One of Mike Flanagan’s most incredible horror shows on Netflix was secretly inspired by an underrated 26-year-old three-part Stephen King miniseries.

Legendary horror author Stephen King has carved out a hefty position on television with the many series based on his books.

In the 1999 mini-series Storm of the Century, a malevolent stranger (played by noted Canadian Colm Feore) shows up outside Stephen King’s longtime fictional community of Castle Rock and repeatedly ...