{"title":"Richard Chizmar","description":"RICHARD CHIZMAR is the co-author (with Stephen King) of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eGwendy's Button Box\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGwendy's Final Task\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of the solo work \u003ci\u003eGwendy's Magic Feather\u003c\/i\u003e. \r\n\r\nHis novels \u003ci\u003eChasing the Boogeyman \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Becoming the Boogeyman\u003c\/i\u003e received excellent reviews - as Stephen King says: 'Genuinely chilling and something brand new and exciting.'\r\n\r\nChizmar's short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications including \u003ci\u003eEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, four international Horror Guild Awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustee's Award.","products":[{"product_id":"gwendys-button-box","title":"Gwendy's Button Box","description":"\u003cb\u003e'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe small town of Castle Rock, Maine, has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day, while Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground and the chink of an aluminium bat hitting a baseball, a stranger calls out to her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  On a bench in the shade sits a man in a small, neat black hat.  He offers Gwendy a mahogany box with coloured buttons. The buttons will produce gifts, such as chocolate which can make you slimmer.  But he warns her that the gifts will be 'small recompense for the responsibility.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJourney back to Castle Rock in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bazaar of Bad Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Long December\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Hodder Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56865274134868,"sku":"9781473691650","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/3439\/9572\/files\/9781473691650-original.jpg?v=1787238012"},{"product_id":"gwendys-final-task","title":"Gwendy's Final Task","description":"\u003cb\u003eKing and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwendy's Final Task \u003c\/i\u003eis a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.","brand":"Hodder Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56865283539284,"sku":"9781399702386","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/3439\/9572\/files\/9781399702386-original.jpg?v=1787238055"}],"url":"https:\/\/stephenkingbooks.co.uk\/collections\/author-richard-chizmar.oembed","provider":"Stephen King UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}