Nightmares & Dreamscapes

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{{Short description|Short story collection by Stephen King}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Nightmares & Dreamscapes
| image = Nightmares&Dreamscapes.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| author = [[Stephen King]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = Rob Wood
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = [[Horror fiction|Horror]], [[science fiction]]
| publisher = [[Viking Press|Viking]]
| release_date = September 29, [[1993 in literature|1993]]
| media_type = Print (hardcover)
| pages = 816
| isbn = 978-0-670-85108-9
| preceded_by = [[Four Past Midnight]]
| followed_by = [[Hearts in Atlantis]]
}}

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

==Stories==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Title
! Originally published in
|-
| 1
| "[[Dolan's Cadillac (short story)|Dolan's Cadillac]]"
| ''Castle Rock'', February–June 1985
|-
| 2
| "[[The End of the Whole Mess]]"
| October 1986 issue of ''[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]''
|-
| 3
| "[[Suffer the Little Children]]"
| February 1972 issue of ''[[Cavalier (magazine)|Cavalier]]''
|-
| 4
| "[[The Night Flier]]"
| ''[[Prime Evil (anthology)|Prime Evil]]'' (1988)
|-
| 5
| "[[Popsy (short story)|Popsy]]"
| ''Masques II'' (1987)
|-
| 6
| "[[It Grows on You]]"
| Fall 1973 issue of ''Marshroots''
|-
| 7
| "[[Chattery Teeth (short story)|Chattery Teeth]]"
| Fall 1992 issue of ''[[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|Cemetery Dance]]''
|-
| 8
| "[[Dedication (short story)|Dedication]]"
| ''[[Night Visions 5]]'' (1988)
|-
| 9
| "[[The Moving Finger (short story)|The Moving Finger]]"
| December 1990 issue of ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]''
|-
| 10
| "[[Sneakers (short story)|Sneakers]]"
| ''Night Visions 5'' (1988)
|-
| 11
| "[[You Know They Got a Hell of a Band]]"
| ''Shock Rock'' (1992)
|-
| 12
| "[[Home Delivery (short story)|Home Delivery]]"
| ''[[Book of the Dead (anthology)|Book of the Dead]]'' (1989)
|-
| 13
| "[[Rainy Season (short story)|Rainy Season]]"
| Spring 1989 issue of ''Midnight Graffiti''
|-
| 14
| "[[My Pretty Pony]]"
| ''[[My Pretty Pony]]'' [[Limited edition books|limited edition]] [[coffee table book]] (1989)
|-
| 15
| "[[Sorry, Right Number]]"
| ''from the Tales from the Darkside TV series''
|-
| 16
| "[[The Ten O'Clock People]]"
| Previously Unpublished
|-
| 17
| "[[Crouch End (short story)|Crouch End]]"
| ''[[Cthulhu Mythos anthology#New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos|New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos]]'' (1980)
|-
| 18
| "[[The House on Maple Street]]"
| ''Previously unpublished''
|-
| 19
| "[[The Fifth Quarter (short story)|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 (essay)|Head Down]]"
| April 16, 1990 issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]''
|-
| 23
| "[[Brooklyn August]]"
| ''[[Io (magazine)|Io]]'' No. 10, 1971
|-
| 24
| "[[The Beggar and the Diamond]]"
| ''Previously unpublished''
|}

==Dedication==
King dedicated this collection of stories to [[Thomas Williams (writer)|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,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/04/stephen-king-on-the-creative-process-the-state-of-fiction-and-more/237023/|title=Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More|first=James|last=Parker|date=12 April 2011|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> and one he returns to "again and again."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/stephen-king-by-the-book.html|title=Stephen King: By the Book|work=The New York Times |date=4 June 2015|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

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 (American TV series)|Monsters]]'' in 1991. "Chattery Teeth" was adapted into a segment of the 1997 film ''[[Quicksilver Highway]]''. "[[The Night Flier (film)|The Night Flier]]" and "[[Dolan's Cadillac (film)|Dolan's Cadillac]]" were both adapted into films of the same respective names, in 1997 and 2009, respectively.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q2060440|title=The Night Flier}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q907787|title=Dolan's Cadillac}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2022|reason=IMDb is not considered a reliable source. [[WP:USERG]].}} "Home Delivery" and "Rainy Season" were adapted into short films.

===Miniseries===
During the summer of 2006, [[Turner Network Television|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 (book)|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]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
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