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Brume : Paranoïa
Éclate une tempête et la réalité se fissure! Avant-goût d'apocalypse… De la brume surgit une horreur blême, créature monstrueuse aux pieds cornés qui attaque un supermarché… Défi de la nature déchaînée ou fantaisie inquiétante de l'imagination? Glacé de peur, David croit rêver. Et à tout prendre, il vaudrait mieux que sa stéréo mentale soit déréglée…
Mais il est des voix pour murmurer le nom de Shaymore et du projet Pointe-de-Flèche… Et s'ils avaient ouvert un trou donnant directement dans une autre dimension? Ils? Les ennemis. Ne sont-ils pas partout? A nos trousses. Ombres diligeantes, messagers anonymes, prêts à nous faire la peau… Fadaises? Délire paranoiaque parfait? Chacune de ces nouvelles révèle l'envers hallucinant d'un décor qui nous est familier.
Mais il est des voix pour murmurer le nom de Shaymore et du projet Pointe-de-Flèche… Et s'ils avaient ouvert un trou donnant directement dans une autre dimension? Ils? Les ennemis. Ne sont-ils pas partout? A nos trousses. Ombres diligeantes, messagers anonymes, prêts à nous faire la peau… Fadaises? Délire paranoiaque parfait? Chacune de ces nouvelles révèle l'envers hallucinant d'un décor qui nous est familier.
409 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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About the author
Stephen King
2,422 books887k followersStephen 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.
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.
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July 22, 2021
The jaunt - 5 ⭐️
The wedding gig - 2 ⭐️
Paranoid: a chant - 5 ⭐️
The raft - 4 ⭐️
The wedding gig - 2 ⭐️
Paranoid: a chant - 5 ⭐️
The raft - 4 ⭐️
November 4, 2021
"Sen ruumista roiskui mustaa lientä ja se piti hirveää, ynisevää ääntä, joka oli niin matala että sen pikemminkin tunsi kuin kuuli, kuin bassoäänen syntetisaattorista."
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Parhaat tarinat: usva, jauntti ja lautta.
October 21, 2025
Kieltämättä muutama tylsempi tarina mukana, mutta Usva, Lautta ja erityisesti Jauntti (kuumoittavin King-novelli) yleisen nostalgia-arvon kera ansaitsee 5 tähteä.
November 21, 2014
Le meilleur recueil de stephen king, un concentré de savoir faire au fil de ces histoires aussi diverses les unes que les autres. La nouvelle ''Brume'' qui ouvre le bal justifie à elle seule la lecture de ce livre. A conseiller vivement.
November 10, 2019
A mon humble avis, les recueils de nouvelles de Stephen King contiennent parmi les meilleurs récits qu'il ait jamais écrit. Brume ne déroge pas à la règle, même si certaines histoires sont bien en deçà des autres.
Dans l'édition que je possède, Brume est coupé en deux volumes différents. C'est pourquoi je vais vous séparer mes avis, un sur chaque volume. (Le lien vers mon avis sur le second volume se trouve tout en bas).
On y va ?
Ce volume commence de manière assez magistrale, je dois dire. La première nouvelle, qui a donné son titre au nom du livre, fait près de 200 pages. (Peut-on parler de roman court, à ce stade ?)
Je l'ai trouvée remarquable. Ce qui me fascine le plus, chez Stephen King, c'est sa capacité à rendre quelque chose de normal totalement horrible et effrayant.
Tout se passe pour le mieux ou presque ... et en quelques pages, c'est le chaos le plus total. C'est ce que j'ai particulièrement apprécié dans cette histoire. Je dois avouer que le contexte qui amène la chose effrayante - l'ouragan, qui fait suite à une longue période de chaleur et de sécheresse - a résonné tout particulièrement pour moi, après l'année que nous venons d'avoir. Je ne sais pas si c'était le but de King ici, mais j'y vois un récit à visée écologique. Un récit qui nous explique que, quand la Nature voudra reprendre ses droits, nous ne serons à l'abri nulle part, même si ce sera loin d'être aussi affreux qu'ici (quoique, différemment, mais ce sera affreux).
Concernant les autres nouvelles, deux m'ont particulièrement fait des frissons dans le dos. Je ne dis pas que les autres ne m'ont rien fait, mais elles m'apparaissaient un peu survolées, en comparaison avec celles que j'ai citées ici.
"Le Singe", notamment, m'a vraiment mise mal à l'aise. Une histoire à base de jouet maléfique, possédé par Dieu sait quoi, m'a rappelé un certain nombre de films d'horreurs (que je n'apprécie pas vraiment). J'ai eu assez de mal à terminer celle-ci. Je sursautais à chaque craquement suspect dans ma chambre.
Et enfin, "Le Radeau" est une nouvelle assez angoissante, par sa manière d'être racontée. King pose un décor vraiment sinistre, et l'enchaînement des événements fait que le stress monte au fur et à mesure de la lecture. Efficace !
Un très bon premier volume, je dois dire. Parce que, quand on lit du King, c'est aussi pour chercher le frisson, pas vrai ?
Le lien pour mon avis sur le second volume : La Faucheuse
Dans l'édition que je possède, Brume est coupé en deux volumes différents. C'est pourquoi je vais vous séparer mes avis, un sur chaque volume. (Le lien vers mon avis sur le second volume se trouve tout en bas).
On y va ?
Ce volume commence de manière assez magistrale, je dois dire. La première nouvelle, qui a donné son titre au nom du livre, fait près de 200 pages. (Peut-on parler de roman court, à ce stade ?)
Je l'ai trouvée remarquable. Ce qui me fascine le plus, chez Stephen King, c'est sa capacité à rendre quelque chose de normal totalement horrible et effrayant.
Tout se passe pour le mieux ou presque ... et en quelques pages, c'est le chaos le plus total. C'est ce que j'ai particulièrement apprécié dans cette histoire. Je dois avouer que le contexte qui amène la chose effrayante - l'ouragan, qui fait suite à une longue période de chaleur et de sécheresse - a résonné tout particulièrement pour moi, après l'année que nous venons d'avoir. Je ne sais pas si c'était le but de King ici, mais j'y vois un récit à visée écologique. Un récit qui nous explique que, quand la Nature voudra reprendre ses droits, nous ne serons à l'abri nulle part, même si ce sera loin d'être aussi affreux qu'ici (quoique, différemment, mais ce sera affreux).
Concernant les autres nouvelles, deux m'ont particulièrement fait des frissons dans le dos. Je ne dis pas que les autres ne m'ont rien fait, mais elles m'apparaissaient un peu survolées, en comparaison avec celles que j'ai citées ici.
"Le Singe", notamment, m'a vraiment mise mal à l'aise. Une histoire à base de jouet maléfique, possédé par Dieu sait quoi, m'a rappelé un certain nombre de films d'horreurs (que je n'apprécie pas vraiment). J'ai eu assez de mal à terminer celle-ci. Je sursautais à chaque craquement suspect dans ma chambre.
Et enfin, "Le Radeau" est une nouvelle assez angoissante, par sa manière d'être racontée. King pose un décor vraiment sinistre, et l'enchaînement des événements fait que le stress monte au fur et à mesure de la lecture. Efficace !
Un très bon premier volume, je dois dire. Parce que, quand on lit du King, c'est aussi pour chercher le frisson, pas vrai ?
Le lien pour mon avis sur le second volume : La Faucheuse
June 12, 2015
I tried to read Stephen King as I was younger. I went around our little library's horror shelf and tried to find something to read. I can't remember which King book I took from the shelf but I think it's because I never finished it. I didn't get long from the start. But I wasn't very much into reading at that time. It just wasn't interesting enough to do.
Many years after, one of my ex boyfriend tried to get me read his favourite series, King's Black Tower. I remember that I might have read the first book but I'm not sure. At least I can't remember anything about the book expect that I wasn't really interested to read it and I understood nothing of it.
Because of my earlier King experiences are so incomplete, I could say that this book is my first real touch in King's books and for my suprise, it's short story collection. And more strange is that I found it from my own book shelf. I'm not really fond of short stories. But, after all, the book is my partner's.
I think this is the first book which has made me to become infatuated with it right after the opening words. The opening words, written by King himself, is like a little story on itself. King is hoping that I, 'the faithfull reader', would like the book. He doubts that readers doesn't necessarily like it as much as the whole novels, because they have forgotten what pleasure short stories brings to us. But like King says himself ”--- - short stories are like a kiss from the stranger in the dark. Of course it's not the same as relationship or marriage but the kisses can still be sweet and it's the shortness of the kiss that charms us.” After this harangue, I waited eagerly to start reading the short stories, for once. And I must admit that I liked what I read.
In the open words there's one thing that sticks out and that is King's style of not caring what he writes. You'll get the picture that he writes what he wants and that's it.
The Mist
'The Mist' is the first short story in the book and it's also the longest. It's almost half of the whole book. Actually, it could be a little book on itself.
There's fine metaphors in the story. And somehow you see immidiately from the writing style that it's a horrorstory. There are some blunt clues which tells something about the coming, you just don't know what or which is coming.
The story was very thrilling and I could imagine it to be a little bit like what Lovecraft has written, although I've never read anything from him. But in the story they even say that the monsters aren't immortal like Lovecraft's monsters. The story grips you but I was very dissapointed about the ending. Like the narrator says, the story ends like Hitchcock ends his stories, the readers can deside what happens next. The narrator's dad didn't like those kind of endings and I'm the same. I want to know what happens! What was the mist, where it came from and what they have done in Arrowhead project?
Here There Be Tigers
When 'The Mist' was like a small book, this short story was notably shorter, it was only few pages. I'm not sure if I got hang of this story... These kind of stories are very hard for me and they doesn't really tell me anything.
The Monkey
'The Monkey' short story starts almost like any other horrorstory where there's a doll in the main part and it's responsible of deaths. Although, the story was so long that anything could happen. I'm not sure if the doll is really responsible of all the deaths or maybe the main character is just paranoid.
It was a little bit hard to follow who was who in the story, so it was a little bit hard to read.
But the story was good, despite the ocassional dificulty on understanding. There's tension in good waves and the ending is nice. This story could be transferred into a movie.
Cain Rose Up
The story starts very ordinary but you know that something will happen. But you are just left for wanting to know the reasons for everything.
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
This story was a little bit boring at the start. There really wasn't anything exciting in it, but it was still ok. I could imagine this to be an animation by Hayao Miyazaki. The name would be ready for that. It was also a little bit hard to keep going with the story but I think that it is just because of the bad translation(?).
The Jaunt
There's nothing frightening in this story expect maybe a little in the end. This is more of a like scifi which deals with teleportation. It was very funny to read this because in the story teleportation was invented in 80's or somewhere there and I just read an article that scientist have now, in 2014, succeeded in making some kind of a teleportation (and the story has been written in 1981).
In this story, a father is telling his children about the origins of the teleportation in somewhere 2050's, I guess. They are going to travel with it to Mars. The story was very interesting and maybe it brought some opinions into a daylight in some parts. It wasn't easy to invent teleportation and especially the animal testing descriptions aroused some unpleasant feelings in me. But the teleportation isn't really safe in that time either.
I have noticed a one characteristic in King's writing style, at least in these short stories. King starts the introduction of the characters mostly from their nicknames and then later he might tell the other nickname for same charachter and finally he might use the charachter's real name (maybe). I think that this is the one reason why I haven't been able to follow the stories without difficulty, because I don't really know who is who and who is talking, because the names are changing all the time. And even though the names are quite similar to each others, it's still hard for me to conceive that it's the same person.
The Wedding Gig
With this short story we go way back in time. It might happen in 20's or 30's. This story is some kind of a gangster story, although there isn't gangster in the main characters but they are in sub charachters. It was interesting story and I found a charachter, Maureen, to whome I can relate to, even though I don't wight 100 kilos yet.
Paranoid: A Chant
This is a poem. I'm not sure if I get it. I really can't read poems. But I'm pretty sure that the narrator is paranoid. But I don't know what the 'Chant' part means...
The Raft
This again was a horrorstory. This would make a wonderful movie too, it could be a splatter, comedy or a serious horrorfilm. It keeps you in its grip, although the ending is quite obvious.
As a whole the, short story collection was very nice. I noticed that King also uses a lot of curves in his stories. I didn't quite get the curves but I think they tried to illustrate the things the character was thinking, seeing or feeling. Especially in 'The Raft' the curves were very vague. I'm not quite sure if I like the style, they just seemed to confuse me more.
But I really liked these short stories so maybe I could add Stephen King in my list. Maybe someday I will read the Black Tower too. I should also think of reading King in English so I could see if the translations are just poorly made or is it just King's writing style that is too hard for me.
Many years after, one of my ex boyfriend tried to get me read his favourite series, King's Black Tower. I remember that I might have read the first book but I'm not sure. At least I can't remember anything about the book expect that I wasn't really interested to read it and I understood nothing of it.
Because of my earlier King experiences are so incomplete, I could say that this book is my first real touch in King's books and for my suprise, it's short story collection. And more strange is that I found it from my own book shelf. I'm not really fond of short stories. But, after all, the book is my partner's.
I think this is the first book which has made me to become infatuated with it right after the opening words. The opening words, written by King himself, is like a little story on itself. King is hoping that I, 'the faithfull reader', would like the book. He doubts that readers doesn't necessarily like it as much as the whole novels, because they have forgotten what pleasure short stories brings to us. But like King says himself ”--- - short stories are like a kiss from the stranger in the dark. Of course it's not the same as relationship or marriage but the kisses can still be sweet and it's the shortness of the kiss that charms us.” After this harangue, I waited eagerly to start reading the short stories, for once. And I must admit that I liked what I read.
In the open words there's one thing that sticks out and that is King's style of not caring what he writes. You'll get the picture that he writes what he wants and that's it.
The Mist
'The Mist' is the first short story in the book and it's also the longest. It's almost half of the whole book. Actually, it could be a little book on itself.
There's fine metaphors in the story. And somehow you see immidiately from the writing style that it's a horrorstory. There are some blunt clues which tells something about the coming, you just don't know what or which is coming.
The story was very thrilling and I could imagine it to be a little bit like what Lovecraft has written, although I've never read anything from him. But in the story they even say that the monsters aren't immortal like Lovecraft's monsters. The story grips you but I was very dissapointed about the ending. Like the narrator says, the story ends like Hitchcock ends his stories, the readers can deside what happens next. The narrator's dad didn't like those kind of endings and I'm the same. I want to know what happens! What was the mist, where it came from and what they have done in Arrowhead project?
Here There Be Tigers
When 'The Mist' was like a small book, this short story was notably shorter, it was only few pages. I'm not sure if I got hang of this story... These kind of stories are very hard for me and they doesn't really tell me anything.
The Monkey
'The Monkey' short story starts almost like any other horrorstory where there's a doll in the main part and it's responsible of deaths. Although, the story was so long that anything could happen. I'm not sure if the doll is really responsible of all the deaths or maybe the main character is just paranoid.
It was a little bit hard to follow who was who in the story, so it was a little bit hard to read.
But the story was good, despite the ocassional dificulty on understanding. There's tension in good waves and the ending is nice. This story could be transferred into a movie.
Cain Rose Up
The story starts very ordinary but you know that something will happen. But you are just left for wanting to know the reasons for everything.
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
This story was a little bit boring at the start. There really wasn't anything exciting in it, but it was still ok. I could imagine this to be an animation by Hayao Miyazaki. The name would be ready for that. It was also a little bit hard to keep going with the story but I think that it is just because of the bad translation(?).
The Jaunt
There's nothing frightening in this story expect maybe a little in the end. This is more of a like scifi which deals with teleportation. It was very funny to read this because in the story teleportation was invented in 80's or somewhere there and I just read an article that scientist have now, in 2014, succeeded in making some kind of a teleportation (and the story has been written in 1981).
In this story, a father is telling his children about the origins of the teleportation in somewhere 2050's, I guess. They are going to travel with it to Mars. The story was very interesting and maybe it brought some opinions into a daylight in some parts. It wasn't easy to invent teleportation and especially the animal testing descriptions aroused some unpleasant feelings in me. But the teleportation isn't really safe in that time either.
I have noticed a one characteristic in King's writing style, at least in these short stories. King starts the introduction of the characters mostly from their nicknames and then later he might tell the other nickname for same charachter and finally he might use the charachter's real name (maybe). I think that this is the one reason why I haven't been able to follow the stories without difficulty, because I don't really know who is who and who is talking, because the names are changing all the time. And even though the names are quite similar to each others, it's still hard for me to conceive that it's the same person.
The Wedding Gig
With this short story we go way back in time. It might happen in 20's or 30's. This story is some kind of a gangster story, although there isn't gangster in the main characters but they are in sub charachters. It was interesting story and I found a charachter, Maureen, to whome I can relate to, even though I don't wight 100 kilos yet.
Paranoid: A Chant
This is a poem. I'm not sure if I get it. I really can't read poems. But I'm pretty sure that the narrator is paranoid. But I don't know what the 'Chant' part means...
The Raft
This again was a horrorstory. This would make a wonderful movie too, it could be a splatter, comedy or a serious horrorfilm. It keeps you in its grip, although the ending is quite obvious.
As a whole the, short story collection was very nice. I noticed that King also uses a lot of curves in his stories. I didn't quite get the curves but I think they tried to illustrate the things the character was thinking, seeing or feeling. Especially in 'The Raft' the curves were very vague. I'm not quite sure if I like the style, they just seemed to confuse me more.
But I really liked these short stories so maybe I could add Stephen King in my list. Maybe someday I will read the Black Tower too. I should also think of reading King in English so I could see if the translations are just poorly made or is it just King's writing style that is too hard for me.
March 6, 2019
J’ai été absolument scotchée par la première nouvelle du recueil , même si l’histoire m’était déjà connue. J’ai trouvé les autres nouvelles de qualité variable, à l’exception de Mme Todd, qui était vraiment fascinante et la dernière nouvelle du recueil, que j’ai trouvée excellente.
July 20, 2021
Brume : ****
En ce lieu, des tigres : **
Le singe : *****
La révolte de Caïn : ***
Le raccourcis de Mme. Todd : ****
L’Excursion : ****
Le gala de noces : ***
Paranoïa : une mélopée : ***
Le radeau : *****
En ce lieu, des tigres : **
Le singe : *****
La révolte de Caïn : ***
Le raccourcis de Mme. Todd : ****
L’Excursion : ****
Le gala de noces : ***
Paranoïa : une mélopée : ***
Le radeau : *****
May 26, 2017
Ihan ok tarinoita.
September 1, 2023
3,5 * Usva ja Jauntti erinomaisia!
July 26, 2025
Usva ja Lautta aika jeppis kamaa mut Jauntti vielä jeppiksempi. Aika jees kirja kaikenkaikkiaan
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August 3, 2011J'ai eu du mal à rentrer dans l'histoire car la présentation des personnages est un peu longue. Mais lorsque l'action se met en route, il est absolument impossible de lâcher le livre! Du grand Stephen King!
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