The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams

TheBazaar Of Bad Dreams by Stephen King, 495 pages

"In this new collection [King] 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. 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. 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.'"  I really enjoyed this collection of stories.  Most of them were as scary as anything I've read by King.  My favorite stories were “Mile 81”, “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive”, “Obits”, and “Drunken Fireworks”. The last one was more funny than scary but still a really good story and somehow still felt like King despite the lack of horror.  All in all, I thought this was a really good book and fans of King and horror will want to read it.