Book #206 of 2017:
Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
This is a fairly typical early Stephen King collection: a few stories are great, most are simply good, and a couple are pretty bad. On the upper end of that scale we have Dolan’s Cadillac, which is a King take on The Cask of Amontillado, wherein a man gets revenge on his wife’s killer by methodically burying him alive in the titular car. Home Delivery, about a group of islanders who survive once the graveyards on the mainland start spewing out zombies, is also pretty great and classic Stephen King. But reading the whole collection also means suffering through items like Head Down, a 54-page nonfiction account of his son’s Little League season that’s every bit as self-indulgent as it sounds. (In a way I guess that’s as horrifying as the zombies…)
★★★☆☆
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