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Vivid, startling... a compelling page-turner.

Houston Chronicle

Rose Daniels saw the single drop of blood on the bedsheetand knew she must escape from her macabre marriage before it was too late.

But escape was not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, lucking out with a new man. Her husband, Norman, was a cop, with a cops training, a cops technology, a cops bloodhound instincts. And even worse, Norman waswell, Norman. Rose knew she had been married to a savage brute. Now she realized she was being tracked down by a terrifying monsterbut the only place she found to hide could be the most dangerous of all....

A corker, tense and frightening throughout ... Rose is the most richly portrayed female Kings ever created.

DetroitFree Press

A boiling-hot shocker.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Rousing ... vivid and sensitive.

NewYork Times

One of Kings most engrossing horror novels. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated.... A phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride, peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women and fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming.

PublishersWeekly

Stephen King is a marvelous writer. His style crackles. His storyline skitters along, pausing for the kaboom, then moves to the next terror. His imagination is beyond the edge.... He had me hooked.

Baltimore Sun

Stephen King can make your heart pound and turn you into a vampire thirsting for blood.... He gets more skillful with every book.

Chirs Chase, Books

King raises the literary ante ... Rose Madder certainly wont disappoint Kings golden horde of fans, but this eerie and remarkably mature work may even win over some readers from literatures garden party districtif they dont mind stepping through a few puddles of gore and goo.

Chicago Sun-Times

A taut thriller-novel ... about as good as they come.

St.Louis Post-Dispatch

Disturbing, haunting ... King paints a vivid nightmare.

Oklahoman

Enjoyable ... the kind of horror and suspense mixed with flights of fantasy King readers relish.

Baton Rouge magazine

An evocative work ... Rose Madder is best when the author places us inside the twisted circuits of Normans brain, or reveals the slow blooming of Roses personality as she moves from fear to a tenuous engagement with the world. Rose is a strong character, one of the pleasures of this book.

New York Newsday

Masterful ... King is in a league of his own.

Richmond Times Dispatch

A work filled with terror from the very first page.... Fiction has seldom produced a villain so evil... highly recommended.

Montgomery Advertiser

A whole lot of horror ... but Stephen King readers arent a faint lot. They can take it.

New York Daily News

ALSO BY STEPHEN KING

NOVELS

Carrie
Salems Lot
The Shining
The Stand
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Cujo
THE DARK TOWER I:
The Gunslinger
Christine
Pet Sematary
Cycle of the Werewolf
The Talisman
(with Peter Straub)
It
The Eyes of the Dragon
Misery
The Tommyknockers
THE DARK TOWER II:
The Drawing
of the Three

THE DARK TOWER III:
The Waste Lands
The Dark Half
Needful Things
Geralds Game
Dolores Claiborne
Insomnia
Rose Madder
Desperation
The Green Mile
THE DARK TOWER IV:
Wizard and Glass
Bag of Bones
The Girl Who Loved Tom
Gordon
Dreamcatcher
Black House
(with Peter Straub)
From a Buick 8
THE DARK TOWER V:
Wolves of the Calla

AS RICHARD BACHMAN
Rage
The Long Walk
Roadwork
The Running Man
Thinner
The Regulators

COLLECTIONS
Night Shift
Different Seasons
Skeleton Crew
Four Past Midnight
Nightmares and
Dreamscapes
Hearts in Atlantis
Everythings Eventual

NONFICTION
Danse Macabre
On Writing

SCREENPLAYS
Creepshow
Cats Eye
Silver Bullet
Maximum Overdrive
Pet Sematary
Golden Years
Sleepwalkers
The Stand
The Shining
Rose Red
Storm of the Century

This book is for
Joan Marks.

Im really Rosie, And Im Rosie Real, You better believe me, Im a great bigdeal...

Maurice Sendak

A bloody egg yolk. A burnt hole spreading in a sheet. An enraged rose threatening to bloom.

May Swenson

Prologue

SINISTER KISSES

She sits in the corner, trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty just a few minutes ago and now seems to have none. From what sounds like a great distance she can hear a thin whoop-whoop sound, and she knows this is air going down her throat and then sliding back out again in a series of feverish little gasps, but that doesnt change the feeling that shes drowning here in the comer of her living room, looking at the shredded remains of the paperback novel she was reading when her husband came home.

Not that she cares much. The pain is too great for her to worry about such minor matters as respiration, or how there seems to be no air in the air she is breathing. The pain has swallowed her as the whale reputedly swallowed Jonah, that holy draft-dodger. It throbs like a poison sun glowing deep down in the middle of her, in a place where until tonight there was only the quiet sense of a new thing growing.

There has never been any pain like this pain, not that she can remembernot even when she was thirteen and swerved her bike to avoid a pothole and wiped out, bouncing her head off the asphalt and opening up a cut that turned out to be exactly eleven stitches long. What she remembered about that was a silvery jolt of pain followed by starry dark surprise which had actually been a brief faint ... but that pain had not been this agony. This terrible agony. Her hand on her belly registers flesh that is no longer like flesh at all; it is as if she has been unzipped and her living baby replaced with a hot rock.

Oh God please, she thinks. Please let the baby be okay.

But now, as her breath finally begins to ease a little, she realizes that the baby is not okay, that he has made sure of that much, anyway. When youre four months pregnant the baby is still more a part of you than of itself, and when youre sitting in a corner with your hair stuck in strings to your sweaty cheeks and it feels as if youve swallowed a hot stone

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