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I really love the audio of some of this collection, especially Rainy Season, Night Flyer, and Crouch End. I listened to those three a LOT while painting my office/study in early 2020, so now when I hear them again I am transported back to the beginning of the pandemic, same room, deep blue paint. Fun review!
This and Barker’s Books of Blood and McCammon’s Blue World really solidified my love of short horror fiction in my late teens/early 20’s. Loved the Rainy Season. Loved Special Delivery and all that talk about the wheel. That Crouch End really bothered me for a looong time. The fact that you and your loved one on vacation could just mosey on into a thin place where you end up with tentacle monsters and wicked kids in the streets. And then LOSE your loved one in that place never to be seen again. It bugged me big time. I think that’s one of the first cosmic stories I ever read. And I loved The 10 o’clock people even though it reminds me of Dean Koontz’s Twilight Eyes. But it doesn’t bother me because I love two good takes on the same idea. Nice video.
One of my first King short story collections I read as a kid.. also I got Scribd through your last link and still have it, and just renewed it for the year, omg so worth it!! I check it before I buy anything :)
The men's room scene in "The Night Flier" is quintessential King, goofy on the surface but quite unsettling in the story itself; it's an image fit for Inside View, and it subsequently destroys Dee's sanity. I think that's what I love most about King's work. He always delves into the fragility of our sanity, reminding us just how easy it can be getting lost in "banana land". Also, I feel like "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" could be King's White Album, for better or for worse.
Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American author Stephen King, published in 1993. 1 "Dolan's Cadillac" Castle Rock, February-June 1985 2 "The End of the Whole Mess" October 1986 issue of Omni 3 "Suffer the Little Children" February 1972 issue of Cavalier 4 "The Night Flier" Prime Evil (1988) 5 "Popsy" Masques II (1987) 6 "It Grows on You" Fall 1973 issue of Marshroots 7 "Chattery Teeth" Fall 1992 issue of Cemetery Dance 8 "Dedication" Night Visions 5 (1988) 9 "The Moving Finger" December 1990 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 10 "Sneakers" Night Visions 5 (1988) 11 "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" Shock Rock (1992) 12 "Home Delivery" Book of the Dead (1989) 13 "Rainy Season" Spring 1989 issue of Midnight Graffiti 14 "My Pretty Pony" My Pretty Pony limited edition coffee table book (1989) 15 "Sorry, Right Number" Previously unpublished 16 "The Ten O'Clock People" 17 "Crouch End" New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980) 18 "The House on Maple Street" Previously unpublished 19 "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" April 16, 1990 issue of The New Yorker 23 "Brooklyn August" Io No. 10, 1971 24 "The Beggar and the Diamond" Previously unpublished 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. "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. 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).
I always get a kick when you mention me in your videos. Inside Edition was referenced in Fair Extension and Inside View was in 16 different King books but mostly in The Dead Zone (24 times) and The Night Flier (16 times). The End of the Whole Mess happens to everyone on Earth! Apocalyptic! Death to all humans! Plus, you can watch it on Amazon Prime Video. The series is called Nightmares & Dreamscapes, and it's 8 episodes about 45 minutes each, all of which are from the collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes except for two which are from the collection Everything's Eventual. Dolan's Cadillac is on RU-vid Movies. Other episodes from the Prime Video are Battleground, Crouch End, Umney's Last Case, The Road Virus Heads North (From EE), The Fifth Quarter, The Autopsy Room (from EE), and You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. You said Suffer the Little Children is the "other" gun violence in schools besides Rage but you forgot about Cain Rose Up which if you search imdb, you'll find at least 6 dollar babies for that one. I too loved You Know They Got a Hell of a Band! I have Apple TV+ but I couldn't find Crouch End on it. I also searched JustWatch, Hulu, Netflix, HBOMax, Paramount+, Disney+ and couldn't find it. There are still a lot of short-stories and novellas that King could throw into a new collection like The Plant: Zenith Rising, The Aftermath, The Crate, The Cannibals, Cat's Eye, and Chinga to name a few. I'd love to see the original version of The Long Walk that he finished in 1967 at age 19 and failed to get published until he revised it in 1978 and published in 1979 as Richard Bachman.
@@EdwardLorn Chapelwaite is the adaptation of the short-story Jerusalem's Lot from Night Shift and occurs in years like 1850 and 1789. It's about Vampires. Crouch End occurs in a London suburb of Crouch End and it's modern day.
@@TroubleToby3040 I don't know of any other horror book channels like E's. They either bore me or try too hard to be goth. I like Ask A Mortician, Book Roast, Bad Animation, and a ton of Harry Potter, lol. Sorry! I try to keep down to under 15 channels so I won't spend so much time on YT, you know? Maybe E can rec some good book channels though??
Got the beard going on brah, mid-Feburary I stopped shaving and went on a keto diet, lost 21 pounds and beard is raging...You are so in your element talking about King's work. Started re-reading Chayefsky's "Altered States", about 2 hours ago, near halfway.
Some grade ratings and brief commentary. 1 "Dolan's Cadillac” B, fun, vintage King idea, if far fetched. I like revenge stories. 2 "The End of the Whole Mess" C, sad ending, but otherwise not memorable. 3 "Suffer the Little Children” No. 4 "The Night Flier" A, a great idea and interesting take on vampires. I liked the movie too. Funny and horrific. 5 "Popsy" No. 6 "It Grows on You” No. 7 "Chattery Teeth" C, fun but nothing exciting. 8 "Dedication" A, I liked this one a lot. Weird, perverse, unique. 9 "The Moving Finger" C, monster of the week idea, without explanation, which was for the better. 10 "Sneakers” No. 11 "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" C, agreed that the idea was more interesting than the execution. 12 "Home Delivery" No. 13 "Rainy Season" B, another monster of the week idea, but I enjoyed the arguing couple and the froggy ending. 14 "My Pretty Pony" No. 15 "Sorry, Right Number” B, it was a Tales From the Darkside episode. 16 "The Ten O'Clock People" C, kind of a They Live vibe. 17 "Crouch End” C, atmospheric, but nothing memorable. 18 "The House on Maple Street" No. 19 "The Fifth Quarter" C, early King, I like the partial map idea. 20 "The Doctor's Case" C, Sherlock Holmes take but nothing memorable. 21 "Umney's Last Case" A, one of my favorite from the collection. I like the idea of an author infiltrating his own story and the characters being confused as to why their own constant, supposedly unchanging story is now being altered. 22 "Head Down" No. 23 "Brooklyn August” No. 24 "The Beggar and the Diamond” No.
Also some of these short stories were written in the 1970s and 1980s, and there was good reason why they weren’t included in his previous two collections, due to poor quality. And strangely, it wouldn’t be until years later that The Cat From Hell (1977) was actually included in a collection (Just After Sunset, 2008), because that one was very good in a campy way. King even admitted he didn’t know it hadn’t been collected previously.
Do you like 'Ten O'Clock People'? You may have skipped talking about it and it may be one of the stronger stories in the collection. Curious if you'd give it a 3 like most of the others or possibly a 4.
