The fornit
The fornit. Eerie Tales is the German title of one of three volumes with the short story collection Skeleton Crew by the American writer Stephen King . The other two titles are At Dawn and The Song of the Dead ; they were later published together with Der Fornit in a volume called Blood .
The Fornit was published in 1986 by Heyne Verlag , Munich.
The stories
The fornit contains six stories of the type Classic Horror (twice), Psycho Horror (twice), SciFi Horror (once) and Mystery (once), as well as two poems.
- The monkey (Engl .: The Monkey )
- Hal and his brother Bill find a cursed toy monkey in an attic - every time it rattles its bells, people die. It seems impossible to get rid of it. Hal throws the monkey into a well. But twenty years later - Hal is then a family man himself - the toy reappears. (Horror.)
- Paranoid: A chant (ger .: Paranoid: A Chant )
- Story of a paranoid in poetry. (Psychological horror.)
- The text of the gods computer (ger .: Word Processor of the Gods )
- Shortly before his accidental death, the child prodigy Jon made a typing computer for his uncle Richard. The device is patched together from all sorts of components, but Richard can do more with it than just write texts: Richard can use the insert and delete keys to bring real things into the world or delete them from the world. First Richard deletes his failing son Seth, then his wife Lina. Shortly before the computer goes up in smoke, he writes the perfect family for himself: with Jon as his son and his mother Belinda, whom his brother Roger previously teased him, as his wife. (Mystery.)
- Owen (ger .: For Owen )
- Poem for King's son.
- The survival type (ger .: Survivor Type )
- Surgeon Richard Pine records in a diary how he was washed up on a desert island after a shipwreck and seized his only chance to survive: he numbs himself with his smuggled drugs and gradually amputates his feet and legs and eats himself. (Horror in diary form.)
- The Milkman Strikes Again ( Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman 2) )
- The poor laundry workers Rocky and Leo, both full of stars, drive in their junk car to the TÜV workshop of ex-schoolmate Bob to trick him with a badge. They succeed in doing this with persuasion during a beer can binge. After Rocky and Leo drove off satisfied, Bob's nostalgic memories take over so much that he kills his unattractive wife. Meanwhile, Rocky and Leo are followed by a milk truck until they race to their deaths. The milkman then drives to Bob. (Psychological horror.)
- The Fornit (English: The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet )
- The writer Reg Thorpe is convinced that a tiny, goblin-like creature called Fornit lives in his typewriter and inspires him to come up with brilliant ideas and stories. Disadvantage: The writer becomes insane and feels and his fornit is being followed by secret services. Suddenly his literary agent tells him that he also has a fornit. (Psychological horror.)
- The Dune Planet (English: Beachworld )
- Three astronauts crash on a planet consisting only of sand and dunes. One dies in a crash, the second is still hoping to be saved, while the third is gradually going nuts. When a rescue spaceship touches down, the planet reveals its secret: the sand seems to be alive and goes on the hunt for the newcomers. (SciFi horror.)
Film adaptations
- The word computer of the gods was originally filmed as a short film as part of the series Tales from the Darkside . Today he can be found on Stephen King's Golden Tales video .
- The film rights of The Monkey belong to Frank Darabont , who will not take up the story until later because he currently has other film plans.
literature
Stephen King: The Fornit , Ullstein, 2006, ISBN 978-3548263779
Stephen King: Skeleton Crew , Hodder, London 2007, ISBN 978-0340952054
Footnotes (citations, notes)
- ↑ Note: Like morning deliveries from At Dawn , this short story is part of a broken-off novel.
- ↑ Note: This is an alternative and more mature version of The Cursed Expedition ; see People, Places and Things .
Web links
- Portal: Blood in the KingWiki