'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in
the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black
quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James,
that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and
moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In 'Big Driver',
a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts
when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess
plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.
'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest.
Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich
recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on
one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up
against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband.
It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good
Marriage'. Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films
as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of
the long story form.

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