Apt Pupil: Precursors and Influences --
1 Abominations: Birth of a Genre 3 --
2 House of Frankenstein: The Universal Monsters and the Hammer Revival 10 --
3 Creature Features: Horror at the Drive-In 22 --
4 "Poepictures": Roger Corman's Buckets of Blood 28 --
5 Dark Visions: Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, and the Rise of Modern Horror 33 --
1976 to 1983: Becoming a Brand Name --
6 Boogeyman: Carrie and Salem's Lot Introduce America's New Horror King 43 --
7 Forever ... and Ever...: The Enduring Mysteries of The Shining 56 --
8 Blaze: Cujo, The Dead Zone, and Christine Ignite the King Phenomenon 66 --
1984 to 1989: Overdrive --
9 Waste Lands: Children of the Corn, Firestarter, and Silver Bullet 85 --
10 Different Seasons: To Hell and Back with Maximum Overdrive and Stand by Me 98 --
11 Bare Bones: Through the Lean Years with The Running Man and Pet Sematary 111 --
1990s: The Castle Rock Era --
12 Rage: The Violent Mood Swings of Graveyard Shift and Misery 125 --
13 Danse Macabre: Sleepwalkers, The Dark Half, and Needful Things 135 --
14 "Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying": Human-Scaled Horror in The Shawshank Redemption and Dolores Claiborne 146 --
15 Full Dark, No Stars: The Mangler, Thinner, and The Night Flier 155 --
16 Faithful: Apt Pupil and The Green Mile Stick to the Story 163 --
2000 to Present: The Golden Years --
17 Just After Sunset: Hearts in Atlantis, Direamcatcher, and Secret Window 173 --
18 Four Past Midnight: Riding the Bullet, 1408, The Mist, and Dolan's Cadillac 181 --
Skeleton Crew: Short Subjects --
19 Vault of Horror: The Anthology Films Creepshow and Cat's Eye 195 --
20 Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Short Stories on the Small Screen 205 --
21 One for the Road: The X-Files, Tales from the Darkside, and Other One-Shots 211 --
22 "Dollar Babies": Short Stories on a Shoestring 221 --
Creepshows: Miniseries, TV Series, and TV-Movies --
23 "They All Float": It and The Tommyknockers Go Long 231 --
24 Long Walk: The Stand Escapes Development Hell 239 --
25 Fair Extension: The Langoliers, Storm of the Century, Rose Red, and Bag of Bones 248 --
26 Night Shift: Sometimes They Come Back and Other TV-Movies 258 --
27 Something to Tide You Over: The Short Seasons of Golden Years and Kingdom Hospital 264 --
28 Home Delivery: Week-to-Week with The Dead Zone, Haven, and Under the Dome 274 --
Sometimes They Come Back: Sequels and Remakes --
29 Sometimes Dead Is Better: A Return to Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary Two, and Other Needless Sequels 285 --
30 All That You Love Will Be Carried Away: The Shining, Carrie, and Other Ill-Advised Remakes 296 --
31 Insomnia: The All-Night Children of the Corn Marathon 307 --
Rock-Bottom Remainders: Oddities and Ephemera --
32 Phantoms: Stephen King Movies That Never Were 317 --
33 I Am the Doorway: King's Influence on the Horror Genre (and Beyond) 323 --
34 Cannibals: Rip-offs, Parodies, and Homages 331 --
35 King of All Media: Comics, Radio Dramas, and the Infamous Carrie Musical 338 --
36 A Hell of a Band: The Ultimate Stephen King Movie Soundtrack 347 --
37 Keys to the Kingdom: Cameos, Guest Shots, Awards, and Quotable Quotes 352 --
38 Everything's Eventual: The Dark Tower and Beyond 360.
