Stephen King Goes to the Movies

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Stephen King Goes to the Movies
AuthorStephen King
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
Publication date
January 20, 2009
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages592


Stephen King Goes to the Movies is a short story collection by Stephen King, released in paperback on January 20, 2009. It contains five previously collected pieces of short fiction that have been adapted to popular films, each with a short introduction by the author written specially for this book. At the end a list of King's top ten favorite film adaptations of his work is included.

This is Stephen King's first collection of previously collected material.

Stories

Title Collected in Filmed as
"1408" Everything's Eventual (2002) 1408 (2007)
"The Mangler" Night Shift (1978) The Mangler (1995)
"Low Men in Yellow Coats" Hearts in Atlantis (1999) Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" Different Seasons (1982) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
"Children of the Corn" Night Shift (1978) Children of the Corn (1984)