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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
November 9, 2010

Pages
  
368

Originally published
  
9 November 2010

Page count
  
368

Publisher
  
Charles Scribner's Sons


Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

ISBN
  
978-1-4391-9256-6

Author
  
Stephen King

Genre
  
Horror fiction

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Awards
  
Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

Similar
  
Stephen King books, Horror fiction books

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Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by the author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska: home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), as well as the setting of the short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (1978). The collection won the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection and was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Also, 1922 was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.

Contents

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Contents

The four novellas are:

  • 1922
  • Big Driver
  • Fair Extension
  • A Good Marriage
  • Background information

    The titles of the novellas and their synopses were announced on the author's official website on April 2, 2010. This is King's third collection of four novellas after Different Seasons (1982) and Four Past Midnight (1990).

    Release

    Announced on King's official site on February 16, 2010, it was published on November 9, 2010. 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. The paperback edition released on May 24, 2011 contains an additional new short story "Under the Weather" written in 2011 (ISBN 978-1451648386).

    Critical response

    The Washington Post, in its review of the book, called Full Dark, No Stars a "satisfyingly bleak" and "a disturbing, fascinating book." Amazon placed the book at #25 out of 100 in its "Best Books of 2010" list.

    Adaptations

    Both A Good Marriage and Big Driver were adapted by Stephen King into screenplays. A Good Marriage was released theatrically in 2014, while Big Driver was released for television the same year.

    References

    Full Dark, No Stars Wikipedia