Just After Sunset
367 Pages
Just After Sunset is a collection of 13 short stories that live in that liminal space between the ordinary and the unreal, where the light fades, the shadows stretch, and something strange starts to stir.
In these pages, a man gets stuck at a rest stop that might not be part of our world. A woman finds the ghost of her dead husband living in a digital photo. A businessman uncovers something monstrous hiding behind a familiar face. Whether itâs grief, guilt, revenge, or plain cosmic horror, each tale explores what happens when the everyday breaks open and lets something else bleed through.
This is King in sharp, eerie form playing with format, voice, and tone in the moments when day turns to night.
Willa: A man in a train station realizes something isnât quite right, and his fiancĂ©e may already know the truth.
The Gingerbread Girl: A woman running from grief finds herself face-to-face with a new kind of danger.
Harveyâs Dream: A husbandâs disturbing dream might not be just a dream.
Rest Stop: A writer stumbles into a violent situation at a highway bathroom, and must decide who he really is.
Stationary Bike: A manâs fitness journey turns bizarre when his exercise bike leads him to another world.
The Things They Left Behind: A 9/11 survivor is haunted (possibly literally) by the belongings of his lost coworkers.
Graduation Afternoon: A short, chilling snapshot of a girlâs party disrupted by something unthinkable.
N.: A manâs obsession with order and symmetry becomes a gateway to cosmic horror.
The Cat from Hell: A hitman is hired to kill a cat. The cat has other plans.
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates: A grieving woman gets a phone call from her dead husband.
Mute: A confessional booth story that twists morality into something darker.
Ayana: A mysterious child heals the dying, but healing always comes with a cost.
A Very Tight Place: Two enemies. One Porta-Potty. One of Kingâs most claustrophobic tales.