The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

A master storyteller at his bestthe 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 storySince 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 powersthe 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 devils pact they can win Magnificent eerie utterly compelling these stories comprise one of Kings finest gifts to his constant readerI made them especially for you says King Feel free to examine them but please be careful The best of them have teeth.