*Nightmares & dreamscapes Stephen King (Signet, $6.99) King's third collection of stories crawls with more scary monsters than you can shake a stick at. *Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg (Dell, $6.50) Smilla Jasperson, the heroine of this Danish thriller, towers over other modern heroines the way Hamlet the Dane towers over other princes.
*Sacred Clowns Tony Hillerman (Harper, $6.99) Another crisply plotted, magically evocative tale of crime and detection on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona.
