Stephen King ha sido quien mejor ha sabido pintar los sueños con el color del miedo, convertirlos en pesadillas, cuando se está dormido, o en alucinaciones si se está despierto. Siempre obligando al lector a transitar estremecido por ese resbaladizo camino que bordean la más aterradora fantasía... y la más aterradora realidad.
Esta segunda entrega de delirios del magistral fabulador de mundos espantosos incluye narraciones como "La boca saltarina", que muestra cómo el más mecánico de los juguetes puede tener su corazoncito; "Crouch End", una traslación del Innsmouth de Lovecraft al Londres de Hoy, tan ominoso como su antecesor literario, o "El quinto fragmento", ejemplificación apta para todos los públicos de cómo la avaricia rompe el saco.
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
-Rebuscó entre las incursiones de King en trabajos colectivos y publicaciones periódicas.-
Género. Relatos.
Lo que nos cuenta. El libro La boca saltarina y otros delirios (publicación original: Nightmares & Dreamscapes, 1993) ofrece cinco trabajos cortos del autor, previamente publicados en revistas o antologías entre épocas tan tempranas como 1972 y solo un año antes de la salida de este libro al mercado. Este volumen es uno de los cinco en los que se dividieron en español los veinticuatro relatos de la obra original durante su primera edición en España, llamada Pesadillas y alucinaciones, pero después se ha vuelto a publicar de varias maneras distintas.
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Amo a Stephen, pero debo admitir que de todas las historias, solo una o dos me parecieron decentes. El resto de ellas, las encontré muy básicas, y la última que es la más larga me pareció sin sentido.
Este conjunto de relatos los leí hace mucho tiempo y agarrar de nuevo este librito viejo que era de mi hermana y me quedo en herencia me causo una serie de emociones encontradas y una satisfacción muy grande. El relato que mas me gusto fue La Boca Saltarina, detesto las injusticias y ver como una mala persona recibe su merecido te da una sensación placentera, ver como al malo del cuento se le voltea la tortilla y le pasan una serie de calamidades te deja con una sonrisa en el rostro uno de verdad se alegra con su fatídico y sangriento final. El relato que menos me gusto fue Baja la Cabeza no logro engancharme ni entusiasmarme en ningún momento tal vez se debe a que no me gusta el béisbol. En lineas generales en un buen libro de relatos de terror y misterio la pase muy bien leyendo este ejemplar del maestro del terror.