Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
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Four Past Midnight

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: James Woods, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe, Ken Howard

Unabridged: 29 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2016


Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—four chilling novellas that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post).

ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t.

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—until the mysterious John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.

THREE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Library Policeman has his terrifying sights set on businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind. But another enemy lurks as well—the truth—and if Sam can find it in time, he might stand a chance.

FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: The Sun Dog comes in the form of a looming supernatural menace, appearing in every picture that young Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera. Pop Merrill, Castle Rock’s sharpest trader, aims to exploit it for profit—but this creature is a very dangerous investment.

About Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1970. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine.

He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo. The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.

A life altering happening beset King in June of 1999. King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His severe injuries kept him in the hospital until July 9. His lawyer purchased the van that hit him to prevent it from being sold on eBay. It was crushed at a junkyard. King thought that he would not write again, but did resume writing with this caveat, "I'm writing, but I'm writing at a slower pace".

His most notable novels are: Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Misery, It, The Dark Tower, Under the Dome, and The Shawshank Redemption.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on August 02, 2020

4 tosses, 3 hits, no bad statistic in this highly varying collection of short works from the man himself. Langoliers is a bit of a controversial thing, one of the rare cases King is using some Sci-Fi and cosmic horror elements, although he doesn´t seem to have cared so much about the characterization......more

Goodreads review by Luca on June 26, 2024

English (Four Past Midnight) / Italiano Four short novels (not so short, actually) of one of the best contemporary writers out there. The Langoliers (my favorite) carries the reader together with the protagonists into a parallel dimension. The unknown and the fear of what we do not know are the main......more

Goodreads review by Baba on March 22, 2021

Four memorable novellas based around the theme of a breakdown in reality. The Langoliers, a haunting and very puzzling 'locked room' mystery set on a plane. The suspense and mystery in this story really got to me; but unfortunately, not so much the reveal of what caused the mystery/ Secret Window, Se......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 10, 2017

A re-read after more than twenty years. Will it stand up? Short answer: Absolutely. :) The Langoliers fits snugly in the New Weird category, pretty much entirely esoteric SF with gremlin-types, alternate dimenions and/or time travel on a plane... There are no snakes here! :) The characters are a blast......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on October 03, 2020

Four Past Midnight is a collection of four stories that some would call novellas, but really they are closer to novels. They were written when Stephen King was supposedly “retired.” I think we can safely say, many novels and stories later, that he is never going to retire. I recently saw him on a Zo......more