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Full Dark, No Stars

A riveting, dark story collection from the No. 1 bestseller, featuring the story '1922'

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By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
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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 mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. 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 is 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 hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

(P)2010 Simon & Schuster Audio division©2010 Stephen King Crime Fiction Fiction Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Marriage Fantasy Scary
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Critic reviews

Praise for Under the Dome:
'America's greatest living novelist delivers his masterpiece.'
'King's most purely entertaining novel in years . . . utterly compelling.'
'Staggeringly addictive.'
'Tight and energetic from start to finish.'
'The pedal is indeed to the metal.'
'You're sorry when you come to the end.'
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As I said above disturbingly thrilling or something like that!no disappointment involved, fine chilling stories to ponder

Thrillingly disturbing, each and every tale!

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I loved these stories, no issue with the narrators, I couldn't choose a favourite, they are quite diverse. Clear SK style in that they are embedded in real situations but then go off on grotesque paths and end in extreme ways.

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Not really supernatural stories apart from one but more stories about human nature, our needs, wants,our greed, our inhumanity to man I enjoyed them as much as you can considering the subject matter but they are great stories

Full dark no stars

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Extremely well crafted collection..I like the level on which I can place myself in relation to any of the characters.

A well crafted collection, gripping throughout.

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Short but not sweet stories that are among the best Stephen King has written full of tension, like a wire to the throat, that cuts deep, to the last tug. Well thought out and presented like a tasters meal of macabre concoctions that feel like classics.
Superb narration by both persons.

A familiar stranger, makes it all dark.

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