Just After Sunset

Hardcover, 353 pages

English language

Published Dec. 15, 2008 by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:
978-0-340-97716-3
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OCLC Number:
243820733

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4 stars (22 reviews)

Did you maybe leave the oven on? Or forget to turn off the gas under your patio barbeque? What about the lock on your back door? Did you remember to give it a twist? Things like that are so easy to forget, and someone could be slipping in right now... Now: just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, thats when reality grows thin. When you can feel the everyday Did you maybe leave the oven on? Or forget to turn off the gas under your patio barbeque? What about the lock on your back door? Did you remember to give it a twist? Things like that are so easy to forget, and someone could be slipping in right now...

Now: just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, thats when reality grows thin. When you can feel the everyday become the unexpected int his captivating collection of twist-in-the-tail stories …

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Review of 'Just after Sunset' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I had this book here for a while, and decided to go out of my league and read a book of his. Of course it didn't disappoint, and what was I thinking not reading a Stephen King book for awhile? Shame on me. I must read his more often as they are very intriguing, with interesting plot lines.

Review of 'Just after Sunset' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

як собі хочете, але я не люблю коротких оповідань. тому — три зірки, замість твердих чотирьох. крім того, оповідання, попри очевидне задоволення від написання, в якому зізнається кінг у передмові й післямові, все-таки не так детально пропрацьовані, як «22/11/63», і не так захоплюють дією, як «доктор сон» — тк собі, насіннячко полузгати, коли нічого більше під рукою немає.

Review of 'Just After Sunset' on Goodreads

4 stars

Once gain Stephen King shows that he really has an uncanny knack for extricating suspense and horror from the smallest mundaneness of everyday life. Truth be told I'm a huge fan of his short story collections over and above his more well known long form writing (with the exception of the Dark tower series!) and Just After Sunset is yet another fantastic collection of scares that will keep you reading from the first page until the last.

Review of 'Just After Sunset: Stories' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was an uneven collection, with some stories that weren't close to being horror. My favorite story in this collection was "N" but I also enjoyed Stationary Bike even though it was borderline horror. I felt several of the stories too closely tied to the events of 911, which has become a cliche in horror already.

Review of 'Just after Sunset' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Okay, more like a 3.5 star book, but you still can't give .5 star reviews yet. Started off with a short story that I liked, and then went downhill from there for 2 or 3 stories. I was seriously starting to have my doubts about Mr. King and his prowess for writing the short story. It seemed like Joe Hill had sucked up all the good short story writing ability for [b:20th Century Ghosts|373915|20th Century Ghosts|Joe Hill|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1200579663s/373915.jpg|1049073]. But it got a LOT better. My breakdown:

Willa: Good. Nice, new take on subject matter that's been done before.
The Gingerbread Girl: Ugh. Think Dean Koontz's "Intensity" compressed into 50 pages or so.
Harvey's Dream: I think Outer Limits or some show did a half hour ep on this (or a similar) pretense that King himself had written. Felt tired and old.
Rest Stop: Think King's "The Dark …

Review of 'Just after Sunset' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Just After Sunset was a good collection of short stories. However, if you follow all of Stephen King's work most of the stories will sound familiar. Every story in this book has been published elsewhere. The only story that hasn't been published according to Wikipedia is N. But this was released on the Internet as a serial podcast. I was disappointed only because I had already read 80% of the stories. I really wish that the fact that they had all been published had been mentioned in the introduction or next to the story in the table of contents. I felt cheated.

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