Made into a movie under the title Stand by Me.

The Body (or, Fall from Innocence) - Four young friends trek into the woods to see another boy's corpse.

Made into a movie by Bryan Singer starring Sir Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro.

Apt Pupil (or, Summer of Corruption) - A teenage boy learns about the Holocaust right from the source.Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (or, Hope Springs Eternal) - Hope springs eternal, even in prison.The four novellas in Different Seasons are, in order presented: Three of the four novellas were later adapted into feature films. Published in 1982, it represented something of a departure for King at that point, as three of the novellas were straight dramatic stories (albeit with some horrific elements) that did not deal with the supernatural fiction that he was known for.

“The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.Different Seasons is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King. This novella became the movie Stand By Me.įinally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.

This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Stephen King’s collection of novellas, Different Seasons available here bound by hand in laser-etched, hand-dyed leather.Ī “hypnotic” ( The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption-from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.

Different seasons book