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• Four dark stories deliver more unbelievable thrills from King

  If only Stephen King hadn’t become “Stephen King, Heavyweight Horror Writer,’’ he coulda been somebody, to borrow a phrase from Brando. Not that his gazillion fans are complaining as their pleasures rise with every tortured limb or strangled neck in ... (read full critics)

  boston published on Thu, 2 Dec 2010

• What Evil Lurks

  “From the start — even before a young man I can now hardly comprehend started writing ‘The Long Walk’ in his college dormitory room — I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive,” Stephen King writes in a chatty afterword to “Full ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sun, 28 Nov 2010

9 Reviews

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  this book is dark

  before i read this book i always thought stephen king would never go dark dark, you know bleak endings, no hope type dark.

  In other words what i would call real horror rather than popcorn horror. This book proved me wrong, if you want dark this is the one to go for

  be warned not for everyone

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  John Brunton said on May 20, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

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  I love Stephen King's work, but these are some sick stories

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  wilkinsjordan said on Aug 19, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  1. 1922.
  A woman puts her dreadful revenge through with a little help of a whole bunch of rats… Why does this sound slightly familiar to me?
  Personal remarks apart, I did not find the end so satisfying. Unless we take literally the statement that the narrator… bit himself to death personally! Rats’ ... (continue)

  1. 1922.
  A woman puts her dreadful revenge through with a little help of a whole bunch of rats… Why does this sound slightly familiar to me?
  Personal remarks apart, I did not find the end so satisfying. Unless we take literally the statement that the narrator… bit himself to death personally! Rats’ teeth are supposed to left different signs from a man’s, don’t they?
  2. Big Driver
  Another novella about feminine revenge, with some important considerations about guiltiness and self-discharging. And a lot of good unexpected twists (as any twist is supposed to be…). Quite good the trick of letting everything/body speak aloud, TomTom included. Something to be thought about, and maybe borrowed, in story-telling.
  3. Fair Extension
  The good old story of the deal with the devil once more retold. It leaves you with the feeling of something unfinished, although it does have an end… a long one. With non cruelty and no horror… apparently. With a taste somehow unexpected, as when you bite in a piece of fruit you know to be harsh, and its bittersweet juice surprises your tongue, but you sort of like it… Sort of.
  4. A Good Marriage.
  So, in the last 50 pages or so, the King plays his masterly "coup", and gives us one of his unforgettable stories of "ordinary people in extraordinary situations". Tht's how a true writer tells a story, going deep while pretending to be just a "story-teller". "Does anybody really knows anybody ?"

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  paolo parigi said on Jul 23, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Firsst King book I've read in decades. 4 stories on what happens to the individual in times of extreme personal violation - madness, revenge, absolution, retribution. 3 of the 4 worthwhile, the other kind of middling. Hard to call this horror - yes some gore, but more psychological. Love the afterw ... (continue)

  Firsst King book I've read in decades. 4 stories on what happens to the individual in times of extreme personal violation - madness, revenge, absolution, retribution. 3 of the 4 worthwhile, the other kind of middling. Hard to call this horror - yes some gore, but more psychological. Love the afterword, well worth reading by itself

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  John Trigg said on Jun 30, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  This a good set of Novellas fro Steven King

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  Rdfry1 said on Apr 28, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Four gripping stories, each as horrific and brutal as the next. Brilliantly written as always.

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  Valentine said on Apr 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 416 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1444712543
• ISBN-13: 9781444712544
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Pub date: Nov 09, 2010
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken, Polskie Książki

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