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A compelling and chilling suspense novel, End of Watch is the final stand-alone novel in King’s trilogy featuring retired detective Bill Hodges. We’re giving New Zealand readers the chance to win one of three sets each containing End of Watch and the two novels that proceeded it.

We’re giving away a pair of tickets to an exclusive London screening!

We’re thrilled to reveal our cover for Stephen King’s new novel End of Watch. As a special treat, we’ve also created a chilling animated version.

Last week we announced the winner of our Stephen King short story competition, Elodie Harper and her chilling story ‘Wild Swimming’. We asked her a few questions about the inspiration behind her story, and her love for Stephen King.

Announcing the winner of the Guardian-Hodder The Bazaar of Bad Dreams story competition as chosen by Stephen King…

Hodder and the Guardian are delighted to announce the winner of the story competition inspired by The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King.

Stephen King who was invited to choose the winner was delighted with the shortlist:  ‘My congratulations to all. I never expected such quality, and it does my heart good…These are really extraordinary… every one of these stories would be publishable …This made choosing a winner exceptionally difficult.’

In November, Hodder teamed up with the Guardian to launch an exciting story competition to celebrate publication of Stephen King’s wonderful collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

A guide to help you choose the perfect book present for your loved ones this Christmas – caution (or bonus?), once uwrapped the book will keep them wrapped up over the festivities!

To mark publication of Stephen King’s wonderful new collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, we are teaming up with the Guardian to run a short story competition, in which King himself will pick the winner. The prize will include publication of the winning story on the Guardian books website and a chance to improve your skills at a Guardian Masterclass run by King’s UK editor, Philippa Pride.

Hodder and Stoughton is delighted to announce that they will publish Stephen King’s new novel End of Watch on 7 June, 2016.  It will be released as a hardback, trade paperback for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, eBook and audio digital download.sfield.

We’re delighted that Mr Mercedes has been shortlisted for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel of the year.

We are delighted to reveal the UK cover for Stephen King’s new book The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. This is a thrilling collection of twenty stories – some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time – with a wonderful bonus: in addition to his introduction to the whole collection, King gives readers a fascinating introduction to each story with autobiographical comments on their origins and motivation.

See if you can bag one of our exclusive Finders Keepers Moleskines.

Set your screen alight with the animated cover for Finders Keepers!

King’s masterful new thriller is almost here, and we have an animated cover to whet your appetite. Finders Keepers is a thrillingly suspenseful crime novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far – starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr Mercedes.

Finders Keepers is almost here and it’s time to put your own detective skills to the test with our Stephen King word search. Can you find the Stephen King baddies lurking in this wordsearch?