After stalking and saving the life of her favorite fiction author in a car accident, his manic obsessor holds him captive in her remote Colorado home then forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

这本书收入斯蒂芬·金的四部中篇小说，是他作品中的杰出代表作。其英文版一经推出，即登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的冠军之位，当年在美国狂销二十八万册。目前，这本书已经被翻译成三十一种语言，同时创下了收录的四篇小说中有三篇被改编成轰动一时的电影的记录。 其中最为著名是曾获奥斯卡奖七项提名、被称为电影史上最完美影片的《肖申克救赎》（又译《刺激一九九五》）。这部小说展现了斯蒂芬·金于擅长的惊悚题材之外的过人功力。书中的另两篇小说《纳粹高徒》与《尸体》拍成电影后也赢得了极佳的口碑。其中《尸体》还被视为斯蒂芬·金最具自传色彩的作品。

该剧由本·门德尔森主演，聚焦一个11岁男孩被强奸、杀害和分尸的惨案，看似直白的案情却生出疑窦，超自然力量作怪： 俄克拉何马州小城弗林特，警探Ralph Anderson当着一群人的面逮捕了很受欢迎的老师兼少年棒球联赛教练Terry Maitland，指控他奸杀了一个男孩，并将其分尸。Maitland坚称自己无辜，但Anderson有目击者和确凿的证据(DNA和指纹)证明他有罪。 地方检察官告诉Anderson，要打破Maitland的不在场证明，把一场本来会是旷日持久的法庭斗争变成情节一目了然的直白案件。而Anderson却意外发现：不仅有多名目击证人声称当凶杀案发生时Maitland并不在城里，安全录像也证实了这一点。 在私家侦探Holly Gibney(金另一本小说《梅赛德斯先生》的角色)的帮助下，Anderson开始深入调查此案，线索指引两人来到了德克萨斯州的玛丽斯维尔镇，并得到墨西哥裔警官Yune Sablo、居住在拉丁裔为主小镇上的白人女性Lovie Ann Bolton协助。他们发现面临着一个真正的怪物的威胁……小说前半段风格为警察办案，后半段恐怖、超自然元素加剧。

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.