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hello everyone welcome to the Stephen King cast one man's musings on the works of Stephen King Each week I review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication. And this week I am 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 200010'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, 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. It'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 dark and

uncomfortable emotional truths here, 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.

All of this is just beginning to blur.

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