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A review by cartoonmicah
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
5.0
What would be four full length novels for most authors must be considered overgrown short stories and compiled by the likes of a Stephen King. Luckily, he is at his best when he attempts brevity and all 4 of these are winners from the land of The Twilight Zone and Stranger Things.
The Langoliers
Eleven passengers on a red eye flight wake up to find themselves alone, without pilots, crew, or other passengers. Luckily, one of them is a pilot himself, dead-heading his way to Boston. So they can land the plane, but what will they find on the ground when they land?
Secret Window, Secret Garden
A famous author finds himself living in the Lakehouse and trying to overcome writer’s block not that his wife has abandoned him for some real estate agent. And now some oddball southerner from Mississippi shows up on his front porch, claiming that he stole a story from him years ago. Not one of his better selling novels, but some random forgotten short story, one of the only creepy ones he ever wrote. Can he convince this stalker that he didn’t steal the story before drastic steps are taken?
The Library Policeman
Needing to prepare for a speech he’s been roped into giving, an insurance salesman goes to the library to look for books of anecdotes and poems to liven up the oratory experience. What he finds is bizarre and, as it turns out later, deadly. Can he face his own hideous past and discover a way to overcome an evil that hasn’t reared its head in this town since those children died all those years ago? A different take on something similar to IT.
The Sun Dog
A teenage boy gets the Polaroid camera he always wanted as a birthday present. In any other town, nothing strange could come of it. But this is Castle Rock and strange and evil occurrences are sort of a norm here. It shouldn’t be a surprise then, that this particular camera does not spit out pictures of your smiling friends and family, but the same picture over and over again, of a beastly dog turned to sniff a fence. But wait. Are the pictures truly the same, or is the dog slightly moving with each capture? Best not to find out.
Great concepts all, and well executed by a master storyteller. Some pretty trigger content in The Library Policeman, but all fascinating stories.
The Langoliers
Eleven passengers on a red eye flight wake up to find themselves alone, without pilots, crew, or other passengers. Luckily, one of them is a pilot himself, dead-heading his way to Boston. So they can land the plane, but what will they find on the ground when they land?
Secret Window, Secret Garden
A famous author finds himself living in the Lakehouse and trying to overcome writer’s block not that his wife has abandoned him for some real estate agent. And now some oddball southerner from Mississippi shows up on his front porch, claiming that he stole a story from him years ago. Not one of his better selling novels, but some random forgotten short story, one of the only creepy ones he ever wrote. Can he convince this stalker that he didn’t steal the story before drastic steps are taken?
The Library Policeman
Needing to prepare for a speech he’s been roped into giving, an insurance salesman goes to the library to look for books of anecdotes and poems to liven up the oratory experience. What he finds is bizarre and, as it turns out later, deadly. Can he face his own hideous past and discover a way to overcome an evil that hasn’t reared its head in this town since those children died all those years ago? A different take on something similar to IT.
The Sun Dog
A teenage boy gets the Polaroid camera he always wanted as a birthday present. In any other town, nothing strange could come of it. But this is Castle Rock and strange and evil occurrences are sort of a norm here. It shouldn’t be a surprise then, that this particular camera does not spit out pictures of your smiling friends and family, but the same picture over and over again, of a beastly dog turned to sniff a fence. But wait. Are the pictures truly the same, or is the dog slightly moving with each capture? Best not to find out.
Great concepts all, and well executed by a master storyteller. Some pretty trigger content in The Library Policeman, but all fascinating stories.