By the early 1980s, Stephen King was so successful, he had the chance to do something wannabe authors can only dream of: He took a departure from the horror genre that had made him a best-selling novelist, dusted off some old novellas he'd written years before, and put them together in a collection called "Different Seasons." As time quickly proved, these stories weren't just filler, either; three of the pieces would later be adapted into major feature films, including one that every studio turned down before it became a bona fide classic.

The gimmick of the collection is that each story tentatively represents a season of the year. Therefore, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (the source material for "The Shawshank Redemption") is subtitled "Hope Springs Eternal;" "Apt Pupil," adap

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