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Short Story Collection - Just After Sunset

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  • willowlovewillowlove
    Looking at the official site now, the title of the heretofore unknown story now reads "N."--in other words, with a period. I also saw the board moderator refer to it that way.
  • LiljaLilja
    This is how King refers to it in my interview:



    "There is one story that is brand new that is called N. Just the letter N with a period after it "



    Lilja
  • willowlovewillowlove
    Cool.  I haven't had a chance to read part 2 of your interview yet.



    Also, I got an e-mail from Cemetery Dance about Just Past Sunset and they describe N. as "very long".  Make of that what you will.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Waterstones.com description

    What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for. Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: 'workmen' who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair. There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene. Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people's world's upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town -- and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual -- until it happens.
  • jhanicjhanic
    I notice that they list the date of publication as November 13, 2008. I don't think that's been noted before.



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    I have the Scribner release date listed above as November 11, 2008. Perhaps the UK will be a couple of days behind. I think they were for Duma Key as well.
  • notdarkyetnotdarkyet
    i wonder if this "bonus story" could be the novella with Joe King?



    -justin
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    To expand, Joe Hill wrote on his web site, "But I recently collaborated on a novella with my Paw, so that’s coming down the pike."
  • LiljaLilja
    Ah, I was hoping and thinking about a book but this sounds very logical to me...



    Lilja
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    I'm not sure -- it seems like it would complicate the collection somewhat from a publishing standpoint. King and Hill have different publishers, and it would "dilute" the name impact on the cover. That's just idle thinking, but I would be surprised if it appeared in JPS.
  • DanishFanDanishFan
    I agree with Bev on these points. The bonus story will most likely be a shorter one, and a story, not a novella.

    Think of the surprise tale "The Beggar and the Diamond" in N&D.

    I think the bonus for JPS will also appear in the very last pages.



    Has anyone noticed that JPS is the collection that has the most novellas? Skeleton Crew had The Mist, N&D has Umney's Last Case (if that's a novella at all), and EE had two; the title story and The Little Sisters of Eluria.



    This time we'll get six; The Gingerbread Girl, Stationary Bike, The Things They Left Behind, N., The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates and A Very Tight Place.

    Wow! 400+ pages sounds about right.


  • LiljaLilja
    But a novella means a longer short story right? Not a book...



    Lilja
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Yes. Some people were suggesting that this father/son collaboration would appear in King's story collection, but I'm skeptical. More than likely it will appear somewhere else, in an anthology or a magazine. Otherwise the book ceases to be a King collection.
  • jhanicjhanic
    According to King's site, this collection has been renamed Just After Sunset. Probably because the original name, Just Past Sunset, was too reminiscent of Four Past Midnight.



    John
  • DanishFanDanishFan
    Where on King's site? I can't find it. I thought it was just Scribner making a little mistake.
  • DanishFanDanishFan
    Oops, sorry, I found it under the Future Works section. Stupid me.
  • LiljaLilja
    I read A Very Tight Place yesterday (review here) and I must say that it's a very good, disturbing but good, story!



    Lilja
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    It's next up on my to-be-read stack.
  • notdarkyetnotdarkyet
    surprise: it looks like "The Cat from Hell" is going to be the bonus story!



    -jpb
  • LiljaLilja
    Where did you hear this?



    Lilja


  • BevVincentBevVincent
    It's cleverly hidden on the news page at www.stephenking.com -- it didn't get bumped to the top, but if you scroll down to the place where the previous story listing was, The Cat From Hell is now on the list.
  • DanishFanDanishFan
    A little bit disappointing. It's a great story and it also deserves its place in a proper, official collection, but I was hoping for a new one, or a previously unpublished, uncollected one. Oh, well...
  • jhanicjhanic
    I'm still hoping for some that have not been published before.



    John
  • DanishFanDanishFan
    Doubt it, since there's now 13 stories which King in an interview (with Lilja) said would be fitting.
  • jhanicjhanic
    I know, but I'm still hoping!



    John
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