Just After Sunset: Stories - Softcover

King, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416586652 ISBN 13: 9781416586654

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2009

Synopsis

The classic short story collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

"The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces."

A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well...An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey...A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand...A psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside or keep the world from falling victim to it.

Stories include:
-Willa
-The Gingerbread Girl
-Harvey's Dream
-Rest Stop
-Stationary Bike
-The Things They Left Behind
-Graduation Afternoon
-N.
-The Cat from Hell
-The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
-Mute
-Ayana
-A Very Tight Place

These are just some of the tales to be found in the #1 bestselling collection Just After Sunset. Call it dusk or call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and the living daylights can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for master storyteller Stephen King.

About this title

Review:

"Wonderfully wicked."-- Carol Memmott, "USA Today"

"Quietly dazzling."-- Ted Anthony, "Associated Press"

"King is as sharp and versatile as ever."-- Erica Noonan, "Boston Globe"

"A master storyteller... Haunting."-- Karen Sandstrom, "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

"Quietly dazzling." -- Ted Anthony, "Associated Press"

"Wonderfully wicked." -- Carol Memmott, "USA Today"

"King reminds us again of his power to unhinge with a single line or image. A master of the storytelling craft, he gets his ghastly fingernails right beneath the skin." -- John Marks, Salon.com

"Wonderfully wicked." -- Carol Memmott, USA Today

"King is as sharp and versatile as ever." -- Erica Noonan, Boston Globe

"Quietly dazzling." -- Ted Anthony, Associated Press

Book Description:

A Number One hardback bestseller: a thrilling collection of bite-sized twists from the modern master of storytelling

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1416586652
• ISBN 13: 9781416586654
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 539