Erste Sätze ohne deutsche Übersetzung

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.

• An Evening at God's = DARK STAGE.
• Before the Play = It was October 7, 1922, and the Overlook Hotel had closed its doors on the end of another season.
• Donovan's Brain = Shratt came on limping …
• For the Birds = Okay, this is a science fiction joke.
• Harrison State Park '68 = 'Can you do it?'
• 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?'
• Lisey and the Madman = The spouses of well-known writers are almost invisible; no one knows better than Lisey Landon, who has given only one actual interview in her life.
• Man with a Belly = John Bracken sat on the park bench and waited to make his hit.
• Memory = Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
• Never Look Behind You = George Jacobs was closing his office, when an old woman felt free to walk right in.
• People, Places, and Things = People, Places, and Things is an Extraordinary book.
• 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.
• Stationary Bike = This is one of those stories that should make a lot of English professors salivate.
• 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 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…
• 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.
• The Hotel at the End of the Road = 'Faster!'
• The Aftermath = The engine of the old Ford died, for the third time that morning.
• 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.
• The Star Invaders = The Star Invaders had their own ways of loosening men's tongues.
• The Stranger = Kelso Black laughed.
• The Thing at the Bottom of the Well = Oglethorpe Crater was an ugly, mean little wretch.
• The Things They Left Behind = The things I want to tell you about – the ones they left behind – showed up in my apartment in August of 2002.