Full Dark, No Stars (and no poker)

I just finished a gruesome collection of short stories by Stephen King called Full Dark, No Stars.  It was excellent! I am not a horror movie kind of girl, but Stephen King has a way of taking every day people in every day lives and adds the twist of creepiness that makes the story enthralling.

In the book there are five short stories which are not all that short.  The first one is 130 pages.  Below is a short blurb about each one.

1922
This is about a farmer named Wilf.  An honest hardworking man but things go awry when his wife inherits 100 acres of land next to his.  She wants to sell them for a good price to a hog butchery but if she does the butchery will poison the water Wilf's farm relies on.  So he decides to kill her with the help of his 14 yr old son.  He talks the son into it, slashes her with a machete and dumps her in a well.  Here comes the creepy Stephen King twist! The rats that eat her become her servants and follow Wilf everywhere, eventually eating him to death.  Oh and the son, for whom he was saving his farm?  The son gets his gf preggers, becomes a bank robber and eventually commits suicide.  Not the happiest of endings.

BIG DRIVER
OMFG
This guy BIG DRIVER, sets traps by throwing pieces of nail laden wood in road until a woman gets a flat tire, like our hero.  Then he came along to help change her tire and instead raped her, thought he killed her and dumps her body in a drain.  She gets revenge when she noodles out that it was his mother that told her to take this particular road.  So she kills the mother, BIG DRIVER and the brother to boot.  (he was also in on it)  This story is UBEER creepy.

FAIR EXTENSION
Classic Stephen King!  Our hero has cancer and there's this guy (with pointy teeth) on the side of the road offering extensions for whatever you want.  "If you were a young woman with a love of shopping, I'd offer you a credit extension.  If you were a man with a small penis -genetics can be so cruel- I'd offer you a dick extension."  As the guy has cancer, he gets a life extension.  15 years of a life extension.  For this he must pay 15% of his salary every year that he lives.  Oh and he has to "give the badness to someone else."  (of course he does, right?)  He picks his childhood friend who is living the life of Riley.  Misery ensues.

A GOOD MARRIAGE
This woman finds out that her awesome hubby of twenty years is a serial killer.  A frigging creepy, kookoo for cocoa puffs serial killer.  So she kills the bastard. 

Update:  The book I purchased was a good ole book with pages that you have to turn.  When I recently had a big win I was thinking of purchasing *gasp* a kindle, that which I've been coveting for the past year or so.  I look at them in other commuters hands on the way to work, the way a man gazes longingly at Angelina Jolie.  But....it seems like such an extravagance.....maybe after my big win at Atlantic City!

Oh and Duggle Bogey....RED SOX ROCK!  They kicked Yankee ass last night 9-5.  3 homers baby!  Ortiz, Ellsbury and Varitek.  Wheeeeee
Josie