Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)

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By Stephen King and published by

New English Library

Carrie

'Salem's Lot

The Shining

Night Shift

The Stand

By Stephen King as Richard Bachman

Thinner

The Bachman Books

Published by Hodder & Stoughton

Christine

Pet Sematary

Misery

The Tommyknockers

The Dark Half

The Stand: the Complete and Uncut Edition

Four Past Midnight

Needful Things

Gerald's Game

Dolores Claiborne

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Most of the selections in this book are works of fiction. Names,

characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's

imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual

persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from

the British Library

ISBN 0-340-59282-6

First published in Great Britain 1993

any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information

storage and retrieval system, without either prior permission in writing from the publisher or a

licence permitting restricted copying. In the United Kingdom such licences are issued by the

King to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the

Published by Hodder and Stoughton,

a division of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd,

Mill Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2YA.

Editorial Office: 47 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP

Photoset by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd,

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Printed in Great Britain by

Mackays of Chatham plc, Chatham, Kent

In memory of Thomas Williams, 1926-1991: poet, novelist,

And great American storyteller.

The following selections, some in different form, were previously published: 'Dolan's Cadillac'

in the Castle Rock Newsletter; 'The End of the Whole Mess' in Omni; 'Suffer the Little Children'

and 'The Fifth Quarter' in Cavalier; 'The Night Flier' in Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of

Modern Horror edited by Douglas E. Winter, New American Library; 'Popsy' in Masques II: All-New

Stories of Horror and the Supernatural edited by J. N. Williamson, Maclay Associates; 'It Grows on

You' in Marshroots; 'Chattery Teeth' in Cemetery Dance Magazine; 'Dedication' and 'Sneakers' in

Night Visions V by Stephen King, et al., Dark Harvest; 'The Moving Finger' in Science Fiction and

Fantasy; 'You Know They Got a Hell of a Band' in Shock Rock edited by Jeff Gelb and Claire Zion,

Pocket Books; 'Home Delivery' in Book of the Dead, Mark Ziesing, publisher; 'Rainy Season' in

Midnight Graffiti edited by Jessica Horsting and James Van Hise, Warner Books; 'Crouch End' in

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, et al., Arkham House; 'The Doctor's Case' in New

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Stephen King, et al., edited by Martin Greenberg and Carol-Lynn

Rossel Waugh, Carroll & Graf; 'Head Down' in The New Yorker; 'Brooklyn August' in Io.

'Dolan's Cadillac' was later published in a limited edition by Lord John Press. 'My Pretty Pony'

was published in a limited edition by the Whitney Museum of Art.

Contents

Introduction

Dolan's Cadillac

The End of the Whole Mess

Suffer the Little Children

The Night Flier

Popsy

It Grows on You

Chattery Teeth

Dedication

The Moving Finger

Sneakers

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band

Home Delivery

Rainy Season

My Pretty Pony

Sorry, Right Number

The Ten O' Clock People

Crouch End

The House on Maple Street

The Fifth Quarter

The Doctor's Case

Umney's Last Case

Head Down

Brooklyn August

Notes

Introduction:

Myth, Belief, Faith and Ripley's

Believe It or Not!

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by

my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the

world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights. I

knew even then, you see, that there were people in the world — too many of them, actually — whose

imaginative senses were either numb or completely deadened, and who lived in a mental state akin to

colorblindness. I always felt sorry for them, never dreaming (at least then) that many of these un-

imaginative types either pitied me or held me in contempt, not just because I suffered from any

number of irrational fears but because I was deeply and unreservedly credulous on almost every

subject. 'There's a boy,' some of them must have thought (I know my mother did), 'who will buy the

Brooklyn Bridge not just once but over and over again, all his life.'

There was some truth to that then, I suppose, and if I am to be honest, I suppose there's some

truth to it now. My wife still delights in telling people that her husband cast his first Presidential

ballot, at the tender age of twenty-one, for Richard Nixon. 'Nixon said he had a plan to get us out of

Vietnam,' she says, usually with a gleeful gleam in her eye, 'and Steve believed him!'

That's right; Steve believed him. Nor is that all Steve has believed during the often-eccentric course

of his forty-five years. I was, for example, the last kid in my neighborhood to decide that all those

street-corner Santas meant there was no real Santa (I still find no logical merit in the idea; it's like saying

that a million disciples prove there is no master). I never questioned my Uncle Oren's assertion that

you could tear off a person's shadow with a steel tent-peg (if you struck precisely at high noon, that

was) or his wife's claim that every time you shivered, a goose was walking over the place where your

grave would someday be. Given the course of my life, that must mean I'm slated to end up buried

behind Aunt Rhody's barn out in Goose Wallow, Wyoming.

I also believed everything I was told in the schoolyard; little minnows and whale-sized whoppers

went down my throat with equal ease. One kid told me with complete certainty that if you put a dime

down on a railroad track, the first train to come along would be derailed by it. Another kid told me

that a dime left on a railroad track would be perfectly smooshed (that was exactly how he put it —

perfectly smooshed) by the next train, and what you took off the rail after the train had passed would

be a flexible and nearly transparent coin the size of a silver dollar. My own belief was that both

things were true: that dimes left on railroad tracks were perfectly smooshed before they derailed the

trains which did the smooshing.

Other fascinating schoolyard facts which I absorbed during my years at Center School in Stratford,

Connecticut, and Durham Elementary School in Durham, Maine, concerned such diverse subjects as

golf-balls (poisonous and corrosive at the center), miscarriages (sometimes born alive, as malformed

monsters which had to be killed by health-care individuals ominously referred to as 'the special nurses'),

black cats (if one crossed your path, you had to fork the sign of the evil eye at it quickly or risk

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