One of these, the critically-derided The Children of the Corn, managed to begin a long-running horror franchise, while another (“Trucks”) was adapted not once, but twice, as an expensive King-directed flop and as a smaller scale television movie. King’s endlessly influential early collection Night Shift, for example, spawned no less than ten adaptations between television and cinema screens. Related: Why Freddy Krueger & Pennywise Share The Exact Same Weakness Almost all of these collections have inspired at least one TV or movie adaptation, with some of them spawning screen versions of almost all their stories. King has numerous short story collections, some of which are all horror and others of which bounce back and forth between different genres depending on the tale. Some of the most well-loved King movies are adapted from the author’s large back catalog of short stories, such as The Shawshank Redemption. However, not all of King’s adaptations come from the author’s many novels. The prolific author has penned dozens of novels and short stories in the intervening decades and his works have inspired adaptations ranging from the sublime (1980’s masterful The Shining) to the ridiculous (2020’s disastrously miscast The Stand remake).

Many of Stephen King’s works have been adapted to the big and small screen, but which of the author’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes stories have adaptations so far? Since his 1974 debut Carrie became a bestseller, Stephen King has been the first name in American horror writing.

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