![]() ![]() Stephen King is the author of more than 50 books, all of them worldwide best-sellers. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īmazon Guest Review: Stephen King on The Night Eternal ![]() Still, a small band of the living fights on in the shadows, in the final book of the ingenious dark fantasy trilogy that Newsweek says is, “good enough to make us break that vow to swear off vampire stories.” ![]() ![]() The magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro ( Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hogan-whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, “one of the 10 best books of the year” by Stephen King- The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter. The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that author Dan Simmons ( Drood, The Terror) calls, “an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of ‘Salem’s Lot,” concludes with The Night Eternal. It just doesn’t get much better than this.” “Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. “The most credible and frightening of all the vampire books of the past decade.” From the Golden Globe winning director of The Shape of Water ![]()
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