I can think of positively no reason for any collection to have twenty-four introductions written by one person. Come to think of it, there must have been a pretty good reason to quit reading anthologies in the first place, right? I will give reasonable warning that the biggest difference with this collection from others I have read is the editing. I had never heard of the publication "Midnight Graffiti" before, but I wish more publications like it existed now.

I’m quite happy to have stumbled upon this book at a yard sale and will be keeping it in my collection. Midnight Graffiti (Warner Books, Oct 1992) is an engaging anthology from the now-defunct magazine of the same name from the late '80s.Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. Sadly, of the nineteen stories collected herein, these are the only five I’d even care to bother with again.

His award-winning short story "The River Styx Runs Upstream" is easily one of my favorite short stories, ever. Both of Branham’s stories sucked, but allowing him to dominate at something is unthinkable (even if that something is having the most shitty stories included in this colelction), so I had to flip a coin to determine which travesty got a shot at the ‘honors’. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher. Or Stephen King's "Rainy Season," first published in this collection, a tale of small-town mores and a warning to travellers that even the most picturesque of towns may turn out to be lethal traps. I briefly perused my anthologies one morning after making the decision to start re-reading these oft-ignored volumes, and immediately knew which one I would kick this endeavor off with: ‘Midnight Graffiti’, the perfect choice for a lifelong poseur and elitist prick. This was perhaps the first thing I noticed as I sat down to read the book, and this wasn’t very promising.

Here it was, tangible proof that not only do I kick ass, but have been kicking ass since back in ‘the day’.Lamont's "Sinus Fiction" was evocative of Simmons's 1990 science fiction masterpiece Hyperion - almost difficult to picture in its stark originality. A good number of the stories rely too heavily on Reagan/Bush-era shock factor, which is horribly dated and uninteresting in 2018. This might be the lowest point of the book, that two authors expected to deliver the big hits are poorly represented. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers.