I love Stephen King. Just finished 11/22/63 which I highly recommend. But this was the most disappointing and ridiculously underwhelming thing I’ve ever read. A story begun, a main character introduced, and then an incredibly anticlimactic ending with a couple of short bursts of lunacy in the middle. Not sure what the point of this was, but I don’t recommend you bother. I wish I hadn’t.

Short page turner leaving me longing for more. I had not heard of this book from SK but pleasantly surprised.

I wanted so many more pages!

I loved how the kids figured out that the car was from Outer space and a monster that is touched would eat you and kill you.

Seemed to get enough bang for my buck. Nice short story in one read.

Poor writing for an otherwise talented author

Good story! except it just stopped at the end.not worth the price!

Not pleased at all

Awesome read!

WARNING: Before you buy this book, READ THE REVIEWS!!! Some have been disappointed to find out that this is just a short story, not a full-length book. As a result, some of the reviews for this story have been unfair because they have been complaints that it wasn’t a novel or novella. Well, guess what, folks?? For years, it has been okay to publish short stories as individual books. I’m not crazy about it myself, but I won’t insult a short story that happens to have been a perfectly good story just because it was published individually. This story, as mentioned by another reviewer, is the first story in Stephen King’s short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. If you like this story but you don’t want it by itself, buy the “Bazaar” collection so you can review the entire book, this story included, but don’t write a review of this book just to bellyache about it being just one story by itself. Fans HATE that!!! I do, that’s for certain! For me, I have to agree with all of the positive reviews for this story. I’ve never read the book by itself because I don’t want to read ANY short story this way, but I really loved this story! It was a great start to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, a masterful collection of short stories made even better by the fact that while King tried to scare readers with every story, he succeeded even more brilliantly with some than he did with others. This creepy, perverse story of a car that is actually some sort of strange, bloodthirsty monster in disguise was a perfect opener to an exciting collection and, for me, the biggest reason is because I got a terrifying taste of disturbingly chilling and creepy I knew some of the stories would be. And it was an awesome decision to cast a little boy as the main character. The bravery and courage of children who are ten years or older somehow strikes me as being totally conceivable that they could be very heroic in some very dangerous and scary situations. This is one of the scariest stories from King’s wonderful collection but, as any other King fan could also tell you, there are several other contenders. To me, Bad Little Kid, The Dune, The Little Green God of Agony, and That Bus is Another World are also real nightmares that I think could provide plenty of sleepless nights for those who are interested in reading Stephen King’s The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. And not just because you can’t get enough of the book!!! I recommend reading this if you’re a fan of the King of Horror who is considering whether or not to read his short story collection. Just remember, though. You’ve been warned: You just might lose sleep even after you’ve FINISHED this story!