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Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

★ 6.7 6K votes 2006–2006 1 season · 8 episodes Ended TNT
AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 10/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 8/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10Monster horrorCreatures and slashers, fear made physical.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Robert MammoneKodi Smit-McPheeRichard ThomasRon LivingstonClaire ForlaniWilliam H. Macy
Starring
Robert MammoneKodi Smit-McPheeRichard ThomasRon LivingstonClaire ForlaniWilliam H. Macy
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"Stephen King's short fiction, one uneven fright at a time"

An anthology series adapting eight of Stephen King's short stories into standalone hour-long episodes, each with its own cast, setting, and flavor of dread. One week it's a cursed typewriter, another a small-town nightmare, another something stranger still. There's no ongoing plot to follow, just self-contained doses of King's imagination ranging from genuinely creepy to campy. Quality swings hard from episode to episode, but the better installments deliver real unease, and the guest performances often elevate thin material. It's a grab-bag best enjoyed for individual highlights rather than as a cohesive whole.

Watch it for

the chance to sample several distinct Stephen King nightmares without committing to a single ongoing story.

Maybe skip if

you dislike wildly inconsistent quality, since some episodes land far better than others.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2006
6.56K86h 7m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Battleground7.8
1K53 min
▶2Crouch End5.4
92244 min
▶3Umney's Last Case6.2
72651 min
▶4The End of the Whole Mess6.7
73444 min
▶5The Road Virus Heads North5.7
63143 min
▶6The Fifth Quarter6.1
58346 min
▶7Autopsy Room Four6.9
63743 min
▶8You Know They Got a Hell of a Band6.2
61643 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Robert Mammone Dr. Peter Jennings, Jagger
Kodi Smit-McPhee Brandon, Jackson Evans
Richard Thomas Howard Cottrell
Ron Livingston Howard Fornoy
Claire Forlani Doris Freeman
William H. Macy Clyde Umney, George Demmick, Sam Landry
William Hurt Jason Renshaw
Tom Berenger Richard Kinnell
Jeremy Sisto Willie Evans
Kim Delaney Mary Rivingham

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