Big Driver

Prise for FULL DARK, NO STARS

Just as many of his acclaimed works of short fiction have generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, this chillingly rendered quartet of Stephen King tales “might yield another classic” (Columbus Dispatch), with its richly drawn characters and mesmerizing plotlines pulsing with the evil men do….

“I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger,” writes Wilfred Leland James in “1922,” and it was that stranger that set off a gruesome train of murder and madness when his wife, Arlette, proposed selling off the family homestead…. “Big Driver” follows a mystery writer down a Massachusetts back road, where she is violated and left for dead. But plotting revenge brings her face-to-face with another dangerous stranger: herself…. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Henry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment, in “Fair Extension.” …And, with her husband away on business, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in their garage—and makes a horrifying discovery that definitively ends “A Good Marriage.”