Stephen King - Big Driver

“Solid psychological chillers.”

“Compulsively readable…. As disturbing as it is compelling…. Full Dark, No Stars is the work of a formidably gifted storyteller, a man with a dark, uncompromising vision and an utterly hypnotic voice.”

“Rarely has King gone this dark, but to say there are no stars here is crazy.”

“A page turner…. King… seems able to write compact tales or gargantuan ones with equal ease.”

“I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger,” writes Wilfred Leland James in “1922,”and it was that stranger that set off a gruesome train of murder and madness when his wife, Arlette, proposed selling off the family homestead…. “Big Driver”follows a mystery writer down a Massachusetts back road, where she is violated and left for dead. But plotting revenge brings her face-to-face with another dangerous stranger: herself…. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Henry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment, in “Fair Extension.”…And, with her husband away on business, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in their garage—and makes a horrifying discovery that definitively ends “A Good Marriage.”

“ Full Dark, No Stars is an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point.”

“These tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable.”

“King [is] the most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet…. The pages practically turn themselves.”

“It has the scope and flavor of literary Americana, even if King’s particular patch of American turf is located smack in the middle of the Twilight Zone.”

“Seven words: the best yet from the best ever. America’s greatest living novelist delivers his masterpiece.”

“A clever blend of Lord of the Flies, Malthus, Machiavelli, and Lost …. Wildly entertaining.”

“King readers will rejoice.”

“One of his most powerful novels ever… and our stock of literature in the great American Gothic tradition is brilliantly replenished because of it.”

“Impressive.”

“Irresistibly compelling…. A nonstop thrill ride as well as a disturbing, moving meditation on our capacity for good and evil.”

“Moves so fast and grips the reader so tightly that it’s practically incapacitating.”

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Previously published in 2010 in a collection of novellas title Full Dark, No Stars

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