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Four Past Midnight

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: James Woods, Ken Howard, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe
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At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when, between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.

Four Past Midnight: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity....

©1990 Stephen King (P)1991 Penguin Highbridge Audio Fantasy Fiction Heartfelt Scary
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excellent stories read perfectly by four very talented narrators. this us a must read

one of his best!

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I have read, and reread the print version. This came to life in the audio.

Big fan of the print version, now a bigger fan!

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Love the book and the narrators were excellent, but I found the use of music in the story annoying and offputting.

An old favourite collection of Stephen King novellas.

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Mystery missing plane passengers.
One man's insane revenge.
Confronting a dark-past.
A boy's supernatural camera.
😱👍👍👍

King: Excellent as Always

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Can hear interference during Langoliers, ruins it unfortunately. Sounds like low conversation in the background.

What's that noise?

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I'm not the biggest fan of Stephen King but these are perfect to listen to while I drive 2 hours to work.

James Woods read is excellent. He really nails it.

Awesome

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I’m an SK junkie and was hesitant to delve into his short stories but each story had me hooked until the end. Well worth it!

Great stories & narrations

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This is a great example of King’s genius in the shorter story format. Langoliers is sheer genius, bringing together supernatural and the study of human behaviour to make for a riveting story. Secret Window, Secret Garden is a tragic tale of a man’s decline and so well written. I find The Library Policeman hard going due to the intense and graphic nature of the human horror, but there is no denying it is a great story. Sun Dog is a cracker of a story and I love when Castle Rock and its characters are featured.

The narration is a bit patchy but generally good. I was surprised to find seasoned actors struggling so much with accents. Not sure the music and sound effects add much.

Representative collection

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it's been a long time sence I read this book last 80s and I loved it as much know as I did back then. Thank You Mr King

Four Past Midnight Stephen King.

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First story has lower sound quality than normal, but all well-matched performers doing a great job of the narration! Langoliers was a particularly edge of the seat story, and having watched the film adaptation of Secret Window there was a whole game in itself of finding which parts matched word for word as well as realising some great deviations. Library Policeman is a bit of a prequel to a few great King novels. Sun Dog was probably the least promising premise but of course still well-written and entertaining. I'm not familiar with Tim Sample, but was probably most wowed by his performance. All highly recommended!

Excellent set of stories!

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