Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. 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).Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. "Home Delivery" and "Rainy Season" were adapted into short films.ĭuring the summer of 2006, TNT produced the eight-episode miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. " The Night Flier" and " Dolan's Cadillac" were both adapted into films of the same respective names, in 19, respectively. "Chattery Teeth" was adapted into a segment of the 1997 film Quicksilver Highway. "The Moving Finger" was adapted into a season 3 episode of Monsters in 1991. "Sorry, Right Number" was telecast as a season 4 episode of Tales from the Darkside in 1987 before it was published in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. In memory of THOMAS WILLIAMS, 1926–1990: poet, novelist, and great American storyteller. 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." King dedicated this collection of stories to Thomas Williams, a writing instructor who taught for many years at the University of New Hampshire. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1987) My Pretty Pony limited edition coffee table book (1989) Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American author Stephen King, published in 1993.ĭecember 1990 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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