Stephen King - Short stories

The mayor of a nameless town gathers a mob to confront a hermit living in a "haunted house," but when the mob arrives, the man has a few tricks up his sleeve to convince them that he's not that bad.

A assassin decides to avenge an old friend, dead murdered in his arms. With only a street address as a clue, he will discover the murderous plan of a band of mobsters to seize all the booty of a robbery committed years ago.

Two girls named Pamela and Rebecca wake up after a night of heavy drinking and get paronoid about what they got up to the night before.....

When a mysterious stalker strikes at a small campus, the some students find themselves stunned and terrified by the going-ons around them. One student, however, becomes fascinated with the murders.

Loosely related to the author's highly regarded novel The Stand, the brief story follows one evening on a place called Anson Beach, New Hampshire, with a group of teens, survivors of a catastrophic virus called A6, or "Captain Trips", that has wiped out virtually the entire population. The virus was said to have spread out of Southeast Asia. The teenagers are shown to have a rather sinister nature in that they abduct a man and burn him on a pyre, believing such a human sacrifice to their gods would grant them protection against A6. The main character of the story, named Bernie, reflects upon this new world and frequently daydreams about "the time before" when he went to Anson Beach in his younger years before the A6 outbreak. A reference is made to a previous virus called A2, which the teens had all survived, leading them to think they were immune to A6's lethal effect. Toward the end of the story, one of them begins to show symptoms of A6, and they realize that perhaps their exposure to A2 did not in fact grant them immunity to this deadlier virus. While Bernie's companion, Susie, accepts his explanation that maybe some teenagers lied about having A2 in order to join their group, Bernie realizes A2 is no guarantee against A6, and starts to accept his eventual death.

A husband and wife come to Willow, Maine and will stay, despite protests from the locals, to become sacrifices during the Rainy Season. When the "Rain" starts, the ultimate battle begins between of Man vs. Nature.

An executive recalls how he may have ended up going from his golf game to an autopsy room.

A young boy has a terrible encounter with a strange man while fishing in the woods. From the award winning story by Stephen King.

After purchasing a macabre painting at an estate sale, retired horror novelist Richard Kinnell suffers nightmarish consequences.

Alfie Zimmer is a traveling salesman at the end of his road and ready to say goodbye. But there is one bizarre love he just can't seem to part with.

A traveling frozen-food salesman checks into a motel to kill himself. Only his notebook, his traveling companion over the years, can save his life.

A down-on-her-luck chambermaid in a ramshackle Carson City hotel gets a quarter for a tip. What she doesn't realize is it's a 'Luckey' Quarter.

Katie receives a distressing phone call from an unknown source that is abruptly disconnected. Fearing someone is in danger, she desperately tries to contact family members. Based on the short story from the Master of Macabre, this twisting tale will leave viewers in suspense until the very end in true Stephen King fashion.

An animated horror zombie-comedy about domestic violence.

With divorce on the horizon, a couple find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's attorney is about to get very gruesome.

Narrated from the perspective of a man burdened with deep remorse, pain and his inner demons, the story concerns his decision to euthanize his terminally ill mother with painkillers.

When Elizabeth Rogan met Edward Jackson Hamner, Jr., she thought it was an answer to her prayers. He helped her pass her psychology final and saved her scholarship just in time for her to leave on summer vacation with her boyfriend Tony Lombard. During that summer vacation, everything changed. After Tony died in a horrible accident at work, Elizabeth thought her life was over. That was when Edward stepped back into her life. The more time she spent with Edward, the more she realized that maybe he was the answer to her prayers. Edward always seemed to know exactly what she needed. Room mate, Alice does not believe that Edward is being completely honest with Elizabeth and hires a private investigator to look into Edward's past. What he finds proves that nothing is ever as it seems.

Miss Sidley has a very odd student, named Robert, who begins quietly staring at her. Stating that he is a monster and that there are more of them in the class, Miss Sidley takes matter into her own hands. Are you one of them?

Charles really needs to pee, but he's pretty sure there's a tiger waiting in the bathroom.

An aspiring horror writer is ordered by his domineering wife to sell his laptop to pay the bills. When he sees H.P. Lovecraft's pillow in the window of the pawnshop he has a better idea. The story was suggested by Stephen King.

Briggs Sheridan is not that bad a guy, but he's going to have to fake it if he wants to survive the next four days. He owes Mr. Reggie fifty grand and it's time to pay up. Mr. Reggie has a solution, though . . . a job. All Sheridan has to do is complete one simple task and he will make it through the week with all of his body parts intact, as long as the job doesn't kill him first. Based on the story by Stephen King.

The film follows a gunslinger's quest to find his betrayer and enemy, The Man in Black. He discovers an abandoned town and it is there where he encounters a trap set by The Man in Black.

Early one morning, an aging man recalls a disturbing dream to his wife, disrupting their seemingly peaceful home.

Saturday morning as Harvey recounts a horrific nightmare in which he learned from a phone call that one of their daughters had been killed. Janet realizes that many of the details of Harvey's dream are in fact quite true, the phone rings