In The Sun Dog, the concluding novella in Stephen King's best-selling Four Past Midnight, the source of terror is a simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking 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.
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"The "Sun Dog" and especially "The Langoliers" stood out to me the most. Because of "The Langoliers" I gave this 5 stars. Most stories fade from my memory over time but this has always stayed fresh and I've even told a watered down version to my kids at bedtime."
— Scott (5 out of 5 stars)
“Demonstrate[s] the qualities that have made Stephen King the world’s most popular author.”
— Chicago Tribune“Spellbinding tales of evil.”
— Playboy“Like some denizen of the dark, King weaves a spell evoking terror and shivers as he takes readers on a nightmarish journey…Truly chilling.”
— School Library Journal" Have read the first two novellas in this volume (on the kindle) ... pretty much hooked from the start. "
— John, 2/7/2014" Reread The Library Policeman. "
— Mike, 2/2/2014" Would've been only 1 star if not for The Langoliers... "
— Benny, 1/23/2014" A collection of four novellas that somehow managed to start off on a relatively high note but get progressively more and more ridiculous. Seriously, The Sun Dog was nearly Goosebumps material. Ugh. "
— Milan, 1/23/2014" Love the Stephen King short stories and novellas.. "
— Trisha, 12/27/2013" Secret Window is one of my favorite Stephen King stories. "
— Holly, 11/1/2013" I remember one of the short stories, The Landgoliers, was especially disturbing. "
— Mr., 10/28/2013" Langoliers rating "
— Andy, 8/27/2013" Dragged down by Langoliers and Sun Dog is decent, but man Library Policeman and Secret Window are just wonderful, sad stories about how the past can affect you even more than it should. "
— Joseph, 6/9/2013" This book is actually four stories in one. King explained that they were too long to be short stories but too short to be novels. The first two stories were pretty good. The last two were *okay.* "the Library Policeman" got better towards the end. "
— Wild, 5/13/2013" Scary as all get out, man! "
— Jennifer, 6/30/2012Stephen King has written more than sixty books, many hitting the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker Awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story “The Man in the Black Suit.” He is the 2003 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures.
Tim Sample is a New England humorist, famous both for his presentation and his Maine accent. His books, albums, and videos have sold over a million copies worldwide, and his “Postcards from Main” segments on CBS News Sunday Morning are hugely popular in the United States and abroad.