1,500,000 first printing $750,000 joint ad/promo with NAL's publication of The Dark Half BOMC main selection. There is an inappropriate abundance of heartwarming sentimentality here where King used to slaughter the innocents with gleeful impunity, he now apologizes for the deed, and love will out. In each successive photo, the dog, slobbering and slavering, approaches the edge of the picture plane. King hadn’t found his footing in the third part of his career. The Sun Dog features a boy's Polaroid camera, which, no matter where it is focused, takes pictures of a huge, mean and ugly dog. And Four Past Midnight was released to prop up King’s name at one of its lowest points: 1990. The Library Policeman, the collection's standout, pits a middle-aged businessman with some overdue books against a demonic, life-sucking monster of a librarian. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the. In Misery -esque Secret Window, Secret Garden, a writer accused of plagiarism by a psychopath has an awful time trying to prove his innocence. while off in the distance the langoliers, creatures (``sort of like beachballs'') who eat up time after it's been used, close in. Marooned a few minutes in the past, a few surviving passengers try to get home. A jumbo jet flies through a time-slip in The Langoliers. The self-described ``America's literary boogeyman'' here serves up four horror novellas none is wildly scary, and only one offers King's typical, colloquial, hard-driving conversational style with its compulsive readability.
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Standing near by, swift-footed Iris said: "Come here, dear girl. She found Helen in her room, weaving a large cloth, a double purple cloak, creating pictures of the many battle scenes between horse-taming Trojans and bronze-clad Achaeans, wars they suffered for her sake at the hands of Ares. Her name was Laodice, of all Priam's daughters the most beautiful. Then Iris came as messenger to white-armed Helen, taking on the image of her sister-in-law, wife of Antenor's son, fine Helicaon. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writers’ imagination or have been used factiously and are not to be construed as real. 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At age 20, smart, self-reliant, shy Christopher Knight decides to give up on civilization and disappear into the vast Maine wilderness. And the hermit’s tale is as unlikely as the book’s success. the great god Pan."įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. The title was taken from the poem "A Musical Instrument" published in 1862 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the first line of every stanza ends ". Machen’s story was only one of many at the time to focus on Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism. The great god Pan, and, The inmost light by Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947. 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