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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 212-Just After Sunset (Part One)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this week of The Stephen Kingcast, I take a look at King's short story collection, Just After Sunset, which might include his greatest short story of all time: N.   As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:04.9

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

0:10.5

And this week I'm examining his 2008 collection of short stories most likely to be adapted into a movie starring Ethan Hawk and Julie Delby just after sunset.

0:21.3

As you know, King releases at least one collection of short stories every decade,

0:25.9

which began with 1978's Night Shift, followed by a skeleton crew in 1985,

0:31.9

Nightmarers and Dreamscapes in 1993, and everything's eventual in 2002.

0:36.9

A short, six years later, here he is, with another publication of shorts, so has it

0:41.4

stack up against the rest?

0:43.3

Well, I prefer his other ones to this.

0:47.0

Now, when it comes to short story publications, you can't really complain.

0:51.1

There's always going to be some good ones and some bad ones.

0:55.2

It's just that with this particular entry, there aren't as many memorable ones that stand out to me personally,

1:01.2

with the exception of N, which I find horrifying and incredibly well done, and I can't wait to start

1:06.2

talking about that particular short story. Now, if you have listened to my previous reviews of his short story collections,

1:12.4

you'll know how this works.

1:13.9

I'm just going to examine a handful of the short stories rather than all of them.

1:18.7

And the shorts that I'm going to review this week are as follows.

1:22.2

The Gingerbread Girl, and the Cat from Hell, and a very tight place.

1:27.4

Now, for those of you who are a little upset that I'm not reviewing more of the short stories within just after sunset,

1:35.8

please note that I will...

1:39.3

Well, I just finished reading The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

1:47.2

I just put it down about an hour and a half ago which is his 2015 collection of short stories and I am proud to announce that I will be reviewing

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