Nightmares and Dreamscapes
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-09-01
ISBN: 0451180232
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Not Free SF Reader
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a collection of 20 short stories, a script, a poem, a parable and an article on...
Little League baseball.
Which is the best thing in the book, amazingly enough. You realise this after forgetting how long you had been reading it, wondering what the hell will happen to this motley team of kids. Personal interest in this situation obviously raised Mr. King's work to a championship level well above your average local sports reporter's scribblings.
There are three standout, excellent stories, and a bunch of other good work, to give this group of tales an average of 3.75.
An eclectic mix. You aren't going to have a King without horror - not unless some publisher goes crazy, anyway. However, odd science fiction, some crime stories, a fantasy or two of the not really horrific kind, as opposed to people rending vampires earlier on in the book, or batmen later. There's even a Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
I'd give this a 4.75 overall as a job extremely well done. The author even recounts at the end how each story came to be, and manages that rather well, too.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Dolan's Cadillac - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The End of the Whole Mess - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Suffer the Little Children - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The Night Flier - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Popsy - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : It Grows on You - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Chattery Teeth - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Dedication - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The Moving Finger - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Sneakers - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : You Know They Got a Hell of a Band - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Home Delivery - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Rainy Season - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : My Pretty Pony - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The Ten O' Clock People - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Crouch End - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The House on Maple Street - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The Fifth Quarter - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : The Doctor's Case - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes : Umney's Last Case - Stephen King
Camouflage pit, large, for highway animal.
4 out of 5
Calm mind lost.
4 out of 5
Have to shoot the little monsters, don't interrupt.
3.5 out of 5
Invisible, and pisses blood. Not good. Piss myself the ordinary way, very likely.
4.5 out of 5
Kidnappers should pick the human ones.
4.5 out of 5
Castle Rock survivors.
3 out of 5
I'm taking you home, my chomping little hero.
4.5 out of 5
Spoof eater curse signing time.
3.5 out of 5
Digitus impudicus extendis dunnyus takeoverus.
3.5 out of 5
Music biz mule dunny ghost.
4 out of 5
I do not want to be just like Buddy Holly.
4 out of 5
Need a zombie plan.
3.5 out of 5
Toad-poppin bad time in town tonight.
3.5 out of 5
Time is fleeting, grandpaness takes its toll.
3 out of 5
Anti-smoking anti-batmen squad.
4 out of 5
Mythos scoffer mortality.
4 out of 5
Renovation liftoff.
3 out of 5
Treasure map crim gives 'em a bath.
3.5 out of 5
Watson works one out ahead of the master, but they have to decide what to do with the criminals.
3.5 out of 5
Private eye story life swap Peoria pivot.
4 out of 5
Summary of Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Wonderful...an illusionist extraordinaire, King peoples his fiction with believable characters. (Publishers Weekly)Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond." --Fiona Webster
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