In short distances, Stephen King captivates like no other author. Because that is where his narrative made into his impressionism wins us over with the detail that no one can ever draw like he can. In his stories, Stephen King A few brush strokes are enough to make us feel (in a kind of literary somatization) through the pores towards the dermis and finally reaching the soul.
The soul or whatever their characters harbor in that unattainable inner core for so many other writers. Absolutely organic experiences through people who confess their sorrows, fears and hopes. Or those other characters who come from strange, alien places, inaccessible to reason.
I would say more. These are true friends come from paper. Characters built with that magic wand of the teacher Stephen King, as if we knew them from some other intense life and they returned now. The greatest empathy in a matter of seconds, with a simple attitude, a decision or a thought manifested as a hook for emotional attunement. That's why no one writes stories or stories like him.
Top 3 story books Stephen King
The four Seasons
They are not short stories, but they are not configured like the typical extensive novels of the brilliant King. Even so, we find here four great stories that arrived in multiple births in a volume from 1982. Stories that are still readable today with that taste of the most chilling suspense classics. Because there are moments of certain horror between drama and hope.
It all depends on the story you want to introduce yourself to in this four seasons pizza that contains traces of a little bit of everything, so that your reading palate is distracted by unsurpassed nuances.
More than anything because there is not a very clear line that runs through the four stories. And it may even have been just an excuse to create a volume between the story and the short novel. How not to allow Stephen King Let him get the volume that comes out of his nonsense? Come on, I'm his editor and I give him carte blanche to release the books however he sees fit.
But beyond trying to find the common thread of the four stories, Hope, eternal spring; Apt Pupil: Summer of Corruption; The body: Autumn of innocence y The Breathing Method: Winter's Tale, the important thing is to enjoy a sum of scenarios that finally do make up that whole that is the four seasons, the cycles of life with its cloudy moments and its moments of radiant light...
The bazaar of bad dreams
A volume full of dreamlike scenography that evokes Poe, but that breaks into a greater rhythm, an action that, placed on either side of the threshold of dreams, can be unleashed towards any fantastic assumption. We assault reality from the wonderfully inconceivable with that certainty only possible in the King universe. If we add to this a kind of notes from the author, to explain and give more context to this way of giving birth to paper offspring of the irrepressible literary stud, this volume takes on another dimension.
Stephen King presents us in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams an exceptional selection of stories, some new and others revised in depth. Each one is preceded by his own introduction, where he talks about his origins and the reasons that led him to write it, including autobiographical aspects.
Although thirty-five years have passed since he wrote his first collection, Stephen King He continues to dazzle us with his mastery of the genre. This time he addresses topics such as morality, life after death, guilt and what we would correct about the past if we could see the future.
Everything is eventual
The volume that most reminds me of those mystery and horror short programs that proliferated so much between the 80s and 90s. And many of those little geniuses brought to television reached us from this same imaginary. Stephen King always at the controls of so many proposals where the thriller manages to pierce us to the deepest depths.
Everything is eventual is a fantastic compilation of stories from Stephen King. Previously published in magazines, on the Internet, read in public by the author or unpublished, they are surprising, mysterious, terrifying texts... From stories of encounters with the dead and a hotel room with a murderous ghost to scenes of the most direct and brutal realism, King transports us to the world of his incredible imagination.
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If you like the dark
Something like an invitation to enter, perhaps with a gesture of that strange type that awaited us in The Store, the novel where we discovered how people set out to buy unnecessary things made essential. Because everything depends on the moment and the passion, the attraction you feel to look where others close their eyes. A challenge from the teacher for all those who also "enjoy" or at least allow themselves to be overcome by fear. But not a simple scare but a mixture that rather extends, prolongs between the atavistic and the strange orgasmic drive, the morbidity made petite death. Something that can close the circle of life from the opposition of death.
«Do you like the darkness? Perfect. "Me too" is how it starts Stephen King the epilogue of this new and magnificent volume of twelve stories that delve into the darkest part of life. King has been a literary master for more than half a century, and these stories about destiny, mortality, luck, and the many folds of reality are as rich and absorbing as his novels. The author writes "to feel the emotion of leaving routine behind," and in If You Like the Dark readers will feel, again and again, that same emotion.
"Two Talented Bastards" will reveal the secret of how these two gentlemen acquired their skills. In "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," an unexpected psychic explosion upends the lives of dozens of people, including Danny, with catastrophic results. "Rattlesnakes", sequel to the novel Cujo, introduces us to a widower who travels to Florida looking for rest and, instead, stumbles upon an unexpected inheritance... with more than one bondage. In "The Dreamers," a taciturn Vietnam War veteran accepts an assignment and discovers that there are some corners of the universe that should be left unexplored. "Answer Man" asks us whether the gift of clairvoyance is a blessing or a curse, and reminds us that even a life marked by tragedy has meaning.
The King of Terror's ability to surprise, inspire, and provoke both fear and comfort at the same time is unparalleled. Each of these stories contains its own chills, joys and mysteries, and they are all iconic. Do you like the darkness? Well here you have it.
