Wilfred decides to fill in the well to hide the body, but knows that doing so will arouse suspicion. Later, as Wilfred dumps her suitcase into the well with Arlette, he notices that her body has become infested with rats.

Wilfred and Henry then dump the body in a dry well behind the barn. After taking Arlette to bed, Wilfred brutally slashes her throat with a butcher knife. Arlette proceeds to make crude remarks about Henry's girlfriend, Shannon Cotterie, which angers the boy enough to commit to Wilfred's plot. Wilfred resorts to manipulating his teenage son, Henry, into helping him murder Arlette.Īs part of their plot, Wilfred and a reluctant Henry get Arlette drunk.

If she does so, Wilfred's property will no longer be farmable and he'll be forced to sell as well. She seeks to sell her land to a livestock company for use as a pig farm and slaughterhouse. Wilfred scorns the thought of living in a city, but Arlette is discontented with farm life and wants to move to Omaha. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining 100 acres willed to her by her father. In 1922, Wilfred James, a farmer in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, owns 80 acres of farmland that have been in his family for generations. (Nov.1922 is a novella by American writer Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars (2010). Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. 'A Good Marriage' explores the aftermath of a wife's discovery of her milquetoast husband's sinister secret life, while 'Fair Extension,' the book's most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune.

'Big Driver' tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. In '1922,' a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008).

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