Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature.

As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. 'A Good Marriage' explores the aftermath of a wife's discovery of her milquetoast husband's sinister secret life, while 'Fair Extension,' the book's most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. 'Big Driver' tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. In '1922,' a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. Louis Post-Dispatch), and “an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point” ( The Telegraph, UK).Įerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, King’s Full Dark, No Stars is a “page-turner” ( The New York Times) “as gripping as his epic novels” ( St. In “A Good Marriage,” the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is. In “Fair Extension,” making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In “Big Driver”, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. “The pages practically turn themselves” ( USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature.

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