Full Dark, No Stars
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442335769 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In “Big Driver,” soon to be a major Lifetime movie starring Maria Bello, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book club engagement. The acclaimed #1 New York Times and undisputed King of Horror Stephen King delivers five unforgettable short works, two of which will soon be adapted for film, and which Booklist called “raw looks at the limits of greed, revenge, and self-deception.” Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.“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. 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. 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. Her toe kn
"King Proves He's Still The Master Of The Short Tale" according to Steve V.. In his afterword, Stephen King freely admits that these stories are unpleasant, discomforting stories--he even says that some parts were uncomfortable to write! Although King is a masterful builder of suspense and master of horror by craft, these stories exemplify his greatest talen. Stephen Anthony Standard said It is sad and a touch haunting but did not strike me. It is sad and a touch haunting but did not strike me Stephen Anthony Standard 4 stories, all quick reads. The first is very much a character study that really goes no place in particular. It is sad and a touch haunting but did not strike me as a must experience story. The second was a fun read. It had more of the kind of King vibe that I enjoy in this one. Th. stories, all quick reads. The first is very much a character study that really goes no place in particular. It is sad and a touch haunting but did not strike me as a must experience story. The second was a fun read. It had more of the kind of King vibe that I enjoy in this one. Th. "Good Introduction to Stephen King's Work!" according to Amazon Customer. I tried reading 'Misery' as a teen, and back then I felt that a lot was drawn-out. So I never picked up another King book until this one. Now that I am an adult I am sorry to say that I didn't give 'Misery' another shot back then, because I very much enjoy his writing now.If you hav
Boyle Review Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars"King is Poe's modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction's singular power to capture them." Read more of Justin Cronin's review of "1922""Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, 'Big Driver' pulls you into Tess's fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes." Read more of Suzanne Collins's review of "Big Driver""It wouldn't be Stephen King if somebody's messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were." Read more of Margaret Atwood's review of "A Good Marriage""King's very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, 'have become poor and transparent things.'" Read more of T.C. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire ta