海湾地区产生了一些绝对incredible authors, so it’s no surprise that some equally incredible TV and film adaptations have been made of their work. Here we look at some that are currently available on streaming services. Think of it as a localized, big-budget version of “Reading Rainbow.”

‘The Haunting of Hill House’ (2018)

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916 and spent most of her childhood not far away in Burlingame. She could trace her family’s roots in the city all the way back to 1862, when her great-great-grandfather designed the Grand Opera House and California Theater. Her debut novel, “The Road Through the Wall,” was a semi-autobiographical retelling of growing up in Burlingame.

杰克逊最famous work is the seminal horror novel “The Haunting of Hill House.” In 2018, director Mike Flanagan (“Gerald’s Game”) brought it to life with a modern series that was absolutely terrifying. The Crain family moves into a dilapidated mansion hoping to flip it, but are soon stalked by restless ghosts. The series moves back and forth from the past when the Crain children were little to modern day as the fallout from the haunting affects their lives. Flanagan’s adaptation was so successful it launched more series based on the works of authors like Henry James, Christopher Pike and Edgar Allan Poe.

Watch it: Streaming on Netflix.

‘The Last Unicorn’ (1982)

In the early 1960s, Peter S. Beagle left New York on a 175cc Heinkel Tourist scooter headed to Menlo Park, a 3,000-mile adventure that inspired the book “I See By My Outfit.” Once in the Bay Area, Beagle would be a part of the art scene for decades. His best-known work, the fantasy novel “The Last Unicorn,” later became one of the seminal fantasy films of early 1980s animation.

Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, the film stars Mia Farrow as a unicorn on a quest to save her people from extinction at the hands of an evil king (Christopher Lee). The striking art style, particularly the scenes with monstrous Red Bull, made the film a cult classic that continues to find new fans even 40 years later. After a long legal battle, Beagle was able to regain the rights to “The Last Unicorn” and is due to publish a long-awaited sequel, “The Way Home,” in April. Fingers crossed, an animated sequel will follow some day!

Watch it: Streaming on Peacock.

‘They’re Made Out of Meat’ (2017)

Science fiction author Terry Bisson had a very interesting life before moving to Oakland in 2002, where he started publishing his children’s book series, “Billy and the Ants.” He was a peace activist in the 1960s in Washington, D.C., even getting invited to the White House to talk with members of President Kennedy’s staff.

And of course, for a sci-fi writer of his generation, he wrote a lot of short stories. In 1991 he published “They’re Made Out of Meat,” a tale so short it sometimes gets republished as a Tumblr post. In it, two aliens discuss how gross it is that humans are thinking, sentient meat, unlike every other intelligent life in the universe. Director Jason Housecroft of Baobab Theatre turned it into an excellent short, and it captures the disgust of the aliens and existential horror of humans possibly always being alone in the universe.

Watch it: Available to rent on Amazon.

‘The Call of the Wild’ (2020)

Jack London is one of San Francisco’s most famous and complicated sons. He was born in poverty near Third and Brannan streets in 1876, with a love of reading and writing fostered thanks to librarian Ina Coolbrith, who would go on to become the state’s first poet laureate. After a period as an itinerant and a sailor, he returned to the Bay Area to start his writing career. You can still hang out at Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon in Oakland, where London spoke to many of the sailors and adventurers who would inspire his books.

“The Call of the Wild” is London’s most famous work, and has been adapted as everything from a silent film to an anime to a Snoopy cartoon. Chris Sanders directed the most recent one, a big-budget affair starring Harrison Ford and a host of CGI animals. It’s easily the most family-friendly version of the otherwise violent novel and revolves around a dog named Buck accompanying an old outdoorsman in the Yukon territory. A meditation on self-determination and freedom, the tale still finds new audiences more than a century after London wrote it.

Watch it: Streaming on Disney+.

Jef Rouner is a freelance writer.