The audiobook version of this story was narrated by actress Yeardley Smith. 'Rainy Season' has been adapted by artist Glenn Chadbourne 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. Two residents debate the price that is paid for their prosperity, but decide there is nothing they can do about it.įilm, TV, theatrical, or other adaptations After the carnage, the toads melt away into poisonous sludge that is washed away easily. 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. They 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. They do not comply and, having purchased groceries, return to the house. Plot summary Ī 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. It ended a bout of writer's block from which King had been suffering. 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.

The Rainy Season by Amy Wilentz