Name: Four Past Midnight: Stories
ISBN: 9781501156779

Stephen King

Four Past Midnight: Stories

The survivors of a plane crash awake in a nightmare, a writer finds himself at the end of an accusing finger, a businessman struggles to uncover the evil driving him mad, and a ravenous dog inhabits a camera, in a horror quartet

Four Past Midnight

Lara Engle

I feel like this is a 3.5 star book. There are four novellas here and they're all good, but they're all TOO LONG. These should have been four short stories. My thoughts on each:
"The Langoliers" -- Nice mixture of paranormal trouble and human drama. Good characterization, even though there is some trouble with disability fetishization and objectification of women. 
"Secret Window, Secret Garden" -- I recently read The Dark Half and it was better. 
"The Library Policeman" -- Another nice mixture of paranormal and human drama. This one has problems with racist depictions of monsters. The main character is likable though and this one has a little more action.
"The Sun Dog" -- I thought this one was kind of messy (especially the predictable and silly twist at the end) and the pacing was all out of whack. The father-son teaming was nice. Always good to visit Castle Rock, too.

Bowie 

Four Past Midnight (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Nuno Miguel Gonçalo Salgueiro

Йосиф Леви

Първото българско издание на книгата бестселър „Четири след полунощ“ излиза от печат в две части.

Първата част включва новелите: Един след полунощ — „Ланголиерите“, и Два след полунощ — „Таен прозорец, тайна градина“.

Втората част: Три след полунощ — „Библиотечна полиция“, и Четири след полунощ — „Слънчевото куче“.

Четирите новели не са свързани сюжетно. В действието на всяка от тях участват лица и обекти от обозримата действителност. Целта на Стивън Кинг не е да потопи читателя в ежедневието и проблемите на средата, а само да изгради фон, който да помогне за свързване на естественото и свръхестественото в мислите и поведението на героите.

Но защо тези четири новели са включени от автора в една книга и защо тя е озаглавена „Четири след полунощ“!? Може би защото според суеверието, точно полунощ е времето за преход към отвъдното…

„Четири след полунощ“ дава поразяващи отговори и на въпроси от други „романи на ужасите“.

Четири след полунощ

Tsvetan

A. D. Knapp

Colton Ray

Put a safety belt on your reading chair. Flight 29--the red-ey from Los Angeles to Boston--is now boarding and you are on a supreme flight of the scariest storytelling imagination of our time. There will be no sleep for you until long after Stephen King finishes twisting your nerves in a final loop-theloop...

And prepare for terror in three more extraordinary novellas of suspense. You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid...you are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer's worst nightmare...you are face to face with a beast bent on shredding your sanity. You are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind blowing best.
(back cover)

Denys

Sarah Sammis

maitha mana

naia 🎐

Traci Wilbanks

Dhruv Chopra

Rhiannon Mansfield

Lacy Clagg

Mario Guisado

James Winduss

Includes the story “The Sun Dog”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection—four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post). With the success of the Hulu series 11/22/63 starring James Franco and the highly anticipated The Dark Tower movie release, Stephen King's brand is stronger than ever. This collection, nominated for a Locus Award, is guaranteed to keep readers awake long after bedtime, and features an introduction and prefatory notes to each novella by the author. “Stephen King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget these stories,” raves the Seattle Times about Four Past Midnight. One Past Midnight: “The Langoliers” takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t. Something’s waiting for them, you see. Two Past Midnight: “Secret Window, Secret Garden” enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Three Past Midnight: “The Library Policeman” is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well—the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance. Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock’s sharpest trader, aims to exploit The Sun Dog for profit, but this creature that shouldn’t exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.

Four Past Midnight: Stories

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