The bazaar of bad dreams

stories

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Stephen King: The bazaar of bad dreams (2015)

495 pages

English language

Published Sept. 8, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-5011-1167-9
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OCLC Number:
911135109

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"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 …

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Subjects

  • American Horror tales
  • Suspense
  • Future life
  • Guilt
  • Fiction
  • Short Stories (single author)
  • FICTION