Quite a good idea, but King nearly manages to kill it between the internal struggling between the passengers and the unbelievability of the characters. Therefore, our passengers are trying to get back to the normal world, but time is literally running out. Luckily the autopilot was on and even more extremely luckily one of the sleeping passengers is a pilot. An aeroplane goes through 'something' and everybody, except for the ten passengers who where asleep, disappears. I like to make my own mental pictures of what the characters etc. I saw the miniseries not so long ago, which puts me in a strange situation – normally I'll go to any lengths not to see a movie if I know that there's a chance that I may be reading the story behind it some day. Oh, yeah and the baseball bit, didn't really mean anything to me, but that's not King fault. Normally I love introductions in books, but this one was kind of disappointing, it seemed so naive and apologetic, almost as if Stephen King didn't believe in the worth of the stories in the book.

Before I get to the stories, I'll just make a comment on the seven page introduction. I guess that four stories in just under a thousand pages, means that each of the stories deserves their own review and that's just what you are going to get. Four Past Midnight is a collection of four short stories by the master of horror, Stephen King.

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