The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
{{Short description|Short story collection by Stephen King}}
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| name = The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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| author = Stephen King
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Horror, Literary Fiction
| publisher = Scribner
| release_date = November 3, 2015
| media_type = Print (hardcover)
| pages = 495
| isbn = 978-1501111679
| preceded_by = Full Dark, No Stars
| followed_by = If It Bleeds
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short fiction collection by Stephen King, published on November 3, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://stephenking.com/library/story_collection/bazaar_of_bad_dreams_the.html|title=StephenKing.com - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams|website=stephenking.com}} This is King's sixth collection of short stories and his tenth collection overall. One of the stories, "Obits", won the 2016 Edgar Award for best short story,{{cite web|url=http://theedgars.com/nominees.html|title=Edgar Award Winners, Nominees|website=theedgars.com}} and the collection itself won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for best collection.{{cite web|url=http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2015-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/|title=The Shirley Jackson Awards » 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners|website=www.shirleyjacksonawards.org}} The paperback edition, released on October 18, 2016, includes a bonus short story, "Cookie Jar", which was published in 2016 in VQR.
Stories
| class="wikitable" |
| #
! Title ! Originally published in ! Type |
|---|
| 1
| Mile 81 | Novella |
| 2
| "Premium Harmony" | November 9, 2009 issue of The New Yorker | Short story |
| 3
| "Batman and Robin Have an Altercation" | September 2012 issue of Harper's Magazine | Short story |
| 4
| "The Dune" | Fall 2011 issue of Granta | Short story |
| 5
| "Bad Little Kid" | Previously unpublished in English | Short story |
| 6
| "A Death" | March 9, 2015 issue of The New Yorker | Short story |
| 7
| "The Bone Church" | November 2009 issue of Playboy | Poem |
| 8
| Morality | July 2009 issue of Esquire | Novella |
| 9
| "Afterlife" | June 2013 issue of Tin House | Short story |
| 10
| Ur | Ur e-book (2009) | Novella |
| 11
| "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive" | May 2011 issue of The Atlantic | Short story |
| 12
| Paperback edition of Full Dark, No Stars (2011) | Short story |
| 13
| Blockade Billy (2010) | Novella |
| 14
| "Mister Yummy" | Previously unpublished | Short story |
| 15
| "Tommy" | March 2010 issue of Playboy | Poem |
| 16
| "The Little Green God of Agony" | A Book of Horrors (2011) | Short story |
| 17
| August 2014 issue of Esquire | Short story |
| 18
| "Obits" | Previously unpublished | Short story |
| 19
| Drunken Fireworks audiobook (2015) | Novella |
| 20
| "Summer Thunder" | Turn Down the Lights (2013) | Short story |
Background information
In a letter posted on Stephen King's official site in June 2014, King announced that he would possibly be publishing a "book of new stories" in the fall of 2015, following the publication of Finders Keepers.{{cite web|url=http://stephenking.com/promo/mr_mercedes/letter-from-stephen-and-the-toll.html|title=Mr. Mercedes - Letter from Stephen & The Toll|website=stephenking.com}} In an interview with the Toronto Sun on November 6, 2014, King announced the title of the collection and offered more details, saying "[I]n 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."{{cite news|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/06/stephen-king-going-as-fast-as-he-can|title=Stephen King going as fast as he can|date=6 November 2014|newspaper=Toronto Sun|first=Mark|last=Daniell}} In February and March 2015, King personally, and via his assistant, confirmed the collection will include "Bad Little Kid" (published in 2014 as an e-book in French and German languages only as a gift to King's European fans{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stephen-kings-new-short-story-700803|title=Stephen King's New Short Story 'Bad Little Kid' Optioned for Feature Film (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Rebecca|last=Ford|date=May 2, 2014|access-date=January 4, 2021}}), "Ur" (heavily revised{{cite web|url=http://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/stephen-king-news-from-the-dead-zone-186/|title=Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #186|date=31 October 2015}}), "Drunken Fireworks", and "A Death".{{cite web|url=http://www.liljas-library.com/section.php?id=113|title=Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King [1996 - 2018]|website=www.liljas-library.com}} The complete list of twenty stories was announced on King's website on April 20.{{cite web|url=http://stephenking.com/promo/bazaar-of-bad-dreams/index.html|title=Stephen King's The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Now Available!|website=StephenKing.com}} Throughout May, King's official site revealed the cover in five stages, with the final cover being unveiled on May 22.{{cite web|url=http://stephenking.com/news_archive/article496.html|title=StephenKing.com - Recent News: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Cover to be Revealed Throughout May|website=stephenking.com}} The Bazaar of Bad Dreams omits contemporaneous stories published by King in collaboration with his son Joe Hill (Throttle and In the Tall Grass) and Stewart O'Nan (A Face in the Crowd).
See also
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