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As i am a fan of the short story i thought i would post a list to give others an idea of the good king short stories that are worth reading!
So, whats your favorite?
Mine would be - in no particular order
1: - Survivor type - A man gets stranded on a small island with nothing to eat except himself!
This one stayed with me for a while, extremely disturbing
2: Boogyman - One man explains to his psychiatrist that he didn't kill his kids, but it was in fact the boogyman who lurked in there closet
I know this sounds familiar but its how this story was told that makes it a top read..Extremely creepy
3: Suffer the little children - We all know children can be little monsters, but the teacher in this story finds out to her horror, that some of them are indeed literally monsters!
Very creepy, and you feel for the poor teacher who can see, or thinks she is seeing the monsters lurking within these young children
4: Crouch End - Two police officers, Farnham and Vetter, are working the night shift in the London neighborhood of Crouch End. They are discussing the case of a young American woman who came in to report the disappearance of her husband. Nearly hysterical, her story involves monsters and other supernatural incidents. Farnham dismisses the story as rubbish, but Vetter, who has worked in Crouch End for years, is not so sure. ( This story is very creepy..nods to HP Lovecraft in this one)
If you love stories about otherworldly beings and dimensions then you will love this.
5: Quitters Inc - In this story, Richard finds an organization that guarantees he will quit smoking, and he better had, for his family sake...
Class little story, one of Kings best
6: 'N' - A story about patient 'N', who is diagnosed by Dr. John Bonsaint as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid delusions related to "keeping balance." N. has become convinced that a circle of stones in a field on the outskirts of town contains a doorway to another reality, where a terrifying entity, repeatedly said to be a "helmet-headed" being named Cthun, is trying to break through. N's obsession eventually leads to his death by suicide, despite Johnny's best efforts. When Johnny goes out to the field to see the stones for himself, he begins to suspect that N. might not have been delusional after all when he suffers from the same symptoms as his patient.
Similar to Crouch End. Eerie
7: The Langoliers - Passengers take a flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only ten passengers survive but landing in an eerily empty world makes them with they hadn't. Somethings waiting for them you see....
A cracking read!
8: The Jaunt - An interesting idea from a professor leads to the development of teleportation on a mass scale 350 years in our future. There is one drawback though - people must be unconscious in order to teleport, or else they turn insane. Insane because, even though the body is transported instantly, the consciousness takes a long long time to pass through
12 year old Ricky Oates holds his breath and stays awake during the Jaunt procedure. On arriving at the other end he is insane and tears his eyes out.
The thing that had been Ricky bounced and writhed on its jaunts couch, a twelve year old boy with a snow white fall of hair and eyes that were incredibly ancient, the corneas gone a sickly yellow. Here was a creature older than time masquerading as a boy...''It was longer than you think Dad'' it cackled...LONGER THAN YOU THINK!
So, whats your favorite?
Mine would be - in no particular order
1: - Survivor type - A man gets stranded on a small island with nothing to eat except himself!
This one stayed with me for a while, extremely disturbing
2: Boogyman - One man explains to his psychiatrist that he didn't kill his kids, but it was in fact the boogyman who lurked in there closet
I know this sounds familiar but its how this story was told that makes it a top read..Extremely creepy
3: Suffer the little children - We all know children can be little monsters, but the teacher in this story finds out to her horror, that some of them are indeed literally monsters!
Very creepy, and you feel for the poor teacher who can see, or thinks she is seeing the monsters lurking within these young children
4: Crouch End - Two police officers, Farnham and Vetter, are working the night shift in the London neighborhood of Crouch End. They are discussing the case of a young American woman who came in to report the disappearance of her husband. Nearly hysterical, her story involves monsters and other supernatural incidents. Farnham dismisses the story as rubbish, but Vetter, who has worked in Crouch End for years, is not so sure. ( This story is very creepy..nods to HP Lovecraft in this one)
If you love stories about otherworldly beings and dimensions then you will love this.
5: Quitters Inc - In this story, Richard finds an organization that guarantees he will quit smoking, and he better had, for his family sake...
Class little story, one of Kings best
6: 'N' - A story about patient 'N', who is diagnosed by Dr. John Bonsaint as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid delusions related to "keeping balance." N. has become convinced that a circle of stones in a field on the outskirts of town contains a doorway to another reality, where a terrifying entity, repeatedly said to be a "helmet-headed" being named Cthun, is trying to break through. N's obsession eventually leads to his death by suicide, despite Johnny's best efforts. When Johnny goes out to the field to see the stones for himself, he begins to suspect that N. might not have been delusional after all when he suffers from the same symptoms as his patient.
Similar to Crouch End. Eerie
7: The Langoliers - Passengers take a flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only ten passengers survive but landing in an eerily empty world makes them with they hadn't. Somethings waiting for them you see....
A cracking read!
8: The Jaunt - An interesting idea from a professor leads to the development of teleportation on a mass scale 350 years in our future. There is one drawback though - people must be unconscious in order to teleport, or else they turn insane. Insane because, even though the body is transported instantly, the consciousness takes a long long time to pass through
12 year old Ricky Oates holds his breath and stays awake during the Jaunt procedure. On arriving at the other end he is insane and tears his eyes out.
The thing that had been Ricky bounced and writhed on its jaunts couch, a twelve year old boy with a snow white fall of hair and eyes that were incredibly ancient, the corneas gone a sickly yellow. Here was a creature older than time masquerading as a boy...''It was longer than you think Dad'' it cackled...LONGER THAN YOU THINK!