1 bestsellers are Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute and The Outsider. His novella collections include Full Dark, No Stars and Just After Sunset, described in the Sunday Telegraph as 'mysterious, gripping and satisfyingly scary'. He is an acclaimed master of the short narrative form.
In 2007, he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including the classic film Stand By Me (adapted from The Body), Apt Pupil and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.Stephen King was the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association LIfetime achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. It’s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection.STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. The final novella, “Breathing Lessons,” is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” into Frank Darabont’s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), “Apt Pupil” into Bryan Singer’s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and “The Body” into Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me (1986). The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy’s corpse. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. The first is a rich, satisfying, non-horrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison.
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey.
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