Winter Moon Summary

Winter Moon

Published: 1975 (as Invasion) - 1994 (as Winter Moon)

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Aaron Wolfe)

Genre: Alien Invasion, Crime, Family Life, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Paranormal, Rural, Small Town, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Zombie

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Winter Moon

Summary

The narrative opens with Jack McGarvey, a 32-year-old Los Angeles police officer. Jack is caught in the middle of a firefight at a petrol station. He kills the gunman but is severely injured and spends months in the hospital recuperating. 

When Jack comes home, the McGarveys receive word that he has inherited the Quartermass Ranch in Eagles Roost, Montana, from his late partner's father, Eduardo Fernandez.

Eduardo was having unusual happenings in Montana as Jack was healing from his injuries. He notices blazing lights in the trees and weird noises. He discovers a large black circle one night and assumes it is a doorway established by an extraterrestrial. 

Soon later, he finds wild raccoons spying on him and in his home. Eduardo visits the local veterinarian, Travis Potter when all of the raccoons mysteriously die. The veterinarian conducts an autopsy, which yields no definitive information on the cause of death. 

Squirrels and birds are now watching him. Despite his fear, Eduardo ultimately dares the visitor to come to him in its actual form rather than using animals. He hears a shambling on his doorstep one night. He opens the door, shotgun in hand, and discovers the traveler piggybacking on his late wife's corpse, taken from the family cemetery on the ranch. Travis Potter discovers Eduardo's body, and an examination reveals that he died of a heart attack.

With his wife, Heather, and kid, Toby, Jack moves onto Eduardo's property. They are looking forward to a calm life in Montana, away from big-city violence, and a secure school for Toby. Falstaff, the family's golden retriever, is smitten with Toby.

Strange things begin to happen to the McGarveys. Travis Potter and attorney Paul Youngblood both suggest that something peculiar happened soon before Eduardo died. 

All three McGarveys have repeated nightmares about an entity promising bliss if they let it into their thoughts, but each recognizes the promises are fake and violently rejects the offer. Heather refers to it as the Giver. 

The Giver uses technological equipment to mesmerize Toby and seeks to speak with Jack through Toby. 

The family gradually admits to each other the resemblance of their dreams and several perplexing happenings.

The Giver grows impatient and bolder, having never encountered opposition from any species before. It tries to trap the family during a blizzard by cutting off their cars and phone lines. 

Jack walks out of the house to urge a neighbor to take his wife and son away, while Heather and Toby stay armed with gasoline cans and pistols. 

Despite the fact that they have locked the home, the Giver is able to enter. It manifests itself in two distinct forms, each riding a body from the ranch's family plot. 

Heather realizes that gunshots do not harm the Giver riding Eduardo's body, so she sets fire to the home in the hopes that the fire would kill the thing. She fires at the second body, injuring it, and learns the Givers are unable to move without their hosts. 

The first Giver has walked its corpse through the flames, and as it continues to follow them, Heather notices that half of it has been devoured by the fire, giving her hope. 

Toby captures the Giver in his thoughts by convincing it that he accepts its offer, so immobilizing the Giver and allowing him, his mother, and Falstaff to flee the home. 

Harlan Moffit, a snowplow driver, picks up Jack and sees the home on fire as they come into the driveway. Heather and Toby are lugging gas cans up the back stairs when Harlan arrives and informs them of an extraterrestrial invasion. 

Toby claims that he can't keep the Giver hostage for much longer and that the Giver is actually at the caretaker's house. When they get to the caretaker's house, they witness a third creature riding another body, trapped immobile by Toby's mind. 

The Giver's primary body is located further back in the home and is a huge creature that spawned three lesser extensions of itself. Toby maintains the being's will as the grownups pour gasoline on the structure and set it on fire.

After the authorities had gathered everyone's statements, Toby informs his father that, towards the very end, the Giver produced a few little worms that tried to escape by digging into the wood. He's not sure if any of them survived, and Jack says they'll leave it up to the experts and authorities. A few weeks later, the family returns to Los Angeles.

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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 Tommyknockers Summary

The Tommyknockers

Published: 10, November 1987

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Alien Invasion, Classic, Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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The Tommyknockers

Summary

Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson, a writer of Wild West-themed fiction, stumbles across a metal item that turns out to be a protrusion of a long-buried extraterrestrial spaceship while strolling in the woods near Haven, Maine. 

When the spaceship is revealed, it begins to spew an invisible gas into the atmosphere, gradually transforming people into beings who resemble the aliens that formerly inhabited the ship. 

The transition, or "becoming," gives them a restricted type of brilliance that allows them to be extremely imaginative while providing little philosophical or ethical understanding into their creations. 

The spaceship also prohibits individuals who are afflicted from leaving town, causes psychotic behavior in certain people, and leads to the loss of a small kid named David Brown, whose elder brother Hilly teleports him to the Havenites' planet Altair 4.

The protagonist of the novel is James Eric Gardener, a poet and Bobbi's acquaintance who goes by the moniker "Gard." Because of the steel plate in his head, a relic of a youthful skiing accident, he is largely resistant to the ship's affects. 

Gard is also an alcoholic who has a tendency to binge drink, resulting in violent outbursts and long blackouts. 

Gard watches Bobbi's health deteriorate and her sanity goes as she is nearly completely overtaken by the ecstasy of "being" one with the spaceship. 

Apart from his friendship with Bobbi, Gard believes he has little to live for and resolves to stay with her to attempt to slow down her decline. 

He sees the locals change, learns of Bobbi's dog Peter's torment and manipulation, and observes individuals getting killed or worse when they delve too deeply into the bizarre happenings.

Gard, Bobbi, and others have been working on uncovering the ship for several weeks. 

Gard intends to murder Bobbi after touring the spacecraft and returning to her house, as he can see she is no longer human. 

Bobbi uses a pistol to compel Gard to take a deadly dosage of Valium. He covers his consciousness while they converse, pulls out his own rifle, and shoots Bobbi. 

As Bobbi dies, she telepathically cries, alerting the locals, who come to her house, determined to murder Gard for fear of him harming the ship. 

In exchange for saving David Brown from Altair 4, Ev Hillman, David and Hilly's grandpa, assists Gard in escaping into the woods.

Gard boards the ship, almost dying from his fight with the villagers. He ignites the ship and telepathically propels it into space with his last ounce of power. 

This leads to the deaths of virtually all of the town's residents, but it also stops the ship's influence from spreading to the rest of the globe, which may be terrible. 

Agents from the FBI, CIA, and "The Shop" raid Haven shortly afterward and capture as many Havenites as possible (killing roughly a quarter of the survivors), as well as a handful of the changed individuals of Haven's gadgets.

David Brown is found safe in Hilly Brown's hospital room in the last pages.

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