Stephen King: Gerald's Game (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Now available for the first time in a mass market premium edition master storyteller Stephen King presents this classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller. When a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death, the nightmare has only begun

And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone.

Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald s kinky sex games something that she s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a romantic getaway at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts and Gerald crosses a line with his wife the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison and comes face-to-face with her deepest, darkest fears and memories. Her only company is that of the various voices filling her mind as well as the shadows of nightfall that may conceal an imagined or very real threat right there with her...

Stephen King: Gerald's Game. A Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781501143861 (September, 2016), 468 p., $9.99.

Stephen King: Gerald's Game (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald s kinky sex games something that she s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a romantic getaway at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts and Gerald crosses a line with his wife the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison and comes face-to-face with her deepest, darkest fears and memories. Her only company is that of the various voices filling her mind as well as the shadows of nightfall that may conceal an imagined or very real threat right there with her...

Stephen King: Gerald's Game. A Novel. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781501144202 (February, 2016), 468 p., $17.00.

Stephen King: Gerald's Game (UK 2011)

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Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers, new author brand lettering and a marketing campaign which directs readers to the right King title for them.

A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game.

But this time Jesse didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated.

So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt.

He wasn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear her screams.

Alone. Except for the voices in her head that had begun to chatter and argue and sneer...

Stephen King: Gerald's Game. The rules are binding. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444707458 (July, 2011), 417 p., £7.99.

Stephen King: Gerald's Game (USA 2001)

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A different kind of bedtime story from Stephen King, as a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death. But the nightmare has only just begun...

Stephen King: Gerald's Game. Signet Books, ISBN: 0451176464 (July, 2001), 445 p., $7.99.

Stephen King: Gerald's Game (USA 1992)

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Stephen King gives us his most ambitious work yet a novel of brilliant intensity, excruciating suspense, and uncanny insight into the dark corners of the indomitable female psyche.

On a warm weekday in October, Jessie and Gerald Burlingame are alone in the bedroom of their Maine summer house, playing a game that isn't listed in Hoyle's. But suddenly, as Jessie hears the click of the second handcuff locking her to the bedposts and sees her husband looming over her, a nerve-snap of recognition tells her that this time Gerald is playing for keeps. Her next move is furious, violent, and, she is shocked to discover, deadly. Giving up control is scary enough; it is terrifying when there is no one left to give it to.

Except that Jessie is not alone. Over the next twenty-eight hours, trapped in a lake-side house that has become a prison, Jessie will come face-to-face with all the things she has ever feared, and the unlatched back door banging fretfully in the breeze is an open invitation to horrors she has never imagined. Inside the darkening bedroom, shadows gather in mute menace, while inside Jessie's head a taunting chorus of voices whispers and shrieks: "Women alone in the dark are like open doors... and if they cry out for help, who knows what dread things may answer?"

Stephen King knows. Nothing he has written before will prepare readers for the challenges of Gerald's Game. It's a fiendishly imagined version of No Exit. It's a nerve-racking excavation of the deepest layers of a woman's fear and courage. It's our foremost literary terrorist exploring what happens when the ordinary routine of one woman's life is suddenly eclipsed by the irrational. Jessie Burlingame's nerves are about to be strenuously tested. So, Reader, are yours.

STEPHEN KING is the author, most recently, of Needful Things, Four Past Midnight, and The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King.

Stephen King: Gerald's Game. Viking, ISBN: 0670846503 (September, 1992), 332 p., $23.50.