One of the many ironies of Stephen King and his strange relationship to The Shining is that the bestselling author, who will probably go to his grave still quivering with rage over what Stanley Kubrick did to The Shining, is famous for letting just about anyone adapt his material. The altruistic scribe famously charges only a dollar for a 90-day option on his short stories, and has just signed away the feature rights to the 1981 short story “The Jaunt” to Production Company Plan B, with Andy Muschietti of the sleeper 2013 horror hit Mama onboard to direct. The story was first published in a 1981 episode of The Twilight Zone magazine but was brought to a new, less nerdy audience when it was included in the popular 1985 King anthology Skeleton Crew.

According to Deadline, the story takes place in the 24th century and involves a form of teleportation known as “jaunting” that will enable the central family to travel to Mars, but only with the strict caveat that the teleported party must be under complete anesthesia or terrible things will begin to happen to an alert brain with no outside stimulation. Awful things. Horrific things. Spooktiscarifying things. Spooky, poky things. The kinds of things one might find in some manner of fifth dimension, beyond those known to man.

The Deadline article makes it apparent that this is an especially fruitful period for the eternally prolific King, with adaptations in the works for both 11/22/63 (with James Franco set to star for J.J. Abrams and Warner Bros. TV) and a long-anticipated movie version of The Dark Tower, with Ron Howard directing and Brian Grazer producing. Other, less high-profile adaptations of King properties include Joyland, Mr. Mercedes, Under The Dome, and The Things They Left Behind. And here I imagined that King would spend the entire year getting prepared for the 30th anniversary of Maximum Overdrive, the film that conclusively proved that King was a better director than that hack Kubrick. But it looks like he’s got a whole lot more on his plate.