Title | Full Dark, No Stars |
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Author | Stephen King |
Narrator | Craig Wasson |
Category | Fantasy |
Length | 14 hrs and 52 mins |
Description:
‘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 mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. 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 is 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 Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than 20 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 definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'. 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.
Books written by Stephen King
It
The Dead Zone
The Green Mile
The Institute
The Tommyknockers
The Stand
The Shining
Carrie
Christine
Cujo
Cycle of the Werewolf
Danse Macabre
Different Seasons
Firestarter
Four Past Midnight
Misery
Night Shift: Selections
Pet Sematary
Rage
The Talisman
Salem's Lot
Skeleton Crew
The Dark Half
The Drawing of the Three
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Gunslinger
The Long Walk
The Running Man
Thinner
Insomnia
Bag of Bones
Blaze
Needful Things
Blockade Billy
Cell
Desperation
Dolores Claiborne
Dreamcatcher
Duma Key
Rose Madder
From a Buick 8
Gerald's Game
Hearts in Atlantis
Just After Sunset
Lisey's Story
Song of Susannah
Storm Of The Century
The Colorado Kid
The Dark Tower
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Regulators
The Waste Lands
Under the Dome
UR
Wolves of the Calla
Everything's Eventual
Black House
Wizard and Glass
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
The Wind Through the Keyhole
11.22.63
Finders Keepers
Mr Mercedes
Doctor Sleep
Elevation
Gwendy's Button Box
Joyland
Sleeping Beauties
Revival
The Outsider
If It Bleeds
Gwendy's Final Task
End of Watch
Everything's Eventual
Full Dark, No Stars
The Stationary Bike
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Mist
In the Tall Grass