Frances Sternhagen

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.

Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

Sean Connery stars as Federal District Marshal William T. O'Niel, assigned to a mining outpost on the Jovian moon Io. The highly productive titanium mine seems to be the backwater of the universe, but the miners are killing each other in strangely psychotic ways. Now, hired assassins are trying to kill O'Niel to bury the secret his investigation has revealed ... and there's no one he can call for help in this far end of the solar system.

Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of twenty-two tales from the modern master of horror.

Events at Easter time convince Seth, owner of Cranberryport's general store, that he is needed in town and should change his plans to retire and leave. Includes a recipe for cranberry cobbler.

In the "Hat, ", when Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head. In the "Umbrella." Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella. In "Gingerbread baby, " a young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and...

When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead, " a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's...

In The body in the closet, Alvirah gets involved in the investigation of the death of a woman found murdered in her closet. In Plumbing for Willey, after Alvirha's appearance on a talk show, her husband, Willy is kidnapped.

When a popular author crashes on a snowy road, his 'biggest fan' rescues him only to torture him to resurrect her favorite character.