Rainy Season (short story)

"Rainy Season"
Midnight Graffiti (No. 3, Spring 1989)
Author	Stephen King
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short story
Published in	Midnight Graffiti (1st release), Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Publication type	Magazine
Publisher	Warner Books
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Publication date	1989

Rainy Season is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in the Spring 1989 issue of Midnight Graffiti magazine, and later included in King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. It ended a bout of writer's block from which King had been suffering.^[1]

Plot summary

A young husband and wife on summer vacation rent a house in a small town called Willow, Maine, only to be warned repeatedly (if vaguely) to leave by the local inhabitants. They do not comply and, having purchased groceries, return to the house. They never learn the price for prosperity the citizens of Willow must pay: every seven years a husband and wife will go there from outside and will stay, despite protests, to become sacrifices during the rainy season. When the "rain" starts, the couple learns the nature of the precipitation: an army of grotesque black toads the size of footballs, armed with needle-sharp teeth and able to chew through doors and walls.

Film, TV, theatrical, or other adaptations

"Rainy Season" has been adapted by artist for the book "The Secretary of Dreams" a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance Publications in December 2006.

The audiobook version of this story was narrated by actress Yeardley Smith.^[2]

Reception

Wiater et al. compared it to Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery".^[3] Writing at Tor.com, Grady Hendrix called it a "time passer" that was likely expanded from a single surreal image.^[4]

References

↑ Beahm, George (1998). Stephen King from A to Z: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Work. Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 170. ISBN 9780836269147.
↑ King, Stephen. "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". Official page. Stephen King. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
↑ Wiater, Stanley; Golden, Christopher; Wagner, Hank (2006). The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King. Macmillan. p. 260. ISBN 9780312324902.
↑ Hendrix, Grady (2013-11-20). "The Great Stephen King Reread: Nightmares & Dreamscapes". Tor.com. Retrieved 2015-04-30.

External links

Rainy Season at the Internet Movie Database

Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

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Novels	Carrie (1974) 'Salem's Lot (1975) The Shining (1977) The Stand (1978) The Dead Zone (1979) Firestarter (1980) Cujo (1981) Christine (1983) Pet Sematary (1983) Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) The Talisman (1984) It (1986) The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) Misery (1987) The Tommyknockers (1987) The Dark Half (1989) Needful Things (1991) Gerald's Game (1992) Dolores Claiborne (1992) Insomnia (1994) Rose Madder (1995) The Green Mile (1996) Desperation (1996) Bag of Bones (1998) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) The Plant (2000; unfinished) Dreamcatcher (2001) Black House (2001) From a Buick 8 (2002) The Colorado Kid (2005) Cell (2006) Lisey's Story (2006) Duma Key (2008) Under the Dome (2009) 11/22/63 (2011) Joyland (2013) Doctor Sleep (2013) Mr. Mercedes (2014) Revival (2014) Finders Keepers (2015) End of Watch (2016)

The Dark Tower series	The Gunslinger (1982) The Drawing of the Three (1987) The Waste Lands (1991) Wizard and Glass (1997) Wolves of the Calla (2003) Song of Susannah (2004) The Dark Tower (2004) The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)

Richard Bachman novels	Rage (1977) The Long Walk (1979) Roadwork (1981) The Running Man (1982) Thinner (1984) The Bachman Books (1985) The Regulators (1996) Blaze (2007)

Short fiction collections	Night Shift (1978) Different Seasons (1982) Skeleton Crew (1985) Four past Midnight (1990) Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993) Six Stories (1997) Hearts in Atlantis (1999) Everything's Eventual (2002) Just After Sunset (2008) Stephen King Goes to the Movies (2009) Full Dark, No Stars (2010) The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)

Non-fiction	Danse Macabre (1981) Nightmares in the Sky (1988) On Writing (2000) Secret Windows (2000) Faithful (2004) "Guns" (2013) Hearts in Suspension (2016)

Screenplays	Creepshow (1982) Cat's Eye (1985) Silver Bullet (1985) Maximum Overdrive (1986; also director) Pet Sematary (1989) Sleepwalkers (1992) A Good Marriage (2014) Cell (2016)

Teleplays	"Sorry, Right Number" (1987) Golden Years (1991) The Stand (1994) The Shining (1997) "Chinga" (1998) Storm of the Century (1999) Rose Red (2002) Kingdom Hospital (2004) Desperation (2006) "Heads Will Roll" (2014)

Comics	Creepshow (1982) Heroes for Hope (1985) The Secretary of Dreams (2006) The Dark Tower (2007–) The Stand (2008–12) The Talisman (2009–10) American Vampire (2010) N. (2010) Road Rage (2012) The Dark Man (2013)

Musical collaborations	Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997) Black Ribbons (2010) Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012)

Anthologies edited	The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007) Six Scary Stories (2016)

Worlds and concepts	Fictional locations of Maine Jerusalem's Lot Castle Rock Derry Fictional books Multiverse All-World Connections to The Dark Tower

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