Four Past Midnight vs Red Dragon: Which Should You Read?

Four Past Midnight Stephen King · 1990 ★★★★☆ 3.9 694 pages · ≈ 12 h 51 m · Moderate

“Stories come at different times and places for me--in the car, in the shower, while walking, even while standing around at parties.”

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…

Red Dragon Thomas Harris · 1981 ★★★★☆ 4.1 415 pages · ≈ 7 h 41 m · Moderate

“WILL GRAHAM SAT Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea.”

Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed…