Perfect timing for the Halloween season. Stephen King fans, pay attention! Some of King's scariest tales from his Nightmares and Dreamscapes series has been adapted for television.

Adapted from the collection of short stories, Nightmares and Dreamscapes takes a dozen of the most unsettling examples from King's imagination. All stories are independent of each other, basically in the same format as Tales From the Crypt, just more psychological than gruesome.

Starting off with a (literal) bang, the first story contains William Hurt as an assassin who is hunted in his home by action figures. As silly as it sounds, the entire episode is performed with zero dialogue, leaving it all up to body language. Other episodes involve a town inhabited by deceased rock stars and a lucid man trapped in his dead body during his autopsy. They're really quite fascinating stories and are told much better in this series than in the books.

This is by no means as horrifying as the Masters of Horror series, which is comprised of mini horror films by various genre directors. This is really just King's version of The Twilight Zone, which still remains unchallenged as the best anthology of psychologically stirring tales. Boiled down, it's really no different than Tales from the Crypt style horror stories, except these are much more psychologically thrilling than violent or bloody. It's only 10 episodes and good for one run through, but it really has no repeat value.