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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.
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Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
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lowongan kerja Banjarmasin
NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES BY STEPHEN KING is a series of short& novella stories that goes back to Kings early days . He always has said he likes short stories & in my opinion I think NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES is one of his best short stories books. So , Constant Reader, as Mr.King calls us fans
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of his, fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride. Of all of his short stories I have to think my total favorite is CHATTERY TEETH which is in this book. My son, who is also a King Constant Reader agrees. While on vacation I happened to find a set of Chattery Teeth & brought it home as a gag present for my son! He loved them! So sit back, turn the lights on, put on your favorite tunes & enjoy NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES BY STEPHEN KING Show Less
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LibraryThing member edgeworth
This is King’s third short story collection, mostly assembling stories he’d written in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s since the publication of his last collection, Skeleton Crew, but also containing a few bits and pieces from the ‘70s and some unpublished work.
I was wary of this one,
Some of the others are hit and miss. ‘Crouch End’ is a Lovecraftian tale about two American tourists who stumble into an ancient, eldritch part of London. The part told from the tourists’ perspective is great, but the other half of the story follows two local policeman. King is apparently unaware that American and British culture are, relatively speaking, almost identical, and their dialogue is overflowing with English slang – “Pull the other one,” “a swatch of the old whole cloth,” Give us a fag, mate,” “doddy old prat,” etc. Similarly, ‘Home Delivery’ is a good zombie story on a remote Maine island, with feelings of isolation that are simultaneously uneasy yet (given the state of the world) reassuring. King ruins this atmosphere with an interlude from the spaceship sent to investigate the orbiting alien craft creating the undead, which ends with a cliched scrambled radio transmisison as everything goes to shit, and is irritatingly narrated with calm detachment by the comic British professor figure attached to the mission. And then there’s a pretty bad story called ‘Dedication’ which bothered me not for the fact that it involves a black hotel maid eating semen off the bedsheets of a wealthy guest as part of a voodoo ritual, but more for the uncomfortable way King regularly portrays black characters, up to and including phonetic spelling for their dialogue.
The collection gets more experimental towards the end – there’s a Bachman-style crime caper, a Sherlock Holmes story (which is surprisingly not bad, given how badly King fumbled in ‘Crouch End’ when portraying those exotic, bizarre, non-American people known as the English) and a Raymond Chandler pastiche called ‘Umney’s Last Case’ which also has its own Stephen King twist, and which he says is his favourite story in the collection. Then there’s a fairly long non-fiction piece about a Little League team making it to the finals, which bored me the same way the movie Field of Dreams did – I assume if you’re not American, you just can’t understand. The book wraps up with a poem about baseball and an old Hindu fable.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes also has (and I think all short fiction collections should) a section of author notes at the back for most of the stories, describing their genesis and original publication and what King thinks of them. These were always interesting to read, if a little confusing sometimes – in the notes for ‘The Moving Finger,’ for instance, King says, “My favourite sort of short story has always been the kind where things happen just because they happen… I hate explaining why things happen.” This, from the writer who ruined more than one perfectly creepy story in Night Shift by explaining various frightening things as being caused by Satanic witchcraft rituals.
Overall, this is certainly the least of the three Stephen King short story anthologies I’ve read, but for the most part I enjoyed it and it was worth reading.
I was wary of this one,
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because circa 1990 is when King started to show sings of decline – and also because his story in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse was absolutely terrible and actually dated from 1986, which throws my whole concept of King’s decline out of whack. But anyway. This was for the most part a decent collection with. My two favourites were ‘Chattery Teeth,’ about a travelling salesman in the deserts of the south-west, which was one of those moments King hits a pitch perfect note on setting and character, and also looked like it was going to be a very different horror story from what I’d imagined (but then was the original idea after all); and ‘The Moving Finger,’ about a mild-mannered man who suddenly finds a wiggling human finger impossibly sticking out of his bathroom sink plughole.Some of the others are hit and miss. ‘Crouch End’ is a Lovecraftian tale about two American tourists who stumble into an ancient, eldritch part of London. The part told from the tourists’ perspective is great, but the other half of the story follows two local policeman. King is apparently unaware that American and British culture are, relatively speaking, almost identical, and their dialogue is overflowing with English slang – “Pull the other one,” “a swatch of the old whole cloth,” Give us a fag, mate,” “doddy old prat,” etc. Similarly, ‘Home Delivery’ is a good zombie story on a remote Maine island, with feelings of isolation that are simultaneously uneasy yet (given the state of the world) reassuring. King ruins this atmosphere with an interlude from the spaceship sent to investigate the orbiting alien craft creating the undead, which ends with a cliched scrambled radio transmisison as everything goes to shit, and is irritatingly narrated with calm detachment by the comic British professor figure attached to the mission. And then there’s a pretty bad story called ‘Dedication’ which bothered me not for the fact that it involves a black hotel maid eating semen off the bedsheets of a wealthy guest as part of a voodoo ritual, but more for the uncomfortable way King regularly portrays black characters, up to and including phonetic spelling for their dialogue.
The collection gets more experimental towards the end – there’s a Bachman-style crime caper, a Sherlock Holmes story (which is surprisingly not bad, given how badly King fumbled in ‘Crouch End’ when portraying those exotic, bizarre, non-American people known as the English) and a Raymond Chandler pastiche called ‘Umney’s Last Case’ which also has its own Stephen King twist, and which he says is his favourite story in the collection. Then there’s a fairly long non-fiction piece about a Little League team making it to the finals, which bored me the same way the movie Field of Dreams did – I assume if you’re not American, you just can’t understand. The book wraps up with a poem about baseball and an old Hindu fable.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes also has (and I think all short fiction collections should) a section of author notes at the back for most of the stories, describing their genesis and original publication and what King thinks of them. These were always interesting to read, if a little confusing sometimes – in the notes for ‘The Moving Finger,’ for instance, King says, “My favourite sort of short story has always been the kind where things happen just because they happen… I hate explaining why things happen.” This, from the writer who ruined more than one perfectly creepy story in Night Shift by explaining various frightening things as being caused by Satanic witchcraft rituals.
Overall, this is certainly the least of the three Stephen King short story anthologies I’ve read, but for the most part I enjoyed it and it was worth reading.
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LibraryThing member jseger9000
At nearly seven hundred pages, Nightmares and Dreamscapes is quite large for a single author collection. And its contents are varied. King delivers suspense, crime fiction that would be at home in the Hard Case series, non-fiction sports writing, a poem, a fable, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, 'pure'
The diversity makes the book seem less focused than his earlier collections, Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, but it keeps this long collection from feeling repetitive. I would recommend both of those older collections ahead of this one (though Night Shift is only slightly ahead of it), but this is not an also-ran collection. There are some real gems here. I especially liked 'Dolan's Cadillac', 'The Night Flier', 'The Moving Finger', 'Rainy Season', 'Crouch End' and 'Umney's Last Case'.
As usual, I enjoyed King's Introduction and end Notes section (where he discusses what inspired some of the stories, or just gives interesting factoids about them) as much as I enjoyed the stories themselves. I found myself wishing he had included a note for each story.
A good, solid collection. Not as strong as Skeleton Crew and less focused than Night Shift, but worth a read for sure.
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drama, a final visit to Castle Rock and, of course, the horror he is most famous for.The diversity makes the book seem less focused than his earlier collections, Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, but it keeps this long collection from feeling repetitive. I would recommend both of those older collections ahead of this one (though Night Shift is only slightly ahead of it), but this is not an also-ran collection. There are some real gems here. I especially liked 'Dolan's Cadillac', 'The Night Flier', 'The Moving Finger', 'Rainy Season', 'Crouch End' and 'Umney's Last Case'.
As usual, I enjoyed King's Introduction and end Notes section (where he discusses what inspired some of the stories, or just gives interesting factoids about them) as much as I enjoyed the stories themselves. I found myself wishing he had included a note for each story.
A good, solid collection. Not as strong as Skeleton Crew and less focused than Night Shift, but worth a read for sure.
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LibraryThing member ecataldi
The allure for this short story collection was that it was narrated by a cast of marvelous actors and actresses. Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Lowe, Gary Sinese, Jerry Garcia, and more narrate this haunting and poetic short story collection by the master of horror. Some were doozies but others
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were utterly captivating. "Dolan's Cadillac" and "The End of the Whole Mess" were two of my favorites in this large collection. Overall a great read for fans of horror and Stephen King. Perhaps not his best short story collection, but readers will be sure to unearth a few gems that they won't soon forget. Show Less
LibraryThing member thioviolight
Here's another enjoyable collection from Stephen King. I prefer his short fiction over his longer works, and this book was a worthwhile read for me. Though some stories weren't quite to my taste, several stood out for me: "The House on Maple Street," "Sneakers,""The Night Flier," "Popsy" and "You
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Know They Got a Hell of a Band" was fascinating but quite frightening. My favorite in the collection has to be "Sorry, Right Number," which was both eerie and heartbreaking. Show Less
LibraryThing member skinglist
One of my favourite short story compilations. "Take my hand. Hold on tight, and believe" Dolan's Cadillac, Popsy, Chattery Teeth...
LibraryThing member AshRyan
Stephen King is a much better short story writer than novelist. In On Writing, he explained that he opposes what he calls "plotting," by which he basically means figuring out ahead of time where the story is going---which explains why the longer the work of his, the weaker (if not outright awful)
His short stories tend not to suffer from this problem, both because plot is not as crucial to a good short story as it usually is to longer literary forms; and because, where it is important, structuring a shorter piece does not seem to overtax his ability like a novel does.
There is a more serious dimension to many of King's stories than one might expect, and I like that about them. For one thing, there is a strong moral sensibility to his writing, and while I disagree with this moral sensibility (it being strongly informed by his Methodist upbringing), I like the fact that it's there at all. Too many writers these days are amoralists, whether explicitly or by omission, so it's somewhat refreshing to read a collection of stories that contains a little moralizing (though it's usually pretty subtle, almost more a mood pervading the piece than an obvious point to the story).
Another thing I like very much about King's writing is the sort of self-reflective nature of it, the examination of what it is that a writer is doing as an artist---namely, recreating the universe in his own image. This comes across most strongly here in the story "Umney's Last Case" (though King has dealt with it explicitly elsewhere as well, notably in The Dark Tower series). But the implication is present in the rest of the collection, growing out of the interconnectedness of detail and the integrity of style, which communicate the feeling that all of the characters in all of these stories inhabit the same world, and that it's Stephen King's world, a fact of which he is well aware and wants his readers to be aware, as well.
Several of the stories here are attempts to utilize the style of other writers, such as H. P. Lovecraft in "Crouch End" and Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Doctor's Case". These attempts are surprisingly successful. "The Doctor's Case", for instance, is a Sherlock Holmes story in which Watson solves the case---a twist that Conan Doyle himself may never have employed, but which King manages to pull off very much in the spirit of the original Holmes stories. At the same time, King makes these stories his own, bringing them into his own artistic vision.
There are several stories here that are basically adult versions of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark---stories about downpours of carnivorous toads, incredibly long fingers poking out of bathroom sink drains, and chattery teeth with a will of their own---but even these are pretty fun because King does not take them too seriously, but is perfectly aware of their absurdity and tells them with tongue slightly in cheek. If he tried playing them completely straight, the readers' ability to suspend their disbelief would become a real problem. Thankfully, he does not.
Finally, there is a non-fiction piece about little league baseball, to which King brings his fiction writer's sensibility and makes it surprisingly suspenseful, and meaningful.
All in all, a solid collection of work, and probably one of King's best books.
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the ending tends to be.His short stories tend not to suffer from this problem, both because plot is not as crucial to a good short story as it usually is to longer literary forms; and because, where it is important, structuring a shorter piece does not seem to overtax his ability like a novel does.
There is a more serious dimension to many of King's stories than one might expect, and I like that about them. For one thing, there is a strong moral sensibility to his writing, and while I disagree with this moral sensibility (it being strongly informed by his Methodist upbringing), I like the fact that it's there at all. Too many writers these days are amoralists, whether explicitly or by omission, so it's somewhat refreshing to read a collection of stories that contains a little moralizing (though it's usually pretty subtle, almost more a mood pervading the piece than an obvious point to the story).
Another thing I like very much about King's writing is the sort of self-reflective nature of it, the examination of what it is that a writer is doing as an artist---namely, recreating the universe in his own image. This comes across most strongly here in the story "Umney's Last Case" (though King has dealt with it explicitly elsewhere as well, notably in The Dark Tower series). But the implication is present in the rest of the collection, growing out of the interconnectedness of detail and the integrity of style, which communicate the feeling that all of the characters in all of these stories inhabit the same world, and that it's Stephen King's world, a fact of which he is well aware and wants his readers to be aware, as well.
Several of the stories here are attempts to utilize the style of other writers, such as H. P. Lovecraft in "Crouch End" and Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Doctor's Case". These attempts are surprisingly successful. "The Doctor's Case", for instance, is a Sherlock Holmes story in which Watson solves the case---a twist that Conan Doyle himself may never have employed, but which King manages to pull off very much in the spirit of the original Holmes stories. At the same time, King makes these stories his own, bringing them into his own artistic vision.
There are several stories here that are basically adult versions of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark---stories about downpours of carnivorous toads, incredibly long fingers poking out of bathroom sink drains, and chattery teeth with a will of their own---but even these are pretty fun because King does not take them too seriously, but is perfectly aware of their absurdity and tells them with tongue slightly in cheek. If he tried playing them completely straight, the readers' ability to suspend their disbelief would become a real problem. Thankfully, he does not.
Finally, there is a non-fiction piece about little league baseball, to which King brings his fiction writer's sensibility and makes it surprisingly suspenseful, and meaningful.
All in all, a solid collection of work, and probably one of King's best books.
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LibraryThing member bragan
A collection of twenty short stories, one miniature screenplay, one long essay, and one poem. I have to confess that I didn't finish the essay. It's about little league baseball, and I'm sure it's fine if that's something you're interested in, but I personally have trouble imagining a subject I'd
Overall, I'm not sorry to have read it, and, at 700 pages, it went surprisingly fast. But it never quite delivered the pleasant pre-Halloween chills I was hoping for.
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find more tedious. As for the stories, with the exception of one or two clunkers they were readable enough, falling somewhere in the okay to pretty good range, but as a whole they lack the polished creepiness that generally marks King's best work. They certainly lack the surprising, insightful poignancy of "The Body," which I'm fully prepared to call the best thing he's ever written, never mind the fact that I haven't actually read everything he's ever written. There's a story or two in here where he might be attempting something similar, but those are infinitely less successful. Quite a few of the stories do feature some interesting, imaginative central conceit -- a pair of wind-up novelty teeth with a will of their own, a human finger poking inexplicably out of a bathroom drain, a small town populated by dead rock stars -- that make them quite entertaining, anyway. Others... really don't.Overall, I'm not sorry to have read it, and, at 700 pages, it went surprisingly fast. But it never quite delivered the pleasant pre-Halloween chills I was hoping for.
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LibraryThing member Novak
A real box of SK gems, with a couple of duds just to keep you going.
LibraryThing member Carol420
At 692 pages, "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" is a doorstopper of a book. I planned to read it a story at a time over a period of weeks, but as usual got hooked on King and read it straight through, right from his usual folksy introduction (each of which I am sure he writes solely for me!) to the
"A really good collection of short stories by the 'fearmister" himself.
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charming little moral folktale tacked on at the end. The stories are to say the least, diverse. I would call this collection "King's Scrapbook. There are 20 stories in "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". I don't think many readers will like ALL of the stories, but there are such a variety, that most of the readers will like SOME of the stories, and some will like MOST of the stories. Chances are everyone will find one or two that will stay with them forever."A really good collection of short stories by the 'fearmister" himself.
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LibraryThing member MFRizzi
Another book by 'The King' of horror that you won't want to read alone on a cold, dark night.
LibraryThing member badgenome
This is the book that makes me question whether Stephen King isn't better at writing short stories than novels. There are twenty-four pieces, all told, and they're wildly varied- with not a single clunker present. King is in rare form, in fact, and occasionally takes some horrible premise -
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especially in the cases of 'Chattery Teeth' and 'The Moving Finger,' either one of which could have turned out like some R.L. Stine Goosebumps fare - and spins it into a screamer. The best pieces aren't horror at all, though- 'Head Down' (a non-fiction piece originally published in The New Yorker) immortalizes the triumphs and heartbreaks of Owen King's Little League team over the summer of '89, perfectly capturing a moment in time, and 'My Pretty Pony,' which was salvaged from a Bachman novel that didn't quite pan out, possesses a truly painful beauty and is one of the very best short fictions I've ever read. Show Less
LibraryThing member endersreads
I love short stories and I grew up with Stephen King's shorts. I still remember the "Quantum Leap" episode based on King. King has the ability to bring me that warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of my stomach. His prose somehow seems antiquated, as if you were being taken back to the rural past (of
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perhaps 40 years ago) where lonesomeness takes on an evil life of it's own. Here are 23 of King's short stories. The most memorable for me are "The Night Flier", which the vampire afficianados will suck up, and "The Moving Finger". "The Moving Finger" could be the King story that has subconsciously affected me the most. I cannot wash my hands in a bathroom or kitchen sink without thinking of this story and that damned daemonic finger. That's why I'm always sure to have on my person a sharp pocket knife. *Laughs hysterically* Show Less
LibraryThing member SoapBoxinMyMind
This was my first intoruction into Stephen King's writing. I don't remember the specifics, as it has been many years, but I do remember that I enjoyed reading it.
LibraryThing member Crayne
Stephen King's 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes' treasurechest of short stories contains a few rare gems, some gold coins and unfortunately also a few wooden nickles.
It's good quality wood, but some of these stories pale in comparison to the gems. These stand out as works of beauty, showcasing King's
All in all a very enjoyable variety of stories, with some more inspiring than others.
It's good quality wood, but some of these stories pale in comparison to the gems. These stand out as works of beauty, showcasing King's
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ability to draw the reader in. In contrast, stories like 'The House on Maple Street' and 'You know they got one hell of a band' just fall short. All in all a very enjoyable variety of stories, with some more inspiring than others.
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LibraryThing member srboone
A collection of horror stories by the matster. Not as focused as his precious anthologies, N&D has something for everybody.
LibraryThing member Jthierer
A fairly good compilation of stories by Stephen King. Some of them (Night Flier, Ten O'Clock People) work better than others (The Moving Finger, It Grows on You). Surprisingly, my favorite story was the completely out-of-character "Head Down" which followed a little league team during a
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LibraryThing member LibraryCin
3.25 stars
I’ve had this book since university and I can’t remember if I read it back then or not. I decided to (re)read. As with all short story collections, I liked some better than others. There were a few I really liked in the first half and I was debating about rating this higher than other
I think something I’m not crazy about with short stories is the energy it takes to move from one to the other so quickly. I always knew that I often didn’t like how short they were because I’d just be “getting’ into the story, when it would end and move on to the next. It was reading this that it occurred to me it takes “energy” to start with a new story so often – you have to get to know new characters and a new plot.
Some of the stories I really liked included Dolce’s Cadillac, Chattery Teeth, You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (if I hadn’t read this one before, I had definitely heard about it), Rainy Season, Sorry Right Number (this was more of a screenplay, but I quite liked it). His last “story” was more of a diary/journal (nonfiction) about his son’s Little League baseball team and a successful season they had. He included an interesting note at the end with a bit of information behind some of the stories.
I’ve had this book since university and I can’t remember if I read it back then or not. I decided to (re)read. As with all short story collections, I liked some better than others. There were a few I really liked in the first half and I was debating about rating this higher than other
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short story collections I’ve read in the past, but some of the stories in the second half brought my rating down a bit. I think something I’m not crazy about with short stories is the energy it takes to move from one to the other so quickly. I always knew that I often didn’t like how short they were because I’d just be “getting’ into the story, when it would end and move on to the next. It was reading this that it occurred to me it takes “energy” to start with a new story so often – you have to get to know new characters and a new plot.
Some of the stories I really liked included Dolce’s Cadillac, Chattery Teeth, You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (if I hadn’t read this one before, I had definitely heard about it), Rainy Season, Sorry Right Number (this was more of a screenplay, but I quite liked it). His last “story” was more of a diary/journal (nonfiction) about his son’s Little League baseball team and a successful season they had. He included an interesting note at the end with a bit of information behind some of the stories.
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LibraryThing member SebastianHagelstein
There's a variety in this collection in addition to short stories, including an essay, a poem and a reimagined Hindu parable.
Some of my favorite stories are "The Night Flier," "The Moving Finger," "Umney's Last Case" and "The Ten O'clock People."
Some of my favorite stories are "The Night Flier," "The Moving Finger," "Umney's Last Case" and "The Ten O'clock People."
LibraryThing member Lukerik
The most interesting thing about this book is that I was arrested while reading it.
A collection of mediocre stories. He's improved since his previous collection, Skeleton Crew, and here he never descends to the dire awfulness of some of those stories, but there's nothing here that really stands
That said, when you're in a cell for 15 hours you're grateful for an undemanding read. It gets an extra star from me for that reason.
A collection of mediocre stories. He's improved since his previous collection, Skeleton Crew, and here he never descends to the dire awfulness of some of those stories, but there's nothing here that really stands
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out. Many of the stories are marred by tedium or silliness.That said, when you're in a cell for 15 hours you're grateful for an undemanding read. It gets an extra star from me for that reason.
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LibraryThing member RDexter
Stephen King puts together another great collection of stories to keep you up at night!
LibraryThing member DanielSTJ
This book of Stephen King's short stories was not up to my epectations. It seemed very different, and apart, from his others and the formats of the stories and the way they were written did not strike chords in me like his other collections did. Although it was generally a disappointment, there
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were a couple stories which maintained my interest all the way through. Nevertheless, for the most part it was a letdown.2 stars.
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LibraryThing member DDJTJ1
NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES BY STEPHEN KING is a series of short& novella stories that goes back to Kings early days . He always has said he likes short stories & in my opinion I think NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES is one of his best short stories books. So , Constant Reader, as Mr.King calls us fans
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of his, fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride. Of all of his short stories I have to think my total favorite is CHATTERY TEETH which is in this book. My son, who is also a King Constant Reader agrees. While on vacation I happened to find a set of Chattery Teeth & brought it home as a gag present for my son! He loved them! So sit back, turn the lights on, put on your favorite tunes & enjoy NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES BY STEPHEN KING! Show Less
LibraryThing member knerd.knitter
This is a great collection! It contains what I would say is King's greatest short story: "The End of the Whole Mess." It is such an intriguing story, and I love the way it's written with the narrator's writing deteriorating as the dementia sets in . Even the TV adaptation of this was pretty good,
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LibraryThing member TobinElliott
Hot and cold with this collection. There were some interesting stories, such as the full-on Lovecraftian Crouch's End and the Holmes/Watson story, The Doctor's Case, that seemed to capture Doyle, and also remain quite silly at the same time.
None of the stories creeped me out as King is normally so
Interestingly, the one I essentially ignored (read, but didn't really even pay attention to) the first time around, Head Down where King narrates a series of games his son Owen participated in at the age of 12, shows the most passion, and some of the tightest writing of the entire collection. I found myself quite enjoying it this time around.
In fact, I would go so far as to say this was worst of all the King collections. I hadn't really even taken this collection from the shelf after reading it for the first time back in 93. Now I remember why.
None of the stories creeped me out as King is normally so
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good at doing, and some of these stories seemed overlong and/or phoned in.Interestingly, the one I essentially ignored (read, but didn't really even pay attention to) the first time around, Head Down where King narrates a series of games his son Owen participated in at the age of 12, shows the most passion, and some of the tightest writing of the entire collection. I found myself quite enjoying it this time around.
In fact, I would go so far as to say this was worst of all the King collections. I hadn't really even taken this collection from the shelf after reading it for the first time back in 93. Now I remember why.
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LibraryThing member BookNookRetreat7
Classic master of horror Stephen King delivers to us readers on a silver platter creepy short stories that make us not want to go to sleep!
No wonder I have been having restless nights while reading this book! Personal favorites are: Dolan's Cadillac, The Night Flier, Chattery Teeth, The Moving
For readers that want farfetched, strange, creepy, weird, crazy, out of this world stories, then look no further than this book.
For Stephen King fans this is a "must have" book for your collection! Giving it five stars for keeping me "creeped" out!
No wonder I have been having restless nights while reading this book! Personal favorites are: Dolan's Cadillac, The Night Flier, Chattery Teeth, The Moving
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Finger, and The House on Maple Street. For readers that want farfetched, strange, creepy, weird, crazy, out of this world stories, then look no further than this book.
For Stephen King fans this is a "must have" book for your collection! Giving it five stars for keeping me "creeped" out!
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Awards
Locus Award (Nominee — Collection — 1993)
Bram Stoker Award (Nominee — Collection — 1994)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1993-09-29
Physical description
593 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0340592826 / 9780340592823
Local notes
Omslag: Paul B. Davies
Omslaget viser et stykke ornamenteret murværk, der kunne være noget af et mausolæum.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Side 8: Since 1980 or so, some critics have been saying I could publish my laundry list and sell a million copies or so, but these are for the most part critics who think that's what I've been doing all along.
Omslaget viser et stykke ornamenteret murværk, der kunne være noget af et mausolæum.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Side 8: Since 1980 or so, some critics have been saying I could publish my laundry list and sell a million copies or so, but these are for the most part critics who think that's what I've been doing all along.
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Pages
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DDC/MDS
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