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Full dark, no stars / Stephen King.

Summary:

In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439192566 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9781451648386 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781439192603 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781451648867 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: vii, 368 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: Gallery Books
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner : 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Dec 10
Formatted Contents Note:
1922 -- Big driver -- Fair extension -- A good marriage.
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: Mentally ill > Fiction.
Rape victims > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Devil > Fiction.
Terminally ill > Fiction.
Husband and wife > Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Genre: Horror fiction.
Novellas (Short novels)
Short stories.
Horror tales.
Horror fiction.

Available copies

  • 50 of 52 copies available at Sitka.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library. (Show preferred library)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 0 total copies.
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Grand Forks FIC KIN (Text) 35142002516614 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Bibliotheque St. Claude Library FIC KIN (Text) 36725000130427 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Boissevain-Morton Library F/King (Text) 3626600035442 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC KIN (Text) 35146001661677 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library PB HORROR (Text) DCL145008 Adult paperbacks Volume hold Available -
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  • Baker & Taylor
    A volume of four previously unpublished short works includes "1922," in which a man explores his dark nature; "Big Driver," in which a writer confronts a stranger; "Fair Extension," in which a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil; and "A Good Marriage," in which a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.
  • Baker & Taylor
    In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying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.
  • Simon and Schuster
    "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 definitively 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.


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