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. 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.
For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with
his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he
introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his
motivations for writing it.
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."
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. In "Afterlife," a man who
died of colon cancer 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. 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.
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.
"I made these stories especially for you," says King. "Feel free to
examine them, but please be careful. 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
