1,500,000 first printing $750,000 joint ad/promo with NAL's publication of The Dark Half BOMC main selection. There is an inappropriate abundance of heartwarming sentimentality here where King used to slaughter the innocents with gleeful impunity, he now apologizes for the deed, and love will out. In each successive photo, the dog, slobbering and slavering, approaches the edge of the picture plane. The Sun Dog features a boy's Polaroid camera, which, no matter where it is focused, takes pictures of a huge, mean and ugly dog. The Library Policeman, the collection's standout, pits a middle-aged businessman with some overdue books against a demonic, life-sucking monster of a librarian. Indeholder Straight Up Midnight: An Introductory Note, One Past Midnight: The Langoliers. In Misery -esque Secret Window, Secret Garden, a writer accused of plagiarism by a psychopath has an awful time trying to prove his innocence. while off in the distance the langoliers, creatures (``sort of like beachballs'') who eat up time after it's been used, close in. Marooned a few minutes in the past, a few surviving passengers try to get home. A jumbo jet flies through a time-slip in The Langoliers. The self-described ``America's literary boogeyman'' here serves up four horror novellas none is wildly scary, and only one offers King's typical, colloquial, hard-driving conversational style with its compulsive readability. This collection, nominated for a Locus Award, is guaranteed to keep readers awake long after bedtime, and features an introduction and prefatory notes to each.
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