Full Dark, No Stars – the legendary dark scribe’s third collection in the four-novella format following 1982’s Different Seasons and 1990’s Four Past Midnight – explores the frightening lengths to which we’ll go to maintain normalcy and the status quo. But I’ve read a number of King books now and for someone purported to be the master of horror I’m yet to read one that truly chills me.“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart,” one of King’s characters muses as she descends into near-madness in this quartet of novellas, “there seemed to be no limit.” And when it comes to exploring all that dark fuckery of the human heart, no one seems to possess the limitless capacity for such more than Stephen King.
Overall it’s a pretty good book, with three out of four of the stories being enjoyable. I felt the narration was strong and again, unlike Big Driver the protagonist felt authentic. It was about the concept of marriage and whether you can truly know someone, even after years and years of spending your life together. The last story, A Good Marriage, was enjoyable. I would have loved it if this story was a little longer and Big Driver had been shorter. I liked how the story was presented as it went through different periods to show the changing fortunes between the families of the two men, although I do feel it could have been developed a little more. It’s probably a fallacy of human perception but it is a common feeling that I’m sure we have all felt at some point. It does seem that some people have it easy while others struggle. I never got the sense that the protagonist was a real person and thus I found it difficult to become invested in her story.įair Extension has a good concept about the balance of luck. I felt the rape happened quite casually and it just didn’t ring true.
There was a lot of tragedy and I felt a surge of emotion for the characters and how they ended up, with a good ending that sheds a new light on some earlier events.īig Driver was a come down after that. There’s a lot more to it than just him having murdered his wife. I liked the confession and how the story unfolded and developed. The collection starts off strongly with 1922.
Finally, A Good Marriage is about a woman who discovers her husband harbors a deadly secret. Fair Extension is about a man who is intensely jealous of his best friend, who seems to have had all the luck in the world, but that’s about to change. Big Driver follows a woman who tries to exact vengeance on the trucker who raped her. 1922 is about a man who is finally confessing to the murder of his wife. Full Dark, No Stars contains four stories.
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