Cujo, Thinner / Full Dark / No Stars / From a Buick 8
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Title In This Collection:- Cujo Thinner Full Dark No Stars From a Buick 8Cujo Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop . . . Thinner Thinner - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek.Billy Halleck. prosperous if overweight citizen . happily married. shuddered then turned angrily away. The old womans death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. Shed just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business.Later. when the scales told him he was losing weight. it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she Full Dark, No Stars As well as being the most celebrated horror and fantasy writer of the modern age, Stephen King is a noted commentator on the genre, and some of his most intriguing writing includes studies of his great predecessors. The first story in the mesmerising collection of novellas which is Full Dark, No Stars bears the imprint of one of King's favourite writers, Edgar Allen Poe: it is the first-person confession of a murderer, in which he invites us not to judge him -- not unlike the narrator ofFrom a Buick 8 In Stephen King's From a Buick 8, a group of Pennsylvania State Troopers find, and keep secret, the Buick 8, a "car" that is a portal between our world and some world far more horrid. Animals and occasionally people disappear around the Buick 8 and every so often something unpleasant comes through from the other side. The alien monsters here are creatures of pure disgust; King terrifyingly argues here that somewhere in the universe there are things for which we can have no fellow-feeling.