Full Dark, No Stars

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010 : When a master of horror and heebie-jeebies like Stephen King calls his book Full Dark, No Stars , you know you’re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that ''there are always worse things waiting.'' Full Dark, No Stars features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started. --Daphne Durham Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. 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. Boyle's review of ''Fair Extension'' From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In ''1922,'' a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. ''Big Driver'' tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. ''A Good Marriage'' explores the aftermath of a wife's discovery of her milquetoast husband's sinister secret life, while ''Fair Extension,'' the book's most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Includes the story “1922”—now a Netflix original film starring Thomas Jane and Molly Parker. Four unforgettable novellas that explore the dark side of human nature from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King."Does anybody really know anybody? Before tonight she certainly would have thought so." In "1922," a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. A mystery writer is brutally assaulted in "Big Driver" by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In "Fair Extension," making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. Finally, the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is in "A Good Marriage." Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), and the setting of the short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (1978). The collection won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, and the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Also, 1922 was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Contains: - [1922][2] - [A Good Marriage][3] - [Big Driver][4] - Fair Execution [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/story_collection/full_dark_no_stars.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781625W/1922 [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781665W/A_Good_Marriage [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781688W/Big_Driver 1922. A man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home -- Big driver. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge -- Fair extension. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil. -- A good marriage. A woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip -- Under the weather. A husband who's wife isn't feeling so good goes to work, but becomes concerned that she'll be awakened when people start investigating the foul odor in the apartment building Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip In Four Previously Unpublished Short Works, A Man Explores His Dark Nature, A Writer Confronts A Stranger, A Cancer Patient Makes A Deal With The Devil, And A Woman Makes A Horrifying Discovery About Her Husband.