The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's bestselling collection Full Dark,No Stars,1922 - about a man who succumbs to the violence within - is now available as a stand-alone publication.I believe there is a man inside every man,a strangerSo writes Wilfred James in his confession.It's 1922.Wilfred owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in the family for generations.His wife,Arlette,owns an adjoining one hundred acres.But if Arlette carries out her threat to sell her land to a pig butcher,Wilfred will be forced to sell too.Worse,he'll have to move to the city.But he has a daring plan.It may work if he can persuade his son. A powerful tale of betrayal,murder,madness and rats,1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American storyteller Stephen King. It was adapted into a film from Netflix.
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781529379358Number of pages: 176Weight: 132 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 16 mm
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Dripping with American Gothic...Utterly convincing and packed with grim atmosphere,it is a story that manages to keep you compulsively turning the pagesIt's compulsive reading,sometimes scary,revolting,ultimately heartbreaking...There is a hint of the supernatural in it,although the borderline between a haunting and madness here is a hairline fracture,and one that King exploits elegantly all the way to the endWonderfully gruesome...The pages practically turn themselves
Stephen King
We celebrate the author known to many as the father of modern horror. For a generation of readers,Stephen King is the voice of the underbelly of small-town America,having made his name as the author of cult classics (with an equally strong legacy of film adaptations) including Carrie,The Shining,The Green Mile,The Stand,Pet Sematary,IT,Under the DomeandThe Tommyknockers. If there's an author who knows how to mine the dark recesses of the human imagination,it's King.
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