

"Guaranteed to chill you." --The New York Times

"Gory and horrifying.... You can't put it down." --Chicago Tribune

"[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet." --USA Today

"Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he's the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door." --The Boston Globe

"Shivering, shuddery, macabre evil!" --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Peerless imagination." --The Observer (London)

"Eerie and haunting--sheer terror!" --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes 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 an AT&T Audience Network original television series). 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, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of 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.