#52 in Short stories
Just After Sunset
- 448
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Alex Award
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
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Our view
“Just After Sunset” gathers thirteen stories in Stephen King’s familiar dark vein, and readers come away with quite different favourites. “N.” is the one some like best and others least. Some find every piece well written yet feel that a good share of them leave them unmoved. It is a book to dip into and choose from, not one to judge by any single story.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Just After Sunset is the fifth collection of short stories by Stephen King. It was released in hardcover by Scribner on November 11, 2008, and features a holographic dust jacket. On February 6, 2008, the author's official website revealed the title of the collection to be Just Past Sunset. About a month later, the title was subtly changed to Just After Sunset. Previous titles mentioned in the media by Stephen King himself were Pocket Rockets and Unnatural Acts of Human Intercourse.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 187 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 56% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Short stories average of 7.8. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 42 | 23% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 145 | 78% |
Frequently asked
How long is Just After Sunset?
It has 448 pages — longer than 64% of the ranked books in Short stories.
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