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| Original Title: | Full Dark, No Stars |
| ISBN: | 1439192561 (ISBN13: 9781439192566) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.stephenking.com/library/story_collection/full_dark_no_stars.html |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection (2010), British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2010) |
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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger..." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922." the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. "Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitely ends a good marriage. Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form. (front flap) Contains: 1922 Big Driver A Fair Extension A Good MarriageParticularize Based On Books Full Dark, No Stars
| Title | : | Full Dark, No Stars |
| Author | : | Stephen King |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition (US/CAN) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | November 2010 by Scribner |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Short Stories. Thriller |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 87733 Users | 6265 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Full Dark, No Stars
I flipping love Stephen King. He just has this way of getting to the nitty-gritty of things, their soul or heart or whatever you want to call it. Whatever it is that makes it it, that's what King puts on paper and then shares with the world. It both fascinates me and humbles me, because I can't see life in the way that King apparently does. It makes me feel small, actually, because the scope of the understanding that King seems to have is amazing to me. I think I'm a well-read, intelligent4.5 StarsI've somehow stumbled into a Stephen King binge. Its been a long time since I've read Mr. King but I now appear to be back in. Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of short stories each one in my opinion darker than the last. In my humble opinion no author does the short story collection better than Stephen King and this collection is just further proof of that. Without spoiling anything I will now give a mini review of each story. 1922 -- 3 Stars1922 is the first story in this
After the doorstopper that was Under The Dome Stephen King came with this volume of four tales, all much more restrained in scope and quieter in terms of narrative than the story of Chester Mill. This does not mean that they lack emotion, intensity and darkness; oh no, the title is very apt. These four tales are some of King's darkest work to date.King one of the few contemporary and succesful practicioners in the vastly ignored field of the short story, but he's probably the sole writer who
3 1/2 stars, about which, more later.Steve King has abandoned the supernatural in favor of something even creepier: REALITY. Do you really know what evil lurks inside that person curled up next to you in bed? Or that gray-haired, seemingly benign librarian? Or the guy who's been your best buddy since childhood? Or YOU, for that matter? King takes on these questions here in three novellas and one short-ish story. In Big Driver, Tess is the author of the cozy and bland Willow Grove Knitting
1922: A man coerces his son into helping him murder his wife. Can they keep their sanity in the aftermath?1922 is a latter day retelling of A Telltale Heart, only with rats and a Bonnie and Clyde side-story. It's also damn good and a prime example of what Stephen King can do when he has a limited number of pages to work with instead of the entire paper output of a redwood forest.Big Driver: After taking a shortcut down an unfamiliar road, a writer is raped and left in a culvert to die but her
Ok, I am going to review each story, as well, individually as they deserver. POSSIBLE SPOILERS1. 1922 - This story is actually a confession of a man who has just murdered his wife. He has even dragged his innocent 14 year old son into this as well, which is very heartbreaking. I feel this story makes you realize that our actions have consequences that we will somehow at some point feel. Is it karma? What goes around, comes around? Ghosts? Insanity? This man, after committing this heinous crime
For many years, Different Seasons claimed the throne as my #1 favorite, short-story collection. Well, you heard it hear first: times they are a changin!That honor now goes to this delightfully horrifying collection of tales of ordinary people placed into extraordinary circumstances. Full Dark, No Stars is comprised of four novellas that examine the deepest, darkest corners of the human condition.1922: 5-starsBig Driver: 5-starsFair Extension: 5-starsA Good Marriage: 4.5-starsI was pulled into
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