Four Past Midnight
  Four Past Midnight
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First Edition Release Date: September, 1990

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Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we employ to order our sense of reality. It bends, stretches, turns back, or snaps, and sometimes reality with it. And what happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality shatters, and the glass begins to fly? These four chilling novellas, a feast fit for King fans old and new, provide some shocking answers.
    After all, past midnight is Stephen King's favorite time of day....
    One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see....
    Two Past Midnight: "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.
    Three Past Midnight: "The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well--the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.
    Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.
    With an introduction and prefatory notes to each of the tales, Stephen King discusses how these stories arose in what is the world's most fearsome imagination. But it is the stories themselves that will keep readers awake long after bedtime, into those dark, timeless hours past midnight.

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Posted By: E. Edwards - April 4th, 2012 2:58:52 pm EDT

Just finished reading this. Of course we are all probably familiar with "The Langoliers" and "Secret Window, Secret Garden", both having been made into movies and both excellent works. I loved "The Library Policeman", but "Sun Dog" was truly my favorite and another glimpse into the Universe of "Needful Things". The whole book is a delight!

 
 
Posted By: ThatGuyOverThere - January 27th, 2012 8:18:14 pm EST

*Possible spoilers* My tenth SK; I'm definitely glad I read it. The Langoliers had very believable characters and a very unexpectedly happy ending; Secret Window, Secret Garden was exciting and suspenseful even though I'd already seen the Johnny Depp movie; The Library Policeman was not what I had expected at all, and by far the most sinister piece of writing I have ever read in my life; The Sun Dog, like Pet Sematary, took a while to get exciting, but ultimately, it was well worth reading.

 
 
Posted By: Rosa - November 13th, 2011 5:08:59 am EST

I really enjoy reading The Library Policeman. Now I'm starting Everything's Eventual. I'm sure that these stories will fascinate me. =)

 
 
Posted By: Nalo - April 20th, 2011 6:53:12 pm EDT

Just finished Secret WIndow and watched the movie. I really enjoyed both takes on the story, and I can't wait to start the Library Policeman. You, sir, are a pemp.

 
 
Posted By: Anonymous - March 25th, 2011 11:34:17 am EDT

Riviting! Utterly Entertaining.

 
 
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