The release date for the English version of 'Full Dark, No Stars' by
Stephen King is Nov 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The first of these dark quartet of engrossing stories by Stephen King, "1922," begins with Wilfred Leland James's compelling revelation, "I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger." When James's wife Arlette suggests selling the family farm and relocating to Omaha, she awakens him from his reverie and starts a horrifying chain of murder and insanity.
In "Big Driver," Tess, a cozy-mystery author, meets the stranger on a Massachusetts back road while returning home quickly after a book club meeting. After being wronged and abandoned, Tess plans a retaliation that will force her to meet a new stranger—the stranger within herself.
The smallest of these stories, "Fair Extension," is undoubtedly the funniest and maybe the nastiest. In addition to saving Dave Streeter from a deadly disease, striking a bargain with the devil brings him substantial compensation for a lifetime of bitterness.
Darcy Anderson searches the garage for batteries while her husband of over two decades is gone on a business trip. When her toe brushes across a box under a worktable, she finds her spouse to be weird. A happy marriage is undoubtedly ended by this horrible revelation, which is presented with bristling intensity.
Stephen King is a master of the extended narrative genre, as seen by Full Dark, No Stars. Similar to Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which produced timeless movies like The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.
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Includes: 1922 Big Driver
A Just Extension of a Happy Marriage