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Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic, terrifying New York Times bestseller of those caught between the surreal forces of good versus evil in a small suburban Ohio town.

“The red van rolls past…humming and glinting. …Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet.”

It’s a gorgeous midsummer afternoon along Poplar Street in the peaceful suburbia of Wentwort, Ohio, where life is as pleasant as you ever dreamed it could be. But that’s all about to end in blaze of gunfire and sudden violence, forever shattering the tranquility and the good times here. For the physical makeup of Poplar Street itself is now being transformed into a surreal landscape straight out of the active imagination of the innocent and vulnerable Seth Garin—an autistic boy who’s been exposed to and possessed by a horrific, otherworldly force of evil, one with sadistic and murderous intent and who is willing to use whatever means necessary to grow ever stronger.

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Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; Reissue edition (February 16, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501144278
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501144271
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively.

King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.

King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.

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John Crawley

Gripping Tale

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023

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Couldn’t put it down. Stephen King writes superbly. I have enjoyed every one of his novels so far. Mr Mercedes is next in line for me.

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2023

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A good engaging read. You feel for the family, and have a love/hate for the community. On to read the comanion novel Desperation. :)

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2023

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Pretty good only prob was a sticker slapped on the book cover which took me a little while to take off but solid product

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Glad this isn't my suburb

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Where to begin? Oh, man - I read this book when I was in high school and fell in love with the absurdity of it all. I read Desperation before I first read this and didn't even make the connection between the characters until reading both stories again some 15 years later. I love the parallel storytelling involving the same characters from Desperation and that same quack of a villain, Tak.

I really have no complaints about this story that opens on what appears to be any ordinary day in a suburb of Ohio, except on this day the residents woke up in the Twilight Zone, but I don't think any episode of the Twilight Zone could be this bloody or gory. The way this story opens, King sets the scene so beautifully that you almost hear the birds chirping yourself. That is, until you hear the first gunshot go off...

With that said, if I do have any complaints it's about Tak as a villain. I expressed my low opinion of Tak in my review of Desperation. Compared to the Crimson King of the Dark Tower series or that iconic Randall Flagg from The Stand, I just don't think this villain compares - he was just a little pervert with a craving for chocolate milk and Chef Boyardee ( I personally love the lasagna myself).

But the mayhem the little S.O.B caused...

I felt sorry for everyone involved,especially the children. However I have conflicting emotions about the outcome of this story. The way it ended, it sort of calls to mind why this story went on as long as it did. When the truth was finally revealed about why "little toy vans" were out to get them, the threat was dispatched with relative ease. It was no wonder a certain character only joins the other people almost the last 20 percent of the story. I really saw no other way for this story to end but how it did.

This story is a good read if you love classic King. I read this coming off of Bag of Bones and I felt so nostalgic. This is the stuff I fell in love with The King for. Not that sleepy hollow crap I just read about a man trying to uncover the ghostly past about his cabin in the lake while battling some old coot for the very soul of a child that, in my opinion, he had no business really caring about. I'm sure there's a lot of people who prefer the new King and that's fine. But me - bring on the gore! The Regulators had plenty of it and so long as you don't take this story serious, I think you'll find it very entertaining to say the least.

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Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023

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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: The Regulators

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017

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I did say that Desperation is my favorite book, and I do know this book is better out of the two. Yes, Stephen King did write this book and Desperation in conjunction with one another. The story of this one has a slightly better flow to it, and it actually scared me more than Desperation. I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but evil kids in horror movies or books is what gets me. Only dolls scare me more.

The Ugly: Even though this book is a decent one out of all his books, there are flaws. The biggest flaw that came with this book was changing Johnny. His don’t care attitude from Desperation really carried the book. Making him a sentimental person didn’t really help this book at all.

The Bad: Confining the story to a single street. What made Desperation good was that it was in a small town. There were more places for the characters to go. In this one, they were confined to a small street that had maybe eight houses and a convenience store on it. King limited himself to what the people could do. Yes, he has written other stories that are confined to one spot like in The Shinning, but that worked because of the story there. It may be that I am comparing this to Desperation too much, but that is just how I feel.

The Good: I mentioned it above. Kids scare me in books like this. Not only that, but the backstory for everyone, with exception to Johnny’s, was much better here. Going into detail on why everyone was there and how the Seth become Tak worked so well together.

Final Thoughts: The contrast between what Tak to Collie and what it did to Seth was so different that it worked so well together. That alone, making it so much more of a wider universe and what the entities of the worlds are capable of doing. I guess you could say that is the reason I think this book is better than the connected one, even though I like the other one more. Still though, this is just a book everyone needs to read.

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FantasyRaider 3DheArt

I love all Stephen king books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2023

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And this was a weird one but I loved it!
Very different all together.

LJ

Superb

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2023

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Typical Stephen King, its a riveting book.

Gregorymanbeck

poorly written

Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2023

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Very confusing. Off track many times. The writing was awkward and the story too way to long to develop. I was disappointed. The lady 50 pages were good. No worth going to

fiofee

A captivating opening!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2023

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I really enjoyed this book. I was sucked in from the beginning and never lost interest.

David

Little disappointing

Reviewed in Germany on August 25, 2022

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The Regulators is my fourth book by Stephen King and the first one that didn’t really catch me. I don't know why but while I couldn't lie away the other books (it, insomnia and needful things) this one wasn't that exiting. I don't want to say I didn't enjoy reading it, but in comparison to the others, I was a little disappointed a little.

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