The Resource The bazaar of bad dreams : stories, Stephen King
The bazaar of bad dreams : stories, Stephen King
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- 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 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 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 reader--"I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.""--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- ix, 495 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Mile 81
- Drunken fireworks
- Summer thunder
- Premium harmony
- Batman and Robin have an altercation
- The dune
- Bad little kid
- A death
- The bone church
- Morality
- Isbn
- 9781501111679
- Label
- The bazaar of bad dreams : stories
- Title
- The bazaar of bad dreams
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen King
- Language
- eng
- 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 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 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 reader--"I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.""--
- Award
- Shirley Jackson Awards, Single-Author Collection, 2015.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10449881
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- King, Stephen
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3561.I483
- LC item number
- A6 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ethics
- Guilt
- Future life
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- stories
- Label
- The bazaar of bad dreams : stories, Stephen King
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Mile 81
- Drunken fireworks
- Summer thunder
- Premium harmony
- Batman and Robin have an altercation
- The dune
- Bad little kid
- A death
- The bone church
- Morality
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- ix, 495 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501111679
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015022286
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 911135109
- (OCoLC)911135109
- Label
- The bazaar of bad dreams : stories, Stephen King
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Mile 81
- Drunken fireworks
- Summer thunder
- Premium harmony
- Batman and Robin have an altercation
- The dune
- Bad little kid
- A death
- The bone church
- Morality
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- ix, 495 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501111679
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015022286
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- 911135109
- (OCoLC)911135109
Subject
- trueSupernatural
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction
- trueAccidents
- trueDeath
- Ethics -- Fiction
- Future life -- Fiction
- Guilt -- Fiction
- Horror fiction
- trueRehabilitation
- Short stories
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