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Four Past Midnight

  • Stephen King

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Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991.

One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see....

Two Past Midnight: "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.

Three Past Midnight: "The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well--the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.

Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.

Genres

  • paranormal
  • nightmares
  • cuckoo clocks
  • word processors
  • Polaroid cameras
  • speechwriting
  • Dissociative identity disorder
  • ambush
  • sanity
  • caretakers
  • plagiarism
  • housemaids
  • short stories
  • diction
  • Fiction
  • Horror
  • Thriller
  • supernatural
  • red-eye flights
  • autopilot
  • American Horror tales
  • Vdobibl
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror tales
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction, horror
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • Horror stories
  • Fiction, romance, general
  • Fiction, erotica, general
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About the author

  • Stephen King

    born 21 September 1947

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Editions

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    Luitingh-Sijthoff

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    Poema Pocket

    2011

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    Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO

    Nov 06, 2009

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    Ediciones B

    1992

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Ediciones B, S.A.

1992

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    First Signet Printing (27)

    Signet

    1998?

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    Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Signet printing (13)

    Signet

    1995?

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    Guild Publishing

    1991

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    BCA

    1991

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    BCA

    1992

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    BCA

    1991

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    Sperling & Kupfer

    2015

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    Pocket Books

    Apr 25, 2017

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    Jun 30, 1990

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    Viking

    1990

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    Viking

    1990

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    Brand: Demco Media, Demco Media

    Sep 18, 1991

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2012

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    New English Library paperback edition

    New English Library

    1991

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    printing (1)

    Viking

    1990

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    New English Library paperback edition (20)

    New English Library

    2001?

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    New English Library paperback edition

    New English Library

    1991

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    Heyne Verlag

    Apr 11, 2016

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    First Scribner trade paperback edition (3)

    Scribner

    2016-08

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    Turtleback Books

    May 16, 2017

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    "IMA-press-reklama"

    1993

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    Simon & Schuster Audio

    2016-01

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    New English Library paperback edition

    New English Library

    1991

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    Albin-Michel, Editions

    1992

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    Belen Books, LLC

    2023

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2008

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    Guild Publishing

    1990-01-01

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    Book Club Associates

    1994-01-01

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    BCA

    1993-01-01

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    1990-01-01

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    Viking, NY

    1993-01-01

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    Hachette Book Publishing India

    Aug 10, 2008

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    Signet book

    1990

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    Signet book

    1990

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    Zysk i s-ka

    2003

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    Zysk i s-ka

    2003

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    Scribner

    2016

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    AST

    2004

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    .

    Temas e Debates

    2000

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    Grijalbo

    December 1994

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    AST

    January 1, 2005

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    Tandem Library

    March 2004

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    Signet

    1991