Review: Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Audio Book

"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, 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 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 Dave 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. 

Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

Stephen King has always been a master of horror.  I started listening to Full Dark, No Stars one night and I couldn't stop.  I ended up listening to six CD's before I finally decided to stop and get a couple hours of sleep.  The next morning, my first thought was, I have to finish it!  The plot was fantastically scary, the characters were addictive and I really liked being "told" a thrilling story.  This is a must have for King fans!  If you haven't read (or listened to) any of his books, this is a great one to start with.

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Audio Book

Simon & Schuster Audio

9781442335769

November 9, 2010

$39.99 US

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