The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

King introduces each story with an explanation about the motivation for writing it. Not surprisingly, most are classic King page-turners, but the choicest finds in this bazaar are the stories behind the stories or, more correctly, in front of them. Serves up a potent mix of stories that land in and around the horror genre.

The best of them have teeth.' Stories include: -Mile 81 -Premium Harmony -Batman and Robin Have an Altercation -The Dune -Bad Little Kid -A Death -The Bone Church -Morality -Afterlife -Ur -Herman Wouk Is Still Alive -Under the Weather -Blockade Billy -Mister Yummy -Tommy -The Little Green God of Agony -Cookie Jar -That Bus Is Another World -Obits -Drunken Fireworks -Summer Thunder

'Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. 'I made these stories especially for you,' says King. 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. Others 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, people who then died in freak accidents. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. In 'Afterlife,' a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. 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. As Entertainment Weekly said about this collection: ' Bazaar of Bad Dreams is bursting with classic King terror, but what we love most are the thoughtful introductions he gives to each tale that explain what was going on in his life as he wrote it. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.

Includes the story 'Premium Harmony'-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O.

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King