"Four Past Midnight" by Stephen King, published by Viking Press, New York, 1990, review copy without digit line on the copyright page. [It is not a book club edition: no "Book Club" or BOMSC imprints on the front flap, and there is no dot on the back board. Review copies were printed before publication]

Dust jacket with 1st edition code '0990' on the front flap black hard boards, cloth spine with gold lettering; 6.1/4" x 9.3/4"; xvi + 763 pages, very good condition.

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.

Contents:

The Langoliers
Secret Window, Secret Garden
The Library Policeman
The Sun Dog

Upon its release, Michael A. Morrison in Washington Post called the collection "exceptionally well crafted" with the exception of Sun Dog, praising King's "unexpected similes" and his use of "dreams to reveal character". Robert Chatain called it possibly King's best book and "a serious, heavyweight effort", characterizing the tales as "rich" as well as "fast, tricky, even perverse, like carnival rides that look easy from the ground but turn unexpectedly nasty and vertiginous when we're up in the air."

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