Stephen King Nightmares and Dreamscapes Hardcover 1993 GD

The Stephen King Amusement Park an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell... and a few to glory.

A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume.

The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated.

There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non- fiction bonus, King's heartfelt piece on Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker. In story after story, King takes readers to places they've never been before. They will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do their dreaming for them.