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. 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). (Sept.Includes the story “The Sun Dog”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine 1,500,000 first printing $750,000 joint ad/promo with NAL's publication of The Dark Half BOMC main selection. There is an inappropriate abundance of heartwarming sentimentality here where King used to slaughter the innocents with gleeful impunity, he now apologizes for the deed, and love will out. In each successive photo, the dog, slobbering and slavering, approaches the edge of the picture plane.
The Sun Dog features a boy's Polaroid camera, which, no matter where it is focused, takes pictures of a huge, mean and ugly dog. The Library Policeman, the collection's standout, pits a middle-aged businessman with some overdue books against a demonic, life-sucking monster of a librarian. In Misery -esque Secret Window, Secret Garden, a writer accused of plagiarism by a psychopath has an awful time trying to prove his innocence. while off in the distance the langoliers, creatures (``sort of like beachballs'') who eat up time after it's been used, close in. Marooned a few minutes in the past, a few surviving passengers try to get home. A jumbo jet flies through a time-slip in The Langoliers.
The self-described ``America's literary boogeyman'' here serves up four horror novellas none is wildly scary, and only one offers King's typical, colloquial, hard-driving conversational style with its compulsive readability.
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