Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them--manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen--pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary ... including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own ...
year: 1981, 1980, 1994, 2022, 2016
call number/section: 1000
subjects: parapsychology, fiction, fires, children, horror, fiction, horror fiction, horror fiction, paranormal fiction, horror tales, psychokinesis, science fiction
Editions
King, Stephen
Signet (1981)
Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.
Schools: 23
King, Stephen
Viking (1980)
Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.
Schools: 4
King, Stephen
Penguin Books (1994)
Schools: 0
King, Stephen
Just a year ago Andy was an outstanding instructor at Harrison State College. Now he is on the run from a pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimagineably terrifying gift. A gift that could be useful to corrupt authorities.
Schools: 0
King, Stephen
Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.
Schools: 1
King, Stephen
Schools: 1
King, Stephen
Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.
Schools: 3
Universal Pictures (2022)
A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.
Schools: 1
King, Stephen
Pocket Books (2016)
Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them--manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen--pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary ... including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own ...
Schools: 1