SuitabookOrdinary places becoming threatening
Stories are set in recognisable places including a school, factory, truck stop, laundry and cornfield, where frightening events occur.
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Stephen King - Author
Take this as a varied short-story horror collection rather than one continuous narrative.
Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces--bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms...where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl. The settings are familiar and unsuspected--a high school, a factory, a truck stop, a laundry, a field of Nebraska corn. But in Stephen King's world any place can serve as devil's ground...if the time of night is propitious, and the forces of darkness are strong, and the victims are caught just slightly off their guard...
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Sign in for personalised guidanceTake this as a varied short-story horror collection rather than one continuous narrative.
Stories are set in recognisable places including a school, factory, truck stop, laundry and cornfield, where frightening events occur.
Prepare for frightening imagery and threats, including dreadful forces, victims, shadows, noises, mutated rats, a cataclysmic virus, a possessed lawnmower, physical torture and gruesome transformation. Detail and frequency remain uncertain.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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