Book description
When Stephen King's voice drops low in Just After Sunset, you don't just hear a story-you feel the air shift. This audiobook isn't just a collection; it's a slow, deliberate dusk settling over your skin. King, that master of the mundane turned monstrous, reads his own work with a quiet intensity that makes the ordinary feel like a trapdoor. You hear the rustle of a motel sheet in The Gingerbread Girl, the slick, unnatural gurgle of a Port-O-San in The Man in the Black Suit, and the chilling silence of a hitchhiker who's listening too well. His voice becomes the setting: the Florida keys, the Maine woods, the fluorescent glare of a roadside honky-tonk.
King's genius here is how he turns the ordinary into a mirror. A stationary bike ride meant to lower cholesterol? In The Man Who Loved Flowers, it becomes a journey where the pedals turn into a heartbeat, the sweat on your neck a premonition. A blind girl's touch in Ayana isn't just healing-it's a miracle you can almost feel in your own palms. King's world is one where the veil between life and death isn't thin; it's a frayed thread, ready to snap at a whisper. In N., a psychiatric patient's fragmented thoughts don't just threaten the town-they are the town, breathing through the cracks in reality.
This isn't horror for horror's sake. It's the sound of your own breath catching when the streetlights flicker just as you pass a shadow that wasn't there a second before. King's prose, rendered in his own voice, has a rhythm like a heartbeat slowing, then speeding up. You hear the weight of every pause-the hitchhiker's silence, the bicycle's creak, the way dusk itself feels like a held breath. The stories breathe with him, alive in the space between words.
Just After Sunset is the perfect time for King: when the world feels thin, when the line between what's real and what's felt begins to blur. You don't just listen to these stories; you live in the quiet space after the last light fades. The audiobook doesn't scare you-it lingers, like the smell of rain on hot pavement after dark, making you wonder what's waiting just beyond the next word. When the final line fades, the silence feels different. It's not empty. It's full of the things King's voice has already made real.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience