This is a story about a young, damaged, loveable anti-hero who, encouraged by his mentor - his dead mentor - kidnaps a baby. The back story, which unfolds in parallel, tells us about Blaze's life in the lead up to the current events.

Poplar Street, Wentworth, Ohio is just an ordinary place. Then, the strange-looking vans arrive - and that's just the start of a surreal nightmare in which the familiar street threatens to become a wasteland of devastation and desperation.

For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really best-selling author Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense.

Every night they tuned into the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to beat not the clock, but annihilation at the hands of the Hunters. Now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.

Billy Halleck, a lawyer with a happy family needs to lose some weight, or he's headed for a serious heart-attack. But after a car accident in which a young gypsy girl is killed, he suddenly finds he can't stop losing weight - and it might just kill him.