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Twenty
short tales.
The Short Stories
Brooklyn
August
Chattery Teeth
Crouch End
Dedication
The Doctor's
Case
Dolan's Cadillac
The End of the Whole Mess
The Fifth
Quarter
It Grows on You
Head Down
Home Delivery
The House
on Maple Street
The Moving Finger
My Pretty Pony
The Night
Flier
Popsy
Rainy Season
Sneakers
Sorry, Right Number
Suffer the Little Children
The Ten O'Clock People
Umney's Last
Case
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
Commentary
Pay no heed, Stephen King says in the introduction to
"Nightmares and Dreamscapes," to the critics, their voices "the
ill-tempered yappings of men and women who have accepted the literary
anorexia of the last 30 years with a puzzling (to me, at least) lack of
discussion and dissent." There's certainly nothing skimpy about this
collection of large, leisurely short stories packed with dozens of gaudy,
baffled characters reluctant to believe the varied but uniformly
outrageous threats that confront them, forever trying to talk or think
themselves out of some unpleasant situation until, inevitably, they're
trapped. Even the horrors here are oversized: a resilient vampire with a
particularly gross sense of humor; an invading army of hungry, meat-eating
toads; and, most marvelous, batlike beings who are passing quite
successfully as humans and can be seen as they truly, hideously are only
by smokers -- and only by those smokers who ration themselves to a few
cigarettes a day. Fans of Mr. King's work will find here his usual menu:
wild conspiracies; repellent, zestful monsters; scenes speckled and
splashed with gore. Critics, that yipping chorus that seems to unsettle
Mr. King more than all the ghouls in his stories, are unlikely to be
converted by these baggy, if exuberant, tales. -- Richard E. Nicholls,
New York Times
Quotes from the
Book
"I've
given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble."
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