Erste Sätze ohne deutsche Übersetzung

Allgemeine Hinweise

Hier sind einige der ersten Sätze aus Stephen Kings nicht auf Deutsch veröffentlichten Werken zu finden. (Als Satz wird unwissenschaftlich definiert: Alles bis zum Punkt / Fragezeichen / Ausrufezeichen; in manchen Fällen bis dahin, wo syntaktisch einer stehen müsste bzw. zum Ende einer direkten Rede.)
Zu allen anderen ersten Sätzen geht es hier entlang. Eine wichtige Quelle für alle Werke bis inklusive In einer kleinen Stadt war The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia.

Die ersten Sätze im Überblick

• The Aftermath = The engine of the old Ford died, for the third time that morning.
• Ayana = I didn't think I would ever tell this story.
• Before the Play = It was October 7, 1922, and the Overlook Hotel had closed its doors on the end of another season.
• The Blue Air Compressor = The house was tall, with an incredible slope of shingled roof.
• The Cursed Expedition = “Well,” said Jimmy Keller, looking across to the gantry to where the rocket rested in the middle of the desert.
• The Dark Man = i have stridden the fuming way…
• Dino = Dino is dying.
• Donovan's Brain = Shratt came on limping …
• An Evening at God's = DARK STAGE.
• For the Birds = Okay, this is a science fiction joke.
• The Furnace = Tommy’s job was to get wood for the fire from the box at the bottom of the cellar stairs.
• General = EXT. — A HOUSE — NIGHT
• The Gingerbread Girl = After the baby died, Emily took up running.
• The Glass Floor = Wharton moved slowly up the wide steps, hat in hand, craning his neck to get a better look at the Victorian monstrosity that his sister had died in.
• Graduation Afternoon = Janice has never settled on the right word for the place where Buddy lives.
• Harrison State Park '68 = “Can you do it?”
• Harvey's Dream = Janet turns from the sink and, boom, all at once her husband of nearly thirty years is sitting at the kitchen table in a white T-shirt and a pair of Big Dog boxers, watching her.
• The Hotel at the End of the Road = “Faster!”
• I Was a Teenage Grave Robber = It was like a nightmare, like some unreal dream that you wake up from next morning.
• I've Got to Get Away = “What am I doing here?”
• Jhonathan and the Witchs = Once upon a time there was a boy named Jhonathan.
• Jumper = My name is Jeff Davis.
• Keyholes = Conklin’s first, snap, judgement was that this man, Michael Briggs, was not the sort of fellow who usually sought psychiatric help.
• The Killer = Suddenly he snapped awake, and realized he didn’t know who he was, or what he was doing here, in a munitions factory.
• The King Family and the Wicked Witch = On the Secret Road in the town of Bridgton, there lived a wicked witch.
• The Leprechaun = Once upon a time — which is how all the best stories start — a little boy named Owen was playing outside his big red house.
• Man with a Belly = John Bracken sat on the park bench and waited to make his hit.
• Mute = There were three confession booths.
• Never Look Behind You = George Jacobs was closing his office, when an old woman felt free to walk right in.
• The New Lieutenant's Rap = “Can I have one of those?” Sully asked the new lieutenant once they were safely out of the funeral parlor and down the alley which ran along the side.
• The Night of the Tiger = I first saw Mr. Legere when the circus swung through Steubenville, but I’d been with the show for only two weeks; he might have been making his irregular visits indefinitely.
• The Old Dude’s Ticker = Yeah ... spooked ... I’m pretty fuckin’ spooked.
• The Other Side of the Fog = As Pete Jacobs stepped out, the fog immediately swallowed up his house, and he could see nothing but the white blanket all around him.
• The Plant = Gentlemen, I have written a book that you might want to publish.
• Rest Stop = He supposed that at some point between Jacksonville and Sarasota he did a literary version of the old Clark-Kent-in-the-phone-booth routine, but he wasn’t sure just where or how.
• The Revenge of Lardass Hogan = They chased him across the Gates Falls Junior High School playground, and he ran, and of course they caught him.
• Rush Call = Dr. Thorpe was a grouch.
• Silence = Nothing …
• Skybar = There were twelve of us when we went in that night, but only two of us came out – my friend Kirby and me.
• Slade = It was almost dark when Slade rode into Dead Steer Springs.
• Squad D = Billy Clewson died all at once, with nine of the ten other members of D Squad on April 8, 1974.
• The Star Invaders = The Star Invaders had their own ways of loosening men's tongues.
• Stationary Bike = A week after the physical he had put off for a year (he’d actually been putting it off for three years, as his wife would have pointed out if she had still been alive), Richard Sifkitz was invited by Dr. Brady to view and discuss the results.
• The Stranger = Kelso Black laughed.
• Sword in the Darkness = Harding: It is sprawled along the verge of the lake like a string of dirty pearls made clean with the dawn.
• The Thing at the Bottom of the Well = Oglethorpe Crater was an ugly, mean little wretch.
• A Very Tight Place = Curtis Johnson rode his bike five miles every morning.
• Weeds = Jordy Verrill’s place was out on Bluebird Creek, and he was alone when the meteor traced low fire across the sky and hit on the creek’s east bank.
• Willa = You don’t see what’s right in front of your eyes, she’d said, but sometimes he did.
• Wimsey = “The rain’s beastly, isn’t it?” Lord Peter Wimsey said drearily, looking out the window to his right.