The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Horror | Speculative | Fantasy | Thriller
512 Pages
This collection of 20 short stories is Stephen King inviting you into his twisted little shop of nightmares, where each tale is handpicked, personally introduced, and honed like a blade. These aren’t just horror stories. They’re meditations on morality, mortality, addiction, revenge, art, aging, and the uncanny things lurking just under the skin of everyday life.
Some stories are supernatural. Some are psychological. Some are just deeply, disturbingly human. But all of them carry that unmistakable King energyâŚwhere the ordinary can turn on you in a sentence, and even a Kindle might want your soul.
The stories include:
- Mile 81
- Premium Harmony
- Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
- The Dune
- Bad Little Kid
- A Death
- The Bone Church (poem)
- Morality
- Afterlife
- Ur
- Herman Wouk Is Still Alive
- Under the Weather
- Blockade Billy
- Mister Yummy
- Tommy (poem)
- The Little Green God of Agony
- That Bus Is Another World
- Obits
- Drunken Fireworks
- Summer Thunder
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a showcase of Kingâs range; funny, dark, sad, and strange. Itâs not just a horror collection. Itâs a master storyteller pulling the curtain back on what makes him tick.