10 Stephen King Stories That Need To Become TV Shows

Across his career Stephen King has taken a cue from his own heroes (Richard Matheson and HP Lovecraft), by always keeping his nib inked in the long and short story form - standing now as one of literature's true masters in both of these writing styles. In turn, his skills at putting together a scary tale are something that Hollywood and TV studios cottoned onto decades ago, churning out iterations of his stories, confident that they have the legs to stand up on screen. The reason a lot of his adaptations collapse inwards like a nudged stack of dusty VHS cassettes is due to the way King writes, where he often creates a world, situation and sends us hurtling towards - usually - a dour, closed ending. The same goes for his shorts; as while most readers of this feature will agree that his best include the likes of Children Of The Corn, The Man In The Black Suit and Jerusalem€™s Lot, these three alone wouldn't make it past a feature-length pilot, let alone a whole series order. By design, of course, something truly thrilling usually leaves no ambiguity for a sequel. Thankfully, though, some of King stories show so much promise, and are crammed with themes that could quite simply run and run in a television show, that there is a case to be made for at least ten of them to be given the small screen treatment. With his own 12/22/63 set to air/stream on Hulu in February, there is really no better time for studio heads and eager showrunners to start giving the right stories in his oeuvre the green light, and, what better place to start than this feature. Expect at least a handful of these to be scaring you out of your living room in the near future.