Sunset: Klappentexte

Portal: Sunset

Dies ist eine Übersicht über die Klappentexte von Stephen Kings Kurzgeschichtensammlung Sunset.

Cover der britischen Ausgabe

Bücher

Deutsch

Hardcover-Ausgabe (Heyne)

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Was, wenn tödlicher Horror über einen hereinbricht oder Besessenheit und Gelüste alle Vernunft besiegen? Wozu der vermeintlich normale Mensch fähig ist, wenn sein Leben plötzlich eine unerwartete Wendung nimmt:

Das zeigt Stephen King, wie nur er es kann – in dreizehn neuen unheimlichen Storys.

Innenseite

Dreizehn phantastische Geschichten über Menschen wie du und ich, deren gewohntes Leben urplötzlich auf den Kopf gestellt wird:

Richard wird der eigene Hometrainer zum Verhängnis. Anne bekommt einen Anruf von ihrem Mann – auf dessen Totenfeier. Emily will nach einer Fehlgeburt vor dem Leben davonlaufen – und rennt buchstäblich ins Verderben. Monette erzählt einem Taubstummen dass er die eigene Frau, weil sie ihn betrügt, am liebsten umbringen würde – mit unbeabsichtigten Folgen. Curtis wird von seinem rachsüchtigen Nachbarn lebendig begraben – in einem Plastikkabinenklo. Bei Scott tauchen immer wieder Dinge von Opfern der Anschläge vom 11. September auf, Dinge, die er einfach nicht loswird. John wird Zeuge, wie in einer Raststättentoilette eine Frau verprügelt wird – und greift brutaler ein, als er es sich zugetraut hätte ...

Englisch

Hardcover-Ausgabe (Collector's Set; Scribner)

In Just After Sunset Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago.

Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating – and then terrifying – journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, The Gingerbread Girl is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable – and resourceful – as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In Ayana, a blind girl works miracles with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. N. tells the story of a psychiatrist who falls victim to the same deadly obsessions as his patient – an obsession that just might save the world!

Just After Sunset – call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.

Das Hörbuch

Hörbücher

Hauptartikel: Just After Sunset (Hörbuch)

Complete Edition

(Text teils wie Hardcover-Ausgabe): Who but Stephen King would turn … tear apart at any moment. In N., which recently broke ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside … or keep the world from falling victim to it.

The Gingerbread Girl

In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Emily starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running – barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road – and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking a little too closely into the driveway of one of her neighbors – and discovers a secret that he's willing to protect. Emily's curiosity leads her right into the hands of a madman … and soon her legs are her only hope for survival.

Stationary Bike

When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets round to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly.

Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture – and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go … and can't stay away from.

Aus der Serie N.

DVD

Hauptartikel: N. (Serie)

One of the longer stories in this book, N., recently broke ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment an brought to vibrant life through a series of twenty-five video episodes. Introduced by the author, those episodes are presented on the DVD included in this Collector's Set. A trailer for the video episodes and a special "Behind the Scenes" segment complete the DVD package available only in this special edition of the book.