Tag: Short Stories Reviews

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It’s a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play “paratroopers over the side.” Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.

This short story is included in the “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” which I’ve already reviewed not so long ago. 

I really wanted to like this short story, because I’ve heard so much good about it, but after reading this short story, I cant honestly say that I had liked it which of course I didn’t.

This short story had a good premise, but just the way it was presented was really really bad.

After reading this short story, I need to say that this short story would be best suited for a grade school kid rather than an adult. Just because it wasnt scary as much as you would think.

The character are very very disappointing. Because if you think about Stephen king you think about his ability to create very good characters, which didn’t happen in this short story.

The characters in this short story are very predictable, uninteresting, boring and very very annoying. Which really surprised me here because they didn’t feel like they were written by Stephen King but rather b someone who tried to impersonate him.

The plot here as said above, had good premise but it dragged for far too long and the longer in continued then the less fun this short story worked become. 

The ending here was probably the best thing about this short story, it wasn’t the best don’t get that wrong. But it still was better than the rest of this short story.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake–that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.

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.

Here we go again another bad short story by Stephen King. This one is also the last short story included in “Four Past Midnight”.

This short story isn’t as much a horror short story as much as it is a mystery short story. But the mystery here was almost not existing in this short story, because you could tell what would happen next and the mystery here was very obvious. 

The plot here had for sure its good moments which were rare, and in general the whole short story was more on the boring site than anything else. At the same time the plot was very repetitive, and it would mention the same things over and over again. Which really annoyed me. 

The ending hadn’t had the big twist at the end, because you could tell how this short story would end, just 2 or 3 chapters into this short story. Which really proves how bad the build up and the mystery was.

Th writing style here was not so bad as in the 3 other short stories which are included in the “Four Past Midnight”. But it still wasn’t on the Stephen King level which ive expected from the short story.

The characters in this short story, has the same problems as in the 3 remaining short stories which are included in “Four Past Midnight”. Which means that they were very flat, uninteresting, boring and very shallow characters.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear “radio static” in the distance. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is “The Langoliers,” monsters he was afraid of as a child who attack those who waste time. It’s mystery author Bob Jenkins who first theorizes that they have flown through a time rip. Bob declares they have entered a place that forbids time travelers to observe or interfere with past events. It turns out that Craig is right, in a way. 

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.

I gotta say, that with this short story, Stephen King has hit a whole new low with his short stories. Because of many reasons which we will talk about in this review.

The plot in this short story in my opinion is so over used. If you don’t know, this short story is about a flight and some bad things happening on that flight.

I personally feel like there are so many books about flights which go down the hill, and this point I’m very, very tired of it. But again thats just something personal.

The characters in this short story are very very flat, shallow and very predictable. It really was a huge surprise to me how bad the characters in this short story were, because this short story was written by the master of horror, who know how to create very good characters.

The writing style in this short story didn’t feel like it was written by Stephen King, which really made me angry.

The ending here was awful, because this short story was building the tense vibe if you will to the big ending, which didn’t happen after all.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

This is the third gripping tale in the four-part audio series from Stephen King’s best-selling book Four Past Midnight. Set in Junction City, Iowa, “The Library Policeman” is the story of Sam Peebles, a middle-aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offense—but not to Junction City’s malevolent monster of a librarian. What follows is spine-tingling suspense as only Stephen King can deliver it.

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.

The plot in this short story wasn’t the best to be fully honest here. It had some good and interesting moments here and there, but those moments were very rare. But overall the plot in this short story was uninteresting and even boring at times. 

But I need to give some points to this short story for having a good and unique premise, which isn’t used enough, in my opinion. 

However this short story had a very brutal and graphic scene in which a child got raped. And really it came out of nowhere and it really it didn’t sit well with me personally.

The ending in this was awful to be honest, it felt Stephen King didn’t even try to give us a good ending. Overall the ending felt very lazy, and it felt like even Stephen King didn’t even want to write it.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

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