Writer Stephen King’s books, many of which...

Writer Stephen King’s books, many of which have been quickly snapped up by Hollywood and turned into movies, blend the supernatural with the patently normal to create an unsettling ambience of terror.

“Carrie,” “Cujo,” “The Dead Zone,” “Misery” and other King films leave the viewer strangely unsettled.

When Jack Nicholson sat at his typewriter in a snowed-in mountain chateau-hotel and tapped out “All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy” over and over and over in the film version of the “The Shining,” you knew trouble was not far behind.

Now, the Pasadena Public Library presents “Cat’s Eye,” a film anthology of three of the writer’s macabre short stories.

Wandering through all three tales is a stray cat, the significance of which only becomes clear by the movie’s end.

The mystery, directed by Lewis Teague, stars Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Robert Hays and Candy Clark.

Rated PG-13 and running 1 hour and 34 minutes, the film will be shown Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the library at 285 E. Walnut St. Admission is free.