Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

Season

2006

Australia

6.8

TV-14

A television mini-series adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King's collection of short horror stories.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Battleground

An assassin is besieged in his apartment by an Army of toy soldiers after killing their maker.

S1 • E2

Crouch End

An American couple in London gets lost in an abandoned part of the city where a terrifying Lovecraftian dimension seeps into our own.

S1 • E3

Umney's Last Case

After the death of his son, writer Sam Landry is so desperate to lead another life, he writes himself into his own book, forcing his long-time character to change places with him and live in the modern day.

S1 • E4

The End of the Whole Mess

The world had changed. Violence, war and hatred have been eliminated and replaced with kindness, peace and love. But at what price?

S1 • E5

The Road Virus Heads North

A popular but terminally ill horror author returning to his old stomping grounds with an eerie painting in tow is greeted by agitated dogs at every stop and death follows in his wake.

S1 • E6

The Fifth Quarter

Willie, a just-released convict, learns from his dying friend of a map in four parts that reveals the location of $3.5 million from a robbery.

S1 • E7

Autopsy Room Four

Howard Cottrell is on vacation playing golf. Chasing the ball into the undergrowth, he's bitten by a snake and completely paralyzed, showing no sign of life. At the hospital, unable to communicate, he is the key witness to his own autopsy.

S1 • E8

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band

A husband and wife are road tripping and take a wrong turn on the highway only to end up in a town where it's both Heaven and Hell all at once and everything is both what it seems like and not what it seems like at the same time.