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"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 mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. 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 is 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 Harry 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."
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Czarna bezgwiezdna noc
2013, Wydawnictwo Albatros A. Kuryłowicz
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Todo oscuro, sin estrellas
2013, Debolsillo
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Aardedonker, zonder sterren
2012-03, Luitingh
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Full Dark, No Stars
2011, Windsor | Paragon
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Full Dark, No Stars
2010, Hodder & Stoughton
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Standard print ed. originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2010.
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Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), and the setting of the short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (1978).
The collection won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, and the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Also, 1922 was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
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1922
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A Good Marriage
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Big Driver
- Fair Execution
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- The Great Stephen King Reread: Full Dark, No Stars
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King – review
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- What Evil Lurks
- Full Dark, No stars by Stephen King: review
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