The Fearing Mind (2000)
Bill Fearing, a famous writer of suspense thrillers, gets his ideas from things that happen in his family. When he gets an idea, the viewers enter his mind and see the gruesome events unfold.
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Episode 1 - Sweet Meat
Release Date: 2000-10-21Bill is concerned about a boy his daughter Lenore is hanging out with, Cynthia is all over Bill to do something about their problems with ants in the house, and Grandma Lucy is giving Bill a hard time as usual. Bill's newest story is instigated by the ant problem in the Fearing household. It seems that ants are attacking and killing people and Detective Sarno is put in charge of the case, only to discover that these ants have a host.
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Episode 2 - Good Harvest
Release Date: 2000-10-28Without asking Bill first, Cynthia invites one of his writing rivals, P.F. O'Horgan, over for dinner. Cynthia and Grandma Lucy are immediately warm to the man, while Bill is still suspicious for the larger part of the evening. However, he and O'Horgan eventually warm up to each other- at least for the evening. Meanwhile, Bill starts writing a new story for a literary magazine that's reminiscent of the old tale 'The Lottery.' A blind girl in a country town starts to have horrible visions left over from when she was able see.
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Episode 3 - Upgrade
Release Date: 2000-11-04Much to his horror, Cynthia replaces Bill's typewriter with a computer. The new technology in his life leads Bill to write a story about a nineteenth century home that is renovated to bring it up to the twenty-first century. Trouble is, the house doesn't want to be changed.
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Episode 4 - The Cure
Release Date: 2000-11-11Bill fears that he's dying and starts to try and live his life fully before he expires. His meeting with a doctor spawns a new story about a boy that's confined to his room from sickness and starts to see horrible things taking place in the house next door.
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Episode 5 - Call Of The Wild
Release Date: 2000-11-18Cynthia's former boyfriend and his new wife invites the Fearings on a fishing trip, triggering a story in Bill's mind about three salesmen on a hunting trip being stalked by a menacing, unseen force.
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Episode 6 - Two Faces
Release Date: 2000-12-02After Lenore tells two of her friends two different things, Bill is inspired to write a story about a man that thinks he's dating identical twins. However, one twin claims that her sister is dead and the other claims that her sister is crazy. Meanwhile, an agent from Regency Artists tries to get Bill to leave his current representative, Ann, and sign with them.
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Episode 7 - Gentleman Caller
Release Date:After Grandma Lucy starts dating a man named Harold, Cynthia finds herself not only jealous but suspicious of his motives. This inspires Bill to write a story about a young woman who suspects that there's something odd about the man that her mother starts seeing.
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Episode 8 - Come To Papa
Release Date:Bill believes that one of his students, Stacy Hancock, is interested in having more than just a student/teacher relationship. Meanwhile, Bill writes a story about a writer who comes face to face with the ghost of Papa Hemingway while looking for inspiration.
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Episode 9 - Will
Release Date:Bill watches a dog and gets inspiration for a story about a deadly inheritance.
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Episode 10 - Maximum Security
Release Date:Bill writes a story about a robbery.
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Episode 11 - The Fortunate One
Release Date:Inspired by Cynthia practicing feng shui, Bill writes a story about fortune cookies.
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Episode 12 - Intruder
Release Date:Bill writes a new novel about a house intruder, while things change in his own household.
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Episode 13 - On the Road
Release Date:As Bill tries to teach Lenore all about his car and how to drive a stick shift, he finds inspiration for a new story in which a woman on a road trip starts receiving threatening calls on her cell phone.