Nightmares & Dreamscapes


Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American author Stephen King, published in 1993.

Stories

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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
5"Popsy"Masques II
6"It Grows on You"Fall 1973 issue of Marshroots
7"Chattery Teeth"Fall 1992 issue of Cemetery Dance
8"Dedication"Night Visions 5
9"The Moving Finger"December 1990 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
10"Sneakers"Night Visions 5
11"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band"Shock Rock
12"Home Delivery"Book of the Dead
13"Rainy Season"Spring 1989 issue of Midnight Graffiti
14"My Pretty Pony"My Pretty Pony limited edition coffee table book
15"Sorry, Right Number"from the Tales from the Darkside TV series
16"The Ten O'Clock People"Previously Unpublished
17"Crouch End"New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
18"The House on Maple Street"Previously unpublished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
21"Umney's Last Case"Previously unpublished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24"The Beggar and the Diamond"Previously unpublished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, and one he returns to "again and again."
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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. "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 ; and "The Road Virus Heads North" and "Autopsy Room Four", from Everything's Eventual.