Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t. One Past Midnight: “The Langoliers” takes a red-eye flight from L.A. And what happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality shatters, and the glass begins to fly? These four chilling novellas, a feast fit for King fans old and new, provide some shocking answers.Īfter all, past midnight is Stephen King’s favorite time of day…. It bends, stretches, turns back, or snaps, and sometimes reality with it. 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.Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we employ to order our sense of reality. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.įour 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.

But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well-the truth.

Three Past Midnight: “The Library Policeman” is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. 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. One Past Midnight: “The Langoliers” takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. This collection, guaranteed to keep readers awake long after bedtime, 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. 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).

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