The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: New short story collection (11/03/15)

[mae]

Amazon US has no listing still, and Amazon UK shows no page count.

[skyofcrack]

This is an obvious fake.

Spoiler:

[mae]

Mos def.

[mae]

The book is finally up for preorder: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501111671/

It does say 480 pages, but Amazon has changed page counts from early preorder listings in the past.

[Lilja]

Sounds lika a way to low pagecount if you ask me.

Lilja

[Bev Vincent]

Ms. Mod said that it is just a placeholder value.

[SystemCrashOverRide]

Any word on limited editions of any sort?

[Merlin1958]

The book is finally up for preorder: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501111671/

It does say 480 pages, but Amazon has changed page counts from early preorder listings in the past.

Ordered. Thanks for posting the link!!! You da man!!

[mae]

You're welcome. Really looking forward to this. It may turn out to be my favorite collection of King's or thereabouts. Skeleton Crew is still at the top.

[Gmailman]

[Lilja]

Where is this cover from?

Lilja

[SystemCrashOverRide]

Where is this cover from?

Lilja

Hopefully another fake? That is not an attractive piece.

[mae]

Quite obviously a quick Paint job.

[herbertwest]

Obviously a fake / fanmade placeholder image

[Randall Flagg]

I like this one better:

[Lilja]

Who are doing all these covers?

Lilja

[Randall Flagg]

The cover I just posted was done by member Sir_Boomme

[herbertwest]

The cover I just posted was done by member Sir_Boomme

I knew I recognised him !
The placeholder I am using on my website is simply this :

until something better comes along

[Bev Vincent]

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, due to be published on 3 November, will bring together 20 short stories by King, a mix of new writing and work already collected in magazines. But it will also include an introduction to each story by the writer, in which he will provide “autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write it”, as well as “the origins and motivation of each story. His editor at Hodder & Stoughton, Philippa Pride, predicted the inclusion would “delight all his readers including those who love his insight into the craft of writing”.

In the new collection, King writes of how “little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. Traces of the writers one reads in one’s formative years remain, but the rhythm of each writer’s thoughts – an expression of his or her very brain waves, I think – eventually becomes dominant.”

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams will include the story A Death, recently published in the New Yorker. Other tales will range from “a man who keeps reliving the same life, repeating the same mistakes over and over again”, said Pride, to “a firework competition between neighbours which reaches an explosive climax, a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries” and “a poignant tale about the end of the human race”.

>>> Source

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

But it will also include an introduction to each story by the writer, in which he will provide “autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write it”, as well as “the origins and motivation of each story.

...and hopefully King will read all these parts himself on the Audiobook, as he has done in the past.

[mae]

I think he has always includes that type of info, except in Night Shift.

[wolfehr]

Cemetery Dance is making a slipcase, in case anyone doesn't know and is interested.

Trade Hardcover w/ Slipcase
Just the slipcase

[mae]

http://www.liljas-library.com/article.php?id=4448

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.”

[Cordial Jim]

Looking good so far! I sure hope an oldie makes it in, too.

[Ari_Racing]

Full list:

1. Mile 81 – Scribner e.
2. Premium Harmony – 2009 New Yorker
3. Batman and Robin Have an Altercation – Harpers 2012
4. The Dune – Granta 2011
5. Bad Little Kid – New; Serial
6. A Death
7. The Bone Church – poem
8. Morality – Esquire 2009
9. Afterlife – Tin House 2013
10. Ur – 2009 Amazon e.
11. Herman Wouk is Still Alive – The Atlantic 2011
12. Under the Weather – Mass Market FDNS
13. Blockade Billy – Scribner e.
14. Mister Yummy – New; Serial
15. Tommy – Playboy poetry
16. The Little Green God of Agony – A Book of Horrors 2011
17. That Bus is Another World - Esquire
18. Obits – New; Serial
19. Drunken Fireworks
20. Summer Thunder – Cemetery Dance 2013