Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the everyday. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers.
A blind intruder visits a dying man - and saves his life, with a kiss.
A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her LATE husband.
In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Emily starts running. And running. Her curiosity leads her right into the hands of a murderer... and soon her legs are her only hope for survival.
Enter a world of masterful suspense, dark comedy and thrilling twists which will keep you riveted from the fist page.
Probably not his best anthology, but enjoyable enough. While many of the stories are not memorable, a few definitely are. They are tales of introspection, with a bit of horror, or at least the supernatural, thrown in.
My two favorites are Willa, and The Things They Left Behind. Both are rather melancholy stories of what comes after. Almost as good are N, which I saw as a paean to Lovecraft, but which King gives credit to Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan, and Mute. The two stories are probably the longest in the collection, which added to my enjoyment since I’m not normally a fan of short stories.
Very much a middle of the road review of a middle of the road book.
Mount TBR 2024 Book Links
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2. Holly by Stephen King
3. Inferno (Inferno#1) by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
4. Fallout (Lois Lane #1) by Gwenda Bond
5. The Secret People by John Wyndham
6. Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
8. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
9. Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara
10. Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts by Shanna H. Swan, Stacey Colino
11. Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
12. Night Songs by Charles L. Grant
13. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear
14. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
15. Mine by Robert R. McCammon
16. Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
17. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
18. The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right by Sally Denton
19. The North Woods by Douglass Hoover
20. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
21. Upon Dark Waters by Robert Radcliffe
22. Dread: 22 Tales of Terror by Kevin Bachar
23. Escape from Hell (Inferno #2) by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Jennifer Hanover (Illustrator)
24. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller
25. The Portent by Marilyn Harris
26. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Short story anthology or collection
1. Dread: 22 Tales of Terror by Kevin Bachar
2. Just After Sunset by Stephen King