Her intention is to sell these 100 acres to the hog farmer up the way, take the proceeds and run to the city to get the hell away from the farm life. His wife Arlette has been left over 100 acres by her father. Wilf owns 70 acres of land that he and his son farm. Wilfred James is married to Arlette and has one son, Henry (Hank). However, I far preferred listening to Craig Wasson.ġ922: 4 stars! A creepy first read to put me back in to the mind of Stephen King. There were two stories narrated by Jessica Hecht, with one being better than the other. Wasson is the indeed the right voice for the male-narrated stories in this collection, for certain. Craig Wasson narrates two stories where the main characters are male, and he seems to be a big fan of Stephen King, or vice versa, as he is the go-to man for all audiobook versions of King’s novels ( all of them).

So it’s been quite some time since I’ve delved in to some King madness.įirstly, I listened to this in audiobook format. I believe the last Stephen King I had read was The Tommyknockers way, way back when it was first published. Louis Post-Dispatch), and 'an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point' ( The Telegraph, UK).I pulled this one off the library shelves figuring I would read a little horror to immerse myself in some Halloween eerieness. Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, King's Full Dark, No Stars is a 'page-turner' ( The New York Times) 'as gripping as his epic novels' ( St. In 'A Good Marriage,' the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is. In 'Fair Extension,' making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In 'Big Driver', a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

In '1922,' a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. 'The pages practically turn themselves' ( USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four 'disturbing, fascinating' ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story '1922,' a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature.

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