Nightmares & Dreamscapes
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by Stephen King published in 1993.
Contents |
[edit] Stories
The collection contains the following stories:
- Dolan's Cadillac
- The End of the Whole Mess
- Suffer The Little Children
- The Night Flier
- Popsy
- It Grows On You
- Chattery Teeth
- Dedication
- The Moving Finger
- Sneakers
- You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
- Home Delivery
- Rainy Season
- My Pretty Pony
- Sorry, Right Number
- The Ten O'Clock People
- Crouch End
- The House On Maple Street
- The Fifth Quarter
- The Doctor's Case
- Umney's Last Case
- Head Down
- Brooklyn August
- The Beggar and the Diamond
[edit] Adaptations
"The Night Flier" was adapted to film. "Chattery Teeth"' was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway. "Sorry, Right Number" was adapted into an episode of Tales from the Darkside. "The Moving Finger" was adapted into an episode of the tv show Monsters. "Home Delivery" and "Rainy Season" were adapted to short films.
The short story "The House On Maple Street" was inspired by the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, a picture book by children's author Chris Van Allsburg which invites readers to create stories based on provocative illustrations.
[edit] Television Series
During the summer of 2006, TNT produced an eight-episode miniseries on various short stories by Stephen King. Although most of them are from the collection of the same name, there are some from different collections as well.
[edit] Editions
- ISBN 0-606-06623-3 (prebound, 1993)
- ISBN 0-670-85108-6 (cloth text, 1993)
- ISBN 0-453-00844-5 (audio cassette with hardcover, 1993)
- ISBN 0-451-18302-9 (paperback, 1994)
- ISBN 0-451-18023-2 (mass market paperback, 1994, reprint)
- ISBN 0-8161-5882-7 (paperback, 1994, Large Type Edition)
- ISBN 0-8161-5881-9 (library binding, 1994, Large Type Edition)
- ISBN 0-453-00873-9 (audio cassette with paperback, 1994)
[edit] See also
| Short fiction by Stephen King |
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| Night Shift • Different Seasons • Skeleton Crew • Four Past Midnight • Nightmares & Dreamscapes • Six Stories • Hearts in Atlantis • Blood and Smoke • Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales |
| Stephen King |
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| Bibliography |
| Novels: Carrie (1974) • ’Salem's Lot (1975) • Rage (as Richard Bachman) (1977) • The Shining (1977) • Night Shift (stories) (1978) • The Stand (1978) • The Dead Zone (1979) • The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman) (1979) • Firestarter (1980) • Cujo (1981) • Roadwork (as Richard Bachman) (1981) • The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982) • Different Seasons (novellas) (1982) • The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) (1982) • Christine (1983) • Pet Sematary (1983) • Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) • The Talisman (written with Peter Straub) (1984) • Thinner (as Richard Bachman) (1984) • Skeleton Crew (stories) (1985) • The Bachman Books (novel collection) (1985) • It (1986) • The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) • Misery (1987) • The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987) • The Tommyknockers (1988) • Dark Visions (cowritten with George R. R. Martin and Dan Simmons) (1988) • The Dark Half (1989) • Dolan's Cadillac (1989) • My Pretty Pony (1989) • The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990) • Four Past Midnight (stories) (1990) • Needful Things (1990) • The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991) • Gerald's Game (1992) • Dolores Claiborne (1993) • Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories) (1993) • Insomnia (1994) • Rose Madder (1995) • Umney's Last Case (1995) • The Green Mile (1996) • Desperation (1996) • The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) (1996) • Six Stories (stories) (1997) • The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) • Bag of Bones (1998) • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) • The New Lieutenant's Rap (1999) • Hearts in Atlantis (1999) • Dreamcatcher (2001) • Black House (sequel to The Talisman; written with Peter Straub) (2001) • From a Buick 8 (2002) • Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (stories) (2002) • The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (revised edition) (2003) • The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003) • The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004) • The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004) • The Colorado Kid (2005) Cell (2006) • Lisey's Story (2006) |
| Non-fiction: • Danse Macabre (1981) • 1988 Nightmares in the Sky (1988) • 2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000) • 2005 Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (cowritten with Stewart O'Nan) (2005) |
| Original ebooks: Riding the Bullet (2000) • The Plant: Book 1-Zenith Rising (2000) |
| Audio Recordings |
| Audiobooks: L.T.'s Theory of Pets • Blood and Smoke (2000) • Stationary Bike (2006) |
