JUST AFTER SUNSET (Stephen King) - January 5/09

An uneven collection of short stories, Just After Sunset seems to work about half the time - as King offers up several tales that simply aren't as enthralling as he clearly believes them to be (ie the one about the OCD guy who finds a supernatural garden, the one about the guy who becomes some kind of a miracle worker, etc). Yet it's hard to deny the effectiveness of a few of these tales, with the final one - about a dude trapped inside a port-o-potty - certainly ranking right up there with King's best writing. *** out of ****