The Bazaar of Bad Dreams


The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short fiction collection by Stephen King, published on November 3, 2015. 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, and the collection itself won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for best collection. The paperback edition, released on October 18, 2016, includes a bonus short story, "Cookie Jar", which was published in 2016 in VQR.

Stories

#TitleOriginally published inType
1Mile 81Mile 81 e-book Novella
2"Premium Harmony"November 9, 2009 issue of The New YorkerShort story
3"Batman and Robin Have an Altercation"September 2012 issue of Harper's MagazineShort story
4"The Dune"Fall 2011 issue of GrantaShort story
5"Bad Little Kid"Previously unpublished in EnglishShort story
6"A Death"March 9, 2015 issue of The New YorkerShort story
7"The Bone Church"November 2009 issue of PlayboyPoem
8MoralityJuly 2009 issue of EsquireNovella
9"Afterlife"June 2013 issue of Tin HouseShort story
10UrUr e-book Novella
11"Herman Wouk Is Still Alive"May 2011 issue of The AtlanticShort story
12"Under the Weather"Paperback edition of Full Dark, No Stars Short story
13Blockade BillyBlockade Billy Novella
14"Mister Yummy"Previously unpublishedShort story
15"Tommy"March 2010 issue of PlayboyPoem
16"The Little Green God of Agony"A Book of Horrors Short story
17"That Bus Is Another World"August 2014 issue of EsquireShort story
18"Obits"Previously unpublishedShort story
19"Drunken Fireworks"Drunken Fireworks audiobook Novella
20"Summer Thunder"Turn Down the Lights 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. In an interview with the Toronto Sun on November 6, 2014, King announced the title of the collection and offered more details, saying "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." In February and March 2015, King personally, and via his assistant, confirmed the collection will include "Bad Little Kid", "Ur", "Drunken Fireworks", and "A Death". The complete list of twenty stories was announced on King's website on April 20. Throughout May, King's official site revealed the cover in five stages, with the final cover being unveiled on May 22. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams omits contemporaneous stories published by King in collaboration with his son Joe Hill and Stewart O'Nan.