Four Past Midnight

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.

FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity . . . .

“An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote's, is so fluid that you often forget that you're reading - Guardian A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel...brilliantly done - The Sunday Times Splendid entertainment...Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy - Frances Fyfield, Express”

An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote's, is so fluid that you often forget that you're reading - Guardian

A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel...brilliantly done - The Sunday Times

Splendid entertainment...Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy - Frances Fyfield, Express

STEPHEN KING is a master of the novella and short narrative form. As he describes it: 'A short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.' King's novellas and stories are among his most popular and some have been turned into celebrated films including STAND BY ME and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity . . . .

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