The premium cut sits on top: "The Langoliers," whose wildly original premise-that a group of airline passengers travel a few minutes into the past to encounter the entities that eat Being, leaving Nothingness-unfolds in classic King fashion, with a psychic blind girl, a demented financier, a mystery writer, and a British spy awash in mounting suspense (why is the beer "Flat! Flat as a pancake!"? and what is that sound like "Animals at feeding time" at the place near the airport?).
įour Past Midnight: ‘The Sun Dog’ sees a menacing black dog appear in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural.A double-double Whopper hot from the grill of "America's literary boogeyman," as he puts it in his introduction: four sizzling horror novellas sandwiched within the theme of "Time.and the corrosive effects it can have on the human heart." Sure, they're dripping with excess wordage and high-calorie sentiment, but cut away the fat and there's still more steak here than in any other horror book of the year.
Three Past Midnight: ‘The Library Policeman’ is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Two Past Midnight: ‘Secret Window, Secret Garden’ enters the suddenly strange life of writer, alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. One Past Midnight: ‘The Langoliers’ takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.įeaturing an introduction and prefaratory notes to each story by the author, this collection contains four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity. The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection – four riveting, dark stories from Stephen King that will ‘grab you and not let go’ ( Washington Post), now with a stunning new cover look.Īt midnight comes the point of balance.
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