by Jay Wilburn

The plan is to reread all of Stephen King’s works in the order that they were published. Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance had the vision. I’m doing it because I am a writer and I want to improve my fiction. And I love Stephen King’s stories. I think there is something to be learned through this process.

You can also go back to the beginning and read Before Carrie or any of my other posts up through this one and beyond by checking out this link to the Master List of all my #StephenKingRevisited posts.

I read the four novellas in Four Past Midnight over a long period of time. I still have the same copy I originally picked up in high school. I read the Langoliers and The Library Policeman in high school.

I somehow stopped there even though I kept the book. Maybe the Library Policeman was a bit too heavy for me.

In college, one of my friends told me about The Sun Dog. It piqued my interest in the story, knowing I had skipped it. This was the same friend who told me about the Romero zombie films in exhaustive detail and captured my attention in that monster. I went back and read The Sun Dog the same weekend I rented the Romero zombie movies. My life changed forever that weekend. This was the same friend who was part of the foursome I went up the East Coast with on a trip between my junior and senior years of college. We stopped at King’s famous gate outside one of his homes in Maine.

Secret Window, Secret Garden I finally read for the first time only a few years ago.

It is an interesting collection. I like the four novella format King has done many times before. I remember mostly liking these stories. Yet, there are a number of his four novella collections I like more than this one for sure. Stephen King faces stiff competition with his own work.

I am excited to revisiting the four worlds of Four Past Midnight.

My next post will be After Four Past Midnight which will be linked on the Master List of all my Stephen King Revisited posts.

Jay Wilburn

Jay Wilburn has a Masters Degree in Education that goes mostly unused since he quit teaching to write about zombies. Jay writes horror because he tends to find the light by facing down the darkness. His is doing well following a life saving kidney transplant. Jay is the author of Maidens of Zombie Kingdom a young adult fantasy trilogy, Lake Scatter Wood Tales adventure books for elementary and middle school readers, Vampire Christ a trilogy of political and religious satire, and The Dead Song Legend. He cowrote The Enemy Held Near, Yard Full of Bones, and The Hidden Truth with Armand Rosamilia. You can also find Jay's work in Best Horror of the Year volume 5. He is a staff writer with Dark Moon Digest, LitReactor, and the Still Water Bay series with Crystal Lake Publishing.

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