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.
Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon cancer and 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. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. * If I'm correct in my guess that Summer Thunder is included.Ī master storyteller at his best-the O. “a poignant tale about the end of the human race” “a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries” “a man who keeps reliving the same life, repeating the same mistakes over and over again” A Death (previously published this year in The New Yorker)
Bad Little Kid (previously published as a standalone eBook in France and Germany in respective language) Drunken Firework (will be published as audiobook June 30, 2015) UR (previously published as a standalone eBook and an audiobook) Morality (previously published in Esquire July issue, 2009 and Blockade Billy, 2010)
The Dune (previously published in Granta #117, 2011) Afterlife (previously published in Tim House #56, 2013) The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Content Posted: April 1, 2015, 10:47:09
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