# Four Past Midnight

**Author(s):** Stephen King
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**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/four-past-midnight/verdict.json
**Genres:** paranormal, literary-fiction, horror, thriller, supernatural-horror
**Pages:** 768
**Publisher:** Signet
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 1990 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780451170385
**ISBN-10:** 0451170385
**ASIN:** 902451939X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/four-past-midnight

## Description

Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991.
    
One Past Midnight: "[The Langoliers][1]" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see....
    
Two Past Midnight: "[Secret Window, Secret Garden][2]" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.
    
Three Past Midnight: "[The Library Policeman][3]" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well--the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.
    
Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "[The Sun Dog][4]," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.
    

  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149138W/The_Langoliers
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917476W/Secret_Window_Secret_Garden
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917299W/The_Library_Policeman
  [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14916850W/The_Sun_Dog

## SageChimp reader verdict

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