Four Past Midnight

By (author) Stephen King; By (author) King Stephen
Short description/annotation:
Wake up the new reader and shake up the existing reader - between Spring 2021 and Autumn 2024 Hodder is reissuing groups of Stephen King''s books in a wonderful new livery. The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection - four RIVETING, DARK STORIES from Stephen King that will ''grab you and not let go'' (Washington Post).
Description:

The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection - four riveting, dark stories from Stephen King that will ''grab you and not let go'' (Washington Post), now with a stunning new cover look.

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.

Featuring an introduction and prefaratory notes to each story by the author, this collection contains four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity . . .

One Past Midnight: ''The Langoliers'' takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky.


Two Past Midnight: ''Secret Window, Secret Garden'' enters the suddenly strange life of writer, alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake.


Three Past Midnight: ''The Library Policeman'' is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding . . .


Four Past Midnight: ''The Sun Dog'' sees a menacing black dog appear in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural.

Review quote:
An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote''s, is so fluid that you often forget that you''re reading
Review quote:
A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel...brilliantly done
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Splendid entertainment...Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy
Biographical note:
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include Fairy Tale, Holly, and If It Bleeds, all number one Sunday Times bestsellers. Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb''s top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Promotional headline:
Hodder are boosting Stephen King''s backlist with new covers, new author branding and a marketing campaign which directs readers to the right King title for them.
Review quote: previous work:
An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote''s, is so fluid that you often forget that you''re reading - Guardian

A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel...brilliantly done - The Sunday Times

Splendid entertainment...Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy - Frances Fyfield, Express