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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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Full Dark, No Stars

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 Exciting
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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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Very dire and bleak but enjoyable all the same! Another fantastic effort from a fantastic author.

Love it

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I just loved listening to these stories, each one hooks you in and at times with the gritty stories you want to leave it but cannot switch them off as you feel you have to find out how it ends! Stephen King is such a brilliant writer and with the narrators delivering such great performances you feel you are there too, totally absorbing, Thankyou Stephen yet again for such entertaining stories.

Enthralling

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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.

Stellar performance

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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

listening again

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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.

Brilliant stand alone short stories

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