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.Īmazon 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. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.
"Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.
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. 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.
" 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.
"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger.
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