These situations force the characters to expose their real inner selves. Released this past November, Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four short novellas, each containing seemingly ordinary characters thrown into life-altering situations. Instead, you’ll be pondering a much darker thought, “Am I the real monster disguised in a costume of skin and hair?” It won’t have you looking under your bed at night for a pair of glowing eyes or wondering what’s lurking in your closet while you cower beneath your covers. It isn’t a classic Stephen King horror story filled with vampires, scary monsters or zombies.

A Good Marriage Darcy Anderson learns more about her husband of over twenty years than she would have liked to know when she stumbles literally upon a box under a worktable in their garage.What scares you most about yourself? Is it the other person you hide just beneath your facade? The one you pretend doesn’t exist – the one capable of performing acts you could never commit on your own? That primeval fear is confronted in Stephen King’s new book, Full Dark, No Stars.įirst, let’s clarify what Full Dark, No Stars is not. Fair Extension Harry Streeter, who is suffering from cancer, decides to make a deal with the devil but, as always, there is a price to pay. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences. Big Driver Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. 1922 The story opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of his wife, Arlette, following their move to Hemingford, Nebraska onto land willed to Arlette by her father. Big Driver Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King.

A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King.

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