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The bazaar of bad dreams : stories

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  • Author: King, Stephen
    Contributor: Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm); Sample, Tim; Sadoski, Thomas; Wasson, Craig; Winningham, Mare; Weller, Frederick; Herrmann, Edward; Patton, Will; Smith, Cotter; Friedman, Peter; Fontana, Santino; Chalfant, Kathleen; Davis, Hope; Bloom, Brooke; Baker, Dylan; King, Stephen
    Edition: Unabridged
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    Created
    2018
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    Copyrighted
    2015
    Summary:

    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 listeners 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 fan-"I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."

    Contents:

    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
    That bus is another world
    Obits
    Drunken fireworks
    Summer thunder

    Original Publisher: New York, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Simon & Schuster Audio, [Distributed by] RBdigital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781442388512