Often, these small insights are as illuminating as the stories themselves, such is King’s ability to speak directly to his readership. As ever, each story has a short introduction from King himself which provides some background and context as to why and when each story was written.
The award winning Obits describes a journalist who is able to kill people off with a stroke of his pen, Mile 81 revists the autohorror of Christine and Premium Harmony takes the reader back to Castle Rock – King’s famous fictitious city – for a morbidly humorous tale that recalls Tom Waits’ Frank character. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is King’s sixth and most recent short story collection, and as with many of the others, there are more hits than misses. Stephen King is a master of the artform with The Lawnmower Man, Children of the Corn and 1408 some of the more famous King short stories to have been released over the years.
I also like how they give the writer free rein to try something a little different. There is a certain skill to telling a whole story in 20 pages and having that story make sense.
The best of them have teeth.‘I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills…’ 'Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. Effervescent yet poignant, juxtaposing the everyday against the unexpected, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant reader as well as to those fascinated by the autobiographical insights in his celebrated non-fiction title On Writing.'I made them especially for you', says King.
He describes the nature of the form in his introduction to the book: 'There's something to be said for a shorter, more intense experience.It can be invigorating, sometimes even shocking, like.a beautiful curio for sale laid out on a cheap blanket at a street bazaar.' In The Bazaar of Bad Dreams there is a curio for every reader - a man who keeps reliving the same life, repeating the same mistakes over and over again, a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries, a poignant tale about the end of the human race and a firework competition between neighbours which reaches an explosive climax.There are also intriguing connections between the stories themes of morality, guilt, the afterlife and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. 1 bestselling writer has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of novellas and short story fiction since his first collection NIGHT SHIFT was published.
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