Just After Sunset: Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (768 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743575318 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 13 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"King Returns to the Short Story With Vigor and Wit" according to Steve V.. Just After Sunset was Stephen King's fourth short story collection (not counting his two novella collections that preceded this work), and I would say that this ranks as one of the better ones. While the stories aren't all winners, King covers a lot of different sorts storytelling themes, showing his amazing knack for getting reactions that range from terror, disgust, laughter and--most impressively--an unsettling sense that his tales could really happen. Comp. Mr. King is a Master Story Teller LarryBear It goes without saying, though I'm going to say it because it's so obvious from all my King reviews, that I am definitely a fanboy of Mr. King. With the internet and the chance to post reviews ad nauseum, a lot of reviewers rip apart books and even write paragraph after paragraph, ruining the story and the plots. I think a lot of these people fancy themselves "authors" and feel the need to prove it by writing short stories about someone else's work.My review o. jonboy said AW, STEVE, THE SHORT STORY WILL LIVE ON FOREVER. I somehow missed this collection while waiting for Under the Dome, and I'm so glad I found it just before the release of Mr. Mercedes.What a romp! Since Mr. King has provided us with a helpful tidbit of information on how each of the stories in this collection came about, I don't need to review each one. What would be the sense? Suffice it to say that all of these stories is a perfect example of his incredible talent.While he doesn't go quite to the level of h
All rights reserved. Like the crime thrillers The Gingerbread Girl and A Very Tight Place, both of which feature protagonists struggling with apparently insuperable threats to life, it is laced with moving ruminations on mortality that King attributes to his own well-publicized near-death experience. . The Things They Left Behind, a powerful study of survivor guilt, is one of several supernatural disaster stories that evoke the horrors of 9/11. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Lovecraft. Most of these 13 tales show him at the top of his game, molding the themes and set pieces of horror and suspense fiction into richly nuanced blends of fantasy and psychological realism. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament
In "Ayana", a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. Just After Sunset -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying-journey. In "N", which recently brok