Rainy Season (Stephen King)
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Rainy Season is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in an anthology titled Midnight Graffiti, and later included in King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection.
[edit] Plot
A 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. They do not comply and, having purchased groceries, return to the house. They never learn that as a price for prosperity for the citizens of Willow: every seven years a husband and wife will come there from outside and will stay, despite protests, in time for the rainy season. When the "rain" starts, the couple does learn the nature of the precipitation: an army of grotesque black frogs the size of footballs, armed with needle-sharp teeth...
