''The Bazaar of Bad Dreams'' is a short fiction collection by

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, 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

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for best short story, and the collection itself won the 2015

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for best collection. The paperback edition, released on October 18, 2016, includes a bonus short story, "

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", which was published in 2016 in ''VQR''.

Background

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 ''

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''. In an interview with the ''

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'' on November 6, 2014, King announced the title of the collection and offered more details, saying " 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" (published in 2014 as an e-book in French and German languages only as a gift to King's European fans), " Ur" (heavily revised), "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 (''

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'' and ''

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'') and Stewart O'Nan ('' A Face in the Crowd'').

Stories collected

References

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Background

Stories collected

See also

References