On a recommendation, Kevin seeks help from Reginald "Pop" Merrill, the wealthy and unscrupulous owner of a junk shop in the town of Castle Rock, Maine. In the movie, Mort kills his wife and her lover, while in the novel he is killed before he has a chance to do so. Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with psychic abilities, also falls asleep, and awakes to find that her aunt and several other passengers have disappeared. Kevin Delevan receives a Sun 660 Polaroid camera for his fifteenth birthday. One day, he is confronted by a man from Mississippi named John Shooter who claims Mort plagiarized a story he wrote. Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. Devastated, he loses control of his body and mind to Shooter. Furthermore, Merrill finds himself increasingly compelled to use the Sun – the dog slowly advancing and transforming into something more savage and monstrous with every picture he takes. Brian takes control of the plane, but is unable to make any outside contact, and the passengers can only see a dark void below the plane. 4 Past Midnight long running punk band from Glasgow Scotland UK formed 1989 Battle Scars & Broken Hearts, released 15 July 2017 1. He called "The Sun Dog" the "simplest, most distinctive story" and praised it as mostly "a delicious black comedy. Having noticed a series of disturbing posters in the children's section, including one featuring a frightening "Library Policeman" character, he discusses their appropriateness with Ardelia. Later, Amy and Ted Milner—a man she had an affair with before divorcing Mort—discuss her ex-husband's motives. Four Past Midnight (Downloadable Audiobook) : King, Stephen, 1947- : The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection--four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will "grab you and not let go" (The Washington Post). She then recalls something Tom witnessed—when he drove past Mort alone, he saw Shooter and Mort in his rear view mirror, but Shooter was transparent. [10] In another incident, a deranged man broke into King's home, and when discovered by King's wife, claimed that King stole the plot of Misery from the intruder's aunt and that he had a bomb in the shoebox he was holding and was going to blow up the house. "[14] Andy Solomon in The New York Times commented that King's mass appeal comes "ironically from his cliched diction," referring to the anthology's reliance on popular culture for descriptions. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock’s sharpest trader, aims to exploit The Sun Dog for profit, but this creature that shouldn’t exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. Rather than staking out new territory, King tries to recapture his past. A flight attendant speaks of an unusual phenomenon over the Mojave Desert that resembles an aurora. Politician 4. In the meantime, Kevin is plagued by recurring nightmares about the dog. CONDITION -The book is in good condition. Three Past Midnight: "The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. [12] Robert Chatain called it possibly King's best book and "a serious, heavyweight effort", characterising 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". Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas by Stephen King. But it is the stories themselves that will keep readers awake long after bedtime, into those dark, timeless hours past midnight. A woman claimed that King stole several of her story ideas and based characters from his books on her. The books are accidentally destroyed and a menacing Library Policeman terrorizes Sam at his house. Fifteen minutes later he awakens, only to hear who he believes to be Shooter pulling into his driveway. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog" is a menacing canine appearing in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. Amy then reveals that while digging through Mort's house, she found Shooter's trademark hat. Four Past Midnight Stephen King Novel 1990 Hard Cover Horror Short Story Collection First Edition The Langoliers Vintage RetroVega. Survive 9. Four Past Midnight, his first official collection of horror novellas, is a terrifying treat for horror fans everywhere because it’s a stunning anthology of 4 supernatural tales of terror. When Mort's housemaid recovers the manuscript—thinking it belongs to Mort—he finally reads Shooter's story, discovering that it is almost identical to his short story "Sowing Season." Albert theorizes that time is still flowing inside the plane, which is proven when food brought onto the plane is restored to its normal properties. Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Albert suggests lowering the cabin pressure to induce unconsciousness, which would require one passenger to sacrifice themself by remaining conscious to restore the pressure just before the plane passes through the rip. With the realization that fuel pumped into the plane will also return to normal, Brian has the plane refueled and he manages to start the engines. An enraged Shooter accuses Mort of lying and demands proof, giving Mort three days to show him his published story. And what happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality shatters, and the glass begins to fly? [8], A three-episode radio adaptation was broadcast in 2003 on BBC Radio 4 starring Henry Goodman, William Roberts, Barbara Barnes, Lee Montague and Kerry Shale. 263 likes. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection [1] and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. Sam removes the creature from Naomi's neck and destroys it under the wheels of a passing train. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from 4 Past Midnight at the Discogs Marketplace. Another difference is the titles of the short stories: in the movie, Mort Rainey wrote a story called "Secret Window" and John Shooter wrote "Sowing Season." The story in the movie version is set in upstate New York instead of Maine. Dinah, while being transported onto the plane, telepathically leads Craig to the runway, where he hallucinates his board meeting. Despite this, Dinah insists that Craig must not be killed as the group needs him alive. Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. In the epilogue, Kevin gets a computer for his following birthday. 2 likes. flag. Dave believes Ardelia is seeking revenge and a new host. Upon arrival, they find the airport deserted. The only differences are the title, the character's name, the diction, and the ending. As Dinah reports that the sound is growing closer, Craig relates to Dinah and Laurel that the sound is emitted by the "Langoliers", which are said by his oppressive father to hunt and devour negligent and unmotivated boys. By this point, the camera's influence over Merrill has caused him to lose his grip on sanity. Mort is disturbed by these findings. It’s great! Dave dies defending Sam and Naomi from Ardelia. From Dave's recollections, Sam discovers that Ardelia is not a person but a being which feeds on fear and that Duncan was a sometimes unwilling companion/conspirator in helping her feed from the fear of children. Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. 2 likes. When she returned, she found a note from Shooter inside the overturned hat, revealing that he has traveled back to Mississippi with the story he came for, "Crowfoot Mile." Explore releases from 4 Past Midnight at Discogs. She goes to Mort's study, where "Shooter" attempts to kill her in an ambush. The clocks have stopped, there is no electricity, and the environment seems generally lifeless. Bob realizes that the passengers must be asleep when passing through the rip, otherwise they will disappear. Hope , Fear , Pain , Love , Desire 8. Four Past Midnight is a collection of four stories that some would call novellas, but really they are closer to novels. [3] In the introduction, King says that, while a collection of four novellas like Different Seasons, this book is more strictly horror with elements of the supernatural.[4]. [1] It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. Both are about authors who are thinly veiled analogues of King himself—Thad Beaumont in The Dark Half and Mort Rainey in Secret Window, Secret Garden. Tom had not seen Shooter while driving by—he saw Mort, by himself. Still, The Langoliers is the one. A wave of rising noise and motion hits them and they find themselves in the present again. She insists that Mort had become two people, one of them a character so vivid it became real. Mort realizes that John Shooter is really his own split personality. Inspired by his nightmares, Kevin has brought another Sun with him, and just as the dog is about to release itself, he takes its picture, trapping it once more in the "Polaroid world". Mort orders a new copy of the magazine. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection[2] and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. Alone 11. He found "Secret Window, Secret Garden" bearably suspenseful with a "gimmicky, least convincing [finale]." She left it right-side up on a trash bag. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? 4pm On Tour (4pm crew pt4) 7. Mort becomes himself again, addresses Amy, and dies. Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Realizing that they are in the near future, the passengers take shelter against a wall to avoid the airport's human traffic and wait for the present to catch up to them. It bends, stretches, turns back, or snaps, and sometimes reality with it. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. EMBED. The speech is a success, but Naomi informs Sam that Ardelia Lortz has been dead for many years. As Albert and Don search for a stretcher for Dinah, Craig kills Don before Albert subdues him. Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Published by Viking in 1990.First Edition. Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. Four Past Midnight. Through Naomi, Sam meets Dave "Dirty Dave" Duncan, an alcoholic former sign painter and a former lover of Ardelia's. While the trio attempt to stop Ardelia's return, Sam recalls a repressed memory: a man claiming to be a "Library Policeman" raped and threatened Sam when he was a young child in St. Louis. When a 10 passengers on a flight to Boston wake up and discover that every other passenger, including the pilot, has mysteriously vanished, they find their lives flipped upside down in a race for survival. In order to test its word processor function, he types "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Let's Go 10. 4 Past Midnight is a 4-piece, blues/rock group based in Charleston, South Carolina. Shooter returns a few days later. Amy discovers that Mort has gone insane, having written the word "Shooter" all over the house. While just as unsettled by the phenomenon as Kevin, Merrill sees an opportunity to further his own interests; namely, selling the camera to a paranormal enthusiast for a great deal of money. Ardelia, as a young woman, committed suicide in 1960 after murdering two children and a local deputy sheriff. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT is a collection of four short stories written by the incomparable Stephen King. A 2004 film adaptation called Secret Window was made, starring Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello and Timothy Hutton. Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we employ to order our sense of reality. After all, past midnight is Stephen King's favorite time of day.... The Langoliers: One Past Midnight(Audiobook), Secret Window, Secret Garden: Two Past Midnight(Audiobook), The Library Policeman: Three Past Midnight(Audiobook), The Sun Dog: Four Past Midnight(Audiobook). Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.     Two Past Midnight: "Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Bob proposes that the Langoliers' purpose is to clean up what is left of the past by devouring it. Something's waiting for them, you see.... Mort had created "Shooter" out of guilt for stealing a story early in his career titled "Crowfoot Mile" and had recently been suspected of another act of plagiarism, although he was innocent the second time. 4 Past Midnight. Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. After being rebuffed by her, Sam checks out the books with the warning that they must be returned on time or else "I'll have to send the Library Policeman after you.". 46 likes. Four Past Midnight is the 28th book published by Stephen King, and was his fourth collection of stories. With an introduction and prefatory notes to each of the tales, Stephen King discusses how these stories arose in what is the world's most fearsome imagination. They were written when Stephen King was supposedly “retired.” They were written when Stephen King was supposedly “retired.” Bob concludes that the aforementioned phenomenon was a "time rip" that has sent their plane to the past. The TV movie stars Kate Maberly, Kimber Riddle, Patricia Wettig, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Frankie Faison, Baxter Harris, Dean Stockwell, David Morse, Christopher Collet, and Bronson Pinchot. He discovers that there is something strange about the camera: the only pictures it produces are of a malicious black dog which seems to move closer with each shot as though to attack the photographer. Nick volunteers, wishing to atone for mistakenly shooting and killing three Irish children, and he asks Laurel to go to his father to request forgiveness. Four Past Midnight is an American Sci-Fi Horror film based on the Stephen King Novella The Langoliers, which was in a collection of four novellas called Four Past Midnight. More By and About This Author. Four Past Midnight is the Bizarro World version of Different Seasons. And it's VERY angry. For similar uses, see, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, "Stephen King - King Sued By 'The Real' Annie Wilkes", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Past_Midnight&oldid=1015371086, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 April 2021, at 02:36. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well--the truth. He manages to switch out the camera for another of the same model, which Kevin destroys. "Shooter," chasing Amy outside, is shot by her insurance agent. All of her cases have been dismissed. The passengers find that the crew and the passengers who were awake have disappeared, leaving the airliner under the control of the autopilot. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT is a collection of four short stories written by the incomparable Stephen King. Brian falls asleep during takeoff, having been awake throughout his previous flight. Rather than a printout of this text, the page reads, "The dog is loose again. Brian manages to land in Bangor, Maine despite furious protests from Craig, who insists on reaching Boston for an important conference that will decide his fate. Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. At this moment, Kevin and his father arrive to confront Merrill, but they are too late to stop him. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. It’s great! Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a … The result feels like reheated leftovers. Post-hardcore band from Izhevsk, Russia Four Past Midnight is no exception: four stories that cover many different facets of King's writing, but all intrinsically tied to this stage of King's career. He blacks out. Desperate for any sign of his own sanity, he rushes outside only to find his ex-wife, Amy. 9780670835386 - Four Past Midnight by King, Stephen - … The fake bomb was made of pencils with paperclips wrapped around the erasers.[11]. [13], However, Josh Rubins in Entertainment Weekly graded the anthology a "C+" and considered it formulaic with "enthusiasm" and contemporary setting. [2] Day After Day 13. Shooter, angry that Mort has involved other people in their business, kills both men and plants evidence framing Mort for the murders. These four chilling novellas, a feast fit for King fans old and new, provide some shocking answers. Brian awakes and lands the plane at Los Angeles, but the passengers are again met with a deserted airport. The Langoliers was adapted for a two-part TV movie in 1994.     One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Four Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King, published in 1990. Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. Four Past Midnight: "The Sun Dog," a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. The Library Policeman tells of Sam Peebles and his battle against an age-old fear. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT,by Stephen King. Meanwhile Craig frees himself from his bonds and stabs Dinah, perceiving her to be the main Langolier. It is not lazy. After waking up one night to find himself holding the Sun and repeatedly pressing its trigger, Merrill resolves to smash it in the morning. Mort vehemently denies ever plagiarizing anything. However, the new Library Policeman is not just a recreation of the man from Sam's past, but also an embodiment of Ardelia, who wants Sam as her new host. However, he hallucinates that one of the cuckoo clocks hanging on the wall of his store is really the camera, and smashes the clock instead. Peebles is asked to give a speech to his local Rotary Club. From shop RetroVega. share. Tonight 6. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. Dinah hears an approaching and threatening sound, and the group agrees to leave before it arrives. Guilty 5. Stephen King. Favorite Add to Four Past Midnight HouseofHorrorBooks. Nick, wearing an emergency oxygen mask, flies the plane through the rip and disappears. © Copyright © 2000 - 2021 Stephen King - All Rights Reserved. As all products and substances have lost their quality, fuel does not burn, thus preventing any further flight. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance. For the television miniseries, see, "The Sun Dog" redirects here. ― Stephen King, Four Past Midnight. Shooter leaves, but not before leaving his manuscript, "Secret Window, Secret Garden." • Story number 1, THE LANGOLIERS, I’ve read before and seen the movie. The Langoliers appear in the form of toothed spherical creatures, and they are distracted from the departing plane as they devour Craig and the surrounding reality. Upon receiving the magazine and returning home, Mort finds that "Sowing Season" has been removed. Mort Rainey is a successful novelist in Maine. Amy remarks that Mort had created a character so vivid, he actually came to life. 5 out of 5 stars (616) 616 reviews $ 25.00. The book was released by Viking in 24 September of 1990, and collected four novellas: "The Langoliers" "Secret Window, Secret Garden" "The Library Policeman" "The Sun Dog" Dinah succumbs to her injuries, and the plane approaches the time rip. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT. It is not sleeping. It's very hungry. Mort realizes he burned down his own home, killed his own cat, and murdered two people. The unhinged Craig considers the situation to be a conspiracy against him and takes Bethany hostage at gunpoint, but the environment has robbed the gun of its potency, and the passengers apprehend Craig. ARTICLES. Four Past Midnight Stephen King, Author, Gowen, Author Viking $29.95 (804p) ISBN 978-0-670-83538-6. An office assistant (Naomi Higgins) directs him to the public library to check out books that might help with his speechwriting. She manages to escape. For Life 3. The storyline of the movie differs from that of the novel, most notably in their respective endings. © Copyright © 2000 - 2020 Stephen King - All Rights Reserved. • Story number 1, THE LANGOLIERS, I’ve read before and seen the movie. No_Favorite. Sam and Naomi defeat the Library Policeman/Ardelia, only to discover that Ardelia has already attached to Naomi in the form of a blistery growth, "covered in a spiderweb skein of crisscrossing white threads ... a lump of pinkish jelly that throbbed and pulsed with the beat of her heart." Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. Having learned that "Sowing Season" was published two years before Shooter claimed to have written "Secret Window, Secret Garden," Mort confronts Shooter with this information. He also asks his caretaker Greg Carstairs to tail Shooter and to talk to a man named Tom Greenleaf, who drove past Mort and Shooter. Like “while the road of good intentions might end in hell, the people who tried to fill the potholes along the way deserved at least some credit.” ― Stephen King, Four Past Midnight. Overnight, he kills Mort's cat and burns down the house of Mort's ex-wife, which contained the magazine issue in which "Sowing Season" was published. ", 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". [15], This section is about the novella. Secret Window, Secret Garden is similar to King's earlier novel The Dark Half. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. Four Past Midnight by King, Stephen and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Under the illusion that he's repairing a clock at his workbench, Merrill starts taking pictures again. Mort throws the manuscript into the trash can. Dinah, mistaking a wig for a scalp, screams and awakes Brian and nine other passengers: teacher Laurel Stevenson, English diplomat Nick Hopewell, writer Bob Jenkins, violinist Albert Kaussner and his girlfriend Bethany Simms, businessman Rudy Warwick, mechanic Don Gaffney, bank manager Craig Toomy and an unknown heavily intoxicated passenger. The dog tears its way out of the final photograph, killing Merrill in the process. Do it Now 2. In the movie, after months it is shown that Mort grew corn in his wife's garden, where it is implied that he buried her and her lover, thus removing any proof that he murdered them. Four past midnight Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The four novellas contained in the collection are described here: Pilot Brian Engle, immediately after a difficult flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles, learns that his ex-wife Anne has died in an accident in Boston, and he boards a red-eye flight to Boston as a passenger. [9], King has been the subject of unfounded accusations of plagiarism. Rubins compared a novella "The Langoliers" to—quoting characters of the novella—a "stupid disaster [movie]" and a "bad [television] movie." Four Past Midnight by Stephen King ISBN 13: 9780670835386 ISBN 10: 0670835382 Hardback; New York: Viking Adult, 1990-09-01; ISBN-13: 978-0670835386 Realizing that Merrill tricked him and the Sun was never destroyed, he sets out to prevent Merrill from taking any more pictures for fear that the dog will "break through" into the real world. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock’s sharpest trader, aims to exploit The Sun Dog for profit, but this creature that shouldn’t exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. [6] King himself, echoing Alfred Hitchcock's famous numerous cameos, made a cameo appearance in the film as Craig Toomy's boss during Toomy's hallucination.[7]. Four Past Midnight: "The Sun Dog," a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. "Stephen King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget these stories," raves the Seattle Times about Four Past Midnight. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock’s sharpest trader, aims to exploit The Sun Dog … Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. In the introduction, King says that, while a collection of four novellas like Different Seasons, this book is more strictly horror with elements of the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, aims to exploit The Sun Dog for profit, but this creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. I Hate My Life 12. Four past Midnight is similar to these books: Full Dark, No Stars, The Body (King novella), Different Seasons and more. Much to his dismay, however, Merrill cannot rid himself of the Sun as his customers either dismiss it as a fake or decline to purchase it due to the discomfort and unease they feel upon viewing the photographs. It's coming for you, Kevin. At the library, he receives a library card and assistance in finding books from an elderly librarian, Ardelia Lortz. The movie version of The Langoliers, produced for broadcast on ABC-TV, was filmed almost exclusively in and around the Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine (where author Stephen King attended college[5]) during the summer of 1994. Closer to novels created a character so vivid it became real sign painter a! 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