Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight Could Be His Next Great Horror Anthology

Stephen King’s strongest novellas are found in his 1992 collection, Four Past Midnight. Published ten years after Different Seasons, it was only his second collection of this longer short story format. The book features four tales: “The Langoliers,” “Secret Window, Secret Garden,” “The Library Policeman,” and “The Sun Dog.” While some of these stories haven’t been adapted well, they’re ideally suited for individual segments, similar to how King’s 1982 film Creepshow successfully adapted five of his short stories. Creepshow divided each story into a segment, focusing on the horror without unnecessary additions. King’s novellas from Four Past Midnight would work perfectly with this same approach.







