In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. “The pages practically turn themselves” ( USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. Actor Thomas Jane portrayed the main role.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature. 1922 was adapted as a Netflix original film and released October 2017. A Good Marriage was released theatrically in 2014, while Big Driver was released as a television film the same year. In other media īoth A Good Marriage and Big Driver were adapted into films, with screenplays written by Stephen King and Richard Christian Matheson respectively. The Washington Post, in its review of the book, called Full Dark, No Stars 'satisfyingly bleak' and 'a disturbing, fascinating book.' Amazon placed the book at #25 out of 100 in its 'Best Books of 2010' list. The review aggregator website Book Marks reported that 35% of critics gave the book a 'rave' review, while 47% of the critics expressed 'positive' impressions, based on a sample of 17 reviews. The book received generally positive reviews. The paperback edition released on contains an additional new short story ' Under the Weather' written in 2011 ( ISBN 978-1451648386), which was later collected in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams in 2015. Cemetery Dance Publications has released several limited edition iterations of the book: a Slipcased Gift Edition, a Signed Limited Edition, and a Lettered Edition shortly after the original hardcover edition. Release Īnnounced on King's official site on February 16, 2010, it was published on November 9, 2010. This is King's third collection of four novellas after Different Seasons (1982) and Four Past Midnight (1990). The titles of the novellas and their synopses were announced on the author's official website on April 2, 2010. Also, 1922 was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. The collection won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, and the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), it is also where Alice and Billy stop for a while towards the end of the book Billy Summers, and the setting of the short story ' The Last Rung on the Ladder' (1978).

Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution.

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