Full Dark, No Stars

From the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” (_The Washington Post_) novellas—including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film—that explore the dark side of human nature. “The pages practically turn themselves” (_USA TODAY_) in _Full Dark, No Stars_, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. In “Big Driver”, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In “Fair Extension,” making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In “A Good Marriage,” the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is. Like _Different Seasons_ and _Four Past Midnight_, which generated such enduring hit films as _The Shawshank Redemption_ and _Stand by Me_, King’s _Full Dark, No Stars_ is a “page-turner” (_The New York Times_) “as gripping as his epic novels” (_St. Louis Post-Dispatch_), and “an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point” (_The Telegraph_, UK).