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	The Short Stories and Tales List: A SeaDolby Category Page
		A short story is so much better than a rambling novel that can easily twist back on itself, of which most readers are not involved enough to notice.
		From a well written and deeply thought about short story emerges a novel that is packed with space fillers and written to the whims and under the pressures of the publisher, who only cares about year-end sales figures!
		Short stories are talked about afterwards in pubs, over the dinner table or on trains, buses or planes and they are not forgotten willingly.
	www.seadolby.com /linkage/shortstory.html (315 words)

	1408 (short story) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"1408" is the 2nd short story in the audiobook collection entitled Blood and Smoke, by Stephen King, released in 1999.
		In the introduction to the story, King says that 1408 is his version of what he calls the "Ghostly Room at the Inn", his term for the theme of haunted hotel or motel rooms in horror fiction.
		In this story, King's protagonist yet again happens to be a writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1408_(short_story) (708 words)

	Stephanie Harrison - Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen - Useful Information
		Produced by Dedicate and GMM Tai HubHub, the film is adapted from short stories by Ajin Panjapan and his semi-autobiographical account of coming-of-age in a tin mine in post-World War II Thailand.
		This short story, published Glamour, is a wish-fulfillment fantasy that explores a married woman's life had she chosen a different path.
		Short story adaptation by Tony Grisoni from an Aldiss story about twins joined at the liver who form a rock band in the 1970s.
	www.shortstoryadaptations.com /newsandrumors.html (1598 words)

	Kev's Stephen King House of Everything's Eventual
		Reading the short story (featuring yet another bestselling writer from Maine), I became convinced that King was simply picking up bits of past stories and tossing them in the blender and seeing what comes out of it all.
		The horror stories involve themselves with events that transcend everyday life; the thematic strings that hold those stories together, though, are the exact representation of everyday life.
		This is the story which won the prestigious O. Henry Award, the award for the best magazine-published short story of the year.
	members.tripod.com /~charnelhouse/everythingseventual.html (6872 words)

	Blood and Smoke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blood and Smoke (2000) is an audio book where Stephen King reads three of his own short stories.
		At the time, he said that the two short stories which hadn't been published wouldn't be - however, all three were published in the Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales collection.
		All the three stories in Blood and Smoke are about smoking in one way or the other.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blood_and_Smoke (153 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Skeleton Crew at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		If you had to pick one of King's short story collections to read, this is the one to go with.
		And not only is it the first story in the book, it is also the best, telling an eerie tale of a band of townspeople holed up in a local supermarket and forced to battle all sorts of Lovecraftian beasts.
		Another great story is The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, a very strange tale of a book agent's spiralling descent into madness when he is driven insane by the knowledge magical creatures live in writers' typewriters and the writer who brought them to his attention, with horrifying results.
	www.epinions.com /content_65001918084 (994 words)

	collectedstories: news: Story to Screen
		The story, about a blind man who arrives in a new town to tell a story of having traveled across a desert after his death, is also the first chapter of Brockmeier's unfinished novel of the same name.
		short story about a bestselling horror author who decides to stay overnight in a haunted room of a New York City hotel -- "1408," named in reference to the room number -- is being adapted by Matt Greenberg for Dimension Studios of Miramax.
		The story was intially written for The Atlantic Monthly 125 years ago as a sort of game concocted by Twain, who was from Buffalo, in which he would provide a "skeleton plot" from which he and other authors of the day would construct their own independent stories.
	www.collectedstories.com /files/storyteller/storytoscreen.html (2724 words)

	Amazon.com: Everything's Eventual: Five Dark Tales: Books: Stephen King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The story went on to win the 1996 O. Henry Award for Best Short Story, confirming what King fans have known for years that the author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modern-day counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens.
		King accompanies each story with a short note about its inspiration and development, and sometimes a few words about how the writing went and what he thinks of the story now.
		I love the Stephen King novels, but his book of short stories is great for beach reading, or while waiting to pick the child up from football practice, etc. There's nothing like the short stories for the hectic days of summer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743525884?v=glance (1956 words)

	Short Stephen King Story 1408 Made In To A Movie Starring John Cusack - Insomniac Mania
		The Stephen King short story, "1408", is set to be made in to a movie, with John Cusack in the lead role.
		In short, the story sees a sceptical paranormal investigator spend a night in a supposedly haunted hotel room.
		The investigator has a bit of shock however, when for the first time in his career, he finds that the room he is spending the night in, really is haunted leading to some truly freaky events.
	www.insomniacmania.com /news_default.php?id=3289 (561 words)

	Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King [10-year anniversary; 1996 - 2006]
		"1408" is the tale of a debunker of paranormal occurrences (John Cusack) who encounters real terror when he checks into the notorious Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel.
		Dimension has set helmer Mikael Hafstrom and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura for a horror movie based on Stephen King's short story "1408." The script by Matt Greenberg is being rewritten by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
		The short story appeared in the King audio book Blood and Smoke and later in the King anthology Everything's Eventual, published in 2002.
	www.liljas-library.com /section.php?id=10 (749 words)

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		Judging by the impact of these stories, from the first words of the darkly fascinating "Autopsy Room Four" to the haunting final pages of "Luckey Quarter," one can almost believe King truly is guided by forces from beyond.
		The short story format showcases King's ability to spook readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories (a boyhood fishing excursion).
		"1408," the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore.
	www.americanbookco.com /ItemDetails.aspx?ID=260497 (777 words)

	Short Stories \| Blood & Smoke by Stephen King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first story in this set, "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," is an okay story, but it's got so much going during the climax, you really need to be able to read it, to see exactly what's going on.
		Last is "In the Deathroom," yet another short story that began as an interesting idea, but wasn't brought to complete fruition, and was put to paper before it was ready.
		This story is a scene in a longer novel, a simple series of events coming from one place, and leading to another.
	www.inetreviews.com /bookreviews/DennisMoore/BloodAndSmoke/bloodsmoke.html (621 words)

	Everything's Eventual
		This one had all the elements of a great short story, and I mean a short story, not a story that screams to stretch itself beyond the boundaries of a short story in which it has been confined...
		I thought first, I'm not crazy myself about short stories and why is it so, but then I remembered that one of my favorites among the classics is French author Guy de Maupassant, and though he also wrote novels, I have a preference for his short stories (the same goes for Henry James...).
		The "lost art" of the short story is, I think, a side-effect of living now and in our society, linked also to the fact that we are always connected to the Internet and have a cell-phone nearby (King describes well the spirit of it on page 16).
	discussingbooks.cohprog.com /dbe/English/EverythingsEventual.htm (1739 words)

	T. Rex's Guide to Stephen King - Books, 9
		Riding the Bullet is "a ghost story in the grand manner" from the bestselling author of Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and The Green Mile - a short story about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side.
		The story isn't particularly scary and features basically no supernatural stuff at all, but it is touching and gives you some insight into several characters.
		It isn't that it's poorly written or the story doesn't have any elements of interest, it's just that it doesn't have much in the way of suspense and the so-called "resolution" is a huge let-down (although it appears this was done on purpose).
	quinnell.us /literature/sk/sk9.html (1832 words)

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		King always alternates between cliched and flat prose and the stuff of legend; that's why I said his work is geared better for short stories, because you won't have to put up with 600 pages of crap in a 1200 page book.
		He spends much of the story thinking about all of the various weird and bizarre grafitti he's collected from rest-stop restrooms in the midwest.
		The title story is also interesting, about a young man who gets hired to use his "special powers" to assassinate "bad people" before realizing he's being used.
	www.xanga.com /item.aspx?user=WordsAmpersand&tab=weblogs&uid=153440096 (943 words)

	Ming Empire 1368-1644 by Sanderson Beck
		Although Hongxi had a short reign, he is credited with reforms that made lasting improvements, and his liberal policies were carried on by his son.
		This short story is a powerful protest of the way Chinese men exploited women and failed to appreciate their true value.
		The story goes from the declining Han dynasty, starting in 168 CE and ending in 220, through the existence of the three kingdoms until they each have fallen to the Jin dynasty by 280, when even Wei succumbed.
	www.san.beck.org /3-7-MingEmpire.html (23715 words)

	Scott Alexander
		The short story originally appeared in King's audio book Blood and Smoke and was later included as one of 14 short stories in the author's Everything's Eventual, which was published in 2002.
		The story, which is available on King's "Everything's Eventual" compilation, will be adapted by the screenwriting team of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
		According to Variety, "Story revolves around a man specializing in debunking paranormal occurrences who meets his match when he checks into the notorious room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/scott_alexander/news.php (715 words)

	Wikipedia: Wikipedia
		The Chinese emperor Yongle oversaw the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the largest encyclopedias in history, which was completed in 1408 and comprised over 11,000 handwritten volumes, of which only about 400 now survive.
		The early Muslim compilations of knowledge in the middle ages included many comprehensive works, and much development of what we now call scientific method, historical method, and citation.
		Wells's short story of a World Brain (1937) and Vannevar Bush's future vision of the microfilm based Memex, in As We May Think (1945).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/wi/wikipedia_1.html (1683 words)

	1408
		Based upon the short story by Stephen King, 1408 features Mike Enslin as a celebrity author who debunks paranormal activities.
		In a bid to get over the death of his daughter Mike throws himself into his work, debunking the biggest supernatural myths in the US.
		"An excellent chiller based on Stephen King's short story and starring John Cusack as a cynical writer who cranks out tongue-in-cheek tourist guides to supposedly haunted hotels."
	www.allocine.co.uk /film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=111138.html (272 words)

	Horrorking.Com Online Store Page 2
		Another "Short Story" collection of King's work, but this time all the stories follow in a series from 1960 to 1999, although each stands alone.
		A story of Pennywise the clown, who is ageless evil, trying to kill children in the town of Derry, and the fight back from a group that call themselves the "Losers".
		How King sold the rights to his so-so short story about a murderous satyr who mows lawns to the producers, and how they turned it into this unrelated tribute to cyberspace/virtual reality, is probably a story in itself worthy of a movie.
	www.horrorking.com /amazonshop/store2.html (1157 words)

	Daoist Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The long standing tradition about the authorship of the text is that the "founder" of Daoism, known as Laozi gave it to Yin Xi, the guardian of the pass through the mountains that he used to go from China to the West.
		This text is a collection of stories and imaginary conversations known for its creativity and skillful use of language.
		One of the most famous stories in the text is that of Ding the Butcher, who learned what it means to wu wei through the perfection of his craft.
	www.iep.utm.edu /d/daoism.htm (7213 words)

	Forums - [ the.stephen-king.net 2.0 ]
		In King's latest, Harvey's Dream, is a short story following a wife and a husband on an early Saturday morning in their kitchen.
		My interpretation of the story's ending is that late at night Harvey woke up, took the car for a drive and accidentally killed his daughter Jenna.
		I think this is a great short story to give us at a time of his future completion of the Dark Tower books.
	www.stephen-king.net /forums/thread.asp?id=1625 (2908 words)

	Find that Stephen King Short Story
		Unpublished short story written when King was 6
		Stories of Suspense (as "In a Half-World of Terror") (1966)
		King mentions in the preface to "The Green Mile" that it became the basis for 'The Green Mile' story.
	www.horrorking.com /findstory.html (1181 words)

	Variety.com - Short stories stir big plans
		Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" -- originally published in the New Yorker -- got a shoutout from the Oscar podium last week, it highlighted the form's rising stock with studios.
		But now arthouse pics are more likely than ever to come from a short story.
		Pics based on interlinked short stories "Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing" and "The Joy of Funerals" are also in production.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117939579?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562 (378 words)

	Short Stories
		These stories were written for various writing challenges held at the
		Written for a Mystery Challenge where the story sentences must start with the letter A and proceed through the alphabet, omitting X and Z. Lorcan
		Written for a Short-Short Story Challenge in which 6 arbitrarily chosen words must appear (in bold font).
	www.janaconda.com /crystal/stories/storyindex.htm (241 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King - Hardcover - Bargain
		The title story is from a game called F13 (don't ask us) and tells of social outcast Dink Earnshaw, who uses symbols and personal words to lead others to suicide.
		The stories in it are very original and entertaining, most with shocking endings.
		They remind me of the characters in Janvier Tisi’s stories, who despite their strengths are victims of the situations they find themselves in.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=wE5SCOSBGz&isbn=064155902X&itm=6 (1241 words)

	1408 - Mikael Håfström
		John Cusack will star in the bigscreen adaptation of Stephen King's short story "1408" for director Mikael Hafstrom, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Dimension Films.
		Penned by "The People vs. Larry Flynt" scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the movie centers on a debunker of paranormal occurrences who encounters real terror when he checks into notorious Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel.
		"1408" originally appeared as a King audio book, called "Blood and Smoke," and was subsequently included in King's 2002 short story collection "Everything's Eventual".
	www.stephen-king.tk /1408.htm (133 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		NEW YORK, NY (Monday, September 15, 2003) - The Board of Directors of the National Book Foundation today announced that its 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters will be conferred upon Stephen King, one of the nation's most popular, imaginative, and well-loved authors.
		King has published more than 200 short stories (including the O. Henry Award-winning "The Man in the Black Suit") and 40 books during a career spanning three decades.
		He has earned the reputation among readers and booklovers as a genre-defying stylist, vivid storyteller, and master of suspense.
	www.nationalbook.org /dcal_2003.html (927 words)

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