Full dark, no stars : 1922 -- Big driver -- Fair extension -- A good marriage

Amazon.com Review Amazon 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. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that ''there are always worse things waiting.'' Full Dark, No Stars features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started. --Daphne Durham Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars ''King is Poe's modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction's singular power to capture them.'' Read more of Justin Cronin's review of ''1922'' ''Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, 'Big Driver' pulls you into Tess's fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes.'' Read more of Suzanne Collins's review of ''Big Driver'' ''It wouldn't be Stephen King if somebody's messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were.'' Read more of Margaret Atwood's review of ''A Good Marriage'' ''[King's] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, 'have become poor and transparent things.''' Read more of T.C. Boyle's review of ''Fair Extension'' From Wikipedia Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by the author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska: home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), as well as the setting of the short story ''The Last Rung on the Ladder'' (1978). The collection won the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon In the article: Release | Pre-release information | Contents | Critical response "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 definitely 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. (front flap) Contains: 1922 Big Driver A Fair Extension A Good Marriage "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. Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), and the setting of the short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (1978). The collection won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, and the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Also, 1922 was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Contains: - [1922][2] - [A Good Marriage][3] - [Big Driver][4] - Fair Execution [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/story_collection/full_dark_no_stars.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781625W/1922 [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781665W/A_Good_Marriage [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781688W/Big_Driver Prolific Author Stephen King Presents A Collection Of Four New Novellas. In The Story 1922, A Man Plunges Into The Depths Of Madness When His Wife Attempts To Sell Off The Family Home. A Mystery Writer, Who Was Beaten And Raped While Driving Home From Her Book Club, Plots Her Revenge In Big Driver. Diagnosed With A Deadly Cancer, A Man Makes A Deal With The Devil In Fair Extension. And In A Good Marriage, A Woman Discovers Her Husband's Darker Side While He Is Away On A Business Trip. 1922 -- Big Driver -- Fair Extension -- A Good Marriage. Stephen King.