The Girl With All the Gifts Summary

The Girl With All the Gifts

Published: June 2014

Author: M. R. Carey (Mike Carey)

Part of: Girl With All The Gifts (2 books)

Genres: Action, Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Survival, Suspense, Thriller, Zombies



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A variety of the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, endemic to South America, infected humanity twenty years ago, causing the Breakdown - the end of society as we knew it. The afflicted, dubbed "hungries," lose their mental abilities fast and feast on the flesh of healthy individuals. The illness is transferred by blood and saliva, but it may also be carried through the air via fungal spores. The few uninfected people left in England either dwell in tightly guarded locations like Beacon or roam in gangs of hostile, scavenging "Junkers."

Authorities in Beacon established a secluded military outpost to research a specific group of kid hungries. Unlike others, they can keep their mental abilities and only lose control when they get too close to human scent. The only method to mask the odor is to employ an e-blocker chemical, which is in short supply.

Soldiers, commanded by Sergeant Eddie Parks, track down hungry children and transport them to Hotel Echo, a location 30 miles outside of London and 74 miles from Beacon. The youngsters are schooled by instructors at the base and tested by Dr. Caroline Caldwell, the chief scientist. Helen Justineau, a behavioral psychologist and instructor at the facility, dislikes it when she has to vivisect the kids.

Melanie, a 10-year-old with a genius-level IQ who is enthralled with Greek mythology, namely the story of Pandora, is one of Justineau's favorite children. As a surrogate mother, Melanie adores Justineau. Melanie, like the other kids, has no idea that she is different from the grownups.

Melanie is chosen to be dissected by Dr. Caldwell, who believes she is close to finding a treatment for the fungus. The base is besieged by a gang of Junkers and hungries as Justineau interrupts and attempts to save her; Caldwell is seriously injured, and Melanie consumes flesh for the first time in rescuing Justineau, reawakening the fungus' "hunger." Parks and Private Kieran Gallagher are found and the three escape the base together.

The party chooses to drive to Beacon, which is 74 miles distant, but the grownups disagree over whether Melanie should accompany them. Parks agrees only after the youngster is muzzled, handcuffed, and forced to ride on the tank's roof. Melanie cooperates now that she realizes how dangerous she is to the others.

Melanie is valuable to the grownups since she is not attacked by hungry and can guide them away from humans. While Caldwell continues to regard Melanie as a specimen, the others begin to have faith in her. After many encounters with hungry creatures, including a few adults that exhibit human-like behavior, the party discovers Rosalind Franklin's mobile laboratory. It was created with cutting-edge facilities for testing and attack shortly after the pandemic began, but it vanished while on its research mission. Caldwell, who is dying of sepsis, uses the facility's technology to expedite her study.

Melanie discovers a group of hungry children while she satisfies her hunger apart from the others by eating wild animals. Melanie notices that they keep their mental processes as well, even though they lack a language of their own due to their lack of education. Melanie tells the grownups she spotted a huge bunch of Junkers instead of revealing the truth to Justineau because she is afraid of being experimented on. Gallagher flees the lab because he is afraid of junkies. The clever hungries find him, kill him, and devour him.

Caldwell, concerned with completing her studies before dying, catches one of the intelligent hungries and experiments on him as Parks and Justineau seek for Gallagher. She makes amazing discoveries, but she won't let anybody else in because she's afraid they'll interfere. Melanie discovers a massive clump of fungal fruiting bodies that have increased in size over the years since the infection began; while there are enough spores to infect the whole planet via air currents, the sporangia pods do not open on their own.

Caldwell is duped by Melanie into allowing her in. Caldwell tells Melanie about her findings before she dies: The fungus has neither a cure nor a vaccination. Intelligent hungries are the offspring of hungries who maintained certain human characteristics. People who are born this way keep their mental talents.

Parks and Justineau are surrounded outside the lab by hungry people. Melanie manages to scare them away, but Justineau is knocked down and Parks is bitten and sick as a result. Parks requests that Melanie shoot him before the infection cycle is completed so that he does not develop into a ravenous creature; she complies. She instructs him to blast the spores with a flamethrower, correctly assuming that fire is the environmental trigger that causes the spores to open.

Before Melanie agrees to Parks' request to murder him, she reveals that the conflict between healthy humans and the hungries will continue as long as there are healthy people. Every human must be infected before second-generation hungries may be born and restore the world.

In the Rosalind Franklin, Justineau wakes. Melanie takes her to a group of clever scavengers, to whom Justineau, dressed in an environmental suit, begins teaching the alphabet.


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Rosemary's Baby Summary

Rosemary's Baby

Published: 12, March 1967

Author: Ira Levin

Genres: American, Classics, Demonology & Satanism, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Occult, Suspense, Thrillers


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Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman with a failing actor husband, has recently moved into the Bramford, a historic Gothic Revival-style New York City apartment building. Guy has only had minor roles in theatrical productions such as Luther and Nobody Loves an Albatross, as well as a few TV advertisements. The couple is informed that Bramford has a shady past of witchcraft and murder, but they dismiss this. Guy wants to wait until his job is more established before starting a family, whereas Rosemary wants to start one right now.

Neighbors Rosemary and Guy are welcomed to the Bramford by Minnie and Roman Castevet, an eccentric old couple. Rosemary considers them intrusive and irritating, but Guy continues to pay them frequent visits.

Guy gets cast in the lead part in a new theatrical play when the lead actor falls blind. Guy surprisingly agrees with Rosemary that they should have their first child shortly after. Rosemary has a dream that night about a tumultuous sexual experience with a gigantic, monstrous beast with yellow eyes. Rosemary discovers claw marks on her breasts and crotch the next morning, which Guy dismisses as a hangnail. Rosemary is later informed that she is expecting a child.

Rosemary becomes very ill, but her excruciating pain and rapid weight loss are dismissed by others as hysteria. Minnie and her doctor feed her weird and nasty concoctions. Rosemary gets a strange desire for raw flesh as well.

Guy's performance in the play receives positive feedback and he goes on to play more important roles. Guy quickly starts talking about a Hollywood career.

Edward "Hutch" Hutchins, Rosemary's buddy, also gets ill inexplicably. Roman Castevets, the leader of a Satanic coven, had given Rosemary a warning, which led to her discovery. She believes her unborn child is being sought as a devilish sacrifice. Despite her growing conviction, she can't persuade anyone, especially Guy. Rosemary eventually finds the coven's true motivation for desiring her baby. He is the Antichrist, and his father is Satan.


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Pet Sematary Summary

Pet Sematary

Published: 14, November 1983

Author: Stephen King

Genres: Occult, Suspense, Ghost, Horror, Supernatural, Thrillers, Fiction, Animals, Zombie


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A Chicago doctor, Louis Creed, has been named head of the University of Maine's campus health department. With his wife Rachel, his two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill "Church," he moves to a huge house in the little town of Ludlow. The family is in danger from the minute they arrive: Ellie injures her knee, and Gage gets stung by a bee. An old man called Jud Crandall, their new neighbor, arrives to assist them. He cautions Louis and Rachel of the fast vehicles that frequent the highway that passes by their house.

Louis and Jud immediately become friends. Louis considers Jud to be his adoptive father because his father died when he was three years old. Jud takes the Creeds for a stroll in the woods behind their house a few weeks after they move in. A well-kept road leads to a pet cemetery (on the sign, "sematary" is misspelled), where the town's youngsters bury their departed pets.

The next day, Louis and Rachel had a violent disagreement over the outing. Rachel is against addressing death, and she is concerned about Ellie's reaction to what she has seen at the "sematary." Rachel was devastated by the early loss of her sister, Zelda, from spinal meningitis, as it is revealed later—a subject that is brought up numerous times in flashbacks. Louis sympathizes with his wife and holds her parents responsible for her suffering by leaving Rachel alone with her sister when she died.

During the first week of school, Louis experiences a horrific encounter. Even though the two men are strangers, Victor Pascow, a student who died in an automobile accident, addresses his final words to Louis personally. Louis has a very vivid dream the night after Pascow died in which he sees Pascow, who brings him to the deadfall at the rear of the "sematary" and cautions him not to go any farther.

The next morning, Louis wakes up in bed, sure it was all a dream—until he discovers dried mud and pine needles on his feet and bedsheets. Nonetheless, Louis dismisses the dream as the result of his stress following Pascow's death, as well as his wife's remaining fears about death.

Jud's wife Norma had a near-fatal heart attack on Halloween, but owing to Louis's aid, she recovers quickly. After Church gets run over outside his home around Thanksgiving, Jud is grateful and decides to repay Louis. Rachel and the kids are in Chicago visiting Rachel's parents, but Louis is worried about telling Ellie the terrible news. Jud sympathizes with Louis and brings him to the "sematary," where Church is believed to be buried. Rather than staying there, Jud takes Louis on a journey to "the actual graveyard," an old burial site previously frequented by the Mikmaq Tribe.

On Jud's orders, Louis buries the cat there. Church returns home the next day; the usually vivacious and active cat has become ornery and, in Louis' words, "a bit dead." Church goes on a mouse and bird hunt, tearing them up but not eating them. Ellie also doesn't want him in her room at night since he stinks so terribly. Church has been revived, according to Jud, who once buried his dog there when he was younger. Louis, who is greatly troubled, begins to regret burying Church there.

Gage, two years old, is killed by a speeding vehicle a few months later. Louis, overcome with grief, considers using the burial place to bring his son back to life. Jud, sensing Louis' intention, tries to persuade him by telling him about Timmy Baterman, the last person to be revived by the burial place. During World War II, Timmy Baterman was killed in action. Timmy's remains were returned to the United States and his father Bill laid him to rest at the cemetery. Timmy reappeared; wreaking havoc on the residents of the community with information Jud claims he had no way of knowing.

Timmy was stopped by his father, Bill, who shot himself after killing Timmy and setting their house on fire. Jud claims that whatever returned was not Timmy, but a "devil" who had taken possession of his body. "Sometimes, dead is preferable," he says, adding that "the place has a power... its own wicked purpose," and that it may have been the cause of Gage's death because Jud exposed Louis to it.

Louis' sadness and remorse drive him to carry out his plan, despite Jud's warning and his own doubts. Gage's body is exhumed from his tomb and interred in the cemetery by Louis. Gage is revived, but he is not the same person he was before. He finds one of Louis' scalpels and murders both Jud and Rachel, now malevolent in both his words and deeds. Louis uses morphine injections from his medical supplies store to kill both Church and Gage.

Louis returns to the burial plot with his wife's body after burning down the Crandall house, believing that if he buries it faster than Gage's, the outcome would be different. Louis has aged physically as a result of all of these sad occurrences, having white hair and wrinkles. Steve Masterton, one of his coworkers, observes him heading into the woods with Rachel's body.

While terrified and concerned, Steve is also swayed by the burial ground's power and even contemplates assisting Louis in burying Rachel, but he leaves in horror and later relocates to St. Louis. Later, Louis is sitting alone inside, playing solitaire, when Rachel's reanimated body comes up behind him and places a chilly hand on his shoulder, rasping, “Darling."


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Legion Summary

Legion

Published: 1983

Author: William Peter Blatty

Book 2 of 2: The Exorcist Series

Genres: American, Classics, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Mysteries, Occult, Police Procedural, Psychological, Supernatural


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The narrative starts with the discovery of a twelve-year-old kid who has been killed and crucified on two rowing oars. Kinderman notices that the kid has been mangled in a manner similar to that of the victims of the Gemini Murderer, a serial killer who was shot to death by police while climbing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco twelve years ago. Later, a priest is assassinated in a confessional, his body displaying the mutilations of the ostensibly dead killer once more. However, the fingerprints found at the two crime locations are not identical.

More victims soon follow, including one of Kinderman's pals, Father Dyer (from The Exorcist), who is murdered at a hospital and beheaded. The mutilations of the Gemini Killer are once again visible.

Kinderman was led to the hospital's mental section, where his buddy was murdered. He discovers a lot of suspects here.

Dr. Freeman Temple is a psychiatrist who treats his patients with dismissive and even contempt.

Another doctor at the hospital is Dr. Vincent Amfortas. He is enigmatic and uncommunicative, and he appears apathetic toward everything since his wife's death.

The hospital has a lot of elderly patients who are suffering from senile dementia. Although the fingerprints of many senile patients have been recovered at crime scenes, interviews with the patients reveal that they are unable to carry out the intricate killings and mutilations.

Tommy Sunlight - a strange patient discovered walking aimlessly disguised as a priest eleven years ago, who boasts of being the Gemini Killer reborn and claims to have carried out the recent killings while being confined to a locked cell in a straitjacket. He alleges that the doctors and nurses allowed him out to murder on one occasion. He also has a striking resemblance to Damien Karras, a priest who is said to have been killed in The Exorcist by falling down a flight of stairs.

The genuine Gemini Killer, James Vennamun, whose body was never recovered, implying that he may have lived and resumed his atrocities.

Sunlight informs Kinderman towards the conclusion of the story that the demon from the previous novel (The Exorcist) helped him in possessing Damien Karras' body soon after Karras' death as a form of vengeance for having been pushed out of the small girl. Sunlight spent years attempting to regain control of his injured body, during which time Karras was sent to a psychiatric institution. He had no identity and was given the moniker Sunlight because he sat in the sun's rays as they streamed through his cell window.

After eventually taking possession of Karras' body, the Gemini would periodically leave it to inhabit the bodies of senile dementia patients, which he could use to execute murders because they were in an open ward with access to the outside world. As a result, the fingerprints of numerous senile patients were discovered at crime scenes; their bodies committed the killings, but the Gemini Killer was in charge of them.

The Gemini's original motivation was to humiliate his loathed father, a preacher. The Gemini Killer believes his job is complete when his father dies through natural causes, and he sees no reason to keep Karras' body. He summons the detective; feeling obligated to explain everything to Kinderman, and succeeds in getting Kinderman to admit that he believes he, Sunlight, is the Gemini Killer. He then wills himself to pass away from heart failure.

Dr. Temple had a stroke and becomes intellectually handicapped as a result. Dr. Amfortas dies in a house accident after being harassed by a possibly demonic Doppelganger of himself, despite the fact that he was already terminally sick from a condition he refused to cure in order to join his departed wife).

Kinderman and his devoted buddy Atkins are in a burger bar in the novel's last chapter. Atkins is given Kinderman's views and speculations about the case, as well as how it connects to his issue with the concept of evil. Kinderman concludes that the Big Bang was Lucifer falling from heaven, that the entire Universe, including mankind, is made up of Lucifer's broken bits, and that evolution is the process of Lucifer reassembling himself as an angel.


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The Exorcist Summary

The Exorcist

Published: June 1971

Author: William Peter Blatty

Book 1 of 2: The Exorcist Series

Genres: American, Classics, Demonic Possession, Demonology & Satanism, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Occult, Psychological


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Father Lankester Merrin, an old Jesuit priest, is organizing an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and examining ancient relics. Following the discovery of a tiny statue of the demon Pazuzu (a real ancient Assyrian demon), a succession of omens warns him of an impending encounter with a tremendous evil, which he had already faced in an exorcism in Africa, which the reader is unaware of at this time.

Meanwhile, in Georgetown, a small girl named Regan MacNeil lives with her renowned mother, actress Chris MacNeil, who is filming a movie there. As Chris completes her work on the film, Regan begins to become unwell for no apparent reason. Regan begins to rapidly undergo disturbing psychological and physical changes after a series of poltergeist-like disturbances in their rented house, for which Chris attempts to find rational explanations. She refuses to eat or sleep, becomes withdrawn and frenetic, and becomes increasingly aggressive and violent. Regan's conduct is originally misinterpreted by Chris as the consequence of buried resentment at her parents' split and her father's absence.

As Regan's behavior grows increasingly unstable, Regan's mother, an atheist, seeks aid from a local Jesuit priest after many unsuccessful psychiatric and medical therapies. Father Damien Karras, who is having a faith crisis as a result of his mother's death, agrees to see Regan as a psychiatrist, but first rejects the idea that it is a genuine demonic possession. He approaches the local bishop for permission to conduct an exorcism on the kid after a few encounters with the youngster, who is now totally possessed by a demonic entity.

The bishop he contacts believe Karras is unqualified to conduct the rituals, so he chooses Merrin, an experienced exorcist who has lately returned to the United States, to administer the exorcism, but he does allow the doubt-ridden Karras to help him. The priests are put to the test both physically and spiritually throughout the protracted exorcism.

When Merrin, who had previously suffered from cardiac arrhythmia, passes away during the procedure, Father Karras is left to finish the exorcism. The devil seizes the opportunity to possess the priest as he demands that the demonic spirit occupy him instead of the innocent Regan. Karras bravely sacrifices his own life to save Regan's by jumping out of her bedroom window and dying, rediscovering his trust in God as his final rites are read.


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Doctor Sleep Summary

Doctor Sleep

Published: 24, September 2013

Author: Stephen King

Book 2 of 2: The Shining

Genres: American, Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Psychological, Supernatural, Thrillers, Movie Tie-In, Occult, Suspense, Psychic, Vampires


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Danny Torrance remains mentally damaged by the events of The Shining, despite obtaining compensation from the Overlook Hotel's proprietors. His mother Wendy heals slowly from her injuries. They are currently residing in the state of Florida. Angry Overlook ghosts, including the woman from Room 217, are still on the hunt for Danny and his incredible "shining" ability. Danny is taught to build lockboxes in his head to imprison the spirits, including those of former Overlook owner Horace Derwent, by Dick Hallorann, the restaurant's chef.

Danny (now known as Dan) continues his father's heritage of rage and drinking as an adult. Dan spends years traveling around the United States before settling in New Hampshire and deciding to stop drinking. He settles in Frazier, where he works for the Frazier municipal department before moving on to the local hospice and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. His telepathic skills, which had been repressed by his drinking, resurface, allowing him to console dying patients. Dan earns the moniker "Doctor Sleep" because of a cat named "Azzie" who can feel when someone is going to die.

Meanwhile, Abra Stone, a newborn girl born in 2001, begins to show signs of psychic abilities when she appears to foretell the 9/11 events. She develops a psychic link with Dan slowly and accidentally. As she matures, the touch becomes more aware and voluntary, and her radiance surpasses even his. One night, Abra psychically watches the True Knot, a gang of quasi-immortal psychic vampires, many of whom have their own "shine" powers, torturing and murdering a young child.

Members of the True Knot travel across the United States, feeding on "steam," a mental essence created when those who possess the shining die in agony. Their victims are referred to as Rubes. Rose the Hat, the True Knot's commander, learns of Abra's existence and devises a scheme to abduct her and keep her alive by forcing her to create an endless supply of steam.

The True Knot are dying of measles, which they got from their previous victim, a little boy called Bradley Trevor, and they believe that Abra's steam will cure them. Dan agrees to assist Abra, and he tells her father David, and their family doctor, John Dalton, about their relationship. Initially enraged and hesitant, David eventually comes to trust Dan and agrees to help him save Abra. They prevent and murder a raiding party sent by Rose, commanded by Rose's boyfriend Crow Daddy, with the help of one of Dan's pals, Billy Freeman.

Dan, on the other hand, understands that Rose would persistently pursue Abra for vengeance. He telepathically discovers through Abra's great-grandmother Concetta, who is dying of cancer, that he and Abra's mother Lucy are half-siblings with the same father: Jack Torrance. Dan absorbs Concetta's sick steam inside himself as she dies. Meanwhile, discord among The True Knot's ranks, along with Rose's infatuation with Abra, leads to the group's disbandment, leaving Rose with even fewer supporters.

Abra leads Rose into confronting her at the area where the Overlook Hotel once stood in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, now home to a campground owned by the True Knot, following another kidnapping attempt that Abra foils with Dan's psychic assistance. Dan and Billy journey to the location, with Abra assisting them through astral projection. Dan waits in the shadows and releases the steam collected from Concetta on the remaining True Knot members, killing them all.

He also frees Horace Derwent's spirit to assassinate the final remaining member, Silent Sarey, who was preparing to ambush him and Abra, and the two fight Rose in a protracted psychic battle. They throw Rose over an observation platform with the aid of Billy and the spirit of Dan's father, Jack Torrance, so she falls to the earth, breaking her neck and dies. Dan sees his father wave farewell before departing the campground, having finally found peace.

Dan celebrates 15 years of sobriety and attends Abra's 15th birthday celebration in the epilogue. He informs her about his family's history of drunkenness and aggressive conduct and cautions her not to follow in his footsteps by drinking or succumbing to wrath. Dan is summoned back to his hospice, where he comforts a dying colleague who had previously antagonized him. Before they can conclude their chat, Dan is called back to his hospice, where he comforts a dying colleague who had previously antagonized him.


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The Shining Summary

The Shining

Published: 28, January 1977

Author: Stephen King

Book 1 of 2: The Shining

Genres: American, Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Psychological, Supernatural, Thrillers


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The story is set mostly at the fictitious Overlook Hotel, a remote and haunted resort hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Several individuals recount the hotel's history, which includes the deaths of several of its visitors as well as past winter keeper Delbert Grady, who "suffered from cabin fever" and killed his family and himself.

After accepting the post as winter caretaker, Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their five-year-old son Danny move into the hotel. Jack is an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic with rage issues, which led to his unintentionally breaking Danny's arm and losing his job as a teacher after punching a pupil previous to the narrative. The hotel's isolation, Jack believes, would help him reconnect with his family and provide the impetus he needs to work on a play. Danny has psychic talents known as "shining," which allow him to read people's thoughts and experience premonitions as well as clairvoyance, which his parents are unaware of.

On the day of closing, the Torrances arrive at the hotel and are given a tour by the manager. They meet chef Dick Hallorann, who has similar talents to Danny's and helps to explain them to him, forming a unique bond between Hallorann and Danny. The hotel's remaining workers and visitors vacate the premises, leaving the Torrances alone for the winter.

Danny experiences ghosts and terrifying visions as the Torrances settle in at the Overlook. Danny is close to both of his parents, but he keeps his visions hidden from them since he knows the caretaking profession is crucial to his father's and the family's future. Wendy proposes leaving Jack at the Overlook to complete the task on his own; Danny resists, believing that his father would be happy if they stay.

Danny quickly discovers, however, that his presence at the hotel amplifies the supernatural activity, turning echoes of past tragedies into deadly dangers. Apparitions take shape, and the topiary creatures in the garden come to life. The Torrances are blocked off from the outside world at their remote motel due to the winter snowstorm.

Because the Overlook is having trouble enslaving Danny, it begins to enslave Jack by thwarting his desire to work and tempting him with the hotel's legendary past via a scrapbook and records in the basement. Jack develops cabin fever and grows progressively erratic, smashing a CB radio and sabotaging a snowcat, the Torrances' only two means of communication with the outside world. Following a disagreement with Wendy, Jack discovers the hotel's bar, which had previously been vacant, fully stocked with booze and watches a party at which he encounters the spirit of a bartender called Lloyd.

He also has a dance with a young female ghost who is attempting to seduce Jack. The hotel employs the ghost of previous caretaker Grady to persuade Jack to murder his wife and son while he is inebriated. He first resists, but the hotel's growing power, mixed with Jack's own drunkenness and rage, proves too much for him. He gives in to his evil side and the hotel's influence. Wendy and Danny outsmart Jack after he assaults Wendy and locks him in the walk-in pantry, but the spirit of Delbert Grady frees him after he promises to bring him Danny and murder Wendy.

Wendy is severely injured when Jack assaults her with one of the hotel's roque mallets, but she flees to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the toilet. Wendy cuts Jack's hand with a razor blade to discourage him from breaking the door with the mallet.

Meanwhile, while working at a Florida winter resort, Hallorann receives a telepathic distress call from Danny. Hallorann returns to the Overlook only to be assaulted by the topiary creatures and seriously hurt by Jack. As Jack chases Danny into the Overlook and corners him on the hotel's top level, he regains control and implores Danny to flee after Danny holds firm and denounces Jack as the hotel's mask and false face.

The hotel regains control of Jack, forcing him to severely smash his own face and skull with the mallet, obliterating all traces of Jack and replacing him with the hotel's own malicious "manager" personality. Danny warns the hotel that the unstable boiler is ready to blow, recalling that Jack failed to alleviate the strain on it. While Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann leave, the hotel-creature races to the basement to try to relieve the pressure, but it's too late, and the boiler explodes, killing Jack and destroying the Overlook. Defying the hotel's final effort to control him, Hallorann leads Danny and Wendy to safety.

The epilogue of the book takes place the following summer. While Wendy recovers from the injuries Jack perpetrated on her, Hallorann, who has accepted a chef's position at a resort in Maine, consoles Danny over the death of his father.


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Frankenstein Summary

Or, The Modern Prometheus

Original 1818 Uncensored Version

Published: 1, January 1818

Author: Mary Shelley

Genres: Gothic, Historical, Horror, Literary, Literature, Romance, Science Fiction

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Summary:

Captain Walton's Narrative:

Frankenstein is a framing narrative told in the style of epistolary letters. It tells the story of Captain Robert Walton's fictitious communication with his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. In the eighteenth century, the tale takes place (the letters are dated as "17-"). Robert Walton is a failing writer who embarks on a journey to the North Pole in the hopes of learning more about science.

During the journey, the group notices a dog sled being pulled by a massive figure. A few hours later, the group finds Victor Frankenstein, who is practically frozen and malnourished. Frankenstein has been on the lookout for the colossal guy spotted by Walton's crew. Frankenstein begins to recover from his effort; he recognizes in Walton the same fixation that has ruined him, and as a warning, he tells Walton a narrative of his life's sorrows. The narrated story serves as the backdrop for Frankenstein's story.

Victor Frankenstein's narrative:

Victor begins by recounting his early years. Victor and his younger brothers, Ernest and William, are the sons of Alphonse Frankenstein and the former Caroline Beaufort and were born in Naples, Italy, into a rich Genevan family. Victor has had a great desire to comprehend the world since he was a child. He is infatuated with alchemical notions, even though as he grows older, he knows that such beliefs are much out of date. Victor's parents adopt Elizabeth Lavenza, the orphaned daughter of an expropriated Italian aristocrat when he is five years old, and Victor eventually marries her. Justine Moritz, Victor's nanny, is subsequently adopted by Victor's parents.

Victor's mother dies of scarlet fever just weeks before he goes to the University of Ingolstadt in Germany and he buries himself in his research to cope. He succeeds in chemistry and other disciplines at university, and he develops a secret way to give non-living things life. Victor attempts the development of a humanoid, but due to the difficulty in reproducing the minute elements of the human body, the Creature is tall, around 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, and proportionally enormous.

Despite Victor's choice of attractive characteristics, the Creature seems to be ugly when animated, with watery white eyes and yellow skin that barely hides the muscles and blood vessels beneath. Victor departs, disgusted with his job. He finds his boyhood buddy, Henry Clerval, while walking the streets the next day and takes him back to his flat, terrified of Henry's response if he sees the creature. The Creature, on the other hand, is gone when Victor returns to his laboratory.

Victor becomes unwell as a result of the ordeal and is nursed back to health by Henry. After a four-month recuperation period, he receives a letter from his father informing him of his brother William's murder. Victor finds the Creature at the crime site when he arrives in Geneva and believes his invention is to blame. After William's locket, which included a small portrait of Caroline, is discovered in her pocket, Justine Moritz, William's nanny, is convicted of the murder.

If Victor attempts to clear Justine's name, no one will believe him, and she will be hung. Victor escapes into the mountains, ravaged by grief and remorse. While hiking through the Mer de Glace on Mont Blanc, he is contacted by the Creature, who begs Victor to listen to his story.

The Creature's narrative:

The Creature, intelligent and articulate, recounts his early days as a lone survivor in the woods. People were scared of and despised him because of his looks, leading him to fear and hide from them. He got fond of the impoverished family who lived there while living in an abandoned structure attached to a cottage and secretly gathered firewood for them, removed snow from their walk and performed other things to aid them. The Creature learned to talk by listening to them and taught himself to read after locating a forgotten bag of books in the woods while living secretly close to the cottage for months.

He knew his look was terrible when he saw his reflection in a pool, and it terrified him as much as it horrified regular humans. He got increasingly connected to the family as he learned more about their predicament, and he ultimately approached them in the hopes of becoming their friend, entering the house while only the blind father was present. The two conversed, but when the others returned, the rest of them were terrified. The Creature departed the house after being attacked by the blind man's son. Fearing that he might return the next day, the family abandoned their house.

The way the Creature was treated angered him, and he lost all hope of ever being accepted by mankind. Despite his hatred for his creator for leaving him, he chose to journey to Geneva in order to locate him since he felt Victor was the only one who could heal him. On the way, he saved a kid who had fallen into a river, but her father shot him in the shoulder, assuming the Creature was out to kill them. The Creature then vowed to exact vengeance on all mankind. He used information from Victor's notebook to fly to Geneva, murder William, and frame Justine for the crime.

Victor is required by the Creature to construct a female partner who is similar to himself. He claims that he has a right to happiness as a living person. If Victor fulfills the Creature's request, he and his companion will vanish into the South American forest, never to be seen again. If Victor refuses, the Creature threatens to murder all of Victor's surviving friends and loved ones until he has totally destroyed him. Victor hesitantly accepts, fearful for his family's safety. The Creature vows to keep an eye on Victor's progress.

Victor Frankenstein's narrative resumes:

Clerval travels with Victor to England, but they split up at Perth, Scotland, at Victor's request. Victor believes the Creature is after him. He is troubled with catastrophic forebodings while working on the female monster on the Orkney Islands. He is afraid that the female may despise the Creature or turn eviler than he is. Even more concerning to him is the possibility that producing the second monster would result in the breeding of a species that will wreak havoc on humanity. After seeing the Creation, who had followed Victor, peering through a window, he rips apart the incomplete female creature.

The Creature rushes through the door to face Victor and threatens him into working again, but Victor is certain that because the Creature is evil, his mate would be bad as well, and the couple will endanger mankind by giving birth to a new species that looks just like them. "I will be with you on your wedding night," the Creature says as he walks away. Victor takes this as a death threat, believing that the Creature would murder him once he achieves happiness. Victor goes out to sea to dispose of his instruments, falls asleep in the boat, is unable to return to land due to weather changes, and is blown to the Irish coast.

Victor is imprisoned for Clerval's murder when he arrives in Ireland, as the Creature strangled Clerval and left the body where his creator had arrived. Victor has another mental collapse and awakens in a jail cell. He is later proven to be innocent, and after being released, he comes home with his father, who has restored some of Elizabeth's father's money to her.

Victor is going to marry Elizabeth in Geneva, and he is preparing to battle the Creature to the death, armed with pistols and a knife. Victor asks Elizabeth to stay in her room the night after their wedding while he searches for "the demon." The Creature strangles Elizabeth as Victor investigates the home and grounds. Victor sees the Creature from the window, tauntingly pointing at Elizabeth's body; Victor tries to kill him, but the Creature flees. Victor's father dies a few days later, weakened by age and the death of Elizabeth.

Victor follows the Creature through Europe, then north into Russia, seeking vengeance, but the Creature is always one step ahead of him. Victor eventually reaches a point when he is within a mile of the Creature, but he falls from weariness and hypothermia before he can discover his target, allowing the Creature to flee. The ice around Victor's sled eventually breaks apart, and the resulting ice floe approaches Walton's ship.

Captain Walton's conclusion:

Captain Walton picks up where Victor left off and continues the story. The ship becomes caught in pack ice a few days after the Creature disappears, and several crewmen perish in the cold before the rest of Walton's crew insists on heading south once it is released. Victor gets enraged when he hears the crew's demands and, despite his state, delivers a forceful speech to them.

He reminds them why they opted to join the mission, and that a great enterprise like theirs is defined by struggle and risk, not ease. He exhorts them to be men rather than cowards. Even though the speech had an impact on the crew, it is insufficient to persuade them to alter their views, and when the ship is released, Walton sadly decides to return to the South. Victor, despite his weakened position, declares that he will continue on his own. He is unwavering in his belief that the Creature must perish.

Victor dies soon after, encouraging Walton to seek "pleasure in calm and eschew ambition" in his final words. Walton encounters the Creature aboard his ship, where he is mourning Victor's death. Victor's death, the Creature informs Walton, has not provided him peace; rather, his misdeeds have left him much more wretched than Victor was. Walton watches as the Creature drifts away on an ice raft, never to be seen again, vowing to kill himself so that no one else would ever know of his presence.


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