Hey all, does Stephen King write horror anymore?

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I was looking forward to the Bazaar of Bad Dreams, I've loved some of his earlier short story collections, but looking through the synopses of the stories in Bazaar, none of these seem to be horror. Many of them just seem like random stories about debate-ably interesting/uninteresting situations people get into.

Does King do horror anymore? If not, does anyone know of other author's with King's level of talent (or similar) who do write horror?
 
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AzuredreamsXT said:
I was looking forward to the Bazaar of Bad Dreams, I've loved some of his earlier short story collections, but looking through the synopses of the stories in Bazaar, none of these seem to be horror. Many of them just seem like random stories about debate-ably interesting/uninteresting situations people get into.

Does King do horror anymore? If not, does anyone know of other author's with King's level of talent (or similar) who do write horror?
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...have you read any of his novels, or just the story collections?....it's true that he doesn't write the visceral in your face horror as he has in the past, but certainly his work still contains elements of it...IMO, his last really "horrific" collection was Just After Sunset.....and I think you unfairly have assumed from the synopses that there isn't anything horror flavored in the new collection...I have read several of them as they were published elsewhere, and I have to disagree-they fit the mold-but like anything else, that genre can be subjective-but I certainly wouldn't dismiss it outright based on just a synopsis of each one....
 
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Welcome! (I don't know if I'm really allowed to welcome you properly, as I'm very new myself, but "hi!" anyhow!) I agree that even though some of the more recent books may seem up front like they aren't "horror" in the classic sense, there are always elements in them that will shake you up, or at least unsettle you. And sometimes the subtle and the unspoken can be scarier than any monster ;)
 
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Anduan Pirate Princess said:
Welcome! (I don't know if I'm really allowed to welcome you properly, as I'm very new myself, but "hi!" anyhow!) I agree that even though some of the more recent books may seem up front like they aren't "horror" in the classic sense, there are always elements in them that will shake you up, or at least unsettle you. And sometimes the subtle and the unspoken can be scarier than any monster ;)
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Wadda ya mean?, course you are! We are Ka-Tet round here. :love_heart:
 
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