A haunting new novel from Stephen King, thee acknowledged master of horror.

CHRISTINE

It is the summer of 1978 in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. School is out, and puny and pimplish Arnie Cunningham, target of the school bullies' barbs, buys a car. No ordinary car, but a huge scarlet and white 1958 Plymouth Fury with rusted chrome fenders, cracked and faded leatherwork and a shattered windscreen. A car more fitted for the scrap-yard than the road, or so it appears to Arnie's protective and athletic best friend Dennis Guilder. Yet nothing, and no-one, can dissuade Arnie from making a deal for the car, Christine, with her wily owner Roland LeBay. In his mind's eye Arnie sees her in the shining glory of her 'fifties heyday, the queen of the road, and he her princely escort, cruising to the beat of the radio's blaring rock and roll.

The aura of evil which Dennis senses beneath the decay fails to penetrate Arnie's vision.

Against the melodies of Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys, Bo Diddley and Eddie Chochran, Arnie sets feverishly to work restoring Christine, a task which soon becomes an obsession. As a new car miraculously emerges from the carcass of the old, and the clock is turned back, Arnie slowly undergoes an uncanny transformation himself. Fired by an alien desire for revenge on a hostile world which is older than time itself, he becomes no longer the possessor but the possessed. Inexplicable accidents occur, and when Dennis and Arnie's girlfriend Leigh Cabot attempts to investigate, they find that a dark and gruesome history is repeating itself. Past the chrome grin of the car's wide radiator grille can be glimpsed the jaws of Hell itself, and by the time the end can be foreseen, it is appallingly late . . .

Genres: Horror - Thriller - Fantasy - Paranormal - Supernatural - Mystery 
Condition: Good
Published: 1983 by Book Club Associates 
Pages: 482
Weight: 850g