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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