Umney's Last Case

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"Umney's Last Case" is a television adaptation of a Stephen King short story about a hard-boiled detective who discovers his world is being rewritten by the author who created him.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf drama film
short story
television film
author Stephen King
authorOfSourceWork Stephen King NERFINISHED
basedOn Umney's Last Case (short story) NERFINISHED
characterType hard-boiled detective
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
distributionFormat broadcast television
genre crime drama
fantasy
fantasy
metafiction
mystery
hasAuthor Stephen King NERFINISHED
hasSetting mid-20th-century detective fiction milieu
noir-style city
hasSourceCollection Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King NERFINISHED
includedInCollection Nightmares & Dreamscapes NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Clyde Umney NERFINISHED
medium television
narrativeDevice metafiction
story within a story
originalLanguage English
partOfFranchise Stephen King television adaptations NERFINISHED
plotElement author rewrites the detective's world
fictional detective discovers he is a character in a story
theme creator and creation relationship
identity and free will
loss of control over reality
power of authorship

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Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King basedOnWork Umney's Last Case
this entity surface form: Umney's Last Case (short story)