That evening Mike finds Linoge inside the town hall holding a resident hostage. The town's children fall under a spell and go to sleep, dreaming that they are flying through the clouds with Linoge. With each death and abduction, Linoge sends his demand again.
Ralphie goes missing and, when found in a closet, says that he was with Linoge. Two die and the third, Angie Carver, is discovered alive but visibly aged. The next day, Linoge causes three residents to vanish while everyone is watching the lighthouse collapse. Meanwhile Mike dreams that the townspeople walk into the ocean and drown. A news reporter connects the disappearance to the lost Roanoke colony. The residents have the same dream in which authorities find the island deserted after the storm and the word "Croaton" carved on a tree.
As they sleep, Linoge appears on the televisions as a televangelist and lectures them on the consequences of refusing to accommodate a stranger.
The residents take shelter from the storm in the town hall. He then escapes the jail in the form of a wizened old man and repeats his demand before disappearing into the storm. Yet he gives no hint of his own background, saying only, "Give me what I want, and I'll go away." While sitting in a jail cell, Linoge possesses the minds of several townspeople, causing suicides and a murder. Linoge seems to know the names and morbid secrets of all the island's residents, and is particularly interested in Mike's son Ralphie, who has a birthmark on his nose. Mike Anderson, a supermarket manager and part-time constable, arrests the stranger, who identifies himself as André Linoge. Town manager Robbie Beals investigates, and the stranger terrifies him by relating shameful secrets from his past. Plot Īs the people of Little Tall Island, Maine prepare for a powerful blizzard in 1989, elderly resident Martha Clarendon is brutally murdered by a menacing stranger. King has called Storm of the Century his personal favorite of all the TV productions related to his works. King described the screenplay as a "novel for television." The screenplay was published as a mass-market book in February 1999 prior to the TV broadcast of the mini-series. Unlike many other television adaptations of King's work, Storm of the Century was not based on a novel but was an original screenplay written by the author and directly produced for television. Storm of the Century, alternatively known as Stephen King's Storm of the Century, is a 1999 American horror television miniseries written by Stephen King and directed by Craig R.
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