Book review: The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams

THESE 20 tales once again demonstrate Stephen King’s range; alongside the horror which made his name are suspense, realist slices of small-town life, a Western, and even a couple of narrative poems.

Inevitably, certain themes from his past work recur — temptation and addiction, Maine, boyhood adventures, even killer cars.

But this is only really a problem when they recur within the collection; one story about a human yet unageing harbinger of death, or demises mysteriously foretold in writing, would probably be ample for any given book.