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CARRIE / EL UMBRAL DE LA NOCHE
Resumen Carrie:
El legendario debut de Stephen King ansiada venganza de una adolescente margina. Puede que Carrie White fuera pasada de moda e impopular, pero tenía un don: podía hacer que los objetos se movieran con sólo concentrarse en ellos. Una vela caería. Una puerta se azotaría. Éste era su poder y su pecado. Luego, un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como los actos de crueldad de todos sus compañeros para con ella, le ofreció a Carrie la posibilidad de convertirse en una niña normal e ir a su baile de graduación. Pero otro acto desalmado y feroz convirtió su don en un arma de horror y destrucción que sus compañeros nunca olvidarían. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Carrie es uno de los clásicos de terror más sobrecogedores de todos los tiempos.
Resumen El umbral de la noche:
El gran gusano hediondo se ha enseñoreado de la aldea abandonada y no permitirá que nadie acabe con sus misas negras. La máquina planchadora ha probado la sangre de una virgen y quiere más, mucho más, y su macabro deseo no se detendrá ante nada. Los amplios maizales imponen a los chicos sus sanguinarios ritos...
El umbral de la noche nos transporta a un mundo de terrores imposibles pero que están ahí, a la vuelta de la esquina, en un maizal, en un pueblo abandonado, en una lavandería, debajo de la cama o tras la puerta de ese armario que ni siquiera rechina. Un libro de relatos escalofriantes, por el indiscutido maestro del terror.
El legendario debut de Stephen King ansiada venganza de una adolescente margina. Puede que Carrie White fuera pasada de moda e impopular, pero tenía un don: podía hacer que los objetos se movieran con sólo concentrarse en ellos. Una vela caería. Una puerta se azotaría. Éste era su poder y su pecado. Luego, un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como los actos de crueldad de todos sus compañeros para con ella, le ofreció a Carrie la posibilidad de convertirse en una niña normal e ir a su baile de graduación. Pero otro acto desalmado y feroz convirtió su don en un arma de horror y destrucción que sus compañeros nunca olvidarían. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Carrie es uno de los clásicos de terror más sobrecogedores de todos los tiempos.
Resumen El umbral de la noche:
El gran gusano hediondo se ha enseñoreado de la aldea abandonada y no permitirá que nadie acabe con sus misas negras. La máquina planchadora ha probado la sangre de una virgen y quiere más, mucho más, y su macabro deseo no se detendrá ante nada. Los amplios maizales imponen a los chicos sus sanguinarios ritos...
El umbral de la noche nos transporta a un mundo de terrores imposibles pero que están ahí, a la vuelta de la esquina, en un maizal, en un pueblo abandonado, en una lavandería, debajo de la cama o tras la puerta de ese armario que ni siquiera rechina. Un libro de relatos escalofriantes, por el indiscutido maestro del terror.
568 pages, Hardcover
First published April 5, 1974
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About the author
Stephen King
2,392 books889k followersStephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
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September 4, 2021
Un gran libro.
He vuelto a disfrutar de ambas obras como si fuera la primera vez.
Una joya.
He vuelto a disfrutar de ambas obras como si fuera la primera vez.
Una joya.
March 19, 2024
Tan solo un par de relatos inferiores en una colección de terrores cotidianos prácticamente redonda…
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