The bazaar of bad dreams : stories / Stephen King.
"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. "Afterlife" is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers--the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in "Obits;" the old judge in "The Dune" who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In "Morality," King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil's pact they can win. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant reader--"I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.""-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501111679
- ISBN: 1501111671
- ISBN: 150112787X
- ISBN: 9781501127878
- Physical Description: ix, 495 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Scribner edition
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Mile 81 -- Premium harmony -- Batman and Robin have an altercation -- Dune -- Bad little kid -- A death -- Bone church -- Morality -- Afterlife -- Ur -- Herman Wouk is still alive -- Under the weather -- Blockade Billy -- Mister Yummy -- Tommy -- Little green god of agony -- That bus is another world -- Obits -- Drunken fireworks -- Summer thunder.
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- Short stories, American > Fiction.
Ethics > Fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Mary Duncan Public Library | FIC King (Text) | 38950611279052 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | FIC King (Text) | 38950611336647 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Selma Public Library | FIC King (Text) | 38950610705024 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/20/2026 |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F KING (Text) | 39493107700116 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F King (Text) | 34269001150383 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | F KIN (Text) | 80605000829696 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 07/02/2026 |
| Angier Public Library | F Kin (Text) | 33632002725357 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F KIN (Text) | 50503300403716 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 31111002801403 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Belhaven Public Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101538450 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
