'Storm of the Century'

'Storm of the Century' is another novelty from Stephen King. After a comic book (Creepshow), a story published only on the Internet (The Plant), the writer released a film screenplay in 1999. More specifically, the screenplay of a three episode mini-series. It was supposed to be a novel, but as King wrote in the preface: '... the idea kept insisting that it was a movie'. 

The action takes place on the island of  Little Tall. A small island off the coast of Maine is getting ready for the arrival of a winter storm which gets heralded by meteorologists as a storm of the century that may cut off the island from the world.  With the first snow, Andre Linoge comes to the island and murders one of its oldest inhabitants, Martha Clarendon. Then he calmly sits in her chair, holding a bloodstained cane with a silver wolf's head... After the arrest of the madman, the horror continues—death consumes more victims; the prisoner controls it from his cell, playing a murderous pantomime. "Give me what I want, and I'll go away", he tells the community of Little Tall. However, he doesn't tell them what it is he wants, and the tragedies continue to occur on the island...