Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King

Nightmares and Dreamscapes is above and beyond the worst Stephen King book I have ever read. King evidently needs time to develop his characters and those who appear in N+D are flimsy and underdeveloped leaving you disatisfied with the atmosphere of each story. Dissapointingly the stories are unconnected to each other and lack direction, I got the feeling that each was written to use up and put to rest one literary idea of King's. Unlike his better novels this was an effort to read and didn't flow or sit together well, some of the stories were just plain odd and the rest were not up to King's usual standard. On the positive side some of the stories ...

For me, Steven Kings short stories are his best. They are normally the most horrific, and because of their length, there’s less talking and more horror! In nightmares and dreamscapes there is a large number of short stories, I’ve put below a short description of each below: DOLANS CADILLAC-This is a story of revenge; one mans commitment to avenge the death of his wife. He comes up with a plan to bury the Cadillac (and the owner) in the middle of the desert, and the rest is well, the story. THE END OF THE WHOLE MESS-This story is one of the few that struck me as unique in the whole book. It about 2 brothers who find a way to cure the ...

A very entertaining group of short stories that range from a pair of harmless jokes, novelty clockwork teeth turning into man-eaters and reeking havoc, to the Nevada desert swallowing a whole Cadillac . My favourite short story is called “the moving finger” which comically lives in Vi and Havie Mitla’s bathroom plumbing, it increasingly teases Havie and disappointingly for Hawie seems to disappear whenever Vi needs to use the bathroom. Poor Hawie understandably thinks he’s going mad, but is he? A must read for anyone with a short attention span. Short stories are always a relief when being a back seat driver with boring company. ...