“Bad Little Kid” By Stephen King Review

Bad Little Kid is a short horror story by Stephen King, which was originally published in German and French in an electronic version. The first paper print in English was in Kings 2015 short story collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

This short story is included in the “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” which ive already reviewed not so long ago.

The characters in this short story were very very boring, uninteresting, predictable, shallow and flat. Which is the absolute worse traits a character could have.

I personally didn’t expect so bad characters, from Stephen King himself. Even thou this one is a short story rather than a full book, and Stephen King didn’t have so much time to make us care and like characters in this short story. The characters in this short story were still not the greatest.

This short story was very predictable, cringy and corny. From the moment I started reading this short story I knew what will happen next, this isn’t a good thing to have in any short stories and even worse when it comes to books.

This short story has is mainly about bullying and insecurities in a person’s life, but it does as well have some supernatural twist here and there. I personally didn’t like it at all. And I found it very boring and uninteresting. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Batman and Robin have an Altercation” By Stephen King Review

A middle-aged man named Sanderson brings his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father to their weekly lunch, that ends in an challenging adventure based in the strong bond of love have united them since forever.

This short story is included in the “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” which I’ve already reviewed not so long ago.

The characters in this short story were very very boring, uninteresting, predictable, shallow and flat. Which is the absolute worse traits a character could have.

To be honest the characters in this short story were very similar to each other, and I personally had a very hard time trying to tell the characters apart.

The plot wasn’t that unique here, in my opinion the plot we see in this short story is very very overused. Just think about it here, a person with Alzheimer’s goes through some chilly things. Yeah not that creative.

The writing style here doesn’t seem like it was written by Stephen king himself. 

There isn’t so much to say about this short story because its to short to get any deals about characters and writing style

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Premium Harmony” By Stephen King Review

They’ve been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K. but now…

This short story is included in the “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” which ive already reviewed not so long ago.

I had one huge problem with this short story because Stephen King made very rude and horrible comments about overweight women. Which really didn’t sit well with me personally.

The plot in this short story, was very very bad. There is absolutely no reception for the plot in this short story. Because it seems like Stephen King was following some kind of rule book on how to write an absolutely horrible short story possible. Which in this short story Stephen King had succeed. 

The characters in this short story were very very boring, uninteresting, predictable, shallow and flat. Which is the absolute worse traits a character could have.

The write style didn’t feel like s something written by Stephen King.

And the ending here was not the greatest, because not really happened there.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Mile 81” By Stephen King Review

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It’s a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play “paratroopers over the side.” Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.

This short story is included in the “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” which I’ve already reviewed not so long ago. 

I really wanted to like this short story, because I’ve heard so much good about it, but after reading this short story, I cant honestly say that I had liked it which of course I didn’t.

This short story had a good premise, but just the way it was presented was really really bad.

After reading this short story, I need to say that this short story would be best suited for a grade school kid rather than an adult. Just because it wasnt scary as much as you would think.

The character are very very disappointing. Because if you think about Stephen king you think about his ability to create very good characters, which didn’t happen in this short story.

The characters in this short story are very predictable, uninteresting, boring and very very annoying. Which really surprised me here because they didn’t feel like they were written by Stephen King but rather b someone who tried to impersonate him.

The plot here as said above, had good premise but it dragged for far too long and the longer in continued then the less fun this short story worked become. 

The ending here was probably the best thing about this short story, it wasn’t the best don’t get that wrong. But it still was better than the rest of this short story.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Secret Window, Secret Garden” By Stephen King Review

Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake–that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.

This short story was one of 4 short stories in “Four Past Midnight” written by Stephen which I’ve reviewed already, but it was a review about the book as a whole rather than about each of those 4 short stories. So thats why we are here today to talk about this one.

Its important to say that short stories written by Stephen King doesn’t work for me for whatever reason which I cant really name for some reason.

Here we go again another bad short story by Stephen King. This one is also the last short story included in “Four Past Midnight”.

This short story isn’t as much a horror short story as much as it is a mystery short story. But the mystery here was almost not existing in this short story, because you could tell what would happen next and the mystery here was very obvious. 

The plot here had for sure its good moments which were rare, and in general the whole short story was more on the boring site than anything else. At the same time the plot was very repetitive, and it would mention the same things over and over again. Which really annoyed me. 

The ending hadn’t had the big twist at the end, because you could tell how this short story would end, just 2 or 3 chapters into this short story. Which really proves how bad the build up and the mystery was.

Th writing style here was not so bad as in the 3 other short stories which are included in the “Four Past Midnight”. But it still wasn’t on the Stephen King level which ive expected from the short story.

The characters in this short story, has the same problems as in the 3 remaining short stories which are included in “Four Past Midnight”. Which means that they were very flat, uninteresting, boring and very shallow characters.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Langoliers” By Stephen King Review

On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear “radio static” in the distance. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is “The Langoliers,” monsters he was afraid of as a child who attack those who waste time. It’s mystery author Bob Jenkins who first theorizes that they have flown through a time rip. Bob declares they have entered a place that forbids time travelers to observe or interfere with past events. It turns out that Craig is right, in a way. 

This short story was one of 4 short stories in “Four Past Midnight” written by Stephen which I’ve reviewed already, but it was a review about the book as a whole rather than about each of those 4 short stories. So thats why we are here today to talk about this one.

Its important to say that short stories written by Stephen King doesn’t work for me for whatever reason which I cant really name for some reason.

I gotta say, that with this short story, Stephen King has hit a whole new low with his short stories. Because of many reasons which we will talk about in this review.

The plot in this short story in my opinion is so over used. If you don’t know, this short story is about a flight and some bad things happening on that flight.

I personally feel like there are so many books about flights which go down the hill, and this point I’m very, very tired of it. But again thats just something personal.

The characters in this short story are very very flat, shallow and very predictable. It really was a huge surprise to me how bad the characters in this short story were, because this short story was written by the master of horror, who know how to create very good characters.

The writing style in this short story didn’t feel like it was written by Stephen King, which really made me angry.

The ending here was awful, because this short story was building the tense vibe if you will to the big ending, which didn’t happen after all.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Library Policeman” By Stephen King Review

This is the third gripping tale in the four-part audio series from Stephen King’s best-selling book Four Past Midnight. Set in Junction City, Iowa, “The Library Policeman” is the story of Sam Peebles, a middle-aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offense—but not to Junction City’s malevolent monster of a librarian. What follows is spine-tingling suspense as only Stephen King can deliver it.

This short story was one of 4 short stories in “Four Past Midnight” written by Stephen which I’ve reviewed already, but it was a review about the book as a whole rather than about each of those 4 short stories. So thats why we are here today to talk about this one.

Its important to say that short stories written by Stephen King doesn’t work for me for whatever reason which I cant really name for some reason.

The plot in this short story wasn’t the best to be fully honest here. It had some good and interesting moments here and there, but those moments were very rare. But overall the plot in this short story was uninteresting and even boring at times. 

But I need to give some points to this short story for having a good and unique premise, which isn’t used enough, in my opinion. 

However this short story had a very brutal and graphic scene in which a child got raped. And really it came out of nowhere and it really it didn’t sit well with me personally.

The ending in this was awful to be honest, it felt Stephen King didn’t even try to give us a good ending. Overall the ending felt very lazy, and it felt like even Stephen King didn’t even want to write it.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Sun Dog” By Stephen King Review

The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you. Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth a Polaroid Sun 660. There’s something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town’s sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it. But the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn’t exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment.

This short story was one of 4 short stories in “Four Past Midnight” written by Stephen which I’ve reviewed already, but it was a review about the book as a whole rather than about each of those 4 short stories. So thats why we are here today to talk about this one.

Its important to say that short stories written by Stephen King doesn’t work for me for whatever reason which I cant really name for some reason.

This short story had a good premise for a horror short story, but the way it was presented was awful.

To be honest this short story was far too long, and it really was a torture reading this one just because of the reason that it was too long. It would have been better if it was a 10 pages short story. 

The plot was very boring and uninteresting, and I wasn’t expecting so bad plot from Stephen King.

The characters here were very predictable, boring, flat and very very uninteresting. 

The writing style here was also surprisingly bad for Stephen King. It didn’t feel like it wasn’t written by the master of horror himself.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” By Washington Irving Review

Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals’ stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Until late one night, he finds that maybe they’re not just stories. What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands? And why wasn’t schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?

This book is very disappointing for me, because I really really wanted to love this book, but wow where should I begin on why I didn’t love it.

Its important to say that before I started reading this book I didn’t know anything about the Sleepy Hollow town nor the legend of Headless Horseman. 

The beginning of this book was very good because it had a huge gothic vibe to it, but the further and further you got into this book the less fun this book was becoming and it was turning into boring. at the same time the further you got into this book the less thing were happening.

When it comes to the characters in this book then I have to say that they weren’t the best, I was expecting much better characters than what we actually got in this book. 

The characters in this book were flat, there where times were the actually were good, but those moments were rare. And for the most part the characters in this book were uninteresting and boring.

This book had a good and unique premise, but the way it was given to us really was very bad. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“King Pest” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

It is about the adventure of two drunk sailors who venture into a deserted part of the city, escaping without payment from the local pub

Need to say that this story remind me of The Hangover. If The Hangover happened in the 14th century London during the Black Death pandemic.

It was pretty interesting and fun to read, but there were a lots of things which I personally didn’t like or didn’t quit understand.

The writing style was good, but not as quit gothic and dark as you might expect from Edgar Allan Poe. But still it was good.

This story was good and quick to read, but still it could have been better than it was actually was. 

To be honest the entire story reminded me of something that Lewis Carroll would write and not something Edgar Allan Poe would write. 

For the most part it was written nicely with some black humour in it.

I give this poem 1 / 5