List About 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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"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 Marriage

Define Books As Full Dark, No Stars
| 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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Ratings: 4.06 From 87733 Users | 6265 ReviewsCriticism About Books Full Dark, No Stars
Thanks to Goodreads, I have been introduced to a lot of fine authors Iwould not otherwise have heard of. Some have become new favorites.But no matter how enjoyable these authors' works are, none of them cancompare to the security and enjoyment of going back to Stephen King.I often complain of being a relatively slow reader. But this is never the case with King. He has the wonderful gift of emotionally involving you into a story, coming to know and understand his characters, and when thisFor 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
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

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
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, intelligent
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


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