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

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of publication.

And this week I'm turning my attention to the collection of short stories, actually specifically

novellas in which Stephen King is able to examine the darker aspects of humanity,

rather than focusing on the external things that go bump in the night,

he turns inward and looks to see the worst parts of ourselves,

with 2010's collection Full Dark No Stars, aptly named, by the way.

Now, my relationship with Full Dark No Stars is I remember reading

it. I remember specifically sitting in jury duty waiting to be called. It had just come out a little

while before, and I was reading it, and I knew that it was called Full Dark, No Stars. Clearly, I owned it.

And, you know, I read the first story.

Then I started reading the second story and I thought to myself, wow, this is, this is pretty

dark for Stephen King. And then it just clicked. And I said, you idiot, of course it's dark for

Stephen King. The title of the collection is full dark, no stars's the absence of hope he's really going on a

dark dive here and then you know then it clicked and i said wow as a thematic collection this is

this is pretty consistent and he's exploring and mining some some some dark and uncomfortable

emotional truths here isn isn't he?

So I was very excited to get back to full dark, no stars,

because I don't want to say that I have positive memories

because there's really nothing positive about these stories,

but they are very, very well done.

And you always have to... I don't know if I talked about this yet.

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