The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams - Stephen King.

The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams.

Author: Stephen King.

Pages: 507 pages, Paperback.

Genre: Horror, Short stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Adult, Paranormal..

Published: November 3, 2015 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Goodreads Rating: ★★★☆☆ 3.92.

Hello my fellow readers. Today I'm gonna talk about "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" by Stephen King. This is another kind of genre I enjoy reading. Especially if it's written by Stephen King, an author who thinks out of the box.

September is almost over, but Autumn is already here and that means: cozy days, lovely sun, scented candles, great warm drinks and spooky season. That means that the spooky books are the best in Autumn.

This book contains 22 short stories. Some were already published in other books and some are brand new. Some stories are with twist and turns you don't see coming. Also, this book contains autobiographical comments on how, why and when he wrote each story (or some rewrite stories). Here is the content of the book:

- Introduction.

Why Stephen King still writes short stories.

- Mile 81. 

Is a story about a car that kills.

- Premium Harmony. 

An unhappy married couple.

- Batman and Robin Have an Altercation. 

A son takes his Alzheimer suffering father ot to lunch. And they talk about some memories.

- The Dune. 

A story abot a dune on an island with certain names on it.

- Bad Little Kid. 

A man explains to his attorney why he ended up in prison, he tells the story of a bad little kid who causes the dead of the people he loves.

- A Death. 

A story about an execution of a man.

- The Bone Church. 

A narrative poem about an ill-fated jungle expedition.

- Morality. 

A couple struggling for money, but they get a proposition for a lot of money if they do something sinful.

- Afterlife.

A protagonist who dies and the story is narrated from his point of view (third perspective).

- Ur.

Reeling from a painful break-up, Englishe instructor and avid book love Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot..

- Herman Wouk Is Still Alive.

Two girlfriends with a pack of small children are on a trip back home. What will they do now they are divorced, and have a lot of kids? 

- Under the Weather.

A story about the wife of an advertising man who isn't seen outside their flat for some time..

- Blockade Billy.

Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason..

- Mister Yummy.

An old man sees death, but it appears as someone he was once physically attracted to.

- Tommy.

A poem about how we are thought of after death.

- The Little Green God of Agony.

Katherine MacDonald is an RN hired to take care for wealthy client, Andrew Newsome, who has gone from doctor to doctor trying to find a quick cure for his lingering pain to no avail.

- Cookie Jar.

A story about a thirteen-year-old boy called Dale. He has a school project to do. He is to speak with his oldest relative about what life was like for them when they were thirteen.

- That Bus Is Another World.

A man on his way to a potentially career-changing appointment witnesses something that causes a moral dilemma. Should he report what he's seen and risk missing his appointment or ignore it?

- Obits.

Mike writes snarky, disrespectful celebrity obituaries for a sleazy webzine. Then one day he gets the idea to write an obit about a living person.

- Drunken Fireworks.

Several 4th of July Holidays and two families who are trying to out-do each other with fireworks displays.

- Summer Thunder.

The world is devastated with a nuclear holocaust. People are dead. Yet there are three survivors, neighbours - living two miles apart.

I really enjoy reading Stephen King Stories. It is easily written and you get sucked into the story for a few hours. The pages are racing by and every story is in perfect balance. It's ideal to read between other books or when you need something completely different from the genre you mostly read. I enjoy a good Horror story, and these stories are really fun and spooky to read.

Synopsis:

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 connection 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 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 wat 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."

Love, ❤

DarkBlue.