Different Seasons

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

SUMMER OF CORRUPTION

Apt Pupil

FALL FROM INNOCENCE

The Body

A WINTER'S TALE

The Breathing Method

Afterword

From the Magical Penof Stephen King, Four Mesmerizing Novellas ...

DIFFERENT SEASONS

"Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"

An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge ... the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award® nominee The Shawshank Redemption.

"Apt Pupil"

Todd Bowden is one of the top students in his high school class and a typical American sixteen-year-old-until he becomes obsessed with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. The inspiration for the film Apt Pupil from Phoenix Pictures.

"The Body"

Four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. The film Stand By Me is based on this novella.

"The Breathing Method"

A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death.

"To find the secret of his success, you have to compare King to Twain and Poe-King's stories tap the roots of myth buried in all our minds."

-Los Angeles Times

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THE DARK HALF
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THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER
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THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE "Superb."
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THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS
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THE DEAD ZONE
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DIFFERENT SEASONS
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THE EYES OF THE DRAGON
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