The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

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A master storyteller at his bestâ€”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. â€œAfterlifeâ€ 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 powersâ€”the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in â€œObits;â€ the old judge in â€œThe Duneâ€ 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 â€œMorality,â€ King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devilâ€™s pact they can win.

Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of Kingâ€™s finest gifts to his constant fanâ€”â€œI made them especially for you,â€ says King. â€œFeel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.â€
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 9781442388505
ReleaseDate 2015-11-03
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781442388505

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	9781442388505
ReleaseDate	2015-11-03
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781442388505

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

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