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Four past midnight by stephen king5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The idea behind this story is fantastic, blending horror with sci-fi while showcasing King’s unparalleled imagination. Dentures, purses, earbuds, fillings, and other miscellaneous items litter the seats. They explore the plane and realize that while the people have gone, their belongings have remained. The premise: on a nighttime flight from Los Angeles to Boston several passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared everyone that wasn’t sleeping when it happened. “The Langoliers” is the strongest story out of the bunch. The Langoliers Don’t judge a book by its movie! (Or TV series) For this review we’ll be taking a quick look at each of the stories in the order they appear. They’re not so long as to require tidy and complete endings, but not too short as to stunt King’s excellent prose and atmosphere-building.įollowing in the footsteps of Different Seasons, that glorious work that gave us Shawshank Redemption, Four Past Midnight is also a collection of four novellas, but unlike that first anthology, all four of these stories can be firmly categorized as horror. ![]() ![]() King has often been criticized for having weak endings, The Stand and Under the Dome commonly assigned as exhibit A and exhibit B, which is why I believe his novellas are so good. It’s a collection of King’s most consistent form: the novella. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King was first published in 1990. ![]()
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