oh sweetie, i wouldn't charge you $40 in shipping. a max of $39.95 honest!
oh sweetie, i wouldn't charge you $40 in shipping. a max of $39.95 honest!
Strawberry Spring.. (since it was the first SK story I fell in love with)
The Boogeyman
Plus more I can't think of for now
Oh, well THAT'S perfectly reasonable!Originally Posted by turtlesong
I've been looking for different seasons everywhere, i can't find it. It's been a good 8 years or so since I have read it.
I always like the langoliers, i dont know why it got hated on so much.
besides, I love the library. as long as i stay away from the computer room, it has the largest are in the city void of stupid.
Have you tried eBay? You can usually find used books on there.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
yeah when I get a hold of a debit/credit card again I'll do ebay
Short Stories
What are your favorite short stories?
My favorite ( im still reading all of them) but so far is Cain Rose Up in Skeleton Crew. Its creepy how a kid at college can seem normal too others and then just start sniping ppl.
How about you?
Note: Can you please put the story title and the book which it is from.
I loved the two Salem's lot based short stories, Jerusalem's Lot and One for the Road.
I don't find a lot of King's stories all that scary (although I like his work) but those two gave me a chill.
They can both be found in the large edition of Salem's Lot and one of his other collections (I forget the name.)
Both those stories were collected in King's first collection, Night Shift.
John
I've always had a thing about Quitters, Inc. from Night Shift. Can't put my finger on it, but I just really like that one. There are more, too, but I'll have to go check since it's been a while since I ready many of the shorts.
This collecting stuff is a sickness! ~Patrick
My favorite short story is The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
oops, it's a King forum - we're talking about King stories here. Though I love The Black Cat, too, and all other Poe stories!
so, what is your favorite short story by King?
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I find many of King's shorter tales scary or creepy, especially his older ones (from Night Shift, for example).
But since he's such a master when it comes to short fiction, it's hard for me to name just one or two favorites.
One is definitely Home Delivery (in N&D). I love zombie tales and King added a bunch of humor into it as well.
The Boogeyman from Night Shift gave me the creeps.
To this day I make sure no closet doors are left open at night. LOL...
Life is a garden...dig it!
I agree. I largely find his short stories scarier than his novels. (Although I usually prefer the novel stories, as it's not necessarily about the fear for me.) I'll make exceptions for Salem's Lot (Spoiler:, and Pet SematarySpoiler:
Other Short stories I like, would be the stories of Hearts in Atlantis. They certainly qualify as short stories, but I liked the way they interrelate as a whole too (hence kind of forming a novel too.) I liked them all in different ways, but if I had to pick favorites, it would be Low men in Yellow Coats, Blind Willy (a strange tale that one, but I loved it.) the one with the falling er stuff (even stranger), and the end story concerning Bobby. (Actually I think I listed most of them there.) The Carol connection to Hearts in Atlantis (short story) was interesting though.
Thanks for resurrecting a great thought. I am going to merge this with a preexisting thread.
So sorry. My favorite short story by King is The Body. It is a novella, but I think it counts.oops, it's a King forum - we're talking about King stories here. Though I love The Black Cat, too, and all other Poe stories!
so, what is your favorite short story by King?
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
Mine too. It's one of my favorite stories he's written.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
One of my favorites is Weeds. Not the rewritten one in Creepshow, but the original, uncollected version that ran in a couple of the men's magazines. It's a much darker story than Creepshow.
John
I just finished "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe'" and I'm pretty stunned. The guy doesn't go crazy in the end, right? I think he's just pondering and realizes that he could have gone crazy, and that almost anybody can with enough stuff happening ("Yeah, we all do.") The very very end still freaked me out though. I don't see him going crazy, I just see him kind of having dulled emotions from then on after realizing that. But it was a good story. I also liked Eluria, though they never really said what the Sisters were. Now I got the big one, Everything's Eventual, to read next. And then maybe that Deja Vu one.
My favorite short story has to be the body why?
It took me back to my younger days with your mates at the rubbish tip
(looking for pram wheels and planks of wood to build a trolley),swimming
in the quarry lake(which we called blue lagoon)and yes playing on train
lines and daring each other to go into the 1/4 mile tunnel.
Quite a few of his books take me back,and thats just one reason i think
there is no other author that can affect you in the way he writes.
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