| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| The Abiding Vision (1935), Rebecca West | A Life of Her Own (1950) |
| The Acid House (1998) |
| "Adjustment Team" (1954), Philip K. Dick | The Adjustment Bureau (2011) |
| "Adultery" (1977), Andre Dubus | We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
| "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Missing Rembrandt (1932) |
| "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle | Silver Blaze (1937) |
| Silver Blaze (1977) |
| "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Blue Carbuncle (Russian: Голубой карбункул) (1980) |
| "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) |
| "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) |
| The Woman in Green (1945) |
| "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Pearl of Death (1944) |
| "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Speckled Band (1931) |
| "The Adventures of Joe Smith, American" (1940), Paul Gallico | Joe Smith, American (1942) |
| "A-Hunting We Will Go" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp | Father's Wild Game (1950) |
| Millennium (1989) |
| "All You Zombies" (1959), Robert A. Heinlein | Predestination (2014) |
| "An Altar on Little Thunder" (1912), Elmore Elliott Peake | His Divorcing Wife (1919) |
| Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell | Animal Farm (1954) |
| Animal Farm (1999) |
| An Apartment for Jenny (1947), Faith Baldwin | Apartment for Peggy (1938) |
| "Appointment with Fear" (1946), Roy Huggins | The Good Humor Man (1950) |
| Apt Pupil (1998) |
| Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928), Philip Francis Nowlan | Buck Rogers (1939) |
| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) |
| Fools of Fortune (1922) |
| "Ate, Memos or the Miracle" (1992), James Lasdun | Sunday (1997) |
| "August Week-End" (1933), Faith Baldwin | August Weekend (1936) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "B" (1916), Edgar Franklin | The Rail Rider (1916) |
| "Baa, Baa Black Sheep" (1921) W. C. Tuttle | Black Sheep (1921) |
| "Baby in the Ice-Box" (1933), James M. Cain | She Made Her Bed (1934) |
| "The Baby's Had a Hard Day" (1940), Anne Wormser | West Point Widow (1941) |
| "Back Pay" (1919), Fannie Hurst | Back Pay (1922) |
| Back Pay (1930) |
| Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) |
| "Barn Burning" (1983), Haruki Murakami | Burning (2018) |
| The Fallen Idol (1948) |
| "Basterd", F.W. Remmler | Bastard (1940) |
| Away from Her (2006) |
| "The Bear Trap" (1919), Byron Morgan | Excuse My Dust (1920) |
| "Bedside Manner" (1944), Robert Carson | Bedside Manner (1945) |
| "Beryl and the Croucher" (1916), Thomas Burke | No Way Back (1949) |
| 36 Hours (1965) |
| Breaking Point (1989) |
| Bicentennial Man (1999) |
| The Birds (1963) |
| "The Biscuit Eater" (1939), James H. Street | The Biscuit Eater (1940) |
| The Biscuit Eater (1972) |
| "The Bleeders" (1919), Margery Land May | The Beauty Market (1919) |
| Blowup (1966) |
| The Body (1982), Stephen King | Stand by Me (1986) |
| The Body Snatcher (1945) |
| The Boogeyman (2023) |
| Boule de Suif (Russian: Пышка) (1934) |
| The Escape (Spanish; Castilian: La fuga) (1944) |
| Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) |
| Boule de Suif (1945) |
| "Bow Tamely to Me" (1936), Kenneth Perkins | Escape to Burma (1955) |
| "The Boy Cried Murder" (1947), Cornell Woolrich | The Window (1949) |
| The Boy Cried Murder (1966) |
| "The Branded Sombrero" (1927), Cherry Wilson | The Branded Sombrero (1928) |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) |
| "Bring Me His Ears" (1922), Clarence E. Mulford | Borderland (1937) |
| "Bringing Up Baby" (1937), Hagar Wilde | Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
| "Broadway Gold" (1922), William Carey Wonderly | Broadway Gold (1923) |
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
| Brother Orchid (1940) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| Nightbreed (1990) |
| Crime Without Passion (1934) |
| "A Call from Mitch Miller" (1956), Mary Agnes Thompson | Loving You (1957) |
| The Call of Cthulhu (2005) |
| Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939) |
| "The Captives" (1955), Elmore Leonard | The Tall T (1957) |
| Career in C Major (1938), James M. Cain | Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) |
| Everybody Does It (1949) |
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941), H. P. Lovecraft | The Haunted Palace (1963) |
| The Resurrected (1992) |
| "The Cat from Hell" (1977), Stephen King | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) |
| "Chattery Teeth" (1992), Stephen King | Quicksilver Highway (1997) |
| Children of the Corn (1984) |
| Children of the Corn (2009) |
| "Children on Their Birthdays" (1948), Truman Capote | Children on Their Birthdays (2002) |
| "Ching, Ching, Chinaman" (1917), Wilbur Daniel Steele | Shadows (1922) |
| Broken Blossoms (1919) |
| Broken Blossoms (1936) |
| "Christmas '59" (1980), John Hughes | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) |
| The Right to Be Happy (1916) |
| Scrooge (1935) |
| A Christmas Carol (1938) |
| A Christmas Carol (Spanish; Castilian: Leyenda de Navidad) (1947) |
| Scrooge (1951) |
| A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) |
| Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1964) |
| A Christmas Carol (1969) |
| Scrooge (1970) |
| A Christmas Carol (1977) |
| Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978) |
| The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) |
| An American Christmas Carol (1979) |
| A Christmas Carol (1982) |
| A Christmas Carol (1984) |
| Scrooged (1988) |
| The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) |
| A Christmas Carol (1994) |
| A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994) |
| A Christmas Carol (1997) |
| An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998) |
| Ebenezer (1998) |
| A Christmas Carol (1999) |
| A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000) |
| A Christmas Carol (2000) |
| (2001) |
| A Carol Christmas (2003) |
| A Christmas Carol (2004) |
| A Christmas Carol (2006) |
| Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006) |
| A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006) |
| An American Carol (2008) |
| Barbie in A Christmas Carol (2008) |
| A Christmas Carol (2009) |
| A Christmas Carol (2012) |
| A Christmas Carol (2015) |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) |
| A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by Tom Cairns) |
| A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by David Izatt) (TV) |
| The Passion of Scrooge (2018) |
| Spirited (2022) |
| (2022) |
| Christmas Child (2003) |
| Desperate Trails (1921) |
| "Come Again Another Day" (1950), Edward Newhouse | Shadow in the Sky (1952) |
| "Comet Over Broadway" (1937), Faith Baldwin | Comet Over Broadway (1938) |
| "The Commandos" (1942), C. S. Forester | Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) |
| "Cool Air" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft | Cool Air (1999) |
| "The Corpse Next Door" (1937), Cornell Woolrich | Union City (1980) |
| "Cottonwood Gulch" (1924), Clarence E. Mulford | North of the Rio Grande (1937) |
| "Count Pete" (1935), Francis M. Cockrell | Walking on Air (1936) |
| "Courtin' Calamity" (1917), William Dudley Pelley | The Sawdust Trail (1924) |
| Courtin' Wildcats (1929) |
| "The Coward" (1920), Arthur Stringer | The Coward (1927) |
| Creepshow (1982) |
| Crime Wave (1954) |
| "Crosstown" (1945), George Zuckerman | 99 River Street (1953) |
| Leave It to Henry (1949) |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
| Cycle of the Werewolf (1983), Stephen King | Silver Bullet (1985) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| (1890), Mori Ōgai | Shishi no Gotoku (1978) |
| The Dancer (1989) |
| (1926), Yasunari Kawabata | The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933) |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954) |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu (1960) |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu (1963) |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu (1966) |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974) |
| The Dead (1987) |
| The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) |
| Shortcut to Happiness (2003) |
| "The Devil's Dooryard" (1921), W. C. Tuttle | The Devil's Dooryard (1923) |
| Discipline and Genevra (1917), Harold Vickers | The Talk of the Town (1918) |
| Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) |
| The Docks of New York, 1928 |
| Don Juan DeMarco (1995) |
| Don't Look Now (1973) |
| "Doubling for Cupid" (1924), Nina Wilcox Putnam | The Beautiful Cheat (1926) |
| "The Doubters" (1950), George Tabori | Crisis (1950) |
| Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) (1926), Arthur Schnitzler | Dream Story (1969) (TV) |
| The Knight, Death and the Devil (Italian: Il cavaliere, la morte e il diavolo) (1989) |
| Nightmare in Venice (Italian: Ad un passo dall'aurora) (1989) |
| Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
| "Drive My Car" (2013), Haruki Murakami | Drive My Car (2021) |
| The Duellists (1977) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher (French: La chute de la maison Usher) (1928) |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (1950) |
| House of Usher (1960) |
| Satan of All Horrors (Spanish; Castilian: Satanás de todos los horrores) (1974) |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (1982) |
| Revenge in the House of Usher (1982) |
| The House of Usher (1989) |
| The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) |
| Descendant (2003) |
| Usher (2004) |
| The House of Usher (2006) |
| House of Usher (2008) |
| Extraordinary Tales (2013) |
| Fall of the House of Usher (2014) |
| The Fall of Usher (2021) |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) |
| A Far-Off Place (1974), Laurens van der Post | A Far Off Place (1993) |
| "Farewell to the Master" (1940), Harry Bates | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
| "The Fashion Plate" (1932), Harry Collins and Warren B. Duff | Fashions of 1934 (1934) |
| "Fate of the Wolf" (1925), W. C. Tuttle | Driftin' Sands (1928) |
| "Fifty-two Weeks for Florette" (1921), Elizabeth Alexander | You Belong to Me (1934) |
| "The Five Orange Pips" (1891), Arthur Conan Doyle | The House of Fear (1945) |
| (1996), Koji Suzuki | Dark Water (2002) |
| Dark Water (2005) |
| Flowers for Algernon (1959), Daniel Keyes | Charly (1968) |
| Flowers for Algernon (2000) |
| Flowers for Algernon (French: Des fleurs pour Algernon) (2006) |
| Flowers for Algernon (2014) |
| "The Fly" (1957), George Langelaan | The Fly (1958) |
| Return of the Fly (1959) |
| Curse of the Fly (1965) |
| The Fly (1986) |
| The Fly II (1989) |
| "The Fog Horn" (1952), Ray Bradbury | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) |
| The Forged Coupon (Russian: Фальшивый купон, Fal'shivyi kupon) (1911), Leo Tolstoy | L'Argent (1983) |
| Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) (2005) |
| "For Your Eyes Only" (1960), Ian Fleming | For Your Eyes Only (1981) |
| The Fox (1923), D. H. Lawrence | The Fox (1967) |
| "From a View to a Kill" (1960), Ian Fleming | A View to a Kill (1985) |
| "From Beyond" (1934), H. P. Lovecraft | From Beyond (1986) |
| "Frontier Frenzy" (1954), John Reese | The Young Land (1959) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Garlan & Co." (1902), David Graham Phillips | Souls for Sables (1925) |
| "A Gentle Creature" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya; 1876), Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Krotkaya (1962) |
| Une femme douce (1969) |
| Łagodna (1995) |
| Nazar (1989) |
| The Shade (1963) |
| "The Gentleman from Paris" (1950), John Dickson Carr | The Man with a Cloak (1951) |
| "The Golden Man" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Next (2007) |
| "Ghost Walker", Ian MacKenzie Jeffers | The Grey (2011) |
| "The Gift of Cochise" (1952), Louis L'Amour | Hondo (1953) |
| Gigi (1944), Colette | Gigi (1949) |
| Gigi (1958) |
| Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus (1969) |
| "The Gossamer Web" (1921), John A. Moroso | Luring Lips (1921) |
| "The Gossamer World" (1948), Faith Baldwin | Queen for a Day (1951) |
| "The Grandflapper" (1926), Nina Wilcox Putnam | Slaves of Beauty (1927) |
| "Graveyard Shift" (1970), Stephen King | Graveyard Shift (1990) |
| "The Greatest Gift" (written 1939; published 1943), Philip Van Doren Stern | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
| It Happened One Christmas (1977) |
| Clarence (1990) |
| "Gun Crazy" (1940), MacKinlay Kantor | Gun Crazy (1950) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog" (1945), Ward Greene | Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
| (2000) |
| Lady and the Tramp (2019) |
| "The Hairless Mexican" (1928), W. Somerset Maugham | Secret Agent (1936) |
| "Harrison Bergeron" (1961), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) |
| Harrison Bergeron (1995) |
| "He That Is Without Sin" (1916), May Edginton | The Love Auction (1919) |
| "The Heart is Young" (1930), May Edginton | The False Madonna (1931) |
| Heart of Darkness (serialised 1899, published as a book 1903), Joseph Conrad | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| Heart of Darkness (1993) |
| "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" (1999), Stephen King | Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
| "Heartbreak" (1940), | Appointment for Love (1941) |
| "Heaven's Gate" (1934), Florence Leighton Pfalzgraf | Our Little Girl (1935) |
| "The Hell Diggers" (1920), Byron Morgan | The Hell Diggers (1921) |
| The Hellbound Heart (1986), Clive Barker | Hellraiser (1987) |
| "Her Night of Nights" (1921), C. S. Montayne | Her Night of Nights (1922) |
| "High Diver" (1948), John Ashworth | Queen for a Day (1951) |
| "The Hippopotamus Parade" (1919), Byron Morgan | What's Your Hurry? (1920) |
| Man Power (1927) |
| "The Hopper" (1916), Meredith Nicholson | The Hopper (1918) |
| "The Horla" (French: "Le Horla") (1887), Guy de Maupassant | Diary of a Madman (1963) |
| "A Horse for Mrs. Custer" (1955), Glendon Swarthout | 7th Cavalry (1956) |
| "Horsie" (1932), Dorothy Parker | Queen for a Day (1951) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "The Ladder" (1918), Harold Vickers | The Ladder of Lies (1920) |
| "Ladies in Lavender" (1908) William Locke | Ladies in Lavender (2004) |
| "A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" (1939), James Edward Grant | Boom Town (1940) |
| "The Lady with the Dog" (Russian: "Дама с собачкой", Dama s sobachkoy; 1899), Anton Chekhov | The Lady with the Dog (1960) |
| Dark Eyes (1987) |
| "The Law Rustlers" (1921), W. C. Tuttle | The Law Rustlers (1923) |
| "The Lawnmower Man" (1975), Stephen King | The Lawnmower Man (1992) |
| (1996) |
| "The Ledge" (1976), Stephen King | Cat's Eye (1985) |
| "The Ledger of Life" (1922), George Pattullo | Private Affairs (1925) |
| "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), Washington Irving | The Headless Horseman (1922) |
| The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980) |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1988) |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
| Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
| The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999) |
| The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow (2003) |
| The Hollow (2004) |
| "Leiningen Versus the Ants" (1938), Carl Stephenson | The Naked Jungle (1954) |
| "Lisbon" (1950), Martin Rackin | Lisbon (1956) |
| "Little Bear Bongo" (1936), Sinclair Lewis | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) |
| "The Living Daylights" (1962), Ian Fleming | The Living Daylights (1987) |
| "The Lodge in the Wilderness" (1909), Gilbert Parker | The Lodge in the Wilderness (1926) |
| "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1959), Alan Sillitoe | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) |
| "Lot No. 249" (1892), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) |
| "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868), Bret Harte | The Luck of Roaring Camp (1909) |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911) |
| Four of the Apocalypse (1975) |
| "The Lurking Fear" (publ. 1923), H. P. Lovecraft | Dark Heritage (1989) |
| The Lurking Fear (1994) |
| Bleeders (1997) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Madame la Gimp" (1929), Damon Runyon | Lady for a Day (1933) |
| Pocketful of Miracles (1961) |
| Miracles (1989) |
| "Madman's Holiday" (1943), Fredric Brown | Crack-Up (1946) |
| "A Man Called Horse" (1950), Dorothy M. Johnson | A Man Called Horse (1970) |
| The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) |
| Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983) |
| "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888), Rudyard Kipling | The Man Who Would Be King (1975) |
| "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" (1898), H.G. Wells | The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) |
| "A Man Without a Country" (1939), Noel Monkman | The Power and the Glory (1941) |
| "The Mangler" (1972), Stephen King | The Mangler (1995) |
| The Mangler 2 (2001) |
| The Mangler Reborn (2005) |
| "Memento Mori" (1996), Jonathan Nolan | Memento (2000) |
| The Men She Married (1916), Harold Vickers | The Men She Married (1916) |
| "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (1943), Lewis Padgett | The Last Mimzy (2007) |
| "The Minority Report" (1956), Philip K. Dick | Minority Report (2002) |
| "Miss Thompson" (a.k.a. "Rain"; 1951), W. Somerset Maugham | Sadie Thompson (1928) |
| Rain (1932) |
| Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.(1946) |
| Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) |
| "Missing Witness" (1954), John and Ward Hawkins | The Shadow on the Window (1957) |
| The Mist (1980), Stephen King | The Mist (2007) |
| "Malloy Campeador" (1921), Ralph G. Kirk | The Scrapper (1922) |
| "Monihara" (Bengali: মনিহারা) (1891), Rabindranath Tagore | Teen Kanya (Bengali: তিন কন্যা) (1961) |
| "Morpho Eugenia" (1992), A. S. Byatt | Angels & Insects (1996) |
| "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924), Richard Connell | The Most Dangerous Game (1932) |
| A Game of Death (1945) |
| The Dangerous Game (1953) |
| Run for the Sun (1956) |
| Bloodlust! (1961) |
| The Naked Prey (1965) |
| The Woman Hunt (1973) |
| Mottomo kiken na yuugi (1978) |
| Turkey Shoot (1982) |
| Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987) |
| Deadly Prey (1988) |
| Lethal Woman (1988) |
| Death Ring (1992) |
| Hard Target (1993) |
| Surviving the Game (1994) |
| The Pest (1997) |
| The Tournament (2009) |
| Naked Fear (2007) |
| Taxidermy (2011) |
| "Mr. Billings Spends His Dime" (1920), Dana Burnet | Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| Nick Adams (1924–1933) (series), Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) |
| "Night Bus" (1933), Samuel Hopkins Adams | It Happened One Night (1934) |
| You Can't Run Away from It (1956) |
| "The Night Flier" (1988), Stephen King | The Night Flier (1997) |
| "The Night of the Iguana" (1948), Tennessee Williams | The Night of the Iguana (1964) |
| "The Night Runner" (1955), Owen Cameron | The Night Runner (1957) |
| "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1961), Richard Matheson | Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) |
| "No Hard Feelings" (1938), Frederick Nebel | A Shot in the Dark (1941) |
| "No Law in Shadow Valley" (1936), W. C. Tuttle | Lawless Valley (1938) |
| "Now You See It" (1946), Roy Huggins | The Fuller Brush Man (1948) |
| "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) (1816), E. T. A. Hoffmann | Fantasia (1940) |
| The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961) |
| The Nutcracker (1965) |
| The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик) (1973) |
| Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) |
| (1986) |
| Care Bears Nutcracker Suite (1988) |
| The Nutcracker Prince (1990) |
| George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (1993) |
| The Nutcracker (1993) |
| The Nuttiest Nutcracker (1999) |
| Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) |
| The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (2004) |
| (2007) |
| The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007) |
| The Nutcracker in 3D (2010) |
| The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Page Tim O'Brien" (1922), John A. Moroso | Love in the Dark (1922) |
| "The Palace Thief" (1994), Ethan Canin | The Emperor's Club (2002) |
| "Paycheck" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Paycheck (2003) |
| "Peaceful" (1920), W. C. Tuttle | Peaceful Peters (1922) |
| "Pete's Dragon and the USA (Forever After)", Seton I. Miller and S.S. Field | Pete's Dragon (1977) |
| Pete's Dragon (2016) |
| Portrait of Jennie (1940), Robert Nathan | Portrait of Jennie (1948) |
| "The Postmaster" (Bengali: পোস্টমাস্টার (1914), Rabindranath Tagore | Teen Kanya (Bengali: তিন কন্যা) (1961) |
| "The Prince Who Was a Thief" (1945), Theodore Dreiser | The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951) |
| "The Princess and the Plumber" (1929), Alice Duer Miller | The Princess and the Plumber (1930) |
| "The Princess of Montpensier" (1662), Madame de La Fayette | The Princess of Montpensier (2011) |
| "Private Pettigrew's Girl" (1918), Dana Burnet | Pettigrew's Girl (1919) |
| The Shopworn Angel (1928) |
| The Shopworn Angel (1938) |
| "Purple and Fine Linen" (1926), May Edginton | Three Hours (1937) |
| Adventure in Manhattan (1936) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "The Racer" (1956), Ib Melchior | Death Race 2000 (1975) |
| Death Race (2008) |
| Death Race 2 (2011) |
| (2012) |
| Death Race 2050 (2017) |
| (2018) |
| "The Raft" (1982), Stephen King | Creepshow 2 (1987) |
| "The Rainmaker" (1949), D. D. Beauchamp | Henry, the Rainmaker (1949) |
| "Random Quest" (1961), John Wyndham | Quest for Love (1971) |
| Random Quest (2006) |
| "The Reformer and the Redhead" (1949), Robert Carson | The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) |
| "The Reign of the Superman" (1933), Jerry Siegel | Superman franchise (1938–present) |
| "The Return" (written 1897, published 1898), Joseph Conrad | Gabrielle (2005) |
| "The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl" (1933), Stuart Palmer | The Plot Thickens (1936) |
| "The Riddle of the Forty Naughty Girls" (1934), Stuart Palmer | Forty Naughty Girls (1937) |
| Riding the Bullet (2000), Stephen King | Riding the Bullet (2004) |
| Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982), Stephen King | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
| "Roaring Road" (1918), Byron Morgan | The Roaring Road (1919) |
| "Roller Ball Murder" (1973), William Harrison | Rollerball (1975) |
| Rollerball (2002) |
| Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner (2000), F.X. Toole | Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
| "R.S.V.P" (1950), Jerome Weidman | Invitation (1952) |
| "Ruidoso" (1974), John McPhee | Casey's Shadow (1978) |
| "Running for Rooney" (1928), Sam Hellman | The Dark Horse (1946) |
| Rust and Bone (2005), Craig Davidson | Rust and Bone (2012) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Sadie Goes to Heaven" (1917), Dana Burnet | Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917) |
| "Samapti" (Bengali: সমাপ্তি) (1893), Rabindranath Tagore | Teen Kanya (Bengali: তিন কন্যা) (1961) |
| "Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell | Mr. Sardonicus (1961) |
| "Second Chance" (1948), Faith Baldwin | Second Chance (1950) |
| "Second Variety" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Screamers (1995) |
| (2009) |
| "Secretary" (1989), Mary Gaitskill | Secretary (2002) |
| "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939), James Thurber | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) |
| Secret Window (2004) |
| "Secrets" (1918), May Edginton | Secrets (1924) |
| Secrets (1933) |
| "See How They Run" (1951), Mary Elizabeth Vroman | Bright Road (1953) |
| The Seed and the Sower (1963), Laurens van der Post | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) |
| "The Self-Made Wife" (1922), Elizabeth Alexander | The Self-Made Wife (1923) |
| "The Sentinel" (or "Sentinel of Eternity") (1951), Arthur C. Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
| "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1936), H. P. Lovecraft | Lemora (1973) |
| Dagon (2001) |
| Cthulhu (2007) |
| "Shadow Ranch" (1925), George M. Johnson | Shadow Ranch (1930) |
| Shadrach (1998) |
| The Chess Players (1977) |
| "She Goes to War" (1929), Rupert Hughes | She Goes to War (1929) |
| "She of the Triple Chevron" (1892), Gilbert Parker | Heart of the Wilds (1918) |
| Over the Border (1922) |
| "The Sheriff of Sun-Dog" (1921), W. C. Tuttle | The Sheriff of Sun-Dog (1922) |
| "The Shoes That Danced" (1917), John A. Moroso | The Shoes That Danced (1918) |
| "Shopgirl" (2000), Steve Martin | Shopgirl (2005) |
| "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936), Ernest Hemingway | The Macomber Affair (1947) |
| "The Silver Mask" (1932), Hugh Walpole | Kind Lady (1935) |
| Kind Lady (1951) |
| "A Situation of Gravity" (1957), Samuel W. Taylor | The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) |
| Son of Flubber (1963) |
| The Absent-Minded Professor (1988) |
| The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places (1989) |
| Flubber (1997) |
| "Sir Piegan Passes" (1923), W. C. Tuttle | The Cheyenne Kid (1933) |
| "Sleep All Winter" (1949), Richard Wormser and Dan Gordon | The Sundown (1950) |
| Snowdust (1926), Howard E. Morgan | Mystery Valley (1928) |
| "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), Ernest Hemingway | The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011) |
| "The Sobbin' Women" (1938), Stephen Vincent Benét | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) |
| "Sometimes They Come Back" (1974), Stephen King | Sometimes They Come Back (1991) |
| Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) |
| Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998) |
| Spawn of the Desert (1923) |
| "Spinster Dinner" (1934), Faith Baldwin | Love Before Breakfast (1936) |
| "Spurs" (1923), Tod Robbins | Freaks (1932) |
| "St. Dragon and the George" (1957), Gordon R. Dickson | The Flight of Dragons (1982) |
| "Starr of the Southwest" (1936), Cherry Wilson | Sandflow (1937) |
| "The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1920), H. P. Lovecraft | (1993) |
| 13:de mars, 1941 (2004) |
| Kammaren (2007) |
| The Testimony of Randolph Carter (2009) |
| "The Star" (Russian: Звезда|Zvezda) (1947), Emmanuil G. Kazakevich | The Star (1949) |
| The Star (2002) |
| "Steel" (1956), Richard Matheson | Real Steel (2011) |
| "A Story Like the Wind" (1972), Laurens van der Post | A Far Off Place (1993) |
| "Straight Shooting" (1924), W. C. Tuttle | The Border Sheriff (1926) |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) |
| The Head of Janus (German: Der Januskopf) (1920) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) |
| The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951) |
| The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) |
| The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (French: Le Testament du docteur Cordelier) (1959) |
| The Ugly Duckling (1959) |
| The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) |
| I, Monster (1971) |
| Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973) |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1981) |
| Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1985) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986) |
| Edge of Sanity (1989) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989) |
| Jekyll & Hyde (1990) (TV) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995) |
| Mary Reilly (1996) |
| Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1999) |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006) |
| Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2008) |
| "Suburbs" (1930), Vera Caspary | Scandal Street (1938) |
| "The Summons" (1914), George Pattullo | The First Degree (1923) |
| "Sun-Dog Trails" (1921), W. C. Tuttle | Sun Dog Trails (1923) |
| "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), Brian Aldiss | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
| "The Swimmer" (1964), John Cheever | The Swimmer (1968) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| Tales of the South Pacific (1947), James A. Michener | South Pacific (1958) |
| South Pacific (2001) |
| (1895–96), Ichiyō Higuchi | Takekurabe (1924) |
| Takekurabe (1955) |
| "Technic" (1925), Dana Burnet | The Marriage Clause (1926) |
| "There Shall Be No Darkness" (1950), James Blish | The Beast Must Die (1974) |
| "Third Girl from the Right" (1949), Robert Carson | Ain't Misbehavin' (1951) |
| The Third Man (1948), Graham Greene | The Third Man (1949) |
| "Those High Society Blues" (1925), Dana Burnet | High Society Blues (1930) |
| "The Thought Monster" (1930), Amelia Reynolds Long | Fiend Without a Face (1958) |
| "Tonī Takitani" (1990), Haruki Murakami | Tony Takitani (2004) |
| "Too Much Speed" (1921), Byron Morgan | Too Much Speed (1921) |
| "Toomai of the Elephants" (1894), Rudyard Kipling | Elephant Boy (1937) |
| "Train Choir" (2008), Jonathan Raymond | Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
| "The Traitor" (1928), W. Somerset Maugham | Secret Agent (1936) |
| "Trucks" (1973), Stephen King | Maximum Overdrive (1986) |
| Trucks (1997) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1898), Henry James | Matinee Theater (1957) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1959/I; TV) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1959/II; TV) |
| The Innocents (1961) |
| Die sündigen Engel (1962) |
| The Nightcomers (1971) |
| Le tour d'écrou (1974) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1974) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1982) |
| Otra vuelta de tuerca (1985) |
| Nightmare Classics: The Turn of the Screw (1989; TV) |
| The Turn of the Screw - Die Drehung der Schraube (1990; TV) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1992) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1994) |
| The Haunting of Helen Walker (a.k.a. The Turn of the Screw) (1995) |
| Presence of Mind (1999) |
| The Turn of the Screw (1999) |
| Le tour d'écrou (2001) |
| The Others (Spanish; Castilian: Los otros) (2001) |
| The Turn of the Screw (2003) |
| In a Dark Place (2006) |
| The Turn of the Screw (2009) |
| The Turn of the Screw 3D (2013) |
| "Twenty Minutes" (1988), James Salter | Boys (1992) |
| "Two Bad Hats" (1937), Monckton Hoffe | The Lady Eve (1941) |
| The Birds and the Bees (1956) |
| "Two Can Play" (1922), Gerald Mygatt | Two Can Play (1926) |
| "Two Weeks with Pay" (1920), Nina Wilcox Putnam | Two Weeks with Pay (1921) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Wandering Daughters" (1922), Dana Burnet | Wandering Daughters (1923) |
| "The Wax Works" (1930), Charles Spencer Belden | Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) |
| House of Wax (1953) |
| House of Wax (2005) |
| "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966), Philip K. Dick | Total Recall (1990) |
| Total Recall (2012) |
| "We Don't Live Here Anymore" (1975), Andre Dubus | We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
| "Weeds" (1976), Stephen King | Creepshow (1982) |
| "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), Joyce Carol Oates | Smooth Talk (1985) |
| "The Whipsaw" (1934), James Edward Grant | Whipsaw (1935) |
| "White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи|Belye nochi) (1848), Fyodor Dostoyevsky | White Nights (Italian: Le notti bianche, French: Nuits blanches) (1957) |
| White Nights (1959) |
| Chhalia (1960) |
| Four Nights of a Dreamer (French: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) (1971) |
| White Nights (1992) |
| White Nights (Persian: شبهای روشن) (2003) |
| Iyarkai (2003) |
| White Nights (2005) |
| Ahista Ahista (2006) |
| Saawariya (2007) |
| Two Lovers (2009) |
| White Nights on the Pier (French: Nuits blanches sur la jetée) (2014) |
| White Nights (Malayalam: വെളുത്ത രാത്രികൾ, Velutha Rathrikal) (2015) |
| "Who Am I This Time?" (1961), Kurt Vonnegut | Who Am I This Time? (1982) |
| Who Goes There? (1938), John W. Campbell, Jr. | The Thing from Another World (1951) |
| The Thing (1982) |
| The Thing (2011) |
| "Wife Versus Secretary" (1935), Faith Baldwin | Wife vs. Secretary (1936) |
| "Wine" (1922), William Briggs MacHarg | Wine (1924) |
| "The Wisdom of Eve" (1946), Mary Orr | All About Eve (1950) |
| "The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" (1947), William Bowers and D. D. Beauchamp | The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) |
| "With Neatness and Dispatch" (1918), Kenneth L. Roberts | With Neatness and Dispatch (1918) |
| "The Wonderful Race at Rimrock" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp | Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948) |
| "World Without End" (1925), May Edginton | His Supreme Moment (1925) | |
| Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| Zorro (1919–1959) (series), Johnston McCulley | The Mark of Zorro (1920) |
| Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) |
| In the Way of Zorro (French: À la manière de Zorro, Dutch; Flemish: Op Zorro wize) (1926) |
| The Bold Caballero (1936) |
| Zorro Rides Again (1937) |
| The Mark of Zorro (1940) |
| Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) |
| Zorro's Black Whip (1944) |
| Son of Zorro (1947) |
| The Grandson of Zorro (Spanish; Castilian: El nieto del zorro) (1948) |
| Ghost of Zorro (1949) |
| The Dream of Zorro (Italian: Il sogno di Zorro) (1952) |
| Lawless Mountain (Spanish; Castilian: La montaña sin ley) (1953) |
| The Sign of Zorro (1957) |
| El Jinete solitario (1958) |
| El jinete solitario en el valle de los buitres (1958) |
| El Zorro escarlata en la venganza del ahorcado (1958) |
| The Return of the Monster (Spanish; Castilian: El regreso del monstruo) (1959) |
| El Zorro escarlata en diligencia fantasma (1959) |
| Zorro, the Avenger (1959) |
| Zorro: El Bandido (1960) |
| Zorro: Adios El Cuchillo (1960) |
| Zorro in the Valley of Ghosts (Spanish; Castilian: El jinete solitario en el valle de los desaparecidos) (1960) |
| Northern Courier (Spanish; Castilian: El correo del norte) (1960) |
| Zorro: The Postponed Wedding (1961) |
| Zorro: Auld Acquaintance (1961) |
| La máscara de la muerte (1961) |
| La trampa mortal (1962) |
| La venganza de la Sombra (1962) |
| El Zorro Vengador (1962) |
| Zorro at the Spanish Court (Italian: Zorro alla corte di Spagna) (1962) |
| Zorro the Avenger (Spanish; Castilian: La venganza del Zorro, Italian: Zorro il vendicatore) (1962) |
| The Shadow of Zorro (Spanish; Castilian: Cabalgando hacia la muerte; Italian: L'ombra di Zorro) (1962) |
| The Three Swords of Zorro (Italian: Le tre spade di Zorro) (1963) |
| Zorro and the Three Musketeers (Italian: Zorro e i tre moschettieri) (1963) |
| Samson and the Slave Queen (Italian: Zorro contro Maciste) (1963) |
| Duel at the Rio Grande (1963) |
| The Daughters of Zorro (Spanish; Castilian: Las hijas del Zorro) (1964) |
| The Invinicibles (Spanish; Castilian: Las hijas del Zorro) (1964) |
| Behind the Mask of Zorro (Spanish; Castilian: E Zorro cabalga otra vez, Italian: Il Giuramento di Zorro) (1965) |
| Zorro the Rebel (Italian: Zorro il ribelle) (1966) |
| Zorro the Fox (Spanish; Castilian: El Zorro, Italian: La Volpe) (1968) |
| The Nephews of Zorro (Italian: I nipoti di Zorro) (1968) |
| Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (Italian: Zorro marchese di Navarra) (1969) |
| Zorro in the Court of England (Italian: Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra) (1969) |
| Zorro's Latest Adventure (Spanish; Castilian: La última aventura del Zorro, Italian: Zorro il dominatore) (1969) |
| Zorro Kamçılı Süvari (1969) |
| Zorro'nun İntikamı (1970) |
| Zorro, Rider of Vengeance (Italian: Zorro, il cavaliere della vendetta) (1971) |
| Zorro the Invincible (Italian: Zorro, la maschera della vendetta) (1971) |
| The Avenger, Zorro (Spanish; Castilian: El Zorro justiciero, Italian: E continuavano a chiamarlo figlio di...) (1972) |
| The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972) |
| Red Hot Zorro (French: Les aventures galantes de Zorro) (1972) |
| Man with the Golden Winchester (Italian: Il figlio di Zorro, Spanish; Castilian: El hijo del Zorro) (1973) |
| The Mark of Zorro (1974) |
| The Great Adventure of Zorro (Spanish; Castilian: La gran aventura del Zorro) (1974) |
| Grandson of Zorro (1975) |
| Zorro (1975; Italian) |
| Zorro (1975; Hindi) |
| Mark of Zorro (Italian: Ah sì? E io lo dico a Zzzzorro!) (1975) |
| Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) |
| The Mask of Zorro (1998) |
| The Amazing Zorro (2002) |
| The Legend of Zorro (2005) | |
