Historically, short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as
Rear Window, High Noon, Psycho, All About Eve,
and
Blade Runner
began as short stories. Unfortunately, many of the major venues for discovering new talent—
The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers,
Mademoiselle
—are gone. Today, short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television, with films such as
Brokeback
Mountain
, Good Will Hunting,
Minority Report.
One reason short stories are making a Hollywood comeback is Next Stop Hollywood, an organization dedicated to finding both new talent and terrific material. This volume, selected by more than sixty movie-buff readers and advised by an editorial board of Hollywood insiders, picks up where those magazines left off. These very same stories may be at a theater near you in the near future. For anyone who has been disappointed by the movies of our day compared to those of the Golden Era of Hollywood, refresh yourself with these exciting short stories, and the possibilities they hold.