Four Past Midnight - Stephen King > Reviews

Advantages: 4 novel-length King stories in one volume.
Disadvantages: Some cliché ideas and narration.

...any fiction genre. In these four stories, he focuses on his old favourite - horror, with an equally pleasing sci-fi interlude in the form of the first story, 'The Langoliers'. The Langoliers - This is the first book in the collection and aptly titled 'One past midnight; The Langoliers'. It begins from the view of an airline pilot, Captain Brian Engle. Just into the airport after a particularly rough flight, he is given the disturbing information ... Read review

Advantages: the first story is fantastic
Disadvantages: the other 3 don't quite live up to it's example

...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 reaches of sanity…" As the blurb suggests, Four Past Midnight is another spine-tingler from Stephen King. The edition I have runs to nearly 1000 pages, so it does look a bit off-putting at first. However, as it's spilt into 4 separate stories, it does make ... Read review

Advantages: Book scares you into uncontrolled bowel movements
Disadvantages: May cause the reader to go into shock

...of macabre himself composed of four chilling short stories or novellas. If you love horror stories that can drive you into paranoia and have you sleeping with the lights on THIS IS THE PERFECT NOVEL TO READ. This book is composed of very different and intensely chilling novellas. These are: The Langoliers: This begins where passengers who have been sleeping on a plan wake up to find they are alone and that those who were awake have disappeared; ... Read review

Advantages: Well written.
Disadvantages: Requires some level of maturity

This is a very well written book. The stories are short but very interesting. A good read on a sunday afternoon. The first story 'the langoliers' is very chilling and quite odd in places but was by far my favourite story in the book. 'Secret Window, Secret Garden' Is well written and will suprise the reader. The library policeman is a very odd story. It is in parts quite mature and in parts unbelievable. But somehow Stephen King makes it work. ... Read review

Advantages: The stories aren't too long
Disadvantages: There isn't more of them!

...Midnight is a collection of four stories - titled one past midnight, two past midnight, three past midnight and four past midnight. Each one also has it's own sub-title. One Past Midnight - The Langoliers The Langoliers is a story about a red-eye flight, something happens midair and they end up in some kind of parallel universe. There is no electric in this universe and there is a strange sound in the distance heading towards the airport ... Read review