Dark Visions
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Dark Visions is a 1989 horror fiction compilation, with three short stories by Stephen King
, three by Dan Simmons
, and one by George R. R. Martin
. The book has also been issued, with the same seven stories, under the titles Dark Love, The Skin Trade, and Night Visions 5. Two of the stories by King, "Sneakers" and "Dedication", are also contained in his anthology Nightmares & Dreamscapes
. And Martin's "The Skin Trade" also appears in Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads and Dreamsongs: Volume II
.
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
, three by Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
, and one by George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
. The book has also been issued, with the same seven stories, under the titles Dark Love, The Skin Trade, and Night Visions 5. Two of the stories by King, "Sneakers" and "Dedication", are also contained in his anthology Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by Stephen King published in 1993.-Stories:-Adaptations:"The Night Flier" and "Dolan's Cadillac" were both adapted to films of the same respective names. "Chattery Teeth"' was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway...
. And Martin's "The Skin Trade" also appears in Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads and Dreamsongs: Volume II
GRRM: A RRetrospective
Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective is a career-spanning collection of George R. R. Martin's short fiction. It was first published in 2003 as a single volume hardcover from Subterranean Press under the title GRRM: A RRetrospective and debuted in Toronto at Torcon 3, the 63rd World Science Fiction...
.
Stephen King
- The ReploidsThe Reploids"The Reploids" is an uncollected short story by Stephen King. It was published in the 1988 book Dark Visions.-Plot summary:Edward Paladin shows up in place of Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, but all is not what it seems...
: Edward Paladin shows up in place of Johnny CarsonJohnny CarsonJohn William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
on the CarsonJohnny CarsonJohn William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
show, but all is not what it seems. A subsequent investigation by detective Richard CheyneyRichard CheyneyRichard Cheyney was an English churchman, bishop of Gloucester from 1562. Opposed to Calvinism, he was an isolated and embattled bishop of the reign of Elizabeth, though able to keep his see.-Life:...
finds strange items in his possession, hinting that he may not be from our reality. His passes for the studio are the wrong color, and he has a bright blue dollar bill with a picture of James MadisonJames MadisonJames Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...
on it. - Sneakers: John keeps seeing these old sneakers in the same toilet stall every time he enters it. As time passes flies are build up around the sneakers, but no one else seems to know what is going on or to notice the sneakers. But he is certain that there is a ghost in that stall.
- Dedication: This tells the story of a black house maid working in a hotel and an eccentric alcoholic writer who is a frequent guest there. The maid consumes some of the writer's semen which was left on his sheets as part of a possible black magic spell, in the hope that it will pass talent and ability along to her unborn son.
Dan Simmons
- Metastasis:Hideous parasites infect the world, but only one man can see them.
- Vanna Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell: The godless truth behind Brother Freddy's Hallelujah Breakfast Club.
- Iverson's Pits: There are some Civil WarAmerican Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
horrors you never dreamed of.
George R. R. Martin
- The Skin Trade: This savage mini-epic of mankind's animal urges gives new meaning to the word "hair-raising." The werewolf novella "The Skin Trade," originally published way back when in NIGHT VISIONS 5, has been optioned for film by Mike the Pike Productions. The novella won the World Fantasy Award for Best NovellaWorld Fantasy Award for Best NovellaThis World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novella or novellas voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention...
in 1989.