Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

This collection of excerpts features three distinct short stories from Stephen King's "Four Past Midnight." The first narrative, "The Langoliers," follows a group of airline passengers who awaken mid-flight to discover almost everyone else has vanished, leading them to grapple with a temporal anomaly and a terrifying, unseen threat. The second, "Secret Window, Secret Garden," centers on a writer tormented by a stranger accusing him of plagiarism, as his life spirals into paranoia and violence. Finally, "The Library Policeman" presents a chilling tale of a man who incurs the wrath of a malevolent entity residing within a library, encountering strange characters and supernatural occurrences as he attempts to resolve a book overdue.