Mystery deepens and panic spreads as plane is flying on autopilot and pilot is missing. All other fellow passengers have disappeared leaving their things behind. One Past Midnight (“The Langoliers”): While travelling from LA to Boston, eleven passengers find themselves alive but in an empty world. It’s an interesting collection of trivia to know how these stories took birth. My Review…Įvery story has a little excerpt from the writer detailing about his thought process before, during or after writing that particular story. All four have supernatural tinge in them and as always I’m amazed how Stephen King turns a very ordinary thing into an object of horror. When it’s long past your bed time and you are still wide awake, pick up this book and fill your night with four tales of terror. Only reason I sometimes hesitate is because his books are very long and need serious commitment, but since this was a collection of four novellas, it was perfect for me. Whenever I’m disappointed in books and have strings of bad books in a row, I turn to Mr. I don’t need any excuse to read Stephen King.
― Stephen King Why I’m Reading this Book? (Sept.“And didn’t they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?” 1,500,000 first printing $750,000 joint ad/promo with NAL's publication of The Dark Half BOMC main selection.
There is an inappropriate abundance of heartwarming sentimentality here where King used to slaughter the innocents with gleeful impunity, he now apologizes for the deed, and love will out. In each successive photo, the dog, slobbering and slavering, approaches the edge of the picture plane. The Sun Dog features a boy's Polaroid camera, which, no matter where it is focused, takes pictures of a huge, mean and ugly dog. The Library Policeman, the collection's standout, pits a middle-aged businessman with some overdue books against a demonic, life-sucking monster of a librarian. In Misery -esque Secret Window, Secret Garden, a writer accused of plagiarism by a psychopath has an awful time trying to prove his innocence. while off in the distance the langoliers, creatures (``sort of like beachballs'') who eat up time after it's been used, close in. Marooned a few minutes in the past, a few surviving passengers try to get home. A jumbo jet flies through a time-slip in The Langoliers. The self-described ``America's literary boogeyman'' here serves up four horror novellas none is wildly scary, and only one offers King's typical, colloquial, hard-driving conversational style with its compulsive readability.
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