Making it the debut of Nightmares & Dreamscapes told Constant Readers and horror fans that the show would deliver faithful takes on King’s work that would be both creepy and entertaining, and it was a great choice. As I noted in last week’s column about the episode, it’s a high concept story about toy soldiers that lead an assault against an assassin who kills a famous toy maker, and it’s executed with tremendous style and flair – opting not to features a single line of dialogue, and featuring some impressive, state-of-the-art visual effects.
But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.For the premiere, the obvious choice to lead things off was “Battleground,” the adaptation of the Stephen King short from 1979’s Night Shift (opens in new tab) directed by Brian Henson and starring William Hurt. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection-classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated.
What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories-a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac.
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