#62 in Horror
Full Dark, No Stars
- 448
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
- British Fantasy Award for Best Collection
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Our view
“Full Dark, No Stars” gathers four novellas about retribution, and its horror comes from human nature more than from monsters. Some readers who do not usually care for the shorter form are won over by it, and some count it among the most frightening things King has written. The mood stays as bleak as the title promises; this is horror for readers who want it grim and close to home.
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About the book
Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), where Alice and Billy stop for a while towards the end of the book Billy Summers, and the setting of the short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (1978). The collection won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection, and the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Also, 1922 was nominated for the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 345 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 46 | 13% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 5 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 294 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is Full Dark, No Stars?
It has 448 pages — longer than 64% of the ranked books in Horror.
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