Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American author Stephen King, published in 1993. Audio introduction and notes read by Stephen King.
Stories
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| 1
| "Dolan's Cadillac"
| Castle Rock, February–June 1985
| Rob Lowe
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| 2
| "The End of the Whole Mess"
| October 1986 issue of Omni
| Matthew Broderick
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| 3
| "Suffer the Little Children"
| February 1972 issue of Cavalier
| Whoopi Goldberg
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| 4
| "The Night Flier"
| Prime Evil (1988)
| Frank Muller
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| 5
| "Popsy"
| Masques II (1987)
| Joe Mantegna
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| 6
| "It Grows on You"
| Fall 1973 issue of Marshroots
| Stephen King
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| 7
| "Chattery Teeth"
| Fall 1992 issue of Cemetery Dance
| Kathy Bates
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| 8
| "Dedication"
| Night Visions 5 (1988)
| Lindsay Crouse
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| 9
| "The Moving Finger"
| December 1990 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
| Eve Beglarian
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| 10
| "Sneakers"
| Night Visions 5 (1988)
| David Cronenberg
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| 11
| "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band"
| Shock Rock (1992)
| Grace Slick
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| 12
| "Home Delivery"
| Book of the Dead (1989)
| Stephen King
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| 13
| "Rainy Season"
| Spring 1989 issue of Midnight Graffiti
| Yeardley Smith
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| 14
| "My Pretty Pony"
| My Pretty Pony limited edition coffee table book (1989)
| Jerry Garcia
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| 15
| "Sorry, Right Number"
| from the Tales from the Darkside TV series
| Deborah Harmon, Arthur Taxier, Rhonda Dotson, Katherine Britton, Brandon Stewart, Nicole Huntington, Catherine Battistone and Paul Sparer
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| 16
| "The Ten O'Clock People"
| Previously Unpublished
| Joe Morton
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| 17
| "Crouch End"
| New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
| Tim Curry
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| 18
| "The House on Maple Street"
| Previously unpublished
| Tabitha King
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| 19
| "The Fifth Quarter"
| April 1972 issue of Cavalier
| Gary Sinise
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| 20
| "The Doctor's Case"
| The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
| Tim Curry
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| 21
| "Umney's Last Case"
| Previously unpublished
| Robert B. Parker
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| 22
| "Head Down"
| April 16, 1990 issue of The New Yorker
| Stephen King
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| 23
| "Brooklyn August"
| Io No. 10, 1971
| Stephen J. Gould
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| 24
| "The Beggar and the Diamond"
| Previously unpublished
| Domenic Cuskern
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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 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 (1978); and "The Road Virus Heads North" and "Autopsy Room Four", from Everything's Eventual (2002).
See also
- 1993 in literature
- Stephen King short fiction bibliography