![]() ![]() Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. February 2021 Fiction Group Read Full Dark No Stars by Stephen King: 23 49: 02:41PM Stephen King Fans: Full Dark, No Stars: 307 890: 07:47PM Stephen King 2022. ![]() As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Full Dark, No Stars is definitely a psychological thriller with dark themes and even darker endings that is absolutely worth picking up and reading. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife's discovery of her milquetoast husband's sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book's most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. Stephen King based this story on the true account of the BTK Killer of Wichita, Kansas, Dennis Rader, whose wife also says she had no idea of her husband’s true identity. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. ![]() Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King offers four unflinchingly brutal scenarios in response to that question. ![]()
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