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A review by leventmolla
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
3.0
This is a rare book by Stephen King. He has compiled a novella and three short stories in a collection of horror stories. They are all in line with his regular products, but just shorter.
The first story The Langoliers is the weirdest and maybe the most interesting of the four. It has also been captured as a TV miniseries in 1995. Passengers travelling on a long night trip (the "red-eye" flight) wake up to find that most of the passengers and all of the crew have disappeared and the plane running on autopilot to go to Los Angeles Airport. An off-duty pilot tries to make sure the plane is flying fine while trying to make sense of the disappearances. The rest of the story includes a very creative treatise on the near future, the near past and the universe trying to make sense of the transition from the past to the present on to the future. King plays with our primal fears as usual and weaves his threads around a quite complex but appealing story line.
The second story is named Secret Window, Secret Garden where an author is accused by a strange man to have stolen his book and he starts getting harassed while trying to prove that he did not actually steal the book. Fiction and fact getting mixed together, fictional creations taking control of their creator and such themes....
The third story is The Library Police I did not find it as effective, but it is a twist on vampirism and plays on fears of little children in libraries.
The last story is The Sun Dog and I really did not like it, although the theme of a mad dog getting ready to attack through a Polaroid camera taking pictures sounds interesting...
All in all, it is an acceptable book but not the best of King's works.
The first story The Langoliers is the weirdest and maybe the most interesting of the four. It has also been captured as a TV miniseries in 1995. Passengers travelling on a long night trip (the "red-eye" flight) wake up to find that most of the passengers and all of the crew have disappeared and the plane running on autopilot to go to Los Angeles Airport. An off-duty pilot tries to make sure the plane is flying fine while trying to make sense of the disappearances. The rest of the story includes a very creative treatise on the near future, the near past and the universe trying to make sense of the transition from the past to the present on to the future. King plays with our primal fears as usual and weaves his threads around a quite complex but appealing story line.
The second story is named Secret Window, Secret Garden where an author is accused by a strange man to have stolen his book and he starts getting harassed while trying to prove that he did not actually steal the book. Fiction and fact getting mixed together, fictional creations taking control of their creator and such themes....
The third story is The Library Police I did not find it as effective, but it is a twist on vampirism and plays on fears of little children in libraries.
The last story is The Sun Dog and I really did not like it, although the theme of a mad dog getting ready to attack through a Polaroid camera taking pictures sounds interesting...
All in all, it is an acceptable book but not the best of King's works.