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Full Dark, No Stars (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Stephen King (Author) (edit contributors)

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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife,... read more

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'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'.

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  • “She decided to take legal advice of her own (for the law, as we know, will befriend whomever pays it).”
  • “Hoping for a teenage boy to come to his senses is like betting on a long shot at the horse track.”
    Wilfred
  • “If people didn't root for psychos, they wouldn't still be making movies about the nut in the hockey mask and the burn victim with scissors for fingers.”
    Tessa Jean
  • “A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion.”
    Darcy Anderson
  • “"...nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing...and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows."”

First Sentence edit see section history

My name is Wilfred Leland James, and this is my confession.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter 1 - 1922
Chapter 2 - Big Driver
Chapter 3 - Fair Extension
Chapter 4 - A Good Marriage
Chapter 5 - Afterword

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Retribution: All four stories share a common theme of retribution.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 10 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels in 2010. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Port Mortuary.

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  1. Stephen King (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4391-9256-6
Page Count: 368

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  • Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 F85 2011
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Horror.

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