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Notables
By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
Published August 26, 2007
Scary stories Three of last year's top-selling tales of horror are now available in paperback. Lisey's Story (Pocket) by Stephen King is a moving portrait of the widow of a successful novelist struggling to cope with his death, but it has plenty of King's trademark bone-rattling terror, too. The Ruins (Vintage) by Scott Smith charged up bestseller lists after a rave review from King, who called its harrowing story of American tourists lost in the jungles of Mexico "one long, screaming close-up." Hannibal Rising (Dell) by Thomas Harris is the prequel (released concurrently with the film version) to Harris' other three novels about the sinister Hannibal Lecter, focusing on how a promising young lad ends up as a cannibal.
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