Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

File:Nightmares&Dreamscapes.jpg 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

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

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15	Sorry, Right Number	Previously unpublished
16	The Ten O'Clock People	Previously unpublished
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18	The House on Maple Street	Previously unpublished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21	Umney's Last Case	Previously unpublished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 #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24	The Beggar and the Diamond	Previously unpublished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, he has singled out Williams' National Book Award-winning novel The Hair of Harold Roux as a favorite of his, and one of the books that King returns to "again and again."

The dedication reads:

In memory of

THOMAS WILLIAMS,

1926–1990:

poet, novelist, and

great American storyteller.

Adaptations

"The Night Flier" and "Dolan's Cadillac" were both adapted to films of the same respective names. "Chattery Teeth"' was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway. "Sorry, Right Number" was telecast as an episode of Tales from the Darkside before it was published in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. "The Moving Finger" was adapted into an episode of the TV show Monsters. "Home Delivery" and "Rainy Season" were adapted into short films.

Television series

Main article: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

During the summer of 2006, TNT produced an eight-episode miniseries on various short stories by Stephen King. Although one may assume from the title that all of the episodes in the miniseries are from the collection of the same name, this is true for only five of the eight ("Battleground" was featured in Night Shift and "The Road Virus Heads North" and "Autopsy Room Four" appear in Everything's Eventual).

See also

• 1993 in literature
• Stephen King short fiction bibliography