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The Regulators

A Novel

Stephen King

Ages 16+

Readers rate it 3.5 (213 on Hardcover)

464 pages · Released Sep 27, 2016

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The Regulators parent’s guide: what’s inside

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LGBTQ+ themes

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A note for parents

The Regulators is a dark supernatural horror-thriller featuring graphic violence, a possessed child weaponizing a suburban street, and intense scenes of death and destruction. While it explores themes of good versus evil and community resilience, the violence is frequent and disturbing, making it appropriate only for mature teen readers comfortable with Stephen King's horror conventions. The presence of an autistic character at the center of the supernatural threat requires older readers capable of understanding the distinction between the character and the evil force possessing him.

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From the publisher

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 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 gorge... 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 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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  • Fiction
  • Diverse Characters
  • Weak Character Development
  • Unloveable Characters
  • A mix driven
  • Plot driven
  • Loveable Characters
  • Not Diverse Characters
  • Strong Character Development
  • ebook
  • fast-paced
  • tense

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ISBN 9781501143755 · Simon and Schuster

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