Several titles in the "Black Beret" series (1984–1987) Screenwriting credits Alfred Hitchcock Presents (episode "The Jar") Amazing Stories (episode "Miscalculation") Beetlejuice (1988) (shared story and screenplay); nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Writing Tales from the Darkside (1984-1987) (eleven episodes) Tales from the Crypt (1989) (episode "Lover Come Hack to Me") Monsters (1989-1990) (episodes "La Strega" and "Far Below") Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) (segments "Lot 249" and "Lover's Vow") The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (adaptation by) Thinner (1996) (screenplay by McDowell and Tom Holland, based on the 1984 novel by Stephen King) Adaptations Beetlejuice (TV series based on the 1988 film) Cold Moon (based on the 1980 novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon) References External links Michael M. McDowell Collection at the Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University McDowell biography and selected bibliography by Valancourt Books McDowell site by Valancourt publisher Ryan Cagle Further reading 1950 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American novelists American horror writers American male novelists American male screenwriters Brandeis University alumni Harvard University alumni American gay writers American LGBT novelists People from Enterprise, Alabama AIDS-related deaths in Massachusetts American LGBT screenwriters LGBT people from Alabama Novelists from Alabama 20th-century American male writers Weird fiction writers 20th-century American screenwriters