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'The Body' was made into the movie 'Stand By Me' BTW.

Another interesting one is 'The Shrinking Man' by Richard Matheson (it was made into the movie 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'). BUT I'd prep them first in this way: Get ahold of a copy of 'Danse Macabre' by Stephen King and read his take on this story, and how its subtext can be seen as akin to getting a terminal disease and dying, and the stages people go through when this happens to them. And then present this view to your students before they read the book.

This will be really good brain-food for the intelligent ones, as they read the original, pulpy story.