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This volume (8 cassettes, 8 stories, 9 hours) is part of a 3 volume audio collection of unabridged Stephen King stories. One story in Volume II is read by Garcia.
Volume II contents and personnel are as follows;
- Tape One -
Chattery Teeth read by Kathy Bates
- Tape Two -
My Pretty Pony read by Jerry Garcia
- Tape Three -
Sneakers read by David Cronenberg
- Tape Four -
Dedication read by Lindsay Crouse
- Tape Five -
The Doctor's Case read by Tim Curry
- Tape Six -
The Moving Finger read by Eve Beglarian
- Tape Seven -
The End Of The Whole Mess read by Matthew Broderick
- Tape Eight -
Home Delivery read by Stephen King
Each tape is approximately 1 hour long.
The complete collection (24 tapes, 28 hours) contains stories, one teleplay, one poem and one non-fiction piece. The collection comprises;
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Volume I, ISBN 0453008445
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Volume II, ISBN 0453008739
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Volume III, ISBN 0453008917
Volumes 1 and III contain readings by Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen J. Gould, Tabatha King, Rob Lowe, Robert B. Parker, Yeardly Smith, Gary Sinise, Frank Muller, Joe Morton, Dominic Cuskern, Grace Slick, Stephen King and Joe Mantegna.
Publisher's Weekly reviewed the collection;
This is a wonderful cornucopia of 23 Stephen King moments (including a teleplay featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, a poem about Ebbet's Field and a brilliant New Yorker piece on Little League baseball) that even the author, in his introduction, acknowledges make up "an uneven Aladdin's cave of a book." There are no stories fans will want to skip, and some are superb, particularly "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band," in which a husband and wife drive through a town that may literally be rock-and-roll heaven; "The Ten O'Clock People" about unredeemable smokers; and "The Moving Finger," which chronicles a digit's appearance in a drain. Together with Night Shift and Skeleton Crew , this volume accounts for all the stories King has written that he wishes to preserve. The introduction and illuminating notes about the derivation of each piece are invaluable autobiographical essays on his craft and his place in the literary landscape. An illusionist extraordinaire, King peoples all his fiction, long and short, with believable characters. The power of this collection lies in the amazing richness of his fevered imagination--he just can't be stopped from coming up with haunting plots.
There are many other Stephen King audio books but no other has any Garcia connection.
Credits
- Producer - Eve Beglarian
- Cover illustration - Rob Wood of Wood Ronsville Harlin, Inc.
- Original jacket design - Neil Stuart
- Adaptation - Mark Simonson
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