The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you. Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth a Polaroid Sun 660. There’s something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town’s sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it. But the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn’t exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment.

This short story was one of 4 short stories in “Four Past Midnight” written by Stephen which I’ve reviewed already, but it was a review about the book as a whole rather than about each of those 4 short stories. So thats why we are here today to talk about this one.

Its important to say that short stories written by Stephen King doesn’t work for me for whatever reason which I cant really name for some reason.

This short story had a good premise for a horror short story, but the way it was presented was awful.

To be honest this short story was far too long, and it really was a torture reading this one just because of the reason that it was too long. It would have been better if it was a 10 pages short story. 

The plot was very boring and uninteresting, and I wasn’t expecting so bad plot from Stephen King.

The characters here were very predictable, boring, flat and very very uninteresting. 

The writing style here was also surprisingly bad for Stephen King. It didn’t feel like it wasn’t written by the master of horror himself.

I Give This Book 1 / 5