Just After Sunset, Stephen King
Just After Sunset, Stephen King
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Just After Sunset
Stories

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Denis O'Hare, Ben Shenkman, Skipp Sudduth, Mare Winningham, Karen Ziemba

Unabridged: 14 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/11/2008


Synopsis

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections

Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating—and then terrifying—journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient’s irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside…or keep the world from falling victim to it.

These are just some of the tales to be found in the #1 bestselling collection Just After Sunset. Call it dusk or call it twilight, it’s a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It’s the perfect time for master storyteller Stephen King.

Stories include:
-Willa
-The Gingerbread Girl
-Harvey's Dream
-Rest Stop
-Stationary Bike
-The Things They Left Behind
-Graduation Afternoon
-N.
-The Cat from Hell
-The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
-Mute
-Ayana
-A Very Tight Place

About Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1970. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine.

He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo. The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.

A life altering happening beset King in June of 1999. King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His severe injuries kept him in the hospital until July 9. His lawyer purchased the van that hit him to prevent it from being sold on eBay. It was crushed at a junkyard. King thought that he would not write again, but did resume writing with this caveat, "I'm writing, but I'm writing at a slower pace".

His most notable novels are: Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Misery, It, The Dark Tower, Under the Dome, and The Shawshank Redemption.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on February 14, 2023

What difference six years can make? I do feel I was a far harsher judge of books back in in the Noughties! 2010 view: 13 short stories by Stephen King, some quite good, a few just average. 4 out of 12, Two Star read(!!!) Updated review>: Not his best short story collection but still contains some real......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 26, 2020

Interesting story about a couple married for a longtime from the perspective of the woman. What is it about Harvey's dream and why has Frank's car a dent? Very psychological, dreamlike story about life shaping the main characters to what they are present. I would have liked a bit of more twist at th......more

Goodreads review by Gareth on April 23, 2024

Just After Sunset is a collection of thirteen delightful short stories from who I consider being the master of the short story format. '"How is it that the very sunlight does not turn to blackness before this thing, the hard earth melt and boil and melt beneath such a burden?"' This was my second time......more

Goodreads review by Dona's on March 12, 2023

I don't remember this one very well, and it's been recommended to me a couple times lately. So I'm going to reread it next year, 2023! *Update March 2023 Buddy read this great collection with my friend Gareth Loves Books here on GR in February. Now have a clearer memory of the collection and the story......more

Goodreads review by Will on October 28, 2021

This is an interesting mix. I found that for some of the stories there was a been-there-done-that feel. In another, my favorite in the collection, a nuclear bomb in NYC tale, I felt as if King had been peeking in at dreams I have had myself. His 9/11 story had a very welcome gentle touch. In another......more