The darker the better
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The darker the better
Do you like it darker? Okay, me too.
Legendary storyteller Stephen King delivers an extraordinary collection of twelve short stories, many of which have never been published before and are among his best ever.
"Do you like it darker? Okay, me too," writes Stephen King in the preface to his new collection of twelve short stories, whose theme is the darker side of life - figuratively and literally. King has always been a master of the short story, and he can captivate with a few pages as much as with his famous novels. It takes the reader to dreams full of bad premonitions, to strange corners of reality where anything can happen, or to Florida, where this time a loose sequel to the legendary horror film Cujo takes place.
Two talented bastards investigate the long-hidden secret of the origin of their extraordinary abilities. In Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream, a brief and mysterious flash turns dozens of lives upside down, Danny's being the most catastrophic. In The Rattlesnake, the sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower heads to Florida to rest, and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - but with big strings attached. In the short story "The Dreamers," a taciturn Vietnam veteran answers an ad and discovers that some parts of the universe are better left unexplored. The responder, in turn, asks whether foresight is luck or bad luck, reminding us that even a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still have meaning.
Stephen King
Stephen King (*21. September 1947 Portland) is a contemporary American writer, also published under the pen name Richard Bachman. He studied English literature, worked briefly in a laundry, delivered newspapers or taught. He started his career as a writer in 1974 and has continued it successfully to this day. He is best known as a horror writer, but he also writes thrillers and science fiction and fantasy. He is also tempted by various experiments; are theoretical works describing the horror genre. Most of his works were also published in Czech translation, which was largely due to the publishing house Pavel Dobrovský - BETA. Many of his books have been successfully made into films. King's works were the basis for The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, which are now among the ten greatest films of all time. Stephen King's books, full of references to American realism, popular culture and especially rock music, successfully connect the fictional world with the real world. Into the atmosphere of ordinary life, which the author is able to masterfully evoke, he gradually introduces supernatural elements, often graduating into a complete inferno. She writes about artists struggling with creative problems and being haunted by supernatural forces, about small-town evil, violence against women, and a child's view of the world.
