Nightmares  Dreamscapes, Volume I, Stephen King
Nightmares  Dreamscapes, Volume I, Stephen King
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Lowe, Gary Sinese

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/17/2009


Synopsis

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
Introduction (Stephen King)
Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg)
Crouch End (Tim Curry)
Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe)
The House on Maple St. (Tabitha King)
Umney’s Last Case (Robert B. Parker)
Head Down (Stephen King)
Brooklyn August (Stephen J. Gould)

About Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1970. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine.

He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo. The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.

A life altering happening beset King in June of 1999. King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His severe injuries kept him in the hospital until July 9. His lawyer purchased the van that hit him to prevent it from being sold on eBay. It was crushed at a junkyard. King thought that he would not write again, but did resume writing with this caveat, "I'm writing, but I'm writing at a slower pace".

His most notable novels are: Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Misery, It, The Dark Tower, Under the Dome, and The Shawshank Redemption.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jammin Jenny on December 19, 2020

I have the hardcover of the book Nightmares & Dreamscapes, which I read when it first came out. I devour Stephen King books. I loved this audio narration of about 1/3 of the collection of short stories. My favorites were probably Couch End read by Tim Curry and Suffer the Children read by Whoopi Gold......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on April 25, 2025

Great collection to go through again, and the audiobook for the first third of the stories didn't disappoint.......more

Goodreads review by Regina on May 12, 2020

Not his best, but there's some gems in here. The stand-outs to me are Suffer the Children, Crouch End, Rainy Season, and Dolan's Cadillac.......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on July 06, 2021

3.25 stars......more

Goodreads review by Collin on October 24, 2024

2.5 as there is a baseball story (not a scary short story) at the end of the book that doesn't fit with the rest of the work (at least for me).......more