![]() ![]() ![]() The one centers around Dave Streeter, who works at one of the local banks in Derry (a favorite location for a number of King’s stories), and also happens to be dying from cancer. This is the shortest of the four stories in the book. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. The third novella in Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars is Fair Extension. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of long stories by Stephen. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife's discovery of her milquetoast husband's sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book's most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. Even those we love wear masks that hide their true selves from us. ![]() "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). ![]()
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