Name: Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993
ISBN: 9785170107223

Stephen King

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Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993

Here are twenty superlative stories devilishly designed by Stephen King to take you where you never dreamed of going before. Included, too, are a telescript that made home screen history, a startling poem, and an essay that Stephen King regards as his best nonfiction writing.

These versatile selections vary widely in style and subject matter and vividly display the full range of Stephen King's matchless imagination. And to add to his readers' pleasure and curiosity, King includes his own entrancing inside accounts of how the stories came into being and why.

Stephen King calls this extraordinary retrospective Nightmares & Dreamscapes. But don't let his title fool you. When you read it, sleep will be the furthest thing from your mind.
(back cover)

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Lara Engle

This is kind of a bizarre collection of short stories, etc. It feels like Uncle Stevie just dug around in some old files and unearthed some oddities, polished them up, and voila! Super long collection to publish! They were mostly fun to read, though, so that's cool.

A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. This collection of Stephen King stories takes a roller-coaster ride through the macabre and monstrous, via explorations of good and evil.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Sian Wadey

Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King

I love Stephen King's short story collections simply because if you don't like one, you know that it'll be finished soon and you can move onto the next, not that this happens very regularly! My favourite stories in this collection were The Moving Finger, which was insanely creepy! I had to search my bathroom every time I went in there; The House On Maple Street where the kids get one up on their stepfather and The Ten 'O' Clock People, which is a genius piece of observation. Umney's Last Case, The Doctor's Case and Sorry, Right Number were also brilliant. The only story I didn't really like, and it was more of an essay anyway was Head Down. I'm British, have never seen a game of baseball ever played and don't know anything about it, so for most of that story I was lost! 
Otherwise, an excellent collection, as always, from the master that is Stephen King!

Hannah Futterman

* Dolan’s Cadillac - 4 stars 
* The End Of The Whole Mess - 3 stars 
* Suffer The Little Children - 3 stars 
* The Night Flier - 3 stars 
* Popsy - 4 stars 
* It Grows On You - 2 stars 
* Chattery Teeth - 4 stars 
* Dedication - 3 stars 
* The Moving Finger - 5 stars 
* Sneakers - 4 stars 
* You Know They Got a Hell of a Band - 4 stars 
* Home Delivery - 3 stars 
* Rainy Season - 5 stars 
* My Pretty Pony - 3 stars 
* Sorry, Right Number - 4 stars
* The Ten O’clock People - 4 stars 
* Crouch End - 5 stars 
* The House on Maple Street - 5 stars
* The Fifth Quarter - 3 stars 
* The Doctor’s Case - 4 stars 
* Umney’s Last Case - 4 stars 
* Head Down - 3 stars 
* Brooklyn August- 2 stars

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Dr Seth Jones

Dhruv Chopra

Rhiannon Mansfield

Lacy Clagg

Jacqui

Yvette

Sang Park

Tim Pennington-Russell

Ashley Janssen

Jasmine

Sara

Brian Hill

Scribbler Johnny

Yulande Lindsay

The Stephen King Amusement Park - an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell . . . and a few to glory. A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is here with a powerful collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination will take you on a roller coaster to places you've never been before. You will lose sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993

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