Revival Summary

Revival

Published: 11, November 2014

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Psychic, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Revival

Summary

Jamie Morton is ecstatic when Charles Jacobs, a new Methodist pastor, arrives in town. Almost everyone in the little Maine community falls in love with Jacobs, his lovely wife, and their young boy. 

Jacobs leads weekly Ministry Youth Fellowship meetings for the children of the community, where he discusses his interest in electricity and innovations with them, his wife performs music for them, and they play with his little son Morrie (although Jamie is clearly favored over all the other children by Jacobs). 

When Jamie's elder brother, Conrad, better known as "Con," is injured in a skiing accident, rendering him unable to talk and creating family hardship owing to the high expense of care, Jacobs urges Jamie to bring him over as he may be able to assist him. 

When Jamie and his elder sister Claire accomplish this, Jacobs wraps a low-voltage belt around Con's neck, and to everyone's surprise, Con is able to talk almost immediately.

Mrs. Jacobs and her kid are killed in a horrific car accident, and everything changes all too quickly. 

Bereaved, the reverend denounces God and religion during a sermon and is expelled from the town. 

Jamie, distraught that Jacobs would be leaving town, goes to visit him before he departs, thanking him for all he accomplished for Con, but Jacobs maintains it was all a placebo effect.

Jamie grows up to be a musician and begins to use heroin. His band abandoned him at a hotel when he was on tour after he missed many of their shows due to his addiction. 

He goes to the hotel desk to pay for another night, but his credit card is already maxed out. That night, he travels to a state fair in quest of drugs but instead discovers Charles Jacobs playing "Portraits in Lightning" in front of a big audience. 

Jacobs gets Cathy Morse, a young lady, to volunteer for the performance, in which she sits in a chair blindfolded while he photographs her, and after a blue burst of light flashes all across the theater, an image of her emerges on a plate. 

He then offers to do the same for anyone else for a fee. Jacobs recognizes Jamie in the crowd right away, and Jamie quickly falls out and wakes up in Jacobs' camper van, where he offers to "cure" Jamie's ailment with a modest application of electricity when he is healthy enough. 

Jamie experienced bizarre side effects after treatment, including sleepwalking and jabbing himself in the arm with sharp objects while in a dreamlike state as if attempting to inject heroin. 

Jacobs is subsequently assaulted by Cathy Morse's father when he claims Jacob's image inspired her to attempt to steal a set of diamond earrings from a jeweler, which resulted in her incarceration. 

Before Jacobs leaves town again, he sends Jamie to Hugh Yates, who hires him at a music recording studio.

Many years later, Yates summons Jamie to his office and they discuss their experiences with Jacobs' treatments and the consequences of them (Yates had been cured of Ménière's disease many years before and had suffered blackouts and visions he calls "prismatics" where he could see colors shifting back and forth and felt like he could see into another world shortly after being treated). 

Yates shows Jamie a banner from a website where Jacobs is holding revival tours using electricity (despite appearing to be a faith healer, utilizing God's power to cure people), and they go to one of his performances, but Yates immediately departs. 

When Jamie asks him what occurred, he claims that for the first time in a long time, he had a "prismatic" experience while Jacobs was curing people, in which he saw the people as huge ants.

Jamie begins to investigate the many people Jacobs has treated. Many of them, it turns out, have had similar negative effects, and some have even murdered themselves and others as a result (including Cathy Morse who recently took her own life). 

He eventually learns that Jacobs has been reading esoteric works such as De Vermis Mysteriis. 

Jamie hunts down Jacobs and visits his home to confront him about his treatments and to inform him about the side effects that the individuals he is helping have been suffering. 

But to his surprise, Jacobs has been keeping track of them all along and claims that only a small number of people have significant aftereffects and that he is no longer healing people. 

Jacobs offers to make Jamie his assistant and pay him much more than Yates does, but Jamie declines and goes.

Several years later, Jamie receives a letter from Jacobs, which includes a letter written by his childhood girlfriend Astrid to Jacobs, stating she has a terminal illness. 

Jacobs promises to treat her, but only if Jamie agrees to be his personal assistant for one more experiment. Jamie agrees hesitantly, and Astrid is cured.

Jamie assists Jacobs in preparing for his final experiment: Jacobs has found what he refers to as "hidden electricity," an all-powerful energy source that he has used to produce his miraculous cures throughout the years. 

He now plans to channel a large rush of this energy through a lightning rod into a terminally ill woman called Mary Fay, whom he has transferred to his lab. 

Jacobs aims to resurrect Mary Fay after her death, not in the traditional sense, but in the sense that she will be clinically dead but able to interact with Jacobs and inform him about the afterlife and what happened to his wife and child after they died.

The experiment is successful, but not in the way that Jacobs intended. The resurrected Mary Fay does become a portal to the afterlife, but, much to Jacobs and Jamie's chagrin; there is no Heaven and no reward for faith. 

Instead, the afterlife is revealed to be "The Null," a horrible world of disorder where departed souls are tormented by Ant creatures who serve crazy, Lovecraftian deities, the most powerful of which is known as "Mother." 

As "she" possesses a claw formed of human faces, it is inferred that victims are fed to Mother. 

Mother takes over Mary Fay's body, changing her into a monstrous creature, and tries to murder Jacobs. 

Jamie shoots Mother with Jacobs' revolver and she flees the scene, leaving Mary's body behind. 

A terrified Jacobs has a deadly stroke, and Jamie arranges his corpse to appear as though he shot Mary. Jamie runs away from the situation and relocates to Hawaii.

Several of the people Jacobs treats later go insane and murder themselves and others, including Hugh Yates and Astrid, who murders both her lover and herself. 

Jamie, one of Jacobs' few survivors, is forced to rely extensively on pharmaceuticals. He tells a psychiatrist about his vision of The Null, but he is dismissed. 

He admits and finds solace in the idea that the visions were "false." but the novel ends with Jamie going to visit his brother Con, who has spent the last two years in a psychiatric hospital after attacking his partner (which Jamie blames on Jacobs's treatment of Con's injury decades before), but as he goes to leave, he sees a door calling his name and ignores it, but realizes that one day he would die and be confined in The Null under Mother's tyranny.

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Under the Dome Summary

Under the Dome

Published: 10, November 2009

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Action, American, Classic, Contemporary, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Under the Dome

Summary

On October 21, 2017, at 11:45 a.m., the little Maine village of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible, semi-permeable barrier of unknown origin. 

The barrier's instant emergence causes a number of injuries and fatalities and also keeps former Army Captain Dale "Barbie" Barbara, who is attempting to escape Chester's Mill due to a local disagreement, inside the town.

When Police Chief Howard "Duke" Perkins goes too near to The Dome, his pacemaker explodes, killing him instantaneously. 

This effectively eliminates the final substantial challenge to James "Big Jim" Rennie, a used car dealer and the town's Second Selectman. 

Big Jim wields considerable authority in Chester's Mill and seizes the chance to utilize the barrier as part of a power play to grasp control of the town.

Big Jim chooses one of his buddies, the inept Peter Randolph, as the new head of police. He also begins filling the ranks of the Chester's Mill Police Department with suspects, including his son, Junior Rennie, and his associates. 

Junior suffers from frequent migraines caused by an as-yet-undiscovered brain tumor, which has also begun to affect his mental state; unbeknownst to Big Jim, Junior was in the process of beating and strangling a girl (Angie McCain) to death when the barrier appeared, and by the time Big Jim places him on the police force, Junior has killed another girl (Dodee Sanders).

Col. James O. Cox (who is stationed outside The Dome) telephones Julia Shumway, the editor of the local newspaper, and asks her to deliver a message to Barbie to contact him. 

Cox then requests that Barbie act as the government's agent in bringing down The Dome, as it has become known. 

Cox assigns him the duty of identifying The Dome's power source, which is thought to be someplace in town, drawing parallels to Barbie's Army specialty in locating enemy weapons plants. 

Cox may also predict the political repercussions of such a circumstance in a small community. 

Barbie is restored in the United States military and brevetted to the rank of Colonel as a result of a Presidential order. 

Barbie is also given a decree that gives him jurisdiction over the township. However, given the nature of small-town politics, this move is not well accepted by Big Jim and his gang of rogue police officers. 

Around this time, Duke's widow, Brenda Perkins, uncovers a file on her husband's computer that details Big Jim's money-laundering methods.

As Big Jim insinuates and orchestrates disquiet and dread among the townsfolk in order to consolidate his authority, Barbie, Julia, and a few other townspeople try to keep things from spinning out of hand. 

Barbie is framed and jailed for four murders after crossing Big Jim's path multiple times. He is suspected of murdering Reverend Lester Coggins, who laundered money for Big Jim's large-scale methamphetamine organization, as well as Duke's wife Brenda Perkins, Angie and Dodee. 

While Barbie is in jail, other inhabitants use a Geiger counter to locate the source of The Dome to an abandoned farm; the gadget they uncover in the center of the property's orchard is strongly suggested to be alien in origin. 

Big Jim's limitations get more stringent, and the police force becomes more brutal, energizing the town and finally causing several locals to break Barbie out of jail, murdering Junior seconds before he can murder Barbie.

The disorganized opposition retreats to the abandoned farm, where many individuals touch the weird object and see visions. 

They not only conclude that the device was installed by extraterrestrial "leatherheads" (so named because of their appearance), However, they are primarily teenagers who have built up The Dome as a form of entertainment, a kind of ant farm intended to catch sentient individuals and allow their captors to observe everything that occurs to them.

On an organized "Visitors Day," when people outside The Dome can meet with people inside, Big Jim sends Randolph and a detachment of police to retake control of his former methamphetamine operation from Phil "Chef" Bushey, who is preventing Big Jim from covering up the operation and hoarding the over 400 tanks of propane stored there (Chef wants it all, explaining, "I need it to cook"). 

Big Jim underestimates Chef's aptitude for self-defense and meth-induced paranoia; he and the now-ostracized head selectman Andy Sanders (whom Chef has introduced to meth usage) defend themselves and the meth lab with assault guns. 

Many people are murdered in the subsequent shootout, and Chef, who is fatally wounded, detonates a plastic explosive device he has planted in the meth lab. 

The resulting explosion, when mixed with the propane and meth-making ingredients, creates a poisonous firestorm large enough to incinerate the majority of the town.

On national broadcast, nearly a thousand of the town's population are promptly burnt, leaving just over 300 people alive, who progressively die off as the poisonous air hampers their breathing. 

The twenty-seven refugees in the abandoned farm, an orphaned farm child hiding in a potato cellar, and Big Jim and his informal aide-de-camp, Carter Thibodeau, in the town's fallout shelter, are among the survivors. 

Big Jim and Thibodeau eventually turn on each other due to the limited oxygen supply (and Big Jim's fear that Thibodeau will testify against him if they survive); Big Jim stabs and disembowels Thibodeau, only to die several hours later when hallucinations of the dead drive him outside into the toxic environment. 

Despite the Army's efforts to push clean air through The Dome's walls, the survivors in the barn begin to slowly asphyxiate.

Barbie and Julia approach the control gadget, pleading with their kidnappers to let them free. 

Julia contacts a solitary female leatherhead who is no longer accompanied by her pals and thus is not subject to peer pressure. 

Julia persuades the leatherhead to take pity on them by continuously expressing that they are actual sentient creatures with real "small lives," and by sharing a traumatic childhood event with the teenage extraterrestrial. 

The Dome slowly rises and then vanishes, enabling the toxic air to evaporate and eventually liberating what is left of Chester's Mill.

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Lisey's Story Summary

Lisey's Story

Published: 24, October 2006

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Media Tie-In, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Lisey's Story

Summary

Lisey's Story tells the story of Lisey Landon, the widow of Scott Landon, a well-known and highly successful author. 

The novel recounts two stories: Lisey's present-day tale and the story of her late husband's life, as recounted by Lisey throughout the novel.

It's been two years since acclaimed novelist Scott Landon died, and his wife Lisey is still clearing up her husband's writing space. 

Many scholars have approached her in the last two years, expecting to unearth some piece of literature she may have overlooked, such as an unpublished manuscript. 

Lisey has sent each of them away in turn, stating that she is still working through the clean-up, but her lack of progress is more indicative of procrastination. 

Amanda, her mentally ill sister, spends a day with her, leafing through stacks of books and periodicals, marking any images in which Lisey appears or is referenced. 

Lisey starts reliving her past; beginning with the moment she stopped Scott from being fatally shot by an insane fan. 

She frequently pauses herself in the middle of reminiscing to avoid unearthing scary memories. 

Amanda suffers from catatonia after learning that her ex-husband has remarried and is relocating back to town. 

Lisey hears her sister speaking in Scott's voice before admitting Amanda to a facility, telling her that he has arranged a "bool" search with a prize at the end. 

One day, she receives a distressing phone call from a guy purporting to be Zack McCool, threatening that if Lisey does not pass over Scott's paperwork to a professor she had recently kicked out, he, Zack, will be obliged to punish her. 

His next move will be to place a menacing note and a dead cat in her mailbox. At this point, Lisey informs the authorities, who can only provide her with a patrol car stationed near her home until an emergency occurs elsewhere. 

Zack is unafraid, and he ultimately sneaks onto her property and mutilates her with a can opener.

Throughout the novel, Lisey is forced to confront some facts about her spouse that she had previously repressed and forgotten. 

She remembers Scott's past—how he came from a family with a history of horrible mental illness that manifested as either an uncontrollable homicidal mania or a deep catatonia, how he had a special gift, the ability to transport himself to another world, which he called "Boo'ya Moon," with its own unique dangers, how Scott Landon's brother Paul was killed by their father when, at thirteen, Paul succumbed to the family.

Lisey is able to draw Amanda out of her catatonia, transport Zack to the other side, and lead him to his gory end at the claws of a violent world-crossing beast that patrols the forest of Boo'ya Moon using her own repressed power to cross across.

The prize at the conclusion of the quest is a journal documenting Scott's final days with his family, concluding with Scott Landon's confession that he was compelled to kill his own father in order to spare him from the madness that had finally taken over.

Lisey is able to pack and give up Scott's belongings over the next week since she now feels he has moved on. 

Now Lisey struggles to stay anchored in this world, frequently slipping back to Boo'ya Moon in her dream and sometimes while awake. 

The novel concludes with her bidding farewell to Scott in the now-empty study.

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From a Buick 8 Summary

From a Buick 8

Published: 24, September 2002

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Occult, Rural, Science Fiction, Small Town, Suspense, Thriller

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From a Buick 8

Summary

The story is told through the eyes of men of Troop D, a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania. 

After the death of Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, his son Ned began to visit the barracks. He immediately gains the respect of the officers, dispatcher, and custodian. 

Ned is informed about the "Buick 8" by the troopers. The Buick 8, which looks like a vintage blue 1953 Buick Roadmaster, has been in storage in a shed near the barracks since 1979 when a mysterious driver abandoned it at a petrol station and then vanished. 

They learn that the automobile isn't really a car at all. The steering wheel is immovable, the dashboard instruments are worthless props, the engine has no moving components, the ignition wires are useless, there are four portholes on the passenger side and only three on the driver's side, the automobile heals itself when injured, and it repels all dirt and debris.

Sandy Dearborn, now Sergeant Commanding of Troop D, is the book's major narrator, and he recounts Ned the narrative, recounting numerous events involving the automobile and his father's love for it. 

The automobile will regularly emit "lightquakes," which are enormous flashes of purple light that last for a long time. 

These lights will "give birth" to bizarre flora and creatures that are unlike anything we've ever seen. 

Curtis Wilcox's previous accomplice Ennis Rafferty, as well as an escaped lowlife called Brian Lippy, had both vanished near the automobile. 

Later on, it was theorized that the Buick may have been a doorway between our world and another.

Ned becomes persuaded that the Buick was somehow connected to his father's death in a seemingly random road accident after hearing the story of the Buick and how it was kept hidden by Troop D for so long. 

After all, the gas station employee who originally reported the Buick parked in front of the business was the same guy who would kill his own father years later. 

Sandy tells him not to become too attached to the Buick ("Buicks are everywhere," he later warns), but after leaving Ned at the Troop D base to eat at a diner, he recalls that Ned never inquired if anybody had considered burning it. 

He deduces that Ned is hell-bent on destroying the Buick and that the Buick intends to take advantage of that desire to transport Ned to another universe.

Sandy goes to the shed to discover Ned seated in it, brandishing a gun and a match, having poured gasoline beneath the car. 

The Buick changes into a vortex as Sandy drags Ned out, attempting to suck both Ned and Sandy within. 

The remainder of the crew arrives on the suspicion that something horrible is about to happen, and together they recollect the narrative of the Buick's genesis at their station, freeing Ned and Sandy, but not before Sandy gets a sight of the world outside the Buick. Lippy's swastika necklace and cowboy boots, as well as Ennis' Stetson hat and Ruger revolver, are all visible.

The last anecdote is recounted, suggesting that the idea of destroying the Buick was explored. 

They eventually reach the conclusion that the Buick serves as a type of world-to-world regulator valve, and that eliminating it would do more harm than good. 

They determine that keeping an eye on the Buick is the safest option, in the hopes that whatever mystical force qualities it carries will soon go away.

Eddie J commits suicide, and Ned goes on to become a State Trooper. Ned shows Sandy the Buick one day; the windshield has a break in it that has not been mended.

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Dreamcatcher Summary

Dreamcatcher

Published: 20, February 2001

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Alien Invasion, American, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Occult, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Dreamcatcher

Summary

Dreamcatcher is the story of four longtime friends: Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Pete Moore, Joe "Beaver" Clarendon, and Henry Devlin. 

It is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. The four defended Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, an older lad with down syndrome, from a gang of vicious bullies when they were adolescents. 

Jonesy, Beaver, Henry, and Pete began to share the boy's unique talents, such as telepathy, shared dreaming, and seeing "the line," a psychic trail left by human movement, as a result of their new connection with Duddits.

Jonesy, Beaver, Henry, and Pete gather for their yearly hunting expedition at the Hole-in-the-Wall, a remote lodge in the Jefferson Tract. 

They are sandwiched between an extraterrestrial invasion and a deranged retired US Air Force Colonel named Abraham Kurtz. 

Jonesy and Beaver, who are staying at the cabin while Henry and Pete go out for supplies, come upon Richard McCarthy, a bewildered and delirious stranger who is roaming around the lodge during a blizzard and raving about lights in the sky. 

McCarthy, a victim of alien abduction, becomes ill and dies while sitting on the toilet. After gestating in his gut, an alien parasite chews its way out of his anus and assaults the two guys, killing Beaver. 

Jonesy inhales the spores of the weird reddish fungus distributed throughout the cabin by the stranger and his parasite, and an extraterrestrial creature "Mr. Gray" takes over his consciousness.

Henry and Pete come across a woman from the same hunting group as the weird man at the cabin on their way back from their supply run. 

She is also crazy and parasitically afflicted. After their car crashes, Henry abandons Pete with the lady and attempts to return to the lodge on foot. 

His telepathic senses then alerted him to the fact that Pete is in jeopardy, Beaver is dead, and Jonesy is no longer Jonesy. 

Mr. Gray is attempting to flee the place while influencing Jonesy's body. The aliens attempted to infect Earth several times, beginning with the Roswell accident in the 1940s, but environmental reasons always prevented them, and the US government always covered up the unsuccessful invasion attempts. 

Mr. Gray has become the perfect Typhoid Mary—and he knows it—with the infection of Jonesy, who can hold the alien within his head while also spreading the illness. 

Mr. Gray hijacks a vehicle carrying a spore-filled extraterrestrial body, and Jonesy, who is confined inside a mental fortress, is unable to stop him.

It is up to Henry, who is now a quarantined Army prisoner, to persuade the military to go after Jonesy/Mr. Gray before it is too late. 

Jonesy, who is now a prisoner in his own head, attempts to assist. Both are persuaded that their old pal Duddits holds the answer to save the planet. 

Using telepathic abilities garnered from the alien fungus, Henry informs Army commander Owen Underhill of Kurtz's intention to kill the majority of Army men in order to preserve secret. 

The two stage an escape by instigating a disturbance among the other convicts and damaging the base in the process. 

An angry Kurtz, together with his followers Freddy and Perlmutter, pursues the duo as they flee. 

Despite his own reluctance and agony, Perlmutter gets infected with a psychic parasite and is being used to seek out Owen and Mr. Gray.

Owen and Henry accompany Jonesy/Mr. Gray to Derry, Maine, and share childhood recollections along the journey, including a time when Duddits and his buddies searched for a missing girl. 

Henry and Owen get together to help Duddits, who is suffering from leukemia. Following a tearful departure with Duddits' mother, the trio uses Duddits' abilities to track Jonesy/Mr. Gray southward to Quabbin Reservoir. 

Mr. Gray aims to infect the local water supply with a parasite-affected dog he infected with the spores. 

Jonesy is able to significantly impede Mr. Gray's growth by inducing the presence to seek bacon, which it consumes uncooked after procuring it from a convenience shop. 

Jonesy's body is considerably sickened by the raw meat, allowing the trio just enough time to catch up and face Mr. Gray at the reservoir.

Using the last of his abilities, Duddits assists Henry and Jonesy in psychologically defeating Mr. Gray, as well as assisting Owen in shooting the parasite that erupts from the dog. 

Duddits dies as a result of the endeavor, but he has stopped Mr. Gray's ambitions. Kurtz and his men arrive, the infected soldier still in their van. 

They ambush and murder Owen, but Kurtz is killed by Freddy, who is afraid Kurtz would kill him next. 

Freddy runs, returning to their truck, but is murdered by the parasite that was developing within Perlmutter's now-dead body. 

Exhausted and half-crazy, Henry shoots the car's gas tank, killing the last of the extraterrestrial presence on Earth. He re-encounters Jonesy, who collapses from weariness.

Jonesy and Henry reminisce about their time in an underground military complex where they were detained after the events at the reservoir months later. 

Jonesy was resistant to the alien fungus the entire time, and Mr. Gray was only able to take over his mind because he imagined it could - the concept being captured like in a dreamcatcher.

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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Summary

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Published: 6, April 1999

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Psychic, Psychological, Survival, Suspense, Thriller

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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Summary

A family hiking trip sets the story in motion, during which Trisha's brother, Pete, and mother constantly argue about their mother's divorce from their father, among other things. 

Trisha retreats to avoid listening and, as a result, is unable to locate her family after wandering off the trail to use the restroom. 

In an attempt to catch up, she slips and falls down a steep embankment and becomes hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the heart of the forest. 

She has a bottle of water, two Twinkies, a boiled egg, celery sticks, a tuna sandwich, a bottle of Surge, a poncho, a Game Boy, and a Walkman left to her. 

She listens to her Walkman to keep her spirits up, either to learn about the search for her or to hear a baseball game featuring her favorite player, and "heartthrob," Tom Gordon.

Trisha's family returns to their car without her and calls the police to begin a search as she begins to take steps to survive by conserving what little food she has with her while consuming edible flora. 

The rescuers look around the path, but not as far as Trisha has gone. Because of what she read in Little House on the Prairie, the girl decides to follow a creek (though it soon turns into a swamp-like river), reasoning that all bodies of water eventually lead to civilization.

As the cops stop looking for her, she huddles beneath a tree to rest. Trisha begins to hallucinate as a result of a combination of fear, hunger, and thirst. 

Several people from her past, as well as her hero, Tom Gordon, appear to her. It's unclear whether the increasingly visible signs of supernatural occurrences in the woods are also hallucinations.

Hours, and soon days, pass as Trisha wanders deeper into the woods. Trisha eventually comes to believe that she is on the verge of a confrontation with the God of the Lost, a wasp-faced evil entity on the hunt for her. 

Her trial becomes a test of a 9-year-old girl's ability to remain sane in the face of apparent death. 

She comes across a road while suffering from pneumonia and on the verge of death, but just as she discovers signs of civilization, she is confronted by a bear, which she interprets as the God of the Lost in disguise. 

Facing her fear, she realizes it's the bottom of the ninth inning and she needs to end the game. She takes a pitcher's stance and throws her Walkman like a baseball, hitting the bear in the face and startling it enough for it to back away. 

A hunter who comes across the fight between girl and beast scares the beast away and takes Trisha to safety, but Trisha knows she earned her rescue.

Trisha awakens in a hospital bed. Her divorced parents and older brother are waiting for her by her bedside. 

A nurse informs the girl's family that they must leave in order for Trisha to rest because "her numbers are up and we don't want that." 

Her father is the last one to depart. Trisha asks him to hand her a Red Sox hat (signed by Tom Gordon) before he leaves, and she points to the sky, just as Tom Gordon does when he ends a game.

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Rose Madder Summary

Rose Madder

Published: June 1995

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Classic, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction, Folk Tales, Ghost, Horror, Mythology, Psychic, Psychological, Thriller

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Rose Madder

Summary

Norman Daniels, Rosie Daniels' husband, abuses her while she is four months pregnant in 1985, leading her to miscarry. 

Rosie contemplates leaving Norman, but she dismisses the notion because Norman is a police officer who is very good at locating people. 

He also has a violent temper and was recently accused of attacking and raping Wendy Yarrow, a black lady. He has become much more volatile as a result of the ensuing litigation and internal affairs inquiry.

Rosie is making the bed, nine years later. She notices a spot of blood on the sheet from her nose the night before when Norman struck her in the face for spilling an iced drink on him. 

Rosie knows she has been silently suffering Norman's abuse for fourteen years, and that if she continues to put up with it, he will ultimately murder her. 

Rosie boards a bus with their bank card in her hand. When Norman discovers Rosie has vanished, he vows to track her down and murder her.

Rosie comes in a Midwestern metropolis, befuddled and terrified. She encounters a man named Peter Slowik at the bus terminal, who directs her to a nearby women's shelter. 

She rapidly makes friends and, with the assistance of shelter director Anna Stevenson, obtains an apartment and work as a hotel maid. 

When Rosie attempts to sell her engagement ring and discovers it's virtually useless, she falls in love with a picture of a woman dressed in a rose madder gown. 

She exchanges her ring for the picture, which is unsigned. Bill Steiner, the charming gentleman who runs the pawnshop, approaches her and invites her out on a date. 

Rosie is terrified of starting a new relationship, yet she falls in love with Bill despite her fears.

Rosie notices that the artwork appears to shift from time to time. She is eventually able to pass through it. On the other side, she meets Dorcas, a lady who resembles Wendy Yarrow. 

She also notices the lady in the painting, whom she dubs "Rose Madder" because of her clothes and obvious insanity. 

Rose Madder asks Rosie to save her infant from a subterranean labyrinth inhabited by Erinyes, a blind, one-eyed bull who navigates by scent.

Dorcas walks Rosie to the temple grounds' edge. Dorcas is unable to enter the labyrinth since she is suffering from the same mystery ailment as her mistress, and Erinyes can smell her. 

Rosie is forced to strip nude and shred her nightgown into many sections before being separated from Dorcas. One has been bathed in Dorcas' blood and is tethered to a rock. 

Rosie enters the temple and saves the kid, escapes Erinyes, and returns the newborn to Rose Madder, who vows to compensate her. Rose returns to her normal life, putting the bizarre occurrence out of her mind.

Norman arrives in town, assaults several of Rosie's shelter friends, and then goes to Rosie's apartment. 

He assassinates a police officer assigned to protect her, acts like one of them in the patrol car, and encounters Rosie and Bill on their way back from the police station. 

He assaults them; almost choking Bill, but Rosie is able to fend him off because she believes she is wearing the golden arm circlet Rose Madder gave her. 

After hurting Norman, Rosie drags Bill to the apartment, where she notices the circlet on her table and realizes she has been battling Norman alone the entire time.

Rosie dupes Norman into following her and Bill into the painting, then brings him to Rose Madder, who murders him. 

Rosie returns to her reality with Rose Madder's orders to "remember the tree" and a magic elixir that induces memory loss. 

She contemplates taking it but ultimately decides to maintain her memories. She rationalizes that, while unpleasant, they are still a part of her and help shape who she is. Her experiences could even make her stronger in the long run, and she doesn't want to give that up. 

She then chooses to use the potion on her lover without his knowledge. She hesitates for a minute, concerned that it would poison him by excess because she has no clue how strong it is, but then thinks it's worth the risk because his negative memories will harm their relationship or possibly drive him to leave her. 

She drops a drop into his cup and the events of the past fade from his recollection. She then has a sexual encounter with him. The two later marry and have a daughter, and Rosie continues to drug Bill whenever he appears to regain his recollections of the magical world in the picture. 

The bottle eventually runs out, but the benefits appear to be permanent at that time, so Rosie no longer worries about it.

For a long after that, everything is OK for Rosie, but when she burns the picture in an attempt to break links with the past, she discovers that the violent rages that characterized both Norman and Rose Madder have begun to flare up within her. 

She recalls Rose Madder allowing her to take some seeds home with her, and as penance for the painting, she plants the seeds, along with Norman's police ring, in a secluded forest near her beloved lake. 

The seed develops into a gorgeous but lethal tree. She returns to the tree on a regular basis as it develops, allowing her to let go of her fury and go on with her life.

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Gerald's Game Summary

Gerald's Game

Published: May 1992

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Media Tie-In, Political, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller

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Gerald's Game

Summary

Jessie Angela Mahout Burlingame and her successful and confrontational lawyer husband Gerald go from Portland to their isolated lake cottage near Kashwakamak Lake in western Maine for an unplanned love holiday. 

Handcuffing Jessie to bed for lovemaking, a recent addition to their marriage that both parties find exhilarating is the title game. 

However, after being shackled to bedposts, Jessie becomes hesitant and wants to be released, only to be disregarded by Gerald, who dismisses her complaints as part of their game. 

Jessie strikes out; kicking Gerald in the chest, after realizing her husband is acting ignorant in order to rape her. 

He had a deadly heart attack as a result of the shock. He passes away, leaving Jessie tied to her bed.

Jessie is initially shocked by her husband's death and fears being found semi-naked and handcuffed, but she soon realizes the situation is far direr: she and Gerald are unlikely to be noticed for several days, no one will think to look for them at the lake house, and all of the usual lake residents have left for the season. Jessie's life is in jeopardy if she does not manage to flee.

While Jessie furiously examines and dismisses plans, she hears whispers from The Goodwife or Goody Burlingame, a Traditionalist version of herself, who hinders her escape efforts by saying that everything would be great and that she should wait to be rescued; Punkin, a depiction of Jessie when she was ten years old. 

Jessie abandoned Ruth Neary, a college roommate, after a conversation that came perilously near to revealing Jessie's background, and Nora, Jessie's former psychotherapist, after Nora questioned Jessie's connection with her father. 

Following the guidance of these voices, Jessie understands that "Goody's" counsel to wait for rescue is based on a subconscious notion that she deserves to be imprisoned in this circumstance, even if it means death. 

When Jessie investigates the source of this self-destructive idea, she recalls a long-repressed memory of her father sexually abusing her when she was ten years old during a solar eclipse. 

Jessie's father duped her into believing she was guilty, leaving her with feelings of shame and remorse for the rest of her life. 

In the aftermath of the assault, Jessie recalls an unexplainable episode in which she had a brief telepathic connection with an unknown woman. 

Jessie's recollections prompt her to reflect on how unpleasant and controlling her marriage to Gerald was, causing her to believe she sacrificed her independence and fearlessness for the security of becoming Gerald's trophy wife.

When Jessie awakens from an imaginative battle with all of these people in a dark bedroom, she sees a tall, gaunt ghost that she initially misidentifies as the spirit of her long-dead father and calls "Space Cowboy" after a lyric from a Steve Miller song, "The Joker." 

The depiction depicts her holding a wicker basket filled with jewels and human bones. Unsure if the figure is a hallucination, Jessie rejects it, remarking loudly that it is just made of moonlight, which causes it to vanish. 

Her inner voices, on the other hand, believe the figure is genuine and will return to kill Jessie if she does not flee before the next night.

Jessie has a drink of water from a glass on the bedside table the next morning. Refreshed and encouraged by her own resourcefulness in obtaining the water, she renews her attempts to flee, first by attempting to break the headboard, then by attempting to slip off the bed and push it to the bureau where the keys are kept. 

Jessie smashes the water glass and slices her wrist with a sharp shard to lubricate her flesh enough to get her right hand free from the cuff. 

Inspired by her father's warning to her not to cut herself on the smoked glass panes they used as eclipse viewers during the eclipse. 

She is then able to get out of bed, reach for the keys, and release her other hand, only to pass out from blood loss. 

When she wakes up, it's nearly dark, and the Space Cowboy, who is now definitely real, has returned. 

Jessie tosses her wedding ring at his box of jewelry and bones, convinced that this is exactly what he desired all along. 

She approaches her car, still dizzy and weak from blood loss, and drives away, only to discover the Space Cowboy concealed in the back seat. Jessie is involved in a car accident and is knocked out.

Jessie is still recovering from her tragedy months later. An attorney at Gerald's legal office supports her in covering up the incident in order to shield herself and the law company from controversy, but Jessie believes this is another kind of burying her pain, just as she did years before with her childhood abuse. 

To set herself free, Jessie writes to the actual Ruth, whom she hasn't talked to in decades, outlining what happened at the lake home and following events. 

The "Space Cowboy" was Raymond Andrew Joubert, a serial murderer, and necrophile who had been living in and plundering lake cottages in the region. 

At Joubert's court appearance, Jessie approached him, and Joubert mocked her "made of moonlight" assertion, acknowledging that the encounter had occurred and prompting Jessie to spit in his face. 

Being able to address the guy who had formerly scared her helped her to confront the other manipulative men in her life, including her father and Gerald, freeing her of fear and helping her to cope with her past more honestly. 

She apologizes for abandoning Ruth, admitting that Ruth faced her with a truth she was unable to accept at the time, and hopes they may rekindle their relationship. 

Jessie is able to sleep without nightmares for the first time since her trauma at the lake home after writing the letter.

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Cell Summary

Cell

Published: 24, January 2006

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic, Classic, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Murder, Psychic, Suspense, Technothriller, Thriller, Zombie

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Cell

Summary

Clayton Riddell, a struggling Maine artist, has just landed a graphic novel deal in Boston when "The Pulse," a signal broadcast over the global cell phone network, transforms all cell phone users into mindless zombie-like killers. 

Clay is standing in Boston Common when the Pulse goes off, sparking havoc all around him. As the "phoners" attack each other and anybody in sight, civilization falls.

Clay is forced together with middle-aged Thomas McCourt and youngster Alice Maxwell during the mayhem; the three runs to Tom's suburban house while Boston burns. 

The next day, they discover that the "phoners" have begun scavenging for food and joining together. 

Clay remains adamant about returning to Maine and reuniting with his son, Johnny. Tom and Alice accompany him since they have no other options. 

They travel north by night over destroyed New England, encountering other survivors and gaining frightening information about the operations of the phoners, who continue to attack non-phoners on sight.

They arrive at the Gaiten Academy, a prep school with one remaining teacher, Charles Ardai, and one surviving student, Jordan, after crossing into New Hampshire. 

The couple shows the newcomers where the local phoners congregate at night: they crowd into the Academy's soccer field and "turn off" till dawn. 

The phoners have clearly formed a hive mind and are acquiring psychic skills. The five survivors resolve to kill the flock, which they achieve with the help of two propane tanks.

Clay attempts to persuade everyone to go, but the others hesitate to forsake the elderly Ardai. 

That night, all of the survivors have the same terrifying dream: they are in a stadium, surrounded by phoners when a disheveled man wearing a Harvard University hooded sweatshirt approaches and kills them. 

When the heroes awaken, they recount their terrifying dream experiences and refer to him as "the Raggedy Man." 

A new flock has encircled their home, and the "normies" are confronted by the flock's symbolic spokesman: the man in the Harvard sweatshirt. 

In retaliation, the flock murders other normals and tells the heroes to travel north to a location in Maine known as "Kashwak." 

The flock psychically drives Ardai to commit suicide in order to silence their biggest complaint. 

Clay and his friends bury him and head north, as Clay is still desperate to get home.

On the way, they discover that as "flock-killers," they have been psychically designated as untouchables, to be avoided by other normies. 

Alice is slain by a loutish couple of normies after a trifling argument on the road. The party buries her and travels to Clay's hometown of Kent Pond, where they find notes from Johnny revealing that Clay's estranged wife Sharon was transformed into a phoner, but their son lived for several days until being pushed by the phoners to travel to the ostensible cell phone-free Kashwak. 

Clay has another nightmare in which he discovers that the normie refugees were all exposed to the Pulse once they arrived. 

He is still determined to find his kid, but after encountering another group of flock-killers, Tom and Jordan decide to forego the phoners' planned ceremonial killings. 

Before splitting off, the party finds that Alice's killers were psychically driven to do a heinous suicide act in exchange for touching an untouchable.

Clay sets out on his own, but the others soon reappear, driving a small school bus; the phoners have used their ever-increasing psychic powers to force them to rejoin him. 

Ray Huizenga, a construction worker, is one of the flock-killers who secretly provides Clay a cell phone and a phone number, advising him to use them when the time is appropriate; Ray then kills himself. 

The group arrives at Kashwak, the site of a half-assembled county fair, where an increasing number of phoners are behaving erratically and breaking away from the flock. 

Jordan believes that the Pulse was produced by a computer program and that, while it is still transmitting into the battery-powered cell phone network, it has become contaminated by a computer worm, infecting newer phone users with a mutated Pulse. 

Nonetheless, an army of phoners is waiting for them, and Clay recognizes Sharon among them. 

The phoners confine the group to the fair's exhibition hall for the night; tomorrow is the ceremonial execution, which will be psychically broadcast to all phoners and remaining normies worldwide.

Clay notices Ray's unsaid plan as he awaits their morning execution: Ray had packed the back of the bus with explosives, connected a phone-triggered detonator to them, and then executed himself to prevent the phoners from telepathically detecting the explosives. 

Jordan drives the vehicle into the midst of the inert phoners after the group breaks a window for him to squeeze through. 

Clay is able to detonate the bomb and wipe out the Raggedy Man and his flock thanks to a jury-rigged cell phone patch set up by pre-Pulse fair workers.

The majority of the party travels to Canada, where the coming winter will annihilate the region's defenseless and leaderless phoners. 

Clay travels south in search of his son. He comes across Johnny, who has a "corrupted" Pulse; he has walked away from Kashwak and appears to know his father. 

However, Johnny is an unstable shell of his former self, so Clay decides to give Johnny another Pulse blast, hoping that the progressively garbled signal will balance itself out and reset his son's brain. 

Clay dials and places the mobile phone to Johnny's ear towards the end of the book.

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