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I had a great 5 days reading. Still reading the tagged but finished
🎧 The Angela Carter BBC Radio drama collection - 9.5 hours 5⭐️
Sundial - 4⭐️
Starve Acre - 4.5⭐️
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Day 28 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Nightmare. I don't know what happened to my copy, but this is my favorite short story collection of King's. I read it while I was in high school, and I can still remember several of the stories in vivid detail. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

For me, Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a better collection than Night Shift. By the time of its publishing King had established his voice and style, and these stories feel more finely tuned. With that said, they might all be a bit overlong—an almost 700 page (non-retrospective) short story collection is insanity!

Stand outs: Dolan‘s Cadillac (one of the first King shorts I ever read and still an all-time fav), Chattery Teeth, Umney‘s Last Case.

Far less disjointed than his last short story collection, Nightmares & Dreamscapes was a delightful read. Standouts include Dolan's Cadillac, The End of the Whole Mess, The Night Flier, Chattery Teeth, The Ten O'Clock People, and The Doctor's Case. 5/5

The Fifth Quarter: Buried treasure and betrayal. What's not to love? 5/5

The Doctor's Case: No one does Holmes as well as Sir Conan Doyle, but King makes an admirable attempt. 5/5

Ummey's Last Case: A fun noir detective story with a unique twist. 4/5

Head Down: I'm not a sports fan, but the well-written nature of this essay about baseball pulled me through. 4/5

Brooklyn August: Baseball poetry, on the other hand, is not for me. 1/5

My Pretty Pony: Honestly, without the weird bit with the "Peter Pinching", this would be a perfect short story. 5/5

Sorry, Right Number: Beautiful and tragic. 5/5

The Ten O'Clock People: Stupendous concept told perfectly. 5/5

Crouch End: A perfectly serviceable Lovecraftian tale, but not a stand-out. 4/5

The House on Maple Street: A wonderful story that, at times, is startlingly evocative of Bradbury, as I'm sure it means to be. 5/5

Probably my 3rd favorite King collection, behind Night Shift and Skeleton Crew. A lot of great stories in here. “The Moving Finger”, “Suffer the Little Children”, and “The Ten O‘Clock People” are all personal favorites.

The Moving Finger: Creepy premise, but I wish it capitalized on the concept more. 4/5

Sneakers: Excellent story told well. I would happily have read a full book about the MC. 5/5

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band: Absolutely incredible concept, including a grisly turn. 5/5

Home Delivery: Surprisingly solid zombie tale as well as a loving character portrait. 4/5

Rainy Season: My God. I won't look at the end of Magnolia the same way again. 5/5

Suffer the Little Children: Unnerving, but a little too close to modern tragedy. 4/5

The Night Flier: Vampires and Tabloids, what's not to love? 5/5

Popsy: Immensely satisfying. Also, vampires, but naturally, humans are the real monsters. 5/5

It Grows on You: Disjointed, but a good effort. 3/5

Chattery Teeth: Dark and comic, one of my favorite combinations. 5/5

Dedication: Absolutely wild from start to finish. Maybe a tad bit overlong. 4/5

The End of the Whole Mess: An absolute delight. I've always loved unique takes on how the world may slide unceremoniously into apocalypse, and this is certainly unique. The only gripe I have is with its brevity, particularly as it nears its conclusion. 5/5

Dolan's Cadillac: I'm a sucker for a good revenge tale, especially when it's (pun intended) executed as well as this one is. Despite taking up a sizable chunk of this collection's pages, nothing about this tightly-spun tale feels overlong or excessive. 5/5

My #nightmaremakerswap has arrived ❤️

Book of choice to unwind to as I‘m trapped by Pistachio. He‘s a bit displeased with me for taking a five day trip traveling through Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota to visit my mom. The tiny but mighty Mountain Screamer scolded me all the way from my brother‘s until we were home.

Happy 75th, Stephen King! My favorite book of his is Salem‘s Lot. But I also give him a lot of credit for my love of the short story. My favorite of his is Crouch End which can be found in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. A family vacationing in London. Parents take off to go look around and find them selves in Crouch End, a place that doesn‘t seem quite right or part of this world. You learn from the first couple paragraphs that the wife is the 👇🏼

As I continue my slow journey through a #chronologicalkingread, I realize I‘ve forgotten just how long this short story collection is.

I also notice that King was 45 when he wrote the introduction to the book. I‘m really glad he hadn‘t said everything he had to say at that point. Apparently, he hasn‘t yet, either! Lucky for us Constant Readers.

Picked up a beautiful used older copy of this short story collection. We are heading out to Bryce Canyon for a few days for my birthday and our wedding anniversary, so why not take a huge book of nothing but scary stories…..🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I really need to stop going to the thrift store😂

Of all the King books I own - a lot - I like the cover on this one the best. The stories are consistently strong, too. I‘d call this ‘mid-period‘ King: not as good as the early stuff but the drug days were behind him and it shows. Incidentally, one of 600 or so books I gave away during a house move. Instantly regretted, then years later I found this at a car boot sale - identical to the one I gave away. Sometimes you just get lucky, I guess.

Calling all Stephen King fans: this is a free film festival screening unreleased films based on his short stories.

https://barkerstreetcinema.ca/dollar-baby-film-festival

As with all short story collections, I liked some better than others. I think something I‘m not crazy about with short stories is the energy it takes to move from one to the other so quickly. I always knew that I often didn‘t like how short they were because I‘d just be “getting‘ into the story, when it would end and move on to the next. He included an interesting note at the end with a bit of information behind some of the stories

This is a good collection of Stephen King's short stories. My favorites are Suffer The Children and Popsy 🖤
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Again all, I'm so sorry for the delay, but #LosersClub Discussion starts NOW!

Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a SPOILER. Find the post for #NightmaresDreamscapes & tap “show me“ on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag any of us & we‘ll jump in to discuss with you. See you there!

This month‘s book is #NightmaresDreamscapes! Grab your copy and check back around November18th for open discussion! #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ghosthostpost

Last post for the night - again, I‘m so sorry this is so late. 😩 Just a reminder that October‘s #losersclub read is #NightmaresDreamscapes! Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about October 19th when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be inNovember. #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ghosthostpost

1. Dire Straits, Money for Nothing and Guns N Roses, Welcome to the Jungle
2. Getting stronger in physical therapy.

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Lately I've been hitting up all my short story collections as I'm finding 'bite-sized reads' easier to manage atm.

I recently finished Nightmares & Dreamscapes and I loved it! Chattery Teeth was one of my favorite short stories of the collection!

#stephenking

thrift store find🖤 flipping through the stories right now, i‘ve never read any collection of Kings short stories before

@Easytiger it‘s here! It‘s here! My #nightmareswap has arrived! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

@JoScho the #nightmareSwap box arrived🤗So excited!!! I can't wait! Your first box will arrive at the end of next week but the second box will arrive near to the open day. @LibrarianRyan

@LibrarianRyan @Bookzombie a package of nightmares is about to begin its journey. #nightmareswap

I have finally completed it! More than a year after first opening it.

There are a handful of stories in this collection that I really enjoyed, but most of them were just meh. I realize I may not be the fairest judge, as I often feel like I need more than a short story can give me. More detail, more character development, etc.

#shortstories #stephenking #completecatalogue

I think I can; I think I can....

I've been slowly meandering my way through this tome of #shortstories for OVER A YEAR! Yesterday, I made the decision that I will not start any new books until I have turned the last page of this one. Only 3 stories and the closing notes remain.

Comfy clothes on, beverage poured, cats fed. It's time. No one bother me--I'm reading!
#goals #completecatalogue #stephenking

I really enjoyed this book! Its been quite a few years since I've read this, perhaps more than a decade, so I thought I'd opt for the audiobook to get a different experience.
The stories are really enjoyable, and really varied; horror, sci-fi, a Sherlock Holmes story, notes from the author, its a mixed bunch, but well worth the nearly 27 hours of listening time!

How about a Stephen King palate cleanser between novels? #stephenking #shortstories #completecatalogue #bedtimestory #currentlyreading

I finally got home after my crazy holiday to FINALLY open my #Nightmare4Christmas #N4C box. I love it @UnidragonFrag ! I had said that the scariest rhing to me was what humans do to each other and this box lived up! I have serious plans to drink tea from my new mug while digging into some books tomorrow to recover. Thank you, thank you and thank you again!!!

From "Dedication"
"Yet no matter what the job, mechanic or movie-star, on ordinary mornings a person arrives at work with an ordinary expression on his or her face; a look that says 'Most of me is still in bed' and not much more."
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My naughty cat has been chewing on the books on the nightstand for a couple weeks now. After I chased him away from this one, it occurred to me that I have been neglecting my #stephenking #shortstories lately. This chilly October night seems like a good time for a #spookyread. Then tomorrow, I'll plan to get started on my final selection for #lmpbc #round3 #GroupZ. @shellleigh33 @Lidia @Velvetsun

Anytime I watch or read something from the past that mentions Trump I so badly want to go back in time and see if the author, director, whatever, would believe that he's our president now. 🙃🤔😞😦

Its been forever since I‘ve read one of King‘s short story collections so for my next #keepingitshort I‘m reading this. The weather is about to turn. Fall is about to come. Halloween will start knocking soon. Might as well terrify myself am I right?

"What Morrison knew was that the flower children of the sixties had grown into the cannibals of the nineties." ?

I failed this #24in48 challenge. I've logged about 4 hours. Which is probably more than I would've done. I turned on the audiobook to fold instead of Netflix, so that's a win.

I'm not sure how to choose my actual bookends. My grandmother was moving and needed someone to take a Civil War era secretary desk off her hands. My husband was balking. So I had to make it appealing to him. I seem to arrange by covers.

#24in48dropout #nexttime

#crimesagainstcovers #day2

The worst offense I've seen was a borrowed book of my husband's getting left in the rain and then thrown into a trunk to "dry". It was painful to look at.

Second worst is this: target practice with pellet guns. I've been replacing these Kings, but I like these editions and it's slow going. ?

@ErinSueG

Someone just donated this pristine, never been read copy. It was still wrapped in plastic!

I think I‘ll introduce it to its friends at my house 🤓