It’s the story of Tess, a cozy mystery writer in her late thirties. This one hit real close to home for me, as a horror writer in my late thirties. There are explicit rape scenes in this story. The next tale, Big Driver, requires a trigger warning. And I was so happy to see that he got what was coming to him. As though his right to his farm was worth more than her right to live. I hated how he considered killing his wife to be his right. Meanwhile, Wilf’s wife is forming a great relationship with the farm rats. He starts making some truly horrible choices. Of course, killing his mother does some terrible things to poor Hank. To do that, he’s got to get his teenage son Hank involved. After years of arguing with his wife over whether or not to sell the farmland she inherited, he decides it would be easiest just to kill her and toss her body down the well. This is the tale of a man named Wilf, and the worst year of his life. What sort of person are we when we’re pushed to the extremes of human emotion? Who are we capable of becoming when we’re threatened? And while they’re not technically linked together in any clear way, they all have the same theme. Not quite long enough to be novellas, but still longer than a standard short. In the past, we’ve reviewed If It Bleeds, and today we’re going to talk about his most recent short collection, Full Dark, No Stars.įull Dark, No Stars consists of four short stories. While Stephen King is the master of long-form horror, I love him most for his short work.
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