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#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication.

The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you.

Kevin…

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I was fascinated, disturbed, captivated, and repelled. If you use this Polaroid camera, the picture shows not what you tried to photograph but something else: a vicious dog that is coming closer and closer with each shot taken. And it is coming to get you.

Don’t use the camera, then? Yes, of course, but…there’s a compulsion to use it regardless. I was hooked by this use of an ordinary-looking camera as the portal to another world.

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