Stephen King is arguably the greatest storyteller of his generation, a modern day Charles Dickens, and writer of over fifty novels. Although King is often slated to be a "popular novelist" (said like it's a bad thing), he is also considered by many to be one of the best American writers, an author who continually proves himself capable of merging the ordinary with the unknown - finding fear and (sometimes) hope in the most unlikely of places. The fact that King chooses to write about killer clowns and rabid dogs has earned him a fair few detractors, though. To those people, I say: have you ever read one of Stephen King's books? I don't see how anybody could read
Misery and come out saying that it's not both a brilliantly terrifying horror yarn and also a whole lot more: a meditation on creativity, a novel about the plight of the author, and a brilliant deconstruction of the "fan." Because King doesn't
just write trash - his stories are far deeper and more intelligent than what they may seem on the surface. Which is, why, I suppose, so many of them have been made into such wonderful, memorable movies. And although King must be well on his way to becoming the most adapted author in history, there are some great works that still haven't been giving the chance to become
Shawshank Redemptions or
Stand By Mes, although they're more than up to the task. To celebrate those novels and novellas that are yet to find themselves on the big screen, here are 10 Stephen King stories that I believe to be ripe for cinematic adaptation. As much as I'd love to see them all adapted into movies, though, the odds of it ever happening are seriously, seriously low...