A glamorous young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a mysterious mansion in 1950s Mexico: a mesmerising feminist Gothic fantasy, 'Darkly brilliant' Yangtze Choo, author of The Ghost Bride

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove hi...