“I think there’s another stranger inside every person...” writes Wilfred Leland James in the opening pages of his mesmerizing confession, which is the story “1922” the first part of Stephen King’s new collection. In the case of James, the stranger woke up when his wife Arlette offered to sell their house and move to Omaha, which was the beginning of this story of murder and madness. In the story "Big Driver", the author of uncomplicated detectives Tess encounters a stranger on one of the country roads of Massachusetts, returning home after a meeting of the book club. Abandoned to die, Tess devises a revenge plan that will put her face to face with another stranger - inside herself. "Fair Extension", the shortest, perhaps the scariest and definitely the funniest of these stories Having made a deal with the devil, Dave Streeter not only saves himself from cancer, but also receives generous compensation for an unsuccessful life. In the latest Good Wife story, Darcy Anderson searches the garage for batteries. Suddenly, her finger hits the box under the workbench, and she discovers a stranger in her own husband who has gone on a business trip. This terrible discovery will definitely put an end to a twenty-year marriage.