He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. “I made these stories especially for you,” says King. 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. 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. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. In “Afterlife,” a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. 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. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.Īs 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." Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.įor more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction.
The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Includes the story “Premium Harmony”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
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