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Nightmares And Dreamscapes
''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'' is a short story collection by American author Stephen King, published in 1993. Stories Dedication King dedicated this collection of stories to Thomas Williams, a writing instructor who taught for many years at the University of New Hampshire. Since the book's publication, King has singled out Williams' 1974 National Book Award-winning novel ''The Hair of Harold Roux'' as a favorite of his, and one he returns to "again and again." The dedication reads: :In memory of :THOMAS WILLIAMS, :1926–1990: :poet, novelist, and :great American storyteller. Adaptations Film and television "Sorry, Right Number" was telecast as a season 4 episode of ''Tales from the Darkside'' in 1987 before it was published in ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes''. "The Moving Finger" was adapted into a season 3 episode of ''Monsters'' in 1991. "Chattery Teeth" was adapted into a segment of the 1997 film ''Quicksilver Highway''. "The Night Flier" and " Dolan's Cadillac" were both a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture, his books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 64 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.Jackson, Dan (February 18, 2016)"A Beginner's Guide to Stephen King Books". Thrillist. Retrieved February 5, 2019. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Visions 5
''Dark Visions'' is a horror fiction compilation, with three short stories by Stephen King, three by Dan Simmons and a novella by George R. R. Martin. It was published by Orion on August 10, 1989. The collection was first published, with the same seven stories, under the title ''Night Visions 5'', by Dark Harvest on July 1, 1988. The book was also issued under the titles ''Dark Love'' and ''The Skin Trade''. Two of the stories by King, "Sneakers" and "Dedication", were later included in his 1993 anthology ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes''. All three stories by Simmons were later included in his 1990 collection ''Prayers to Broken Stones''. Martin's ''The Skin Trade'' was later included in '' Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads'' (2001) and '' Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective'' (2003). Stories Stephen King *"The Reploids": Edward Paladin shows up in place of Johnny Carson on the ''Tonight Show'', while Carson is nowhere to be found. A subsequent investigation by detective Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crouch End (short Story)
"Crouch End" is a horror story by Stephen King, set in the real-life North London district of Crouch End, originally published in ''New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'' (1980), and republished in a slightly different version in King's ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'' collection (1993). It contains distinct references to the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. A television adaptation aired July 12, 2006 on TNT, as part of '' Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King''. A song by British black metal/dark ambient band The Axis of Perdition uses excerpts from the story as lyrics. Plot Police constables Ted Vetter and Robert Farnham are working the night shift at a small station in the London suburb of Crouch End. They discuss the case of Doris Freeman, a young American woman who came in to report the disappearance of her husband, lawyer Lonnie Freeman. Nearly hysterical, Doris arrived in the station speaking of monsters and supernatural occurrences. Doris relates how she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ten O'Clock People
"The Ten O'Clock People" is a short story by American author Stephen King, published in the ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'' collection. Unlike many of King's stories which take place in fictional places like Castle Rock, Maine, "The Ten O'Clock People" takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. A film adaptation has been announced. Plot Pearson, a Boston office worker, discovers that people of authority, including many police officers and political figures, including the Vice President of the United States, are inhuman monsters disguised as people. While on his 10 o'clock smoke break, Pearson perceives the bat-like creatures through their disguises. Noticing his reaction, a young black man named Dudley "Duke" Rhinemann stops him from screaming and calms him down. Rhinemann explains that if Pearson wants to live, he must go about his day as usual and meet him at 3 o'clock after work. Pearson does as he is told and discovers that his boss is also one of the "batmen". He leaves work a bit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorry, Right Number
"Sorry, Right Number" is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series ''Tales from the Darkside''. It is the ninth episode of the fourth season. It was later included in King's 1993 short story collection ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'', and is the only such work that King has included in any of his anthologies. It appears in script format, and begins with an authors' guide for screenplays and abbreviations. The ''Tales from the Darkside'' episode originally aired in 1987, and starred Deborah Harmon and Arthur Taxier as Katie and Bill Weiderman, with Rhonda Dotson as Katie's sister Dawn and Katherine Britton, Brandon Stewart and Nicole Huntington as the Weiderman children. It was later produced as a short film in 2005, directed and adapted by Brian Berkowitz. The cast included Darrin Stevens, Karla Droege, Michael Brady, Kimberly D'Armond, Karoline Striplin, and Barbara Weetman. The title is a pun on the title of the radio play and film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coffee Table Book
A coffee table book, also known as a cocktail table book, is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation or pass the time. Subject matter is predominantly non-fiction and pictorial (a photo-book). Pages consist mainly of photographs and illustrations, accompanied by captions and small blocks of text, as opposed to long prose. Since they are aimed at anyone who might pick up the book for a light read, the analysis inside is often more basic and with less jargon than other books on the subject. Because of this, the term "coffee table book" can be used pejoratively to indicate a superficial approach to the subject.. In the field of mathematics, a coffee table book is usually a notebook containing a number of mathematical problems and theorems contributed by a community meeting in a particular place, or connected by a common scientific int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limited Edition Books
A limited-edition book is a book released in a limited-quantity print run, usually fewer than 1000 copies (much smaller than publishing-industry standards). The term connotes scarcity or exclusivity. The higher the quantity printed the less likely the book will become scarce and thus increase in value. Limited editions were introduced by publishers in the late 19th century. The term also implies that no further additional printings of the book with the same design treatment will take place, unlike open-ended trade editions wherein further copies may be released in more print runs as the first and subsequent printings sell out.Carter, John (1998). ABC for Book Collectors (7th ed., revised by Nicholas Barker). New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press Limited-edition books may also be numbered or lettered to distinguish in that set each book. For example, a numbered, limited book could have a marking such as "Copy 1 of a limited edition of 250 copies" or "1/250". Much less common i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Pretty Pony
"My Pretty Pony" is a short story written by Stephen King and illustrated by the artist Barbara Kruger. It was the sixth publication in the Whitney Museum of American Art artist and writer series. An original limited coffee table book edition of 250 was published in 1989 and was an oversized fine press slip-cased book with stainless steel faced boards and digital clock inset into the front cover. A trade edition of 15,000 was later published by Alfred A. Knopf. In 1993, the story was included in King's collection ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes''. Plot summary An elderly man, his death rapidly approaching, takes his young grandson up onto a hill behind his house and gives the boy his pocket watch. Then, standing among falling apple blossoms, the man also "gives instruction" on the nature of time: how when you grow up, it begins to move faster and faster, slipping away from you in great chunks if you don't hold tightly onto it. Time is a pretty pony, with a wicked heart. Background I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainy Season (short Story)
''Rainy Season'' is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in the Spring 1989 issue of ''Midnight Graffiti'' magazine, and later included in King's ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'' collection. It ended a bout of writer's block from which King had been suffering. Plot summary A young husband and wife on summer vacation rent a house in a small town called Willow, Maine, only to be warned repeatedly (if vaguely) to leave by the local inhabitants. They do not comply and, having purchased groceries, return to the house. They learn the price for prosperity the citizens of Willow must pay: every seven years a husband and wife will go there from outside and will stay, despite protests, to become sacrifices during the rainy season. When the "rain" starts, the couple learns the nature of the precipitation: an army of grotesque black toads the size of footballs, armed with needle-sharp teeth and able to chew through doors and walls. After the carnage, the toads melt away into po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Of The Dead (anthology)
''Book of the Dead'' is an anthology of horror stories first published in 1989, edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector and featuring a foreword written by George A. Romero (erroneously credited as George R. Romero in first print editions of the book). All the stories in the anthology are united by the same premise seen in Romero's apocalyptic films, depicting a worldwide outbreak of zombies and various reactions to it. The first book was followed three years later by a follow-up, ''Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2'', with a new group of writers tackling the same premise, though the second book put the stories in order according to their imagined chronology of the zombie takeover. The ''Book of the Dead'' compilations are regarded as classic anthologies in the horror and splatterpunk genres, featuring a great number of famous names including Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert R. McCammon and foreworded by George A. Romero and Tom Savini. They are likely the first anthologies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Delivery (short Story)
"Home Delivery" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was first published in the zombie anthology ''Book of the Dead'' (1989) and later included in King's short story collection ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'' (1993). Plot The protagonist of the story is Maddie Pace, a timid and indecisive young woman who lives on a small island named Gennesault (or "Jenny"), off the coast of Maine. Maddie is both pregnant and a widow, having recently lost her husband in a fishing boat accident. After a scattering of initial outbreaks, dead bodies all over the world begin to reanimate ''en masse'' and attack the living. The source of the phenomenon is eventually traced to " Star Wormwood", a bizarre alien construct orbiting above the ozone layer at the Earth's south pole. A space shuttle under joint American-Soviet authority visits the site and promptly meets with disaster. After further attempts to destroy the object fail, the zombie plague spreads and civilization collapses. Jenny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Know They Got A Hell Of A Band
"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" is a 1992 horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It was first published January 1992 in the horror anthology '' Shock Rock'' and later included in King's collection ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes''. It concerns a young couple on a road trip in Oregon when they accidentally wander into a small town inhabited by dead rock and roll legends. The title of the work, and the name of the town—Rock and Roll Heaven—both come from the chorus of "Rock and Roll Heaven", a song first recorded by Climax in 1973 which became a Top 10 hit by The Righteous Brothers the following year. Plot summary Clark and Mary Willingham are a couple traveling through Oregon. Clark is being transferred out of state, so they opt to take a more scenic route. The two plan to visit Toketee Falls, and Clark insists on taking a road through the deep forest despite Mary's fears of becoming lost. While Mary takes a nap, Clark does indeed become increasingly lost on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
