A woman receives a strange phone call from a sobbing and traumatized unknown caller and tries to get to the bottom of who it was.
Originally a chapter in an unfinished novel. "My Pretty Pony": An elderly man brings his grandson up onto a hill behind his house and gives the boy his pocket watch."Rainy Season": A married couple choose to stay on vacation in a small town in Maine despite being warned to leave and are attacked by an unusual rain that night.The story was originally published in a collection of Romero homages called The Book of the Dead. "Home Delivery": A woman wants to give birth safely whilst an alien plague causes the world's corpses to come back to life.The pacing is a little slow and the acting by the husband is a little too The Shining towards the end, but overall I could rewatch this and not be bored. It deals a lot with the Cthulhu mythos and the story obviously has that as a dominant inspiration. C+ This another fairly good, but not great, short story from this series.This short references the Cthulhu mythos often.This is a drop from 5.2 million in the first episode. This episode brought in 4.8 million viewers.The police have a cat named Lonnie, the same cat that Doris had seen several times that day. She runs and finds some people who point her in the direction of the police station. She then sees her husband who is acting strangely saying that now they will be together forever, but he is swallowed by a monster with tenacles. She finds the kids who they had run into earlier and they begin chanting. She begins running but has lost her husband. They think they see traffic but Lonnie becomes sick and takes off running.ĭoris tries to catch back up with him but is grabbed by a large monster that looks like the cat she had seen earlier. He says that something is happening to him. This drives Lonnie nearly crazy and he grabs Doris and says that they have to go. They approach a watchtower that Doris recognized and head in that direction but are interrupted by an underpass that has a black-hole lack wind. Eventually they decide to go west and try to make it back to their hotel. Still, he wants to continue to their house for dinner despite Doris' protests. He attempts to call his friend but the phone dies and he throws it. Lonnie begins acting a bit more angry than he had been and claims that he can't remember what had just happened. Covered in a tar-like substance, he gets up and they run towards a major road. He goes on and is seemingly swallowed up by something in the hole and spit back out. They come upon a house where they hear someone groaning and Lonnie wants to investigate, but Doris is troubled by the sign she read back in London. He gets directions and they continue down the road. They get lost so he tries to find a telephone to call his friend while she waits out in the road.
But he has the address so they try to find his friend on foot.
#STEPHEN KING CROUCH END DRIVER#
The cab driver says that the town was built on the druid town of Slaughter Tower.Īfter Lonnie makes a phone call they notice that the cab is gone before even being payed. When they get into Crouch End she sees a look of wolves on bikers' faces.
The wife, Doris, is scared on the way when she reads a sign about a drowning. They get a cab anyways and head for the town. While shopping the husband, Lonnie, asks a cab driver how long it would take to get to Crouch End and he recommended not going at all, saying it wasn't a place for strangers. A couple are honeymooning in London, but get a phone call and have to go to Crouch End on business.
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