just after sunsetcall it dusk call it twilight its a time when human life takes on an unnatural cast when nothing is quite as it appears when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you who but stephen king would turn a portosan into a slimy birth canal or a roadside honkytonk into a place for endless love a book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle begun to reduce bad cholesterol might take its rider on a captivatingand then terrifyingjourney set on a remote key in florida the gingerbread girl is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerableand resourcefulas audrey hepburns character in wait until dark in ayana a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand for king the line between the living and the dead is often blurry and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment in one of the longer stories here n which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment a psychiatric patients irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the maine countrysideor keep the world from falling victim to it