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Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King, Holter Graham, Mare Winningham, Denis O'Hare, Ron McLarty, Jill Eikenberry, Ben Shenkman
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About this listen

 King's brand new fiction title: a captivating collection of tales with dark - and light - twists from the master of this wonderful form.

What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are 12 riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for.

Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: workmen who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle-aged artist in "Stationary Bike"; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair.

There are tales of obsession and fights for power: "The Gingerbread Girl" runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into "A Very Tight Place" and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a "Rest Stop" needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene.

Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people's worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual - until it happens.

©2008 Stephen King (P)2008 Hodder & Stoughton Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Short Stories Scary

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Critic reviews

"A fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it." ( Express)
"Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next is a gift . . . Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades." ( The Times)
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If you like Stephen King or horror you should enjoy these short stories. There are a few that will stick in my mind for a while! Great narration, clear and easy to understand.

Another great collection of short stories.

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A genius as always. Some great stories on here. Love the notes at the end too read by Stephen king

Fabulous

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The fabulously creative and talented Stephen King lost his way with what started off well but became the ridiculously self-regarding Dark Tower series.

Then came the very so-so Cell, and the least said about Lisey's story the better. Now after another couple of other reasonable but not terribly gripping projects comes "Just After Sunset" - a magnificent tour de force and a reminder of just what a wonderful story teller King is!

This powerful and gripping series of stories took me back to my early encounters with King in Carrie, Salem's Lot and the Shining. I am with some relief and lots of gratitude once more a "constant reader".

Return of the King

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This is the first time I have read short stories as they normally don't appeal as the author himself says in the introduction. I liked some and not others. However, they are superbly narrated and I listened till the end, with the last story being the best. If youre a Steven King fan I guess you will love them, if not then Im not sure. I have only read Bag of Bones which I really enjoyed and thought I would give these stories a try. i don't regret it.

Short stories from the genius story teller

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amazing collection I recognised the cat from hell from tales... loved it. so so good

loved it

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