For instance in one story, a guy's wife dies in a local convenience store. I am constantly amazed in King's ability to look into the human mind and tear out, those items which are uncomfortable.
Another writer might come up with more terrifying situations, but if you don't care about the people in the story, it is not as scary. They seem terrifying, because of the investment you have in the characters. Lots of his books, have very little horror in them. King writes stories about characters, about people.
The best of them have teeth."ĬOULD YOU GET ARRESTED FOR DRUNK BIKING? If you have read any of my reviews on any of King's work, than you have heard me say this before, but it is so true in these stories. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. "I made them especially for you," says King. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. 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. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers 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 written in the sand the names of people who then died in freak accidents. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. "Afterlife" is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. There are thrilling connections between stories, including themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published 35 years ago, Stephen King has dazzled listeners with his genius as a writer of short fiction.
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.
Other narrators include: Cotter Smith, Will Patton, Edward Herrmann, Holter Graham, Frederick Weller, Mare Winningham, Craig Wasson, Thomas Sadoski, and Tim Sample.Ī master storyteller at his best - the O. Named to the American Library Association’s Reference & User Services (RUSA) Listen List!
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