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King, Stephen, 1947-

Gwendy's button box / Stephen King and Richard Chizmar ; [illustrated by Keith Minnion] - London, England Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. - 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

There 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 has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her. There on a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small, neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat.

ISBN: 9781473672093 1473672090

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place)--Fiction.
Magic paraphernalia--Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) in adolescence--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Horror fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6