Stephen King

The Bachman Books is a collection of short novels by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman between 1977 and 1982. It was a The New York Times Best Seller List when it was released in 1985.

"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. Theres no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and its more than a year before the man is identified.And thats just the beginning of the mystery. Because the …