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Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

published: 2010, read: 4/9/19
368 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 8/10, normalized: 7.778/10
0.678σ better than average
1.157σ or 0.936/10 better than average in Horror genre
0.831σ or 0.712/10 better than average by Stephen King
-0.246σ or -0.169/10 worse than average recommended by Dad
Recommended by: Dad

One of my favorite of King's anthological quartets. 1922 got a Netflix adaptation and is a gruesome story about rats. Another is an uber-dark story about a woman getting brutally SA'd with some righteous violence at the end. Aptly titled for some dark licks. The other two are less memorable

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