Four Past Midnight
by Stephen King · first published 1990
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Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. One Past Midnight: "[The Langoliers][1]" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.... Two Past Midnight: "[Secret
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…Future - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Guns, Germs, and Steel == And some fiction === - Howl - Tropic of Cancer - Four Past Midnight (yes, Stephen King) - Maus
on “Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’” ↗The Cronophage makes me think of the Eponymous Langoliers Novella from Stephen King's "Four past Midnight". I wonder if he saw this clock and gained some inspiration from it? The "inspirations" section of the Wikipedia page only cites alleged plagiarism of unrelated IPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Past_Midnight
on “Corpus Clock” ↗