Different Seasons is different in more ways than just its title. It’s a collection of four novellas (Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, and The Breathing Method) published during a time when that type of prose wasn’t very marketable. What’s also different is that three of the four stories are definitely NOT horror stories, of which King is most noted for.

I enjoy whatever genre Stephen King writes in, but I especially enjoyed the one story in this book WAS horror: APT PUPIL. This story tells of a young boy with an unwholesome fascination for Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and when he meets a man on the bus who knows more about the subject than he probably should, his response is not that of a normal teenager.

go back and read it again. It seems that I, like many of King’s fans, just can’t get enough of his talent.

As a writer of short stories and a few novellas, this book actually gave me hope that some of my work might be publishable in a collection form now. With King writing Different Seasons, he practically opened up the market again for this at a time when it was considered taboo by most publishers, and now there are many authors who publish their short stories and novellas in this form.

Stands alone at the top of the horror genre. There is, and there will always be, only one Stephen King.

for anybody looking for a one or two night good story to read without having to worry about nightmares after they go to bed. As I’ve mentioned before, three of the four stories are NOT horror.

What’s ironic about Different Seasons is that in this particular book, three of these stories were made into movies. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption came out in 1994 as simply The Shawshank Redemption, The Body became Stand By Me and was released in 1986, and Apt Pupil was released in 1998.
It should also be said that because of the change of his usual style of writing simply horror, Different Seasons reached one of the widest audiences and possibly received the best response of any of his work.

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