Front Cover
Core Fiction Hardcover
Novella Collection
2015
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Scribner
Synopsis
Mile 81: A child explores an abandoned highway rest stop where a seemingly ordinary car poses an unusual threat.
Premium Harmony: A married couple's routine errand turns into a moment of loss and unsettling reflection.
Batman and Robin Have an Altercation: A man caring for his aging father faces sudden danger during a familiar outing.
The Dune: A retired judge reveals why he has visited a remote sandbar throughout his life.
Bad Little Kid: A condemned man tells his lawyer about the child he believes destroyed everyone he loved.
A Death: A frontier community confronts an accused murderer and the uncertainty surrounding the case.
The Bone Church: A survivor recounts an expedition into a jungle where an ancient structure waits.
Morality: A financially strained couple receives an offer that tests their ethics and their marriage.
Afterlife: A man reaches a bureaucratic afterlife and learns the terms of what comes next.
Ur: A professor receives an electronic reader that provides access to books and events from alternate realities.
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive: Two groups of travelers approach a chance encounter on a rural road.
Under the Weather: A devoted husband notices troubling signs while caring for his ill wife.
Blockade Billy: A retired coach recalls a gifted baseball player whose history concealed a dark secret.
Mister Yummy: An elderly man in hospice reflects on desire, memory, and the figure he expects to guide him at death.
Tommy: A poem remembers a young man and the era that shaped him.
The Little Green God of Agony: A wealthy patient and his therapist clash over the source of his chronic pain.
That Bus Is Another World: A businessman glimpses a disturbing event from a taxi and must decide what to do.
Obits: A writer discovers that his cruel online obituaries may have lethal consequences.
Drunken Fireworks: A lakeside rivalry between two families escalates through increasingly elaborate holiday displays.
Summer Thunder: Two survivors in an altered world maintain a fragile friendship as conditions worsen.
Premium Harmony: A married couple's routine errand turns into a moment of loss and unsettling reflection.
Batman and Robin Have an Altercation: A man caring for his aging father faces sudden danger during a familiar outing.
The Dune: A retired judge reveals why he has visited a remote sandbar throughout his life.
Bad Little Kid: A condemned man tells his lawyer about the child he believes destroyed everyone he loved.
A Death: A frontier community confronts an accused murderer and the uncertainty surrounding the case.
The Bone Church: A survivor recounts an expedition into a jungle where an ancient structure waits.
Morality: A financially strained couple receives an offer that tests their ethics and their marriage.
Afterlife: A man reaches a bureaucratic afterlife and learns the terms of what comes next.
Ur: A professor receives an electronic reader that provides access to books and events from alternate realities.
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive: Two groups of travelers approach a chance encounter on a rural road.
Under the Weather: A devoted husband notices troubling signs while caring for his ill wife.
Blockade Billy: A retired coach recalls a gifted baseball player whose history concealed a dark secret.
Mister Yummy: An elderly man in hospice reflects on desire, memory, and the figure he expects to guide him at death.
Tommy: A poem remembers a young man and the era that shaped him.
The Little Green God of Agony: A wealthy patient and his therapist clash over the source of his chronic pain.
That Bus Is Another World: A businessman glimpses a disturbing event from a taxi and must decide what to do.
Obits: A writer discovers that his cruel online obituaries may have lethal consequences.
Drunken Fireworks: A lakeside rivalry between two families escalates through increasingly elaborate holiday displays.
Summer Thunder: Two survivors in an altered world maintain a fragile friendship as conditions worsen.
Verification Summary
Verified Edition
Photographed copyright page states First Scribner hardcover edition November 2015 and shows the complete first-printing number line. Printed ISBN is 978-1-5011-1672-5. The collection contains 20 works, including stories, poems, and novellas, with author introductions. This is the standard U.S. trade issue.