Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American author Stephen King, published in 1993.
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Stephen King |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Rob Wood |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Viking |
Publication date | September 29, 1993 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 816 |
| ISBN | 978-0-670-85108-9 |
Stories
| # | Title | Originally published in |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dolan's Cadillac" | Castle Rock, February–June 1985 |
| 2 | "The End of the Whole Mess" | October 1986 issue of Omni |
| 3 | "Suffer the Little Children" | February 1972 issue of Cavalier |
| 4 | "The Night Flier" | Prime Evil (1988) |
| 5 | "Popsy" | Masques II (1987) |
| 6 | "It Grows on You" | Fall 1973 issue of Marshroots |
| 7 | "Chattery Teeth" | Fall 1992 issue of Cemetery Dance |
| 8 | "Dedication" | Night Visions 5 (1988) |
| 9 | "The Moving Finger" | December 1990 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 10 | "Sneakers" | Night Visions 5 (1988) |
| 11 | "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" | Shock Rock (1992) |
| 12 | "Home Delivery" | Book of the Dead (1989) |
| 13 | "Rainy Season" | Spring 1989 issue of Midnight Graffiti |
| 14 | "My Pretty Pony" | My Pretty Pony limited edition coffee table book (1989) |
| 15 | "Sorry, Right Number" | Previously unpublished |
| 16 | "The Ten O'Clock People" | |
| 17 | "Crouch End" | New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980) |
| 18 | "The House on Maple Street" | Previously unpublished |
| 19 | "The Fifth Quarter" | April 1972 issue of Cavalier |
| 20 | "The Doctor's Case" | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1987) |
| 21 | "Umney's Last Case" | Previously unpublished |
| 22 | "Head Down" | April 16, 1990 issue of The New Yorker |
| 23 | "Brooklyn August" | Io No. 10, 1971 |
| 24 | "The Beggar and the Diamond" | Previously unpublished |
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,[1] and one he returns to "again and again."[2]
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 adapted into films of the same respective names, in 1997 and 2009, respectively.[3][4] "Home Delivery" and "Rainy Season" were adapted into short films.
Miniseries
During the summer of 2006, TNT produced the eight-episode miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. Despite the title, three of the eight stories were not culled from the book: "Battleground", from Night Shift (1978); and "The Road Virus Heads North" and "Autopsy Room Four", from Everything's Eventual (2002).
References
- Parker, James (12 April 2011). "Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". The Atlantic.
- "Stephen King: By the Book". The New York Times. 4 June 2015 – via NYTimes.com.
- The Night Flier at IMDb
- Dolan's Cadillac at IMDb
