Title: Four Past Midnight
Description: Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991.
    
One Past Midnight: "[The Langoliers][1]" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see....
    
Two Past Midnight: "[Secret Window, Secret Garden][2]" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.
    
Three Past Midnight: "[The Library Policeman][3]" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well--the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.
    
Four Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but "[The Sun Dog][4]," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.
    

  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149138W/The_Langoliers
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917476W/Secret_Window_Secret_Garden
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917299W/The_Library_Policeman
  [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14916850W/The_Sun_Dog
Subjects: paranormal, nightmares, cuckoo clocks, word processors, Polaroid cameras, speechwriting, Dissociative identity disorder, ambush, sanity, caretakers, plagiarism, housemaids, short stories, diction, Fiction, Horror, Thriller, supernatural, red-eye flights, autopilot, American Horror tales, Vdobibl, Horror fiction, Horror tales, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author), Horror stories, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, erotica, general
Places: Castle Rock, Maine, Polaroid World, Tashmore Lake, Junction City, Iowa, Los Angeles, Boston, Bangor, Bangor International Airport, Mississippi, St. Louis, California
People: Claudette, Cujo, Paulette, Ellen, Hilda, Joe, Randy, Mr. Baker, George Bannerman, Matthew Brady, Paul Bunyan, Cabot, Joe Camber, Emory Chaffee, Evelyn Chalmers, Patricia Chalmers, Andy Clutterbuck, Mr. Constantine, Eleusippus Deere, Meleusippus Deere, Mr. Deere, John Delevan, Kevin Delevan, Mary Delevan, Megan Delevan, Donahue, Jane Doyon, Mr. Doyon, Molly Durham, Hal Greer, Sonny Jackett, Danforth Keeton, Althea Linden, Lowell, Cedric McCarty, John Merrill, Mrs. Merrill, Reginal Marion Merrill, Alan J. Panborn, Annie Pangborn, Gary Pervier, Brandon Reed, Norris Ridgewick, Bill Roberson, Nan Roberts, Colette Simineaux, Sun Dog, Clyde Tormbauch, Donna Trenton, Theodore Trenton, Bill Untermeyer, Meleusippus Verrill, Mr. Verrill, Mrs. Whittaker, Rotary Club, Three Bears, Garfield, God, Goldilocks, Grandma, Gretel, Guns'n roses, Hansel, Huey, Jack, Jesus Christ, Little Red Riding Hood, Louie, Matthew, Road Runner, Simple Simon, Billy, Carl, Jimmy, John, Kenny, Lukey, Mike, Rudolph, Sandra, Sonja, Tommy, Bud Abbot, John Adams, Kent Adelmen, Willie Aikens, V.C. Andrews, Carmen Basilio, Elmer Baskin, Norman Beeman, Cynthia Berrigan, Jennifer Blake, Judy BLume, Phil Brakeman, George Brett, Will Brigh, George Candy, Carter, Lou Costello, Coyote, Felicia Culpepper, Dawson, Dewey Duck, Donald Duck, Dave Duncan, Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Duncan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bruce Engalls, Hazel Felleman, Russ Frame, Spencer Michael Free, Jim Frey, Judy Garland, Tom Gibson, Mrs. Glasters, Grimm, Mrs. Harrigan, Patsy Harrigan, Cammy Harrington, Mrs. Higgins, Naomi Sarah Higgins, Bill Humpe, Burt Iverson, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Craig Jones, Keith Jordan, Brian Kelly, Stephen King, Willy Klenmart, Christopher Lavin, Library Policeman, Ardella Lortz, Robert McCammon, Doreen McGill, Arthur Meecham, Dr. Melden, Ira Moggins, Gramma Moses, Murryat, Scarlett O'Hara, Sam Orday, Ozzy Osbourne, Amos Otis, Patton, Rudy Pearlman, Eddie Peckham, Mr. Peebles, Mrs. Peebles, Samuel Peebles, Darrell Porter, John Power, Mrs. Power, Richard Price, Dan Quisenberry, Joseph Randowski, Tommy Reed, Norman Rockwell, Rosemary Rogers, Tansy Ryan, Mrs. Seger, Rod Serling, Dr. Seuss, William Shatner, Paul Sheldon, Joey Soames, Paul Splittorff, Tommy St. John, Tom Stanford, Frank Stephens, Mrs. Stephens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Vasser, Hannah Verrill, U.L. Washington, H.G. Wells, James Whistler, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Wolf, Tom Wycliffe, Stu Youngman, Bruno, Bump, Cat, Abby, Delores, George, Ed Ames, Joan Baez, Don Bassinger, Lawrence Block, Gerda Bowie, Bradley, Erskine Caldwell, Carstairs, Greg Carstairs, Megan Carstairs, Mrs. Carstairs, Patricia Champion, Eric Clapton, Herb Creekmore, Annie Dillard, Amy Dowd, Mrs. Dowd, Mrs. Downey, Todd Downey, Fred Evans, William Faulkner, Isabelle Fortin, Mrs. Gavin, Moby Grape, Mrs. Greenleaf, Tom Greenleaf, Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Havelock, Tommy Havelock, Ernest Hemmingway, Particia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Jimmy Hoffa, Marianne Jaffrey, Lyndon Johnson, Tom Jones, John F. Kennedy, John Kintner, Ann Landers, John Lennon, Amy Milner, Ted Milner, Dave Newsome, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Palmer, Richard Perkins Jr., Marcel Proust (1871-1922), Amy Rainey, Morton Rainey, Ruth Rendell, Telly Savalas, John Shooter, Mr. Shooter, Juliet Stocker, Don Strick, Sonny Trotts, John Wayne, Roger Whittaker, Mr. Wickersham, N.C. Wyeth, Henry Young, Grateful Dead, King Tut, Led Zepplin, Mary, Muffin, Saul, Stanley, Shawna, Vicky, Dinah Catherine Bellman, Charles Berlitz, James Bond, Briggs, Wilford Brimley, Bobby Burns, Newgate Callender, Coco Chanel, John Christopher, Gary Cooper, Darren Crosby, Robinson Crusoe, Billy Crystal, Emmett Dalton, Ike Dalton, Paw Dalton, Olivia De Havilland, John Deegan, James Dickey, John Dillinger, Joe DiMaggio, Dvorak, Amelia Earhart, Virgil Earp, Anne Engle, Brian Engle, Mrs. Engle, Dr. Feldman, Fenwick, Pretty Boy Floyd, Don Gaffney, Doc Halliday, Handleford, Rutger Hauer, Robert Heinlein, Charlton Heston, Tom Holby, Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Hopewell, Mrs. Hopewell, Nicholas Hopewell, Frank James, Robert Jenkins, Indiana Jones, Albert Kaussner, David Kaussner, Mr. Kaussner, Mrs. Kaussner, Danny Keene, Langoliers, Gary Larson, Miss Lee, Marchant, Markey, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Larry Niven, Richard Nixon, Mr. O'Banion, Hugh O'Brian, Mr. Parker, Prestleman, Slim Pickins, Hercule Poirot, Anne Quinlan, Sax Rohmer, Merrilee Rush, Meg Ryan, Mr. Scrooge, Steve Searles, Bethany Simms, Mrs. Simms, O.J. Simpson, Mr. Spock, Laurel Stevenson, Stravinsky, Donald Sutherland, J.R.R. Tolkien, Catherine Toomy, Craig Toomy, Roger Toomy, Travis, Melanie Trevor, S.S. Van Dyne, Philo Vance, John Varley, Rudy Warwick, Ralph Williams, Ted Williams, John Wyndham, Mort Rainey, Sam Peebles, Reginald Merrill, Dinah, Don Gaffey, Nick Hopewell, Ardelia Lortz, Naomi Higgins
Time periods: 1960