List of short fiction made into feature films

This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

0-9

* "", Richard A. Lupoff - ', 1990 ; ', 1993
* "1408", Stephen King - "1408", 2007

A-E

* "The Acid House", Irvine Welsh - "The Acid House", 1998
* "The Adventure of the Empty House", Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Woman in Green", 1945
* "Air Raid", John Varley - "Millennium", 1977
* "Las Babas del Diablo" ("The Droolings of the Devil", in "Las armas secretas"), Julio Cortázar - "Blowup", 1966
* "Bad Day at Hondo", Howard Breslin - "Bad Day at Black Rock", 1955
* "The Basement Room", Graham Greene - "The Fallen Idol", 1948
* "Basterd", F.W. Remmler - "Bastard", 1940
* "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", Alice Munro - "Away from Her", 2006
* "Beware of the Dog", Roald Dahl - "36 Hours", 1965
*"The Bicentennial Man", Isaac Asimov - "Bicentennial Man", 1999
*"The Birds", Daphne du Maurier - "The Birds", 1963
*"The Body Snatcher", Robert Louis Stevenson - "The Body Snatcher", 1945
*"Bombaiyer Bombete", Satyajit Ray - "Bombaiyer Bombete", 2003
* "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Truman Capote - "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961
* "Brokeback Mountain", Annie Proulx - "Brokeback Mountain", 2005
* "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft - "The Call of Cthulhu", 2005
*"The Call of the Canyon", Zane Grey - "The Call of the Canyon", 1923
*"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", H. P. Lovecraft - "The Haunted Palace", 1963 ; "The Resurrected", 1992
*"The Cathedral", Jacek Dukaj - "The Cathedral (Katedra)", 2002
* "Le chandail de hockey (The Hockey Sweater)", Roch Carrier - "The Sweater, or Le Chandail", 1980
*"The Chess Players", Munshi Premchand - "The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari)", 1977
* "Children on Their Birthdays", Truman Capote - "Children on Their Birthdays", 2002
*"The Christmas Cross", Max Lucado - "Christmas Child", 2003
*"Cool Air", H. P. Lovecraft - "Cool Air", 1999
* "Criminal Mark", John and Ward Hawkins - "Crime Wave", 1954
* "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", F. Scott Fitzgerald - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", 2008
* "D. P.", Kurt Vonnegut - "Displaced Person", 1985
* "The Dead", James Joyce - "The Dead", 1987
* "The Dock Walloper", John Monk Saunders - "The Docks of New York", 1928
*"Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold", Jeremy Leven - "Don Juan DeMarco", 1995
* "Don't Look Now", Daphne du Maurier - "Don't Look Now", 1973
* "Double Indemnity", James M. Cain - "Double Indemnity", 1944
* "Empire of the Ants", H. G. Wells - "Empire of the Ants", 1977

F-L

* "El Fantasma (The Ghost)", Wenceslao Fernández Flórez - "El Destino se disculpa", 1945
*"A Far Off Place" and "A Story Like The Wind", Laurens van der Post - "A Far Off Place", 1993
* "Farewell to the Master", Harry Bates - "The Day the Earth Stood Still", 1951, 2008
*"Floating Water (Fuyu Suru Mizu)", Koji Suzuki - "Dark Water", 2002, 2005
*"Flowers for Algernon", Daniel Keyes - "Charly", 1968
*"The Fly", George Langelaan - "The Fly", 1958, 1986
* "The Forged Coupon", Leo Tolstoy - "L'Argent", 1983
* "From Beyond", H. P. Lovecraft - "From Beyond", 1986
*"From a View to a Kill", Ian Fleming - "A View to a Kill", 1985
* "A Gentle Creature", Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Une femme douce", 1969 ; "A Gentle Woman",
* "Goodbye, Columbus", Philip Roth - "Goodbye, Columbus", 1969
* "Gun Crazy", MacKinlay Kantor - "Gun Crazy", 1950
* "Harrison Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut - "Harrison Bergeron", 1995
* "Heart of Darkness", Joseph Conrad - "Apocalypse Now", 1979
* "Heartbreak", Leslie Bush-Fekete - "Appointment for Love", 1941
* "Le Horla (The Horla)", Guy de Maupassant - "Diary of a Madman", 1963
* "Impostor", Philip K. Dick - "Impostor", 1953
* "The Invisible Man", H. G. Wells - "The Invisible Man", 1933
*"Jan of the Jungle", Otis Adelbert Kline - "The Call of the Savage", 1935
* "Kensington Stories", Sally Benson - "Meet Me in St. Louis", 1944
*"Killing a Mouse on Sunday", Emeric Pressburger - "Behold a Pale Horse", 1964
*"The Living Daylights", Ian Fleming - "The Living Daylights", 1987
* "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", Alan Sillitoe - "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", 1962
* "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flats", Bret Harte - "Four of the Apocalypse", 1975
*"The Lurking Fear", H. P. Lovecraft - "Bleeders", 1997 ; "Dark Heritage", 1989

M-R

* "Madame la Gimp", Damon Runyon - "Lady for a Day", 1933 - "Pocketful of Miracles", 1961
* "The Man Who Would Be King", Rudyard Kipling - "The Man Who Would Be King", 1975
* "Memento Mori", Jonathan Nolan - "Memento", 2000
* "Minority Report", Philip K. Dick - "Minority Report", 1956
* "Morpho Eugenia", A. S. Byatt - "Angels & Insects", 1996
*"Octopussy", Ian Fleming - "Octopussy", 1983
* "The Old Man and the Sea", Ernest Hemingway - "The Old Man and the Sea", 1958, 1990, 1999
*"The Outsider", H. P. Lovecraft - "Castle Freak", 1995
* "The Palace Thief", Ethan Canin - "The Emperor's Club", 2002
* "Paycheck", Philip K. Dick - "Paycheck", 1953
* "The Postmaster", "Monihara (The Lost Jewels)", and "Samapti (The Conclusion)", Rabindranath Tagore - "Teen Kanya (Two Daughters)", 1961
* "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", Stephen King - "The Shawshank Redemption", 1994
* "Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner" (collection), F.X. Toole - "Million Dollar Baby", 2004

-Z

* "Sardonicus", Ray Russell - "Mr. Sardonicus, 1961
* "Second Variety", Philip K. Dick - "Screamers", 1995
* "The Sentinel", Arthur C. Clarke - "", 1968
*"The Shadow Over Innsmouth", H. P. Lovecraft - "Dagon", 2001
* "Shopgirl", Steve Martin - "Shopgirl", 2005
* "A Situation of Gravity", Samuel W. Taylor - "The Absent-Minded Professor", 1961
* "The Sobbin' Women", Stephen Vincent Benet - "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", 1954
* "Spurs", Tod Robbins - "Freaks", 1932
*"The Statement of Randolph Carter", H. P. Lovecraft - "", 2004
* Stories (unspecified), Anton Chekhov - "Dark Eyes", 1986
* "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", Brian Aldiss - "", 2001
* "Tales of the South Pacific", James Michener - "South Pacific", 1958
*"There Shall Be No Darkness", James Blish - "The Beast Must Die", 1974
* "The Third Man", Graham Greene - "The Third Man", 1949
* "Tinereţe fără de tinereţe (Youth Without Youth)", Mircea Eliade - "Youth Without Youth" (future)
* "Tony Takitani", Murakami Haruki - "Tony Takitani", 2004
* "Toomai, of the Elephants", Rudyard Kipling - "Elephant Boy", 1937
*"Traumnovelle (Dream Story)", Arthur Schnitzler - "Eyes Wide Shut", 1999

* "Troll Bridge", Terry Pratchett - "Troll Bridge", "in production"
*"The Undefeated", Irvine Welsh - "Ecstasy", 2007
* "Вгороде Бердичеве (In the village of Berdichev)", Vasily Grossman - "Commissar", 1967
* "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", Philip K. Dick - "Total Recall", 1990
* "We Don't Live Here Anymore" and "Adultery", Andre Dubus - "We Don't Live Here Anymore", 2004
* "White Nights", Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Le notti bianche", 1985; "Four Nights of a Dreamer", 1971
* "Who Am I This Time?", Kurt Vonnegut - "Who Am I This Time?", 1982
* "The Wisdom of Eve", Mary Orr - "All About Eve", 1950
* "Your Arkansas Traveler", Budd Schulberg - "A Face in the Crowd", 1957
* Zorro series of stories, Johnston McCulley - "The Bold Caballero", 1936 ; "Don Q, Son of Zorro", 1925 ; "Ghost of Zorro", 1949 ; "La Gran Aventura del Zorro", 1974 ; "The Legend of Zorro", 2005 ; "The Mark of Zorro", 1920, 1940, 1974 ; "The Mask of Zorro", 1998 ; "The Sign of Zorro", 1958 ; "Son of Zorro", 1947 ; "Zorro", 1975 ; "Zorro Rides Again", 1937 ; "Zorro, the Avenger", 1958 ; "Zorro, the Gay Blade", 1981 ; "Zorro's Black Whip", 1944 ; "Zorro's Fighting Legion", 1939 ;
* "Звезда (Zvezda, or The Star)", Emmanuil G. Kazakavich - "Zvezda, 2002

See also

* Film adaptation
* Lists of film source material