However, to a Constant Reader the story is actually quite interesting as it tells a story of Castle Rock somewhere between The Dark Half and Needful Things. If the premises for The Library Policeman were silly, the premises for The Sun Dog are downright stupid. It may work for you, but it didn't work for me. A cheese factory? It gets better, but no matter how strong or well written it would possibly be, the first third of the story will always drag it down – the horror can't really work when you find the premises for the story to silly. If Secret Window, Secret Garden started of a bit cheesy, I'm not sure what to call the first third of this one. The story starts of kind of cheesy, but soon it becomes quite strong. One day a man who calls himself John Shooter comes up to Morton Rainey and accuses him of having stolen one of his stories, Rainey knows that this is wrong and promises to produce evidence, but Shooter is not the kind of man who takes no for an answer. I guess that the reason I usually like these stories is that King is writing about something that he know and something that is important to him and that usually shine through in the stories. Remove the blind girl and the raving lunatic businessman plot and cut the story to a hundred pages and you will have a nice short story.Īh, Stephen King writing about a writer, now we are back in charted territories. Quite a good idea, but King nearly manages to kill it between the internal struggling between the passengers and the unbelievability of the characters. Therefore, our passengers are trying to get back to the normal world, but time is literally running out. Luckily the autopilot was on and even more extremely luckily one of the sleeping passengers is a pilot. An aeroplane goes through "something" and everybody, except for the ten passengers who where asleep, disappears. I like to make my own mental pictures of what the characters etc. I saw the miniseries not so long ago, which puts me in a strange situation – normally I'll go to any lengths not to see a movie if I know that there's a chance that I may be reading the story behind it some day. Oh, yeah and the baseball bit, didn't really mean anything to me, but that's not King fault.
Normally I love introductions in books, but this one was kind of disappointing, it seemed so naive and apologetic, almost as if Stephen King didn't believe in the worth of the stories in the book. Before I get to the stories, I'll just make a comment on the seven page introduction.
I guess that four stories in just under a thousand pages, means that each of the stories deserves their own review and that's just what you are going to get. Four Past Midnight is a collection of four short stories by the master of horror, Stephen King.
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