Only one story, the shortest in the book, ‘Fair Extension’ (which clocks in at a mere 30 pages compared to the 100 page+ of the other three), finds its narrator heartily better off at the end (and the fact that he is better off is down to the fact that he has done the dirty on a friend of his who is suffering Dorian Gray-like to allow him the eponymous fair extension). If so, be assured that I found them equally hard to write in places.’Ĭertainly three of the stories feature serious damage to women who then go on, in some way or another, to wreak a terrible revenge. You may have found them hard to read in places. It may be (I’d be willing to bet good money) that the title of Stephen King’s latest quartet (following in the footsteps of Different Seasons and Four After Midnight) can be traced to how King frames the book in the Afterword:
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