SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY STEPHEN KING
Winning stories from The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Hodder-Guardian competition
The Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology:
WILD SWIMMING by Elodie Harper
EAU-DE-ERIC by Manuela Saragosa
THE SPOTS by Paul Bassett Davies
THE UNPICKING by Michael Button
LA MORT DE L'AMANT by Stuart Johnstone
THE BEAR TRAP by Neil Hudson
Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they were published together in one book.
Reader beware: the stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water or counting the spots on a leopard...
No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King introduces and selects six winning stories by Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone and Neil Hudson. King is an acclaimed master of novels and short stories. His collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams received excellent reviews, with his story 'Obits' winning the Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
King won an O. Henry Award, he was recipient of of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters and in 2015 he won America's National Medal of Arts. He is the author of more than fifty books, all of them international bestsellers, including Misery, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and End of Watch. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine and Florida.