Four Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King. The four stories are The Langoliers, Secret Window, Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, and The Sun Dog. It was published in 1990. A novella is a short, narrative, prose fiction work. ... This page is about Stephen Edwin King, the writer. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Langoliers has an antiquated feel that is reminsicent of old horror films and black-and-white movies, yet it is set in the present.

The story takes place mostly on an airplane. Passengers that have been sleeping wake up and notice that they are more or less alone aboard. Everyone aboard that had been awake have disappeared, pilots and all. And it's only the persons that have vanished: they left their clocks, wallets, dental fillings and pace makers behind. Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ...

The Langoliers was adapted into a two part TV mini-series. A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...

Secret Window, Secret Garden is similar to King's earlier novel The Dark Half. Both are about authors, in this case Mort Rainey, a badly disguised copy of Stephen King himself. Mort is visited by a person with a manuscript which proved to be an almost exact copy of a story that Mort himself wrote and published some years earlier. The man claims that Mort stole it from him and demands that Mort write a story in his name as compensation or prove that he is innocent, or bad things will happen. Stephen King wrote several stories under a pseudonymn, Richard Bachman, during the seventies. ... This page is about Stephen Edwin King, the writer. ...

It is worth noting that King has been accused of plagiarism himself. A woman has claimed that he broke into her home and stole her manuscript for Misery. Misery is a novel by Stephen King, written in 1987. ...

This story has been adapted into a movie Secret Window, starring Johnny Depp. Secret Window is a 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. ... Johnny Depp John Christopher Depp II, widely known as Johnny Depp (born June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky), is an American film actor. ...

The Library Policeman was written after King's son didn't want to go to the library as he was afraid of the library police. King felt this was a nice idea and used it. What if there were serious men in long coats that came to your house and fetched the books if you didn't return them in time. And most importantly: what happens if you lose the book you borrowed?

The Sun Dog is about a boy that gets just what he wants for his fifteenth birthday - a Polaroid camera. Soon he notices that there is something strange with the camera, though. It takes similar pictures all the time, and not of what it's pointed at. "The Sun Dog" is set in King's made-up city of Castle Rock, Maine, and is a prelude of sorts to King's 1991 novel Needful Things. Polaroid® (a trademark of the Polaroid Corporation) is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. ... Castle Rock, Maine is a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. ... Needful Things is a horror novel written by Stephen King in 1991. ...

See also

• Short fiction by Stephen King