![]() King portrays not a victory but rather a final long cry of pain and grief from Robinson. ![]() It was cold and calculated and ultimately deranged. ![]() This was not an act of hot-blooded anger. What made me believe in this story, despite the elaborate means by which the revenge was achieved, was Robinson’s unwavering focus, over years, on taking revenge. It’s told entirely from the point of view of Robinson, an uncharismatic, ordinary, now balding, Grade School teacher who has dedicated his life to finding a way of killing Dolan, a well-protected gangster who arranged the murder of Robinson’s wife. This is one of the most chilling revenge stories I’ve read. “Dolan’s Cadillac” opens the collection and it made me a believer. I’m going to review the stories as I go along, while they’re fresh in my mind. Not so much “Do I believe in the bogeyman?” but “Do I believe in the people in this story and their actions and emotions?” First, the writer has to believe in the story then he has to make you believe in it. ![]() In his introduction, King says that short stories are about creating belief. ![]() Stephen King’s third short story collection, “Nightmares & Dreamscapes” has its twenty-fifth anniversary this year, so I’m listening to the audiobook version (all twenty-six hours fifty-seven minutes of it) to remind myself of how short stories should be written. ![]()
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