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Black House Summary

Stephen King, Peter Straub, American, Arthurian, Classic, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Murder, Paranormal, Psychic, Serial Killer, Supernatural, Thriller, Witches, Wizards

Black House

Published: 15, September 2001
Genre: American, Arthurian, Classic, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Murder, Paranormal, Psychic, Serial Killer, Supernatural, Thriller, Witches, Wizards
Book 2 of 3: Talisman (The third book has not yet been published.)

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Summary

The community of French Landing, Wisconsin, has been plagued by a series of murders. The killer has been called "The Fisherman" because he made a determined attempt to imitate serial killer Albert Fish's tactics. 

The murderer in French Landing, like Fish, preys on youngsters and eats their bodies. As the narrative begins, two victims have already been discovered, with a third on the way. 

People all around the region are growing increasingly concerned as a result of the nature of the crimes and the local police's failure to apprehend the perpetrator, and certain segments of the local media are exacerbating the issue with inflammatory and provocative coverage.

Jack Sawyer has suppressed memories of his exploits in The Territories and his search for the Talisman as a twelve-year-old kid following the events of The Talisman; however, the residue of these events have served to subtly alter his life even after he has forgotten them. 

Jack rose through the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department to become a lieutenant, where his professionalism and remarkable talent have earned him a near-legendary reputation. 

When a string of killings in Los Angeles is linked to a farm insurance salesman from French Landing, Wisconsin, Jack joins forces with the French Landing cops to apprehend the assailant. 

Jack is magnetically enthralled by the natural splendor of the Coulee Country while in Wisconsin, recalling his childhood experience in The Territories

Certain characteristics of the murder scene threaten to reawaken his suppressed recollections when he subsequently intrudes on a homicide investigation in Santa Monica. 

He then resigns from the Los Angeles Police Department and relocates to French Landing to enjoy his early retirement.

When the Fisherman begins terrorizing French Landing, the police practically beg Jack Sawyer for help, and are taken aback when he coldly refuses. 

The events of Santa Monica threaten to overwhelm Jack, and he thinks that becoming involved in the inquiry would cause him to lose his mind. 

When the Fisherman kidnaps a fourth child, Jack's aloofness is no longer possible. The Fisherman swiftly reveals himself to be much more than a serial killer. 

He is, in reality, a Crimson King agent tasked with locating youngsters who have the potential to serve as Breakers. Tyler Marshall, the fourth victim, is one of the most powerful Breakers ever, and he may be all the Crimson King needs to shatter the remaining Dark Tower beams and put an end to all worlds. 

Because the Fisherman may also "flip" into The Territories, Jack Sawyer is not just the sole chance for French Landing, but for all of existence.


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Crimson King, French Landing, Hearts In Atlantis, Jack Sawyer, King And Peter, King And Straub, Sequel To The Talisman, Serial Killer


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Desperation Summary

Stephen King, Classic, Drama, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Desperation

Published: 24, September 1996
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Classic, Drama, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Summary

Peter and Mary Jackson are traveling peacefully on a barren Nevada roadway when the agitated Collie Entragian pulls them up and arrests them. 

They are transported to the police station of Desperation, a desolate tiny mining town, where Entragian murders Peter

The Carver family, whose daughter was also slain by Entragian; Johnny Marinville, a writer on a cross-country motorcycle journey to seek fresh work; and Tom Billingsley, the local veterinarian, are also kept hostage. 

Meanwhile, Johnny's aide Steve, who had been following him from afar, discovers Johnny's bike and goes in pursuit of him with Cynthia, a hitchhiker. 

Entragian takes Ellen Carver with him, and while he is gone, the deeply religious Carver's son, David, manages to liberate everyone and is hired as a spiritual leader by the party.            

They seek safety in an abandoned theater, where they are joined by mine employees Steve, Cynthia, and Audrey

They find they are the only ones who have survived a wave of destruction unleashed by an evil supernatural creature known as Tak

Tak was imprisoned in an abandoned mine shaft and has the ability to take control of humans, but this state soon degrades the host and forces it to shift hosts. 

Tak also has the ability to control desert animals such as coyotes, buzzards, spiders, and scorpions. 

Tak's cougar kills Billingsley, and Audrey, who is also under its spell, tries to murder David. She comes close to strangling him but is stopped by Steve and Johnny's intervention. Tak snatches Ellen's corpse and imprisons Mary.

The survivors consider leaving town, but David, who has awakened from a trance, informs them that God has other plans for them. 

Mary takes advantage of Ellen's increasing decline to flee her, and after Ellen dies, Tak assumes the form of a golden eagle. 

Tak escaped from a well, so the party gathers some ANFO to blow it up. Tak assaults David but murders his selfless father Ralph

Johnny saves the now-orphaned David from committing suicide by blowing up the well and locking Tak within. 

David, Mary, Steve, and Cynthia begin to flee Desperation. While in Mary's car, David discovers in his pocket the hall pass from his earlier "deal with God," complete with a note from Johnny.


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The Talisman Summary

Stephen King, Peter Straub, American, Classic, Dark, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Occult, Shape Shifter, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Werewolf

The Talisman

Published: 8, November 1984
Genre: American, Classic, Dark, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Occult, Shape Shifter, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Werewolf
Book 1 of 3: Talisman (The third book has not yet been published.)

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Summary

Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, sets off from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire, in search of a crystal known as "the Talisman" in order to rescue his mother Lily, who is dying of cancer. 

Jack's adventure takes him across the American heartland as well as "the Territories," a bizarre fantasy country located in a reality parallel to Jack's. 

Persons in the Territories have "twinners," or counterpart individuals, in our world. Twinners' births, deaths, and (it is implied) other key life events are generally mirrored. 

Twinners can also "flip" or migrate to the other world, however, they simply share the body of their parallel universe's equivalent. 

When flipped, the Twinner, or the actual person, will instinctively begin speaking and thinking in the language of where they are flipping into.

In rare cases (such as Jack's), a person may die in one world but not the other, rendering the survivor "single-natured," with the capacity to flip back and forth between the two realms, body and mind. 

A strange character known as Speedy Parker, who is the twinner of a gunslinger named Parkus in the Territories, teaches Jack how to flip. 

In the Territories, the adored Queen Laura DeLoessian, Jack's mother's twin (a movie star renowned as the "Queen of B Movies"), is also dying.

With the assistance and encouragement of Speedy Parker, Jack sets out for the magical Talisman in the Territories. 

After meeting a guy named Osmond, who works for Morgan Sloat's twinner, Jack leaves the settlement and follows a soldier along a road. 

Morgan almost captures Jack in the woods, but he flees. The trees then assault Jack, nearly strangling him and forcing him to flip back into America. 

Jack continues his travels around the United States, eventually landing a job as a bartender in the fictitious town of Oatley, New York. Smokey Updike, the owner, is vicious and nasty to Jack, and he treats him as a slave.

Jack flees Oatley a few days later, pursued by a monster named Elroy, who has been following him during his stay in Oatley. 

He eludes Elroy long enough to return to the Territories, where Jack recalls another of his father's associates, Jerry Bledsoe, who was killed in a bizarre explosion. 

Morgan Sloat had created the explosion by merely flicking between the two realities, according to Jack. After bumping with Elroy and Morgan again, Jack travels to the American Territories and discovers that he unwittingly caused the deaths of eight construction workers nearby, giving him great sadness and reminding him of Jerry Bledsoe.

In Ohio, Jack encounters Snowball, a blind singer who may or may not be Speedy, who inspires Jack to continue on his adventure. 

On the highway, Jack collides with Morgan at a petrol station, flips into the Territories, and almost drowns in a river. Wolf, a big werewolf beast, comes to Jack's aid. 

Before Morgan enters through a portal and activates a gadget that allows lightning bolts to hit, the two become friends. 

Using the final taste of the juice, Jack returns to his world with Wolf. Jack wonders if he will be able to return to the Territories now that his juice has been depleted. 

As they arrive in Indiana, Wolf quickly adjusts to life in the United States. A police officer arrests Jack and Wolf and transports them to the Sunlight Home, a boy’s school for misfits.

The owner, evangelical psychopath Robert Gardner, is Osmond's Twinner in the search for Jack

The guys are bullied by the school's prefects, namely Sonny Singer and Heck Bast. After a few episodes with the prefects and Gardner, in which a student flees the school and the youngsters are interrogated in the middle of the night, Jack and Wolf flee into the Territories, only to discover that the Twinner of the School is a prison camp. 

In the restroom, the prefects battle Jack and Wolf, and Gardner, realizing who Jack is, drugs Wolf and kidnaps Jack, torturing him to expose himself. 

Wolf transforms into a werewolf after being put into a crate in the fields and wreaks havoc on the school, massacring countless children and bursting into Gardner's office. 

Wolf assassinates the prefects in Gardner's office but is shot and killed by Sonny, who then bleeds to death from his wounds. Before going forward, Jack consoles the dying Wolf.

Jack locates Morgan Sloat's son Richard at an Illinois boarding school. Jack tries but fails to persuade Richard of his exploits and Morgan's purpose. 

The two escape and flip into the Territories when the school is changed into a monstrous parody of itself as the pupils morph into werewolves and seek to goad Richard into tossing out Jack

There, they encounter a guy named Anders, who is delivering weaponry to Morgan's warriors in preparation for a final fight against Jack

Richard, who is now hallucinating and thinks he has a tumor, is actually suffering from an illness given to him by Morgan

Jack made the decision to grab the package personally and stage an ambush. They must first travel by train across the Blasted Lands, a horrific environment filled with fireballs, deformed beasts, and smugglers.

The army base was bombarded by Jack and a sickly Richard, who destroyed much of Morgan's armada and killed Elroy and Osmond's boy. 

Jack travels to California, where Richard finally concedes to the existence of the Territories. 

They arrive at Point Venuti and enter the Agincourt Hotel (the Alhambra Inn's twin) unseen by the surviving werewolves. 

Speedy Parker, who is frail and dying, meets them on the beachside. Inside the Black Castle, Jack battles stone suits of armor protecting the Talisman and captures it, causing an earthquake that disbands the rest of Morgan Sloat's werewolves. 

Jack understands there are more realms than the two he is familiar with, and the Talisman connects them all. 

He uses the Talisman to cure Richard, kills Gardner on the castle steps, and battles Morgan on the beach. 

He eventually kills Sloat, heals Speedy, and returns to New Hampshire in a limousine. Jack reunites with Lily and employs the Talisman one last time to save his mother and the Queen.


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Across The Country, Along The Way, Black House, Dark Tower, Highly Recommend, Jack Sawyer, King And Peter, King And Straub, Morgan SloatTower Series


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Cycle of the Werewolf Summary

Stephen King, American, Classic, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Folk Tales, Graphic, Horror, Literature, Mythology, Shape Shifter, Suspense, Werewolf

Cycle of the Werewolf

Published: November 1983
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classic, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Folk Tales, Graphic, Horror, Literature, Mythology, Shape Shifter, Suspense, Werewolf

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Summary

The narrative takes place in Tarker's Mills, Maine, a fictitious town. Each chapter corresponds to a month on the calendar. 

At each full moon, a werewolf ruthlessly murders local inhabitants, and the otherwise normal village lives in dread. 

Marty Coslaw, a 10-year-old youngster in a wheelchair, is the story's protagonist. The narrative shifts back and forth between the horrifying episodes and Marty's younger day-to-day existence, as well as how the tragedy impacts him.

An intoxicated railway worker is the werewolf's first victim. A hitchhiker, an abusive spouse, one of Marty's friends at the city park, a herd of pigs at a rural farm, a sheriff's officer while sitting in his cruiser, and lastly the owner of a café are the next characters to appear.

The town's Independence Day fireworks have been canceled for this year. Marty is angry since he has been anticipating for them all year. 

Marty's uncle, feeling sorry for his nephew, brings him some fireworks and warns him to light them off very late so his mother doesn't find out. 

The werewolf assaults Marty when he is outside having his own private Fourth of July party, and Marty manages to snuff out the monster's left eye with a bundle of firecrackers. The werewolf flees, and the police dismiss Marty's story since they are hunting for a human killer, not a werewolf. Every full moon as the summer progresses, the bloodshed resumes.

Fall has here, and with it comes Halloween. Marty and his father went trick-or-treating to celebrate. While out and about, he notices Reverend Lowe, who is sporting an eye patch. 

Lowe, on the other hand, doesn't know Marty since he's wearing a Yoda mask. Marty, who comes from a Catholic family, never attends Lowe's church services, which is why he didn't figure out the werewolf's identity sooner.

Marty writes the pastor anonymous letters throughout the following two weeks, asking him why he doesn't kill himself and end the torment. 

In December, he delivers the final letter, which is signed with his name. Reverend Lowe has no idea that Marty has persuaded his rather hesitant uncle to have two silver bullets produced and to come to spend New Year's Eve (which falls on the full moon) with him and his sister. 

The werewolf breaks into the house just before midnight to murder Marty. Marty uses the silver bullets to kill the werewolf twice. After the wolf dies, it transforms back into Reverend Lowe, much to the surprise of everyone in the room.


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The Tommyknockers Summary

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

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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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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Christine Summary

Stephen King, American, Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Christine

Published: 29, April 1983
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Summary

In 1978, Arnie and his friend Dennis come upon a damaged 1958 Plymouth Fury being sold by Roland D. LeBay, an older man with a back brace who christened the automobile "Christine." 

Arnie buys Christine for $250, despite Dennis' objections. Dennis sits inside Christine while Arnie finishes the paperwork and has a vision of the vehicle and its environs as they were 20 years ago when the automobile was new. 

Dennis, terrified, thinks he doesn't like Christine. Christine is taken by Arnie to a do-it-yourself garage owned by Will Darnell, who is accused of using the garage as a cover for illegal activities. 

Arnie loses his spectacles and his acne clears up as he fixes the automobile, but he also becomes reclusive, humorless, and pessimistic. 

Dennis encounters LeBay's younger brother, George, after he dies, and George explains LeBay's history of rage and violence. George discloses that LeBay's small daughter choked to death in the back seat of the car while eating a cheeseburger and that LeBay's wife later committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the front seat.

Dennis notices that Arnie has started dressing like a 1950s greaser and has taken on many of LeBay's personality qualities. 

Arnie has become close to Darnell, even working as a courier in Darnell's smuggling operations, according to Dennis

As Arnie nears the completion of Christine's restoration, he begins dating an attractive student named Leigh

Christine is forced to stay in an airport parking lot by Arnie's parents. Soon later, Clarence "Buddy" Repperton, a bully who blames Arnie for his expulsion from school, discovers Christine's whereabouts and, with the assistance of his group, vandalizes the automobile. 

Christine's capacity to fix herself is recognized by Arnie, who pushes her through Darnell's garage until enough damage has been undone for her to run, and then through the junkyard until she is fully repaired. 

Arnie strains his back in the process and, like LeBay, starts wearing a back brace. Leigh nearly chokes to death on a cheeseburger during a date with Arnie and is only saved by the intervention of a hitchhiker. 

Christine's dashboard lights seemed to turn into bright green eyes, observing her during the tragedy, and Arnie only tried to save her half-heartedly, Leigh observes. 

Leigh swears she'll never get in the car again, believing she and Christine are vying for Arnie's devotion. 

Around town, there are a number of unexplained car-related deaths. Darnell, Buddy, and all but one of his vandalous accomplices are among the victims. 

Christine is linked to each of the deaths, but there is no proof on the automobile. Despite Arnie's impeccable alibis, Detective Rudy Junkins becomes skeptical of him. 

Christine is performing these killings on her own, possessed by LeBay's vengeful soul, and then healing herself.

While learning more about Christine and LeBay's background, Leigh and Dennis begin dating. 

Dennis believes LeBay sacrificed his daughter and wife in order to make Christine a vessel for his spirit. 

They compare Arnie's autographs before and after he bought Christine, as well as LeBay's. 

Arnie becomes enraged when he discovers Leigh and Dennis getting uncomfortably close in Dennis' vehicle. 

Junkins is killed in a vehicle accident shortly after. Dennis and Leigh develop a scheme to smash the automobile and save Arnie, fearing they would be next. 

While Arnie is at a college, Dennis and Leigh entice Christine to the garage and use a sewage tanker truck to rip her apart. 

Dennis sees LeBay's ghost pleading with him to come to a halt before the wreckage is crushed. 

Dennis discovers that Arnie and his mother were killed in a car accident and that Christine had previously murdered Arnie's father. 

According to witness stories, LeBay's ghost, who was linked to Arnie through Christine, exited the Plymouth and sought to reclaim Arnie, but Arnie battled him to a stalemate, culminating in the accident.

Dennis and Leigh's relationship has come to an end after four years. He learns about a vehicle accident in which a drive-in theater employee—the sole surviving member of Buddy's gang—was murdered by a car that slammed through a cinderblock wall in Los Angeles. 

Dennis theorizes that Christine has rebuilt herself and is preparing to assassinate anybody who stands in her way, sparing himself for last.


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The Dead Zone Summary

Stephen King, Classic, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychic, Psychic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Thriller

The Dead Zone

Published: 30, August 1979
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Classic, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychic, Psychic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

Johnny Smith falls unconscious while ice-skating as a youngster in 1953, then mumbles a prophecy to an adult who later has an accident. 

Greg Stillson, a young, emotionally distraught door-to-door Bible salesperson, kicks a dog to death in an unrelated incident.

By 1970, Johnny has a new girlfriend called Sarah and is a high school teacher in the little Maine town of Cleaves Mills. 

Johnny gets injured in a vehicle accident and slips into a coma after constantly winning at a carnival wheel of fortune. 

Johnny discovers that he has suffered a neurological injury, with one section of his brain severely injured, resulting in a "dead zone," when he wakes up almost four years later. 

Other areas of the brain are now showing increased activity as if to compensate. As a result, when Johnny touches people or objects, he occasionally has clairvoyant visions. 

After assisting a number of individuals, Johnny is upset by sensationalized media headlines about his alleged psychic abilities. 

When Johnny declines a lucrative offer from tabloid reporter Richard Dees to publish phony forecasts under his name, Dees' publication calls him a liar. 

Despite his continuous, terrible headaches, Johnny is relieved and intends to resume his usual life as a teacher. 

He is feared by the town, but Sarah pays him a visit. Sarah makes it obvious that she has a new life with her husband Walt and their kid after she and Johnny conclude their romance. 

Sheriff George Bannerman of Castle Rock approaches Johnny and requests for his assistance in catching a local serial killer. 

After the death of a nine-year-old girl, Johnny investigates and unwillingly names the Castle Rock Strangler as Bannerman's subordinate Frank Dodd, who kills himself after leaving a confession. 

As Johnny had predicted, the event rekindled public interest in his power, and he is considered pretty scandalous to resume teaching.

Greg Stillson, now a prosperous businessman and the mayor of Ridgeway, New Hampshire, threatens to kill those he bullies if they report his acts or refuse to assist him. He wins a seat in the United States House of Representatives as an independent in 1976, after blackmailing a local businessman into collecting cash for him. 

Johnny begins working as a private tutor for a teenage kid in Ridgeway, where he develops an interest in politics. When he meets Stillson, he is frightened to have a vision of an older Stillson, now President, initiating a global nuclear war. 

As Johnny's health deteriorates, he mulls about Stillson's presidency, comparing his predicament to someone with time travel having the potential to murder Hitler in 1932. 

Rather than murdering Stillson to prevent his vision from coming true, Johnny procrastinates due to uncertainty in his vision, his abhorrence of murder, and his perception that there is no urgent need to act soon as he had met an FBI agent investigating Stillson as a possible danger.

A vehicle bomb kills the FBI agent. Meanwhile, others disregard Johnny's warnings that a calamity would occur at his pupil's graduation celebration, resulting in multiple deaths. 

Johnny buys a firearm to murder Stillson after realizing he needs to take more serious action to avoid nuclear war and knowing his headaches are caused by a brain tumor. 

Stillson begins his address at the next gathering when Johnny fires from a balcony. He misses and gets injured by guards. Stillson snatches a little child and uses him as a human shield. 

An onlooker captures Stillson's antics on camera. Johnny gets shot twice by the bodyguards because he is unable to shoot a child. He is almost killed when he falls from the balcony. 

Johnny touches Stillson one more time before passing away. He gets only fleeting impressions, but he is certain that the dreadful future has been avoided. When the photo of Stillson using a child as a shield was published, it effectively ended his political career.

An epilogue intersperses fragments from Johnny's letters to his loved ones, a "Q & A" transcript of a fictitious Senate committee inquiry into Johnny's attempted assassination of Stillson (headed by real-life Maine Senator William Cohen), and a narrative of Sarah's visit to Johnny's grave. Sarah had a brief psychic touch with Johnny's soul and drives away, reassured.


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Insomnia Summary

Stephen King, American, Classic, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Thriller

Insomnia

Published: 15, September 1994
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

The narrative takes place in the fictitious town of Derry, Maine. Ralph Roberts, a retired pilot, runs across his old friend Ed Deepneau at the local airstrip. Ed is belligerent and obscenely yelling at a motorist he believes of surreptitiously delivering baby tissue from abortions. 

Some months later, Ralph (now a widower) runs across Ed's wife Helen, who has been severely battered by her husband after signing a pro-choice petition. Helen abandons Ed and seeks refuge at a women's shelter months later.

Ralph develops sleep maintenance insomnia, waking sooner and earlier each night until he can only sleep for an hour at a time. 

Ralph begins to see things that are invisible and intangible to others as his sleeplessness worsens: multicolored manifestations of life-force encircling individuals (auras) and small white-coated entities he refers to as "little bald physicians" based on their looks. 

He gradually realizes that these are not hallucinations, but true events occurring on a distinct dimension of reality. He knows Ed Deepneau sees the same things he does. Lois Chasse, Ralph's friend, discloses to him that she, too, has just begun to see auras that she can understand.

Ralph and Lois come upon two bald physicians, Clotho and Lachesis, who act with dignity and release people from life when it is "their time" to go. 

Atropos, the third bald doctor, is a crazy rogue who appears to pleasure in interrupting and prematurely destroying lives. 

Ralph and Lois discover that existence is mostly dominated by "The Purpose" and "The Random," opposing forces or entities rather than foes. 

Ed Deepneau is one of a few extremely rare beings who are not allocated to either force and so has the ability to drastically alter existence. 

The "Crimson King," a shape-shifting higher-dimensional evil that feeds on fear and anguish and desires chaos to rule over, is revealed to Ralph and Lois

Atropos has been dispatched by the Crimson King to control Deepneau as part of a scheme to disrupt the whole order of the cosmos. 

Clotho and Lachesis, agents of the Purpose, induced Ralph and Lois sleeplessness in order to assist them observe, gain, and even entering other planes of reality in order to fight Atropos

These levels are described by the benign bald physicians as "skyscraper beams," and Ralph gets a vision of The Dark Tower, a symbol of the multiverse.

Susan Day, a well-known and controversial pro-choice campaigner, is scheduled to speak at the Derry Civic Center. 

Lois and Ralph see that the structure is covered in a gloomy aura, indicating a bleak future. 

The Crimson King has been inciting Ed's thoughts against abortion, transforming him into a violent and paranoid zealot. Ed plans to launch a kamikaze assault on the civic center during Susan Day's speech, killing her and everyone inside with a tiny plane laden with C-4 explosives. 

Lois and Ralph are furious about being used by foreign powers, but they determine they must stop the onslaught.

Ed Deepneau's supporters set fire to the shelter where Helen has been sleeping since leaving him. Ralph and Lois save the inhabitants before going in search of Atropos

Ralph defeats the evil entity by getting a commitment from Atropos not to meddle with him and Lois, knowing that the tiny bald physicians are bound by their pledges. 

Once free, Atropos torments Ralph with a vision of a vehicle accident in the near future that would take Helen's little daughter Natalie Deepneau's life. Her death will be in punishment for Atropos's inability to intervene with Ralph.

Ralph informs the kindly bald physicians that he will not stop Ed Deepneau unless they allow him to subsequently save Natalie Deepneau, pledging his own life in exchange for hers. 

A higher-level creature appears briefly, inspiring awe in Clotho and Lachesis as it states that Ralph's requirements are acceptable. He and Lois discover that "virtually all of reality has halted to observe the events unfolding," since the success or failure of Ed's attack has the potential to influence the whole universe. 

The true target of the Crimson King is not the speaker, Susan Day, as they had imagined, but a boy from the local shelter who will be in the audience: Patrick Danville, a young artist prophesied to one day play an important role in preserving The Dark Tower (and thus the multiverse) and aiding in the defeat of the Crimson King

The Crimson King has frequently attempted to end the life of a "messiah," but this is now achievable in Derry, a location of confluence.

Ralph confronts Ed Deepneau on board his jet as he takes off. The Crimson King appears to stop him from interfering with Ed's goal. Ralph is successful in getting the plane to crash some distance away from the center, and he survives by changing to a higher level of reality before impact. 

Ralph and Lois fall in love and marry after returning to his appropriate position and reality, eventually forgetting their adventures with the tiny bald physicians.

Ralph begins to have sleeplessness again in an epilogue set several years later. He begins to see auras again and recalls his experience and the vow to trade his life for Natalie Deepneau's. 

He arrives just in time to see the automobile in his vision emerge and swerve toward Natalie. Ralph pushes Natalie to safety but loses his life in the process. He dies calmly with Lois at his side, while Clotho and Lachesis keep an eye on him.


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Misery Summary

Stephen King, American, Classic, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychological, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

Misery

Published: 8, June 1987
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classic, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychological, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

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Summary

Paul Sheldon, an author of the best-selling Misery Chastain series of Victorian-era romance novels, has completed the series' last book, Misery's Child, in which Misery is murdered off. 

Paul gets drunk and drives his '74 Camaro to Los Angeles instead of flying back to New York City after finishing the manuscript for his new crime book, Fast Cars, which he believes will get significant literary praise and jumpstart his post-Misery career. 

In the small, isolated community of Sidewinder, Colorado, he is stranded in a snowstorm and wrecks his automobile.

When he wakes up, he discovers that he has been saved by Annie Wilkes, a local former nurse who is a die-hard Misery fan. 

Despite his shattered legs, she keeps Paul in her guest bedroom and nurses him herself with her clandestine supply of codeine-based medications. Paul becomes hooked to Novril, a drug Annie withholds from him in order to threaten and manipulate him. 

She starts reading Misery's Child, which was just released and coerces permission to read the Fast Cars manuscript, but she doesn't like the deeper subject matter or language. 

Annie's mental instability is quickly identified by Paul, who notes that she is prone to catatonic spells and has abrupt, unpredictable fury outbursts. 

When she discovers about Misery's death, she abandons Paul in her home for more than two days, denying him food, drink, and painkillers. During this period, Paul checks his legs to determine the extent of the damage and discovers that they were crushed and disfigured in the accident.

When Annie returns, she pushes a frail Paul to burn the Fast Cars book in exchange for painkillers. 

Annie sets up an office for Paul, complete with an antiquated Royal typewriter with a non-functional N-key, writing paper, and a wheelchair, in order to create a new Misery novel that would resurrect the character. 

Paul writes a new novel, Misery's Return while biding his time and comparing himself to Scheherazade

He enables Annie to read the work in progress and fill in the missing N's. The text contains fragments from Misery's Return, a horrifying scenario in which it is discovered that Misery was buried alive while unconscious, as Paul writes.

Paul uses his wheelchair to exit his room multiple times, hunting for more medications and touring the property. He finds a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings revealing Annie to be a serial killer; her victims include a neighboring family, her own father, and many elderly or critically injured patients and 11 infants while she worked as a head nurse, the last of whom resulted in her standing trial but acquittal in Denver. 

Annie announces that she has noticed Paul leaving his room and punishes him by chopping off his foot with an axe and cauterizing his ankle with a blowtorch, thus "hobbling" him. 

Months pass, and Annie slices off Paul's thumb with an electric knife when he complains that additional typewriter keys, including the "t" and "e," have broken and refuses to tell Annie how the story ends until he has written it.

Annie kills a state policeman by driving him over with her riding lawnmower when he comes to Annie's residence looking for Paul. The remains are hidden by Annie, but the trooper's disappearance catches the attention of police enforcement and the media. 

Annie moves Paul to the basement and makes it clear that she will not allow him to reside there. 

After finishing Misery's Return, Paul sets fire to a dummy copy of the text, which Annie tries to salvage. Paul tosses the typewriter at Annie and begins a furious struggle with her, exiting the room and locking the door with Annie still inside. 

When the police arrive in pursuit of the slain soldier, Paul hides and warns them. Annie is discovered dead in the barn, probably having escaped through a window on her way to murder Paul with a chainsaw.

Misery's Return is intended to be published when Paul returns to New York, and it becomes a worldwide bestseller owing to curiosity in the conditions in which it was written. 

The notion that Paul publish a factual account of his own experiences is met with resistance. 

He can walk with a prosthetic, but he still has flashbacks about Annie, painkiller withdrawal, drunkenness, and writer's block. 

Paul weeps both for his destroyed life and for the delight of being able to write again when he gets spontaneous inspiration to create a new novel.


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Carrie Summary

Stephen King, Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller

Carrie

Published: 5, April 1974
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

Carietta "Carrie" White is a 16-year-old girl in the Maine community of Chamberlain in 1979 who is mocked for her drab look and odd religious beliefs fostered by her tyrannical mother, Margaret

Carrie gets her first period one day while showering in the ladies' locker room after physical education class. 

Carrie is afraid since she has no concept of menstruation because her mother, who despises everything intimate, has never told her about it. 

While Carrie fears she is dying, her classmates ridicule her and hurl tampons and sanitary napkins at her, headed by an affluent, popular girl called Chris Hargensen

Rita Desjardin, the gym instructor, assists Carrie in cleaning up and attempts to explain. 

Carrie practices her odd ability to control items from a distance on the walk home. She only remembers utilizing this talent once, when she was three years old, and caused stones to fall from the sky near her house. 

When Carrie returns home, Margaret accuses her of wrongdoing and confines her in a closet so she may pray.

The next day, Desjardin chastises the girls who tormented Carrie and assigns them a week of detention; Chris refuses to leave and is punished by suspension and exclusion from the prom. 

Chris vows to get vengeance on Carrie after a failed attempt to regain her rights through her impactful father. 

Sue Snell, another popular girl who teased Carrie in the locker room, is embarrassed by her actions and persuades her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to the prom instead. 

Carrie is skeptical but accepts and begins preparing a prom outfit for herself. Meanwhile, Chris convinces her boyfriend Billy Nolan and his crew of boys to acquire two buckets of pig blood in preparation for rigging the prom queen contest in Carrie's favor.

Carrie's prom goes well at first: Tommy's classmates are welcoming, and Tommy discovers that he is drawn to Carrie as a friend. 

Chris's plot to rig the election works and Carrie and Tommy are crowned prom queen and king. However, right before the coronation, Chris comes in from the outside and pours pig blood over Carrie and Tommy's heads. 

Tommy gets knocked out by one of the buckets and dies as a result of severe blood loss. The audience laughs as they see Carrie bathed in blood. Carrie storms out of the building, embarrassed.

Carrie recalls her telekinesis and resolves to get vengeance on her tormentors. Using her abilities, she totally closes the gym, triggers the sprinkler system, electrocuting several of her classmates unwittingly, and starts a fire that finally ignites the school's fuel tanks, resulting in a catastrophic explosion that destroys the building. 

Electric shock, fire, or smoke kills anyone present at the prom. Carrie, in a fit of wrath, thwarts any approaching firefighting attempt by opening the hydrants near the school, then smashes gas stations and breaks power lines on her way home. 

Her telekinetic talents are unleashed on the town, demolishing multiple buildings and killing hundreds of people. As she does so, she sends out a telepathic message, informing everyone in town that the devastation was caused by her, even if they don't know who she is.

Carrie goes back home to confront Margaret, who believes Carrie has been possessed by Satan and must be slain. 

Margaret informs her that her pregnancy was perhaps the product of marital rape. Carrie murders her by mentally stopping her heart after she stabs her in the shoulder with a kitchen knife. 

Carrie, mortally wounded, travels to the roadhouse where she was conceived. She notices Chris and Billy departing after learning about the devastation from one of Billy's schoolmates. 

After Billy tries to run Carrie over, she mentally takes control of his car and drives it into a wall, killing both Billy and Chris.

Sue, who has been following Carrie's "broadcast," discovers her lying in the parking lot, bleeding from the knife wound. 

They had a brief telepathic discussion. Carrie had assumed that Sue and Tommy had set her up for the prank, but she now sees that Sue is innocent and has never harbored any ill will against her. She forgives Sue and then passes away, mourning her mother.

A state of emergency is announced, and the survivors begin arrangements to move. Despite the government's commitment of funds for restoring worker neighborhoods, Chamberlain predicts desolation. 

Desjardin and the school's principal blame themselves for what transpired and resign from teaching. 

Sue writes and publishes a book based on her experiences. A "White Committee" investigation on paranormal talents indicates that there are and will be others like Carrie

An Appalachian lady eagerly writes to her sister about her young daughter's telekinetic skills and recalls their grandmother, who possessed comparable abilities.


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Firestarter Summary

Stephen King, American, Classic, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychic, Science Fiction, Superhero, Suspense, Supernatural, Thriller

Firestarter

Published: 29, September 1980
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychic, Science Fiction, Superhero, Suspense, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

Andy and Charlene "Charlie" McGee are a father and daughter duo on the run from The Shop, a government organization. 

Andy had taken part in a Shop experiment using "Lot 6," a substance with psychoactive effects akin to LSD, during his college years. 

The substance provided his future wife, Victoria Tomlinson, limited telekinetic talents and granted him telepathic mind control, which he calls "the push." They both got telepathic talents at the same time. 

Andy and Vicky's abilities were biologically restricted; in Andy's case, excessive use of the push causes debilitating migraine headaches and minute brain hemorrhages, but their daughter Charlie gained terrifyingly great pyrokinetic ability.

The story opens in the middle of the action, with Charlie and Andy fleeing from Shop agents in New York City, the latest in a series of failed attempts by The Shop to apprehend Andy and Charlie after a botched raid on the McGee family in suburban Ohio. 

A failed plan to abduct Charlie leaves her mother dead after years of Shop monitoring; Andy goes home after seeing a psychic flash while having lunch with coworkers to find his wife slain and his daughter stolen. 

He then utilizes his push ability to hunt down Charlie and The Shop agents, eventually catching up with them at an Interstate rest stop. He uses the push to knock out two Shop agents, one of whom is blinded and the other unconscious. 

Charlie and Andy depart and begin a life of running and hiding under fictitious names. Before The Shop catches up with them in New York, they travel multiple times to escape being discovered.

The two escape through Albany, New York, and are briefly taken in by a farmer named Irv Manders near the fictional town of Hastings Glen, New York, using a combination of the push, Charlie's power, and hitchhiking; however, they are tracked down by Shop agents, who attempt to kill Andy and kidnap Charlie at the Manders farm. 

Charlie uses her power at Andy's command, incinerating the entire farm and fights off the agents, killing a couple of them. 

With nowhere else to turn, the two flee to Tashmore, Vermont, where they seek safety in a cabin that previously belonged to Andy's grandpa.

The Shop's director, Captain James "Cap" Hollister, dispatches a Shop assassin called John Rainbird to apprehend the fugitives after the Manders farm operation goes horribly wrong. 

Rainbird, a Cherokee and a Vietnam War veteran, is enthralled by Charlie's strength and becomes obsessed with her, seeking to befriend and kill her. The operation is successful this time, and The Shop takes both Andy and Charlie.

The two are separated and imprisoned in The Shop headquarters in Longmont, Virginia, a fictitious Washington, D.C. suburb. 

Andy becomes an overweight drug addict after his spirit is crushed, he appears to lose his strength, and The Shop finally declares him useless. 

Charlie, on the other hand, firmly refuses to collaborate with The Shop and does not show her skills in their favor. 

A power outage marks a turning moment for the two: Andy, sick with dread and self-pity, regains the drive - unconsciously pushing himself to escape his addiction - while Rainbird, posing as a normal janitor, meets Charlie and earns her trust.

Andy obtains critical information by pressuring his doctor while claiming to be feeble and addicted. 

Charlie begins to exhibit her power, which has grown to terrifying proportions, under Rainbird's direction. 

Andy is able to meet and push Cap after his psychiatrist commits suicide, and uses him to arrange his and Charlie's escape from the facility, as well as to finally connect with Charlie

Rainbird, on the other hand, finds Andy's scheme and decides to exploit it.

Andy's plan works, and he and Charlie are reunited for the first time in six months in a barn, but Rainbird is already there, ready to kill them both. 

Cap, who is losing his wits as a result of being pushed, provides a necessary distraction. 

Andy coerces Rainbird into leaping from the barn's top level, fracturing his leg in the process. 

Rainbird then shoots Andy in the neck and fires another shot at Charlie, but she uses her power to melt the bullet in mid-flight, igniting Rainbird and Cap

Andy, who is mortally injured, tells Charlie to utilize her ability to flee and alert the people so that the government can never do anything like this again. 

After he dies, Charlie, distraught and enraged, sets fire to the barn; she then uses her pyrokinesis to kill the staff and blow up their escape vehicles. The military is summoned, but Charlie destroys their trucks and melts their bullets when they fire at her. Charlie blows up the structure, destroying the whole Shop complex and killing practically everyone.

The government conceals the incident and portrays it as a terrorist firebomb assault in the media. Under new leadership, the Shop swiftly recovers and launches a pursuit for Charlie, who has returned to the Manders property. 

After considerable thought, she devises a strategy and departs the Manders' just ahead of Shop operatives for New York City. 

She chooses Rolling Stone magazine as an independent, truthful news source free of government affiliations, and the novel closes when she comes to tell them her story.


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