novella
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“Marley was dead,” Charles Dickens begins the novella he subtitled “A Ghost Story of Christmas.”
His work took a dramatic turn when he directed “Stand by Me” in 1986, the adaptation of a Stephen King novella.
From Los Angeles Times
Dylan Southern directs from a script based on Max Porter’s novella.
In his novella “The Turn of the Screw,” the connection between the supernatural and the psychological is allowed to suggestively simmer.
From Los Angeles Times
The director said he and Holloway have a shared attraction to tension that builds slowly and methodically, like in a turn-of-the-century Gothic horror novella — such as Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan.”
From Los Angeles Times
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