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Full Dark, No Stars
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Publisher's Summary
‘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 Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than 20 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.
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- Mick
- 13-07-2024
Love it
Very dire and bleak but enjoyable all the same! Another fantastic effort from a fantastic author.
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- David
- 16-10-2017
Four good shorties
The short stories in the collection are entertaining, and a good length. Not so long as to be a full-on read, but long enough to be good entertainment. well presented. Good length for a medium rod trip!
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- Kurtis
- 22-11-2023
Good stories
Entertaining short stories let down by average performances by the reader. Better in book form
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- Anonymous User
- 16-02-2024
Clever short stories
If you just want a break from a novel and want some easy listening. These stories won’t disappoint
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- Loretta.
- 28-08-2020
Full Dark No Stars
this is the first time I have read this book I enjoyed all the story's...And the way it was read
but its Stephen King What's not to like or enjoy thank you
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- Romiko Derbynew
- 22-08-2023
Thoroughly enjoyed
Thx Steve, A great read and love your message at the end, Stay true to the story!
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- Leigh Jenkins
- 15-05-2024
Great stories but the female characters could have been read in a more confident tone
The only thing I disliked was the female characters were being read as being very submissive.. I really enjoyed the way the stories were read but if I had read the books myself my inner monologue would have read the characters as being more confident.. maybe that’s just a personal thing, I very much enjoyed these characters and stories though! At some times it was hard to turn them off
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- Bec
- 08-03-2023
Stellar performance
Absolutely fantastic narration, the readers threw themselves into the story. Classic King horror in the tale ‘1922’ easily one of the best performances across the platform.
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- Richard James
- 16-04-2024
listening again
this book is one of my favourite collections of stories by Stephen King. it's so good that I am about to listen to it again
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- JillK
- 02-02-2024
Brilliant stand alone short stories
So impressive. Some of the subject matter was horrendous. Traumatic but at the same time unmissable! Ashamed to say that although the stories were all abominable in their own way Stephen King is such a talented writer that I was immersed….. no….drowning in his descriptions. Kudos Mr King you are one in a million.
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