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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 novel; a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ...
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The Langoliers is one of four short stories published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight. ...
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The Langoliers has an antiquated feel that is reminiscent of old horror films and black-and-white movies, yet it is set in the present. The Langoliers is one of four short stories published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight. ...
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. And even more shocking, the group of remaining people discover that everyone on Earth has disappeared as well. An Air France Boeing 777, a modern passenger jet. ...
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 Secret Window, Secret Garden is similar to King's earlier novel The Dark Half. Both are about authors, in this case Mort Rainey, a thinly-veiled analogue of King himself. Mort is visited by a person with a manuscript which proves 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. The Dark Half. ...
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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. In another incident a deranged man broke into King's home, and when discovered by King's wife, claimed that King has stolen several of his novels and that he had a bomb in the shoebox he was holding. The bomb later turned out to be a dud. Misery is a novel by Stephen King, published in 1987. ...
This story has been adapted into a movie Secret Window (2004), starring Johnny Depp. Secret Window is a 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. ...
Johnny Depp as Donnie Brasco, 1997 Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II on June 9, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
The Library Policeman 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 story diverges from this premise to explore a classic King theme: the secrets of small-town life, exemplified by the creature that controls the Library Policeman.
The Sun Dog 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 fictional 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 part of Stephen King’s fictional Maine topography, and as such serves 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. ...
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