Full Dark, No Stars
Between Night and darkness (English title " Full Dark, No Stars ", literally: Absolute darkness, no stars ) is after spring, summer, autumn and death and night / Langoliers the third collection of short stories of the U.S. author Stephen King. She appeared as an original audiobook on 29 October 2010; the book editions followed on 9 ( U.S.) or publisher dependent between 8 and 15 November ( Germany ).
Content
The four novellas (one of which is, however, strictly speaking, a short story) are loosely connected by the theme of revenge and are symmetrically arranged: Short Stories 1 and 3 are written from a man's point of view and treat supernatural themes; Amendments 2 and 4 have women as central characters and have no supernatural elements. The novels are:
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- The British publisher Hodder & Stoughton wanted to go to the overwhelming success with Kings Under the Dome ( German: The Arena ) now follow suit with this collection, which purports to be a deliberate contrast to the mammoth novel.
- The collection appeared before the hardcover edition as an audio book. This is a much abbreviated version, even if ( " unabridged " ) is to be read on the cover " unabridged ". Were obliged Craig Wasson (already readers of the King novella Blockade Billy ) and Jessica Hecht. In addition, there will be a deluxe edition of audiobooks.
Publicity campaign
- In October an own homepage Included ( English ) trailer was created for the work.
- In October launched a short film campaign to drum up business. The publisher Hodder and Stoughton commissioned four well-known for their short films directors to turn trailer for the four novellas. These are gradually being published. In the credits is expressly pointed out that the trailer rather try to capture the atmosphere of the stories, as original factory to keep on there occurring characters or locations. They all end with the words: "We do not fully know anyone Least of all ourselves. . " ( "We do not know anyone ever really. Least ourselves " )
Links
There are numerous links to Kings other works; Here are some examples: