Stephen King is known best for his novels, but he's also written over 200 short stories. This page lists a few of them with a short teaser. I try not to give away too much of the plot. I hope you find a new story to check out. If you're interested in a collection, it seems...
This chilling adaptation of King's short story delves into the eerie world of Gatlin, Nebraska, where a community of children has murdered all of the adults under the influence of a demonic entity. As a young couple becomes trapped in the town and targeted by the murderous chi...
Let's be honest: Making a good film about a possessed laundry machine was never going to be easy and, sure enough, Tobe Hooper's adaptation of this silly King short story is about as terrible as you'd expect. Making a good film about a possessed laundry machine was never going to be...
adapted from Stephen King’s short story of the same name and published in hisNIGHT SHIFTcollection. I can appreciate the us vs. them theme as Warwick, the foreman of Bachman Mills, is the great evil in the lives of his union workers, especially when the health department comes...
One of the more surprising King movies arrived in 1990 based on his short storyGraveyard Shift. It was surprising because the story was quite gruesome, as it followed a group of textile mill workers who end up attacked by oversized rats.King himself hatedGraveyard Shift, calling it a "quick...
Now, this 1992 film is kind of a cheat on the list of "adaptations" because it's not actually an adaptation of a King novel or short story. It's a movie written by King. But it's so monumentally bad that it felt like a bigger cheat to omit it from the list entirely. ...
The opening short story of King’s Bazaar of Broken Dreams was originally published as an e-novel in 2011. It’s a wonderfully gory and grotesque piece of storytelling that would work perfectly on the screen. Although, it is hard to describe without making it sound goofy: The plot centers...
Other fun facts about Stephen King: Carriewas initially intended to be a short story, but King threw the first draft in the trash. Thankfully, his wife Tabitha rescued the draft. Stephen King published other works using his two pen names: John Swithen and Richard Bachman. ...
In the first section of the story, Carrie had a greasy face with blackheads and wore stockings that were always running or about to run and she was always showing sweat stains under the arms of her blouses. Carrie is especially unattractive because of her mother's control over her. In the...
The fodder for the Lifetime movie is the novella, “Big Driver”, which is included in King’s short story collectionFull Dark, No Stars. “Big Driver” centers on Tess, the middle-aged writer of theWillow Grove Knitting Societymysteries – a series of cozy mysteries, beloved by grandmother...