"The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams" - New Stephen King Story Collection - 2015

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

The next Story Collection book will be out next year. Here is what was posted at Lilja's Library... (Thanks Lilja)

Looks like the list of short stories that will be in the upcoming collection has been set…but not yet released. Here is the confirmation from the moderator on King’s official board:

The list has already been set but I can't reveal yet which ones made the cut.

And on a question about if it would just contain stories or also poems and essays the answer was:

Yes, but not anything I can share publicly yet, or long story short.

[biomieg]

Thanks for sharing, Alan! I'm a big fan of the collections so this is good news.

[mae]

More info and discussion here: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?18468-New-collection-for-fall-2015

[herbertwest]

Hope that there is something new. And by that, I mean, on top of BAD LITTLE KID...

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Book is to be titled, 'The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams'.

King is already looking ahead to next year, with Finders Keepers (the sequel to Mr. Mercedes) out in June.

"And in the fall of 2015 there will be a new collection of stories called The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, which'll collect about 20 short tales. It should be a pretty fat book."

[WeDealInLead]

'bout time! The title seems a little too cutesy for King ...it's a little too Gaimanish or even Bradburyish.

[skyofcrack]

He should go back to the original title for Skeleton Crew, which was Night Moves.

[thegreattim]

'bout time! The title seems a little too cutesy for King ...it's a little too Gaimanish or even Bradburyish.

Completely agreed.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Mod at SKMB:

Last week he told me he was working on edits for The Bazaar of Bad Dreams and had a new short story in the wings. I haven't read that one yet but couldn't say more even if I had.

[mae]

Nice. But I'm not a fan of editing or revising the stories for collections.

[skyofcrack]

I think King has revised most of the stories he's collected over the years.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

From lilja...

Today Simon & Schuster posted some new info about The Bazaar of Bad Dreams and also gave us 4 new titles. That makes it 8 known titles so far.

- Afterlife (previously published in Tim House #56, 2013)
- Obits (New)
- The Dune (previously published in Granta #117, 2011)
- Morality (previously published in Esquire July issue, 2009 and Blockade Billy, 2010)
- UR (previously published as a standalone eBook and an audiobook)
- Drunken Firework (will be published as audiobook June 30, 2015)
- Bad Little Kid (previously published as a standalone eBook in France and Germany in respective language)
- A Death (previously published this year in The New Yorker)

Unpublished Stories = 1
Published Stories = 7
Unknown Stories = 12



A master storyteller at his best—the O. 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.

Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

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. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. 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. 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.

Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King’s finest gifts to his constant reader—“I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”

[mae]

Really surprised he's collecting Morality again, after it was collected with Blockade Billy.

[mae]

P.S.: Note that the is a news thread for this book at The Oracle where general King news is discussed. This should be merged there.

[herbertwest]

Obits : i guess that this is the story in which "a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries"

[Pasiuk57]

Bad Little Kid-I read it in german--pretty good!!

[herbertwest]

I read it in french, and quite good :)

[Bev Vincent]

I read it in French, too (http://www.bevvincent.com/non-fiction/fearnet/pardon-my-french-sale-gosse/) -- but I'm looking forward to reading it in English now.

[tippy4]

I am looking forward/hoping for a signed limited edition of this.

Nothing on Mr. Mercedes (which makes me think there won't be one on Finders Keepers either) or Revival, so we are due one.

[CRinVA]

Really surprised he's collecting Morality again, after it was collected with Blockade Billy.

I don't really consider this as collected - more of think of it as an afterthought put in to help increase sales. TO me one Novella and one Short Story does not make a collection. Of course that is only my personal opinion.

I just finished re-reading (actually (listening to this time) Just After Sunset and like the previous collections I tend to like the stories more the second and third time through. The first time through I am simply devouring them; while with later readings I tend to absorb more of the nuances of each tale!