Stephen King: Firestarter

Stephen King: Firestarter (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, "his highest Fahrenheit reading yet" (Time) -- now featuring a stunning vintage cover!

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them -- manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen -- pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary... including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

Stephen King: Firestarter. A Novel. Scribner's, ISBN: 9781668094747 (August, 2025), 512 p., $20.00.

Stephen King: Firestarter (USA 2018)

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Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic "terrifying... gripping" (Miami Herald) #1 New York Times bestseller -- "his highest farenheit reading yet" (Time)!
Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them -- manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen -- pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary... including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

Stephen King: Firestarter. A Novel. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781501192319 (December, 2018), 498 p., $18.00.

Stephen King: Firestarter (USA 2016)

Stephen King: Firestarter. A Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781501143793 (May, 2016), 564 p., $9.99.

Stephen King: Firestarter (USA 2016)

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Stephen King's "gem of a story" (Chicago Tribune) about a child with extraordinary psychic powers who is on the run from the government. A #1 national bestseller.

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. One year later, they marry. Two years later, their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire by simply staring at it.

Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything"toys, clothes, even people"aflame. But The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed "ultimate weapon." Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless chase that traverses the streets of New York and the backwoods of Vermont.

Stephen King: Firestarter. Scribner, ISBN: 9781501141201 (January, 2016), eBook, 2829 KB (ca. 400 p.), $7.99.

Stephen King: Firestarter (UK 2011)

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'You're a firestarter honey... just one big zippo lighter'
A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift.

A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy...

Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising... and menacing.

Stephen King: Firestarter. Hodder Paperbacks, ISBN: 9781444708103 (October, 2011), 566 p., £7.99.

Stephen King: Firestarter (UK 1991)

From the Publisher:
From the author of The Shining, Carrie and The Dead Zone, Stephen King's mesmerizing and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift.

Stephen King: Firestarter. London: Futura, 1991, ISBN: 0708821014, 510 p., £4.99.

Stephen King: Firestarter (UK 1984)

Stephen King: Firestarter. London: Futura, 1984, ISBN: 0708821014, 510 p., £2.95.

Stephen King: Firestarter (UK 1983)

Stephen King: Firestarter. London: Futura, 1984, ISBN: 0708821014, 510 p., £2.95.

Stephen King: Firestarter (UK 1981)

From the Publisher:
From the author of The Shining, Carrie and The Dead Zone, Stephen King's mesmerizing and menacing story yet... the story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift.

Stephen King: Firestarter. London: Futura, 1981, ISBN: 0708821014, 510 p., £1.95.

Stephen King: Firestarter (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
"THE MOST TIGHTLY PLOTTED OF KING'S CHILLERS. THIS IS ALSO THE MOST TERRIFYING. FOR THE EVIL HERE IS HUMAN AND WHOLLY CREDIBLE... HIS FINEST NOVEL YET!"- COSMOPOLITAN
You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known -- 8-year-old Charlie McGee She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want -- and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded -- and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon.

Meet Charlie -- and see what happens when innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror....

Stephen King: Firestarter. Signet E9964, ISBN: 0451167805 (August, 1981), 401 p., $3.95.

Stephen King: Firestarter (USA 1980)

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"Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge. The hair on his arms sud-denly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange.
"It's coming, he thought help-lessly. If's coming, oh my God, it really is."

In 1969 Andy MeGee and Vicky Tomlinson participate in a drug experiment run by a veiled govern ment agency known as The Shop. One year later they marry. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire... by looking at it.

Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything -- toys, clothes, even people -- aflame.

But The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed "ultimate weapon." Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge.

Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing... and menacing.

STEPHEN KING is the author of several best-selling novels, including Carrie, The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, The Stand, and The Dead Zone. He lives in Maine with his wife and three children.

Stephen King: Firestarter. A Novel. Viking, ISBN: 0670315419 (September, 1980), 428 p., $13.95.