Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing. What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge.

And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything-toys, clothes, even people-aflame.īut The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed 'ultimate weapon.' Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange. All first edition points present: Viking’s original address on the copyright page and separately on the dustjacket. Signed and dated by King on the ffep around publication date. The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. Stephen King (1980) ‘Firestarter’, US first edition, first printing, published by Viking. 'Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge.

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