The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories
Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. I made these stories especially for you, ” says King. Henry prize winner stephen king delivers a generous collection of stories, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, several of them brand-new, and how he came to write or rewrite each story.
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, guilt, the afterlife, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past.
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. In “afterlife, ” a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again.
Full Dark, No Stars
I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Henry prize winner stephen king delivers a generous collection of stories, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, several of them brand-new, and how he came to write or rewrite each story.
For james, arlette, that stranger is awakened when his wife, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.
Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In "big driver, " a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement.
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
. Intense, and instantly com-pelling, eerie, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time. T. S theory of pets -the road virus heads north -lunch at the gotham café -that feeling, or about the mundane dreads of life, You Can Only Say What It Is in French -1408 -Riding the Bullet -Luckey Quarter Whether writing about encounters with the dead, from quitting smoking to yard sales, the near dead, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual.
1408, is about a successful writer whose specialty is "ten nights in ten haunted graveyards" or "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, " and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, " the audio story in print for the first time, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. Stories include: -autopsy room four -the man in the black suit -all that You Love Will Be Carried Away -The Death of Jack Hamilton -In the Deathroom -The Little Sisters of Eluria -Everything's Eventual -L.
In "lunch at the gotham café, " a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. Henry prize winner, two other award winners, and “riding the Bullet, four stories published by The New Yorker, ” King’s original ebook, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade.
Two of the stories, “the little sisters of Eluria” and “Everything’s Eventual” are closely related to the Dark Tower series.
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
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Skeleton Crew
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Gwendy's Button Box
Henry prize winner stephen king delivers a generous collection of stories, why, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, and how he came to write or rewrite each story. Stephan King. The little town of castle rock, maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told.
. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong if time-rusted iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. On his head is a small neat black hat.
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Blaze: A Novel
Isbn-13: 978-1416554844. Stephen King. Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, an evocative crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. The crimes committed against him and the crimes he himself commits, including a kidnapping he is doomed to attempt. Isbn-10: 073948463X.
Publisher: Scribner. First Edition Hardcover. 1, 000, 000 first printing. Features the edgar award-winning story "obits" a master storyteller at his best-the O.
Hearts In Atlantis
Stephan King. Publisher: Scribner. Skeleton crew is by the master of horror--Stephen King. Several horror short stories. Isbn-13: 978-1416554844. Bomc full main & QPB Alt. Stephen King. 1, 750, 000 first printing. Isbn-10: 073948463X. First Edition Hardcover. Scribner, ny 1999. The best-selling master presents a collection of four unsettling tales--Low Men in Yellow Coats, Hearts in Atlantis, deceit, experience, Blind Willie, loss, truth, and Why We're in Vietnam--that center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, and recovery.
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Joyland Illustrated Edition
Stephen king’s #1 bestseller as you’ve never seen it beforefeaturing more than 20 illustrations by acclaimed artists Pat Kinsella, and Mark Summers, Robert McGinnis, this brand new edition of JOYLAND brings the carny world to life in all its bright and sinister glory. College student devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart.
First Edition Hardcover. But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life—and what comes after—that would change his world forever. A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old—and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time— JOYLAND is Stephen King at the peak of his storytelling powers.
Isbn-10: 073948463X. First edition with the correct number line present. Features the edgar award-winning story "obits" a master storyteller at his best-the O.