Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars (USA 2018) From the Publisher: "The pages practically turn themselves" (USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. 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. 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 "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 "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. 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. Louis Post-Dispatch), and "an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point" (The Telegraph, UK). Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars. Scribner's, ISBN: 9781501197949 (June, 2018), 384 p., $17.00.
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Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars (USA 2011) From the Publisher: Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars. Includes the new short story »Under the Weather«. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781439192603 (September, 2011), 576 p., $9.99.
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Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars (UK 2011) From the Publisher: Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars. With a bonus short story. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444712568 (July, 2011), 480 p., £7.99.
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Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars (USA 2011) From the Publisher: Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781451650600 (May, 2011), 400 p., $16.00.
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Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars (UK 2010) From the Publisher: Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444712544 (November, 2010), 416 p., £18.99.
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Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars (USA 2010) From the Publisher: In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger 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 films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form. Stephen King: Full Dark, No Stars. Scribner's, ISBN: 9781439192566 (November, 2010), 384 p., $27.99.
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