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Just After Sunset: Stories

by Stephen King

Stories at the edge of daylight

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author

    The metadata describes Stephen King as a #1 New York Times bestselling author.

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Stories at the edge of daylight

This collection gathers thirteen stories that turn ordinary encounters and routines toward the uncanny: a roadside pickup, an exercise ride, a kiss, or a patient’s thoughts become openings to danger or mystery. The settings range from a Maine countryside threatened by an apocalyptic possibility to more intimate, everyday situations, giving the book a varied set of entry points into the strange. Its twilight framing links the stories through the shift from familiar daylight toward shadows, while the contents list signals a broad assortment of scenarios rather than one continuous plot.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a collection of supernatural and uncanny short fiction.
  • Stephen King readers interested in stories spanning everyday situations and apocalyptic possibilities.
  • Readers who prefer varied standalone tales over a single continuous narrative.

Themes

The uncanny in ordinary lifeImagination and threatTwilight and the crossing into darknessShort-form storytelling

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Book overview

Thirteen "dazzling" (Associated Press) and "wonderfully wicked" (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. These are just some of the tales to be found in the #1 bestselling collection Just After Sunset. Call it dusk or call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for master storyteller Stephen King. Stories include: -Willa -The Gingerbread Girl -Harvey's Dream -Rest Stop -Stationary Bike -The Things They Left Behind -Graduation Afternoon -N. -The Cat from Hell -The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates -Mute -Ayana -A Very Tight Place
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