Book title: Different Seasons
Author: Stephen King
Film director: Rob Reiner, Frank Darabont, Bryan Singer, respectively
Crosspatch Artist: Fidelia
Bookdrop location: Sa-Ten, Austin, TX
Bookdrop date: 7/5/2015
Note: Stephen King's book Different Seasons appeared in bookstores in 1982. He states in the afterword that after he wrote each of Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Dead Zone, and Firestarter, he had "just enough gas in the tank to blow off one good-sized novella." He collected these four novellas into one volume and assigned each of them to a season of the year to which it was thematically associated:

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
SUMMER OF CORRUPTION: Apt Pupil
FALL FROM INNOCENCE: The Body
A WINTER'S TALE: The Breathing Method

We consider all four of these novellas to be great achievements in literature. Three of them eventually spawned movie adaptations, two of which we consider to be great achievements in film. (None of us has seen Apt Pupil, so we cannot comment on its quality, though the novella inspired nightmares in at least one of us.) Publishers, of course, felt they had to create movie tie-ins because, apparently, Stephen King's name alone was not enough to get the books to sell.

And so we see a book titled Apt Pupil, though that title applies to only one of four stories. Another book announces THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, which does not even accurately reflect the name of the story in the book. And then we see STAND BY ME, a book whose title does not even appear in the book itself apart from the cover, since the story on which it is based is called The Body.

As of 2012, media outlets were reporting that The Breathing Method would join the other three novellas in undergoing film treatment. We do not want to see this happen because 1) though it is a chilling story, it would make a terrible movie, 2) we do not want to see even a hint of romance between (this is pure speculation) Emma Stone and Tom Hanks, and 3) a studio executive would likely rename it Headless in Seattle. The bright side of such an atrocity would be one final addition to this post.