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See more books from this Author...returns with his first volume of short stories in six years...An uneven collection, but King has plainly had a ball writing these stories.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from KirkusCulled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyAll too often, though, a perfectly decent short story gets hijacked by drearily familiar generic conventions: doppelgangers, premonitory dreams, Lovecraftian dark portals in stone circles, a satanic black cat and so on.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from GuardianThe short story's taut, unforgiving format is perfect for horror. It is easy to suspend disbelief for 10 or 20 pages. However, what's most surprising about Just After Sunset is that for all King's sinister and wild imaginings, many of the stories are oddly moving...
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from GuardianKing, like any good pulp writer, is concerned not to let a single reader walk away puzzled. Ambivalence means failure. Sometimes this produces less a short story than a short narrative...
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from GuardianAll too often, though, a perfectly decent short story gets hijacked by drearily familiar generic conventions: doppelgangers, premonitory dreams, Lovecraftian dark portals in stone circles, a satanic black cat and so on. One would think that some of the horrors (cot death, Alzheimer's, 9/11) are scary enough all by themselves.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from GuardianEstablished King fans will enjoy these tales, but they're unlikely to enthrall readers who are not yet convinced of his talents.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from Guardian...what's most surprising about Just After Sunset is that for all King's sinister and wild imaginings, many of the stories are oddly moving; some even end with comforting resolution. The trouble is that you have no idea which ones don't.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from GuardianKing, like any good pulp writer, is concerned not to let a single reader walk away puzzled. Ambivalence means failure. Sometimes this produces less a short story than a short narrative...
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from GuardianReaders won't want to skip over the author’s notes at the end of JUST AFTER SUNSET, in which King explains how each story came to him. His ingenuity makes for fascinating reading --- a kind of dessert after devouring a deliciously disturbing 13-course dinner served up by a master creator.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: StoriesSunset's best selections favor pacing over mood, working off structures whose familiarity still leaves room for a few surprises. King hasn't forgotten how to set the hook; it's just that these days, he doesn't always take the time to reel it in.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from AV ClubSunset's best selections favor pacing over mood, working off structures whose familiarity still leaves room for a few surprises. King hasn't forgotten how to set the hook; it's just that these days, he doesn't always take the time to reel it in.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories | See more reviews from AV ClubThe countless fans of King's forays into the supernatural will still find satisfaction here — the collection includes several fine ghost tales and a chilling salute to horror master Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: StoriesIt's fascinating that the best stories in Just After Sunset are of intermediate length, as if King needs space to develop his ideas, but needs confinement to prevent them losing their impact or over-spilling into grotesquerie.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: StoriesThough all the stories reside within King’s realm, there is variety in style, length and form; supernatural disaster, crime, suspense, and everything in between. There is sure to be more than one that will please even the most ardent King fan.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: StoriesThe stories range in scope from brief, disturbing studies inspired by dreams or real-world events to novellas inspired by subjects as diverse as portable toilets and overheard arguments.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: StoriesJust After Sunset is a mixed bag of a collection. I thought some stories were great, others were just okay and some were very weak. I enjoyed the collection for some of the better stories but felt disappointed overall.
Read Full Review of Just After Sunset: Stories...Stephen King is unashamedly a popular author. He will never win a literature prize. He is happy to write for his readers, meeting them at their own level and carrying them away in the story. This he does very successfully in this collection of 12 stories.
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