 Welcome to church of the chair where we love milking content for everything it's worth I'm your hostee and today We're rereading again. This is a discussion video So I fully expect you guys to have your own list down there in the doobly-doo What we're talking about today are my favorite Stephen King short stories to reread I mentioned possibly doing this in the last video I did on my favorite King novels to reread and there were several comments So I'm a man of my word you guys asked for it here you go for the most part the rest of this video unless I have some Technical difficulties or something will be unedited. So for those of you who like sitting down and just watching me ramble I'm literally gonna go through every single one of his short story collection So it's probably going to be a long video and tell you the short stories that I enjoy rereading the most first and foremost Night shift. So we're gonna jump into here I'm gonna look at the list of stories and I'm gonna talk about the stories I love and why I love it rereading them first one jumps right out at me is graveyard ship It is just a fun cool story about giant rat monsters And I mean come on if you don't like creature features, of course You're not gonna like this one, but I had a lot of fun and I especially like the the film adaptation It's one of my favorite film adaptations of one of King's short stories It's just a blast to go through the next one is definitely the mangler I like reading the mangler, especially because it pops up in some of the weirdest books most recently I believe it popped up in Man I off the top of my head. I want to say it was the Institute, but probably not I know it was someone talking about how their mother And I don't think it's the Institute anymore, but how their mother used to work the mangler But anyways all that stuff's in the Stephen King redux series if you want to go back and watch those videos The next one gray matter the reason for this one is because it ties You know a lot of my theories together about the grays and how penny wise is I Consider penny wise a gray he crash landed now There is something that we need to talk about as far as Did penny wise arrive on the ship that crash landed in Haven and just made his way over to Derry or Were it was it two separate occasions where penny wise landed and then the Tommy knockers landed and then the dream catch and then the Grays from dream catcher landed, but that's why I love gray matter. Also. It's just a really cool story I always feel horrible for that little boy because my dad was pretty much the same way He just kind of ignored me and drank all the time So I have a little bit of not nostalgia, but I have a little bit in in common with the character The next one is battleground. I love this just the kid in me absolutely loves this Even though it is a it is a pretty violent story It's like a you know reminds me of growing up playing with my tanks and my Tonka trunks trucks not trunks My Tonka trucks all that stuff I even had a metal fire engine that I absolutely was my prized possession for the longest time And of course back then all those things were metal the Tonka truck Tonka trucks a blast a tongue twister anyways the Tonka trucks and my he-man Human action figures all that stuff. It just brings back memories of having epic battles with those with those toys Next up we have let's see here Quitter's ink is one that I have reread over and over and over again, and I'm not sure what keeps bringing me back I think it's just a very cool story. Also, there's gonna be the vast majority of these are gonna be from this book There's only like two or three out of the other books that that I reread But I I'm always coming back to night shift The children of the corn and yes, I love the Linda Linda Hamilton Adaptation I don't care what anybody says yes It started an entire series of absolutely garbage movies, but I love it all the same I have not seen the remake, but I'm planning on reviewing all of Stephen King's adaptations So we're gonna get to it eventually the last rung on the ladder is an absolute classic The twist ending is fantastic. I read this one no joke probably as Much as every three months Sometimes I will read it every month for a while just because I love the way King Put that twist together and how good it was and how how much of a shocker it is at the end One for the road. I love that one because it ties into Salem's lot and I get a little bit geeky with things like that I mean, I'm the Stephen King theorist. So of course anything that ties in, you know to the the wider His wider catalog I'm going to enjoy you will notice that night surf isn't on this one I I don't care too much for that story that in Jerusalem's lot are probably my least favorite stories in here Let's see here trucks is good Sometimes they come back. I actually prefer the adaptation to the story That's just my point of view there Yeah, I think that's everything for this one even though the man who loved flowers Holds a holds a special place in my heart. Next up we have Skeleton crew we're gonna go through this one. I believe there's only three stories in here I can mention them off the top of my head if you've watched any of my other content I have mentioned at the my favorite short story of all time is the jaunt My favorite story from Stephen King of all time is the jaunt It's probably number three on my favorite short stories of all time Before that it would be in the Hills the city by Clyde Barker at number one and under the black water by Mariana and Riques But here, of course, we have the jaunt absolutely fantastic Amazing original idea that has inspired so much in pop culture from ad from event I almost said advent horizon from event horizon to many other pieces of cinema and literature It's just it's the unknown that really does it and it's not a story that holds the reader's hands It completely lets you formulate your own conclusion on your own and I Haven't read many short stories that other than the two that I mentioned that are better than that one Next up would be the monkey you will find out in the next one I have a choice in nightmares and dreamscapes that That I love for the same reason that I love the monkey. I love it when Stephen King takes a common household thing or a common toy or Some object that either of us all of us have experience with who we've had it We've had one ourselves or we know it from pop culture. We understand, you know, that It's very iconic imagery a monkey with symbols, you know clanging them together and the way it ends man It goes full cosmic horror by the end of it and I think it's just I think it's absolutely amazing This one I have to go through survivor type I you cannot talk about skeleton crew without talking about survivor type and I know they're gonna be people going There's so many other good stories in this collection and there are but I'm talking about the ones that I reread the most and survivor type I Oddly enough I did not care for the creep show television series adaptation of it because I wanted an actual Sorry, I'm not saying that animation isn't an adaptation. That's not what I'm saying But I wanted a real-life survivor type I would love an entire movie like cast away maybe an hour and a half of This concept just this one dude slowly spoilers spoilers in three two one I Would love an entire movie of this guy just having to consume himself and maybe some kind of twist ending Maybe he doesn't die, you know, we don't find out what happens to him We can assume that he's dead of course, but I would love to see the that this sounds so creepy But I would love to see the aftermath of that the the emotional and physical trauma that came with that So if I were to write an adaptation of it, I would definitely have something like we get in cast away Where you see what happens afterward when he gets back to the mainland so on and so forth and yes again Many it's upside down many fantastic stories in here, but I really only reread those three next up We have nightmares and dreamscapes. This is my favorite cover of all of his collections. I absolutely adore it The the scarecrow is iconic for me anytime I even when I just randomly think about Stephen King this cover comes to mind This one and needful things. Yes. I do my favorite covers are the mash-up of Desperation and regulators when you put them together, but this cover is amazing And it's easily top five for me Stephen King stuff. All right first up Dolan's Cadillac. I I've reread the story numerous times. It is It's one of those stories that while it goes to such extremes and it's very very unbelievable We're gonna talk about letting fiction be fiction next week But it goes to some extremes completely unbelievable scenario all the things kind of fall into place just perfectly in the story Some things go wrong, but not much and I think it's a very cool idea And I really enjoy reading it especially all of the main characters inner thoughts Next one. I don't even have to look over here But the next one is Popsie while I am not a fan of vampires in general I do like Stephen King short stories revolving around vampires the night flyer and Popsie and Popsie is a Really cool really cool idea, and I especially love that it's a predator that gets attacked by a predator I love that. I love stories like that and Especially I can always hear the thunk when Popsie lands on the roof of the van absolutely brilliant story What that easily one of my favorite vampire stories of all time and this is coming from someone who doesn't like Vampires next up. We have Chattery teeth again, you know, like I said about the monkey and skeleton crew I love it when Stephen King takes an everyday object or maybe a joke object or a novelty object That we don't take seriously and turns it into a horror story I I've heard a lot about people not liking the story and it kind of blows my mind Because I think it's brilliant to take something that we don't normally see and Make an irrational fear out of it I I love it when King does that and I think he's one of the best authors to use that Not trope, but use that delivery device when you come along something that should be innocent and It a hundred percent is not and it completely ruins your day. I love that I'm just gonna skim real quick the night flyer. Of course. I almost forgot to mention that for some odd reason I always think that's an skeleton crew so I should have mentioned it before but anyways It slipped my mind night flyer Richard D's inside view I mean, we've been we've been reading Stephen King all these years and inside view pops up a lot I corrected myself this time Patrick. I didn't say vast majority. Are you happy? Just kidding with you, man. Let's see here the moving finger moving finger is an Amazing story for the same reason why I think Chattery teeth and the monkey are an amazing story It's creepy. It's weird, and I absolutely adore King's weird side rainy season Doesn't go anywhere. I ever expected. I like rereading that one to learn from the buildup So you know you get to know these characters and then he hits you with once again the weirdest Wildest stuff you can think of Let's see here. This also has I don't like Stephen King baseball stories But there's I believe there's two of them in this one and that's everything from here I I have read crouch and More than once or twice, but I do find myself Liking it less every time I read it So I've started that that one has fallen off the list, but I do enjoy that story quite a bit next up We have my least favorite collection from Stephen King and that is everything's eventual Let me try and get a better shot of the cover here I don't like this collection at all Even though it has a dark a direct connect dark tower story called little sisters of alluria And I'm putting it on this list because I've read it so many times not because I enjoy it But because I'm always hunting for deeper connections to the dark tower and the Stephen King universe in general I I appreciate the story for what it is But I want to let you know up front that I I'm not a huge fan of it But I do reread it often especially every time I read the dark tower series But get this I don't read it first even though it's technically a prologue prequel whatever to the gunslinger I do not read it first I always read it after reading the the seventh and final book Well, there's eight because I always read a win through the keyhole Right where it's supposed to be between wizard and glass and wolves of the Kala But I read this at the end because it helps the whole idea of Ca is a wheel and the wheel keeps turning if you finish it jump into that and then jump right back into the gunslinger I think it works better at the end of the series. I Feel like it works far better than if you put it at the beginning autopsy room for Very cool. I like the adaptation of this one But it's also just a an old twilight zone kind of idea that's been used a lot In in fiction, so I have read that one more than once. I would probably give it three point five four stars Again, nothing in this book really grabs my attention and keeps me locked in for long and the last one would be 1408 Once again, I do like the adaptation More than I like the short story John Cusack and Samuel Jackson. He can't really go wrong with that couple with that pair He says as he literally just now remember sell But we don't talk about it anymore No, now we're getting on to a very controversial Short story collection. I hear all the time people absolutely hate this collection This one is my second favorite Stephen King collection after night shift and that is you guessed it Just after sunset Why do I like these stories so much because I prefer literary King to Horror King nine times out of ten when I do love his more horror forward stories I love them because of the characters not because of the horror I've long said that Stephen King is a better author than he is a horror author And while he has made iconic monsters and all that stuff and I agree with those things and then he has written Numerous dozens of scary scenes. I think the real reason to read Stephen King is is for the the characters and and Not so much the plot but the themes that he really dives into Harvey's dream. I love it. It is short succinct to the point and for me It is unbelievably creepy the longer the story goes on the more I am creeped out Next up is stationary bike just because I've been on a lot my chunky But has been on a lot of stationary bikes and once again Where we're doing something with a common everyday item that you might not suspect I first read this in tales from the borderland of volume six. I believe it was And I've loved it ever since And is another great one. It's not one that I've read a whole hell of a lot of times in fact, I prefer the graphic novel version of it, but it is still a terrific terrific story a very tight place another one that I love reading because of Foul language in three two one the motherfucker. There's a character in the book called the motherfucker and the story not the book the the story is Literally about a man being trapped inside an overturned porta potty And I love what King has to say about the idea of the gross out In in stories and books and literature He says if I can scare you I will try and scare you if I can make you laugh I will try and make you laugh But I have no problem with the gross out if I can gross you out I win that kind of thing and I absolutely adore that idea the gingerbread girl And I know I'm kind of going out of order, but I'm kind of listing them in my like my favorite a lot of people Don't like this story. In fact when I was I was on Twitter talking to someone about me enjoying the first Wendy's book first Wendy book and That person came back and said do you like the gingerbread girl and I said yeah, I dig it quite a bit And they're like, okay, your opinion is now invalid What anyways, but I enjoy it for what it is. It is a very cool very top thriller and I enjoy rereading it Let's see here the cat from hell I prefer the the creep show because this is an old old story. I prefer the creep show I don't know which came first if it was you know the chicken or the egg scenario here I'm not sure if the story came first or if Or if the adaptation came first and then he wrote the story, but I'm pretty sure the story came first It just took forever for him to finally publish it yeah, and That's that's all of it from from that one I do like I said, this is my second favorite one But those are the stories that I come back to over and over and over again Especially the more I think about it the more I should have put a very tight place high up Because I read that story a lot almost as much as I read the stories from night ship next up We have the final short story collection that King has released We are due for another one very very soon, and I believe it's going to tie up a lot of stuff like Willie the weirdo Finn which was a scribbed original Elevation will probably be in there a couple other ones But he has a lot of stuff floating around that hasn't been collected yet So I fully expect another collection. We usually get one every decade of his career So I'm looking at that it actually it's more like every seven But yeah, I'm looking forward to another collection because I love his short stories So we got the bazaar of bad dreams. I love this cover. Absolutely adore this cover It is kind of false advertising though because once again just like just after sunset This is not a horror story collection. It does have some scary stuff like bad little kid my lady one and that kind of thing but The best stories in here for me are the literary ones Batman and Robin have an alter have an altercation I love that story. I am a big fan of when King just discusses over a very small Relationship and the father and son relationship in that one. I really enjoy it. I just like the story overall Bad little kid. I do enjoy There's some really creepy imagery in there and I've that's probably the one that I reread reread the least is bad little kid Let's see here a death. I love a death I remember reading it for the first time and I believe the New Yorker. I literally subscribed Whichever publication it was I literally subscribed to it just so I could get a copy of it And I enjoyed it and King doesn't do westerns all that often Unless you want to consider the gunslinger a Western, but this was more of a strict Western and I really enjoyed it Under the weather is creepy I enjoy reading that one There's one more. Oh, yeah, we have a whole other page back here the little green God of Agony and that one is Just such a I don't know. It's just a story that I hadn't read from King And I it's it kind of bolsters my Appreciation for him that even at this point in his life. He is well into his 70s He's written for what five decades at this point in time from since the 70s. It's It's amazing how he's still doing something new. He's still trying new things He's still willing to take risks and I just absolutely love that about him as you guys know I'm a huge Stephen King fanboy. I could talk about him all day, but these are my favorite short stories to reread I don't think I've missed anything, but this is a discussion video So I want to see you guys down there in the comments talking about what your Favorite Stephen King short stories are to reread not your favorite short stories, but you're we're gonna get to that topic Very soon a request from a friend of mine They want me to do a tier list of all of his short stories and I plan on doing that It's gonna take some months to get the list going But I want to see your lists and the favorite stories that you keep coming back to for Stephen King But until next time I'll hell the chair