Four Past Midnight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451170385 ISBN 13: 9780451170385

Publisher: Berkley, 1991

Four Times Fear Equals Total Terror....

THE LANGOLIERS
You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell.

SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN
You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer’s worst nightmare.

THE LIBRARY POLICEMAN
You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid.

THE SUN DOG
You are focusing in on a beast bent on shredding your sanity.

You are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind-blowing best, with an extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas.

 

 

 

 

About the Author:

Stephen King lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. He has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story “The Man in the Black Suit,” and is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

From AudioFile:

Stephen King stretches this short story into a novella. A young boy gets a mysterious Polaroid camera that only takes pictures of a mean dog. The magic camera is creating a portal so that the mean dog can come to Earth and eat people. The boy stops him. The end. The book is saved by narrator Tim Sample's relentless efforts to wring suspense from the many scenes that are not suspenseful, just drawn out descriptions of mundane things. Sample speaks urgently at the right times, but sometimes even that--combined with suspenseful music--isn't enough. King's novella would benefit from a brutal editor hacking away the nonessentials. It's one of his lesser works. M.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine