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Under the Dome Summary

Stephen King, Action, American, Classic, Contemporary, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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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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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Needful Things Summary

Stephen King, American, Classic, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Rural, Small Town, Supernatural, Thriller

Needful Things

Published: October 1991
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classic, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Rural, Small Town, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

In the little town of Castle Rock, Maine, a new shop called "Needful Things" opens, piquing the residents' interest. 

Leland Gaunt, the proprietor, is a nice older man from Akron, Ohio, who always appears to have something in the store that is ideally suited to each client that walks through his door. 

Considering the items – which includes a rare Sandy Koufax baseball card, a carnival glass lampshade, and a shard of petrified wood said to be from Noah's Ark - the prices are fairly modest, but he wants each buyer to perform a small trick on someone else in town. 

When striking a bargain with Gaunt, each consumer enters a trance and becomes extremely convenient to control, later forgetting anything unusual about the experience. 

Gaunt has comprehensive awareness of the individual townspeople's long-standing secret histories and disputes, and the pranks are his way of causing them to intensify.

Soon after opening his business, Gaunt characterizes local Sheriff Alan Pangborn and Polly Chalmers, Alan's lover and the owner of a nearby sewing shop, as "difficult clients" who are likely to question and meddle with him. 

Gaunt avoids Alan and instead provides Polly with an alleged old charm that both cures her arthritic pain and gives Gaunt power over her. 

Tensions in Castle Rock quickly rise after Polly's servant Nettie Cobb and her adversary Wilma Jerzyck kill each other with knives in a conflict prompted by local youngster Brian Rusk vandalizing Wilma's home and drunk Hugh Priest killing Nettie's dog. 

Many more rivalries emerge, fueled by the persons involved's personal agendas and secrets. 

Gaunt ultimately employs petty criminal John "Ace" Merrill as his assistant, presenting him with high-quality cocaine and implying the existence of buried wealth that may help him pay off a couple of drug traffickers. 

Ace's first mission is to acquire boxes of handguns, ammo, and blasting caps from a Boston garage; Gaunt quickly starts selling the weapons to his clients as a means of protecting their purchases.

Gaunt has deceived innocent people for millennia, tricking them into buying useless trash that mysteriously looks to be anything they cherish or desire most. 

They grow so concerned about their belongings being stolen that they readily buy the weapons he invariably offers and bargains away their souls until the entire town is engulfed in chaos and carnage. 

Ace begins to mistrust his new boss's magical heritage, but Gaunt uses intimidation and threats of vengeance against Alan and the community to keep him in line. 

Soon after, other incidents of violence occur at the same time, such as when gym teacher Lester Pratt fights Deputy John LaPointe, his fiancée's ex-boyfriend, and is ultimately killed in self-defense. 

Hugh Priest and Henry Beaufort, the proprietor of a tavern, murder each other in a gunfight. 

Brian commits suicide as a result of his guilt over his role in Wilma and Nettie's deaths, and town selectman Danforth "Buster" Keeton, who has been secretly embezzling thousands of dollars from public funds to fund his gambling addiction, attacks Deputy Norris Ridgewick before fleeing to his home and murdering his wife Myrtle with a hammer. 

Ace eventually recruits Buster to help him in his efforts for Gaunt.

With the violence in Castle Rock intensifying, Ace and Buster use the caps Ace brought back to lay dynamite all across town. 

Alan sets out to murder Ace after being convinced by Gaunt that he is to blame for the vehicle tragedy that killed his wife and kid. 

Polly recognizes the wickedness in the charm she purchased and destroys it. Norris contemplates suicide after discovering that his prank on Priest resulted in the tragic gunfight, but instead decides to go to the police station for assistance. 

As the explosives detonate, Norris injures Buster and Ace puts him out of his agony. Ace kidnaps Polly and insists that Alan hand up a stash of hidden cash that he purportedly stole. Norris murders Ace, leaving Alan to confront Gaunt.

Alan pulls Gaunt back and steals his valise, which holds the souls of his clients, using sleight of hand and magical novelties that come to life. 

Gaunt exits the scene, his automobile transforming into a horse-drawn cart, leaving the survivors to contemplate an uncertain future. 

The story concludes in the same way it began, with a first-person direct address announcing that a new and mysterious shop named "Answered Prayers" is set to open in a small Iowa town — an alarming indication that Gaunt is ready to restart his business cycle.


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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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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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Doctor Sleep Summary

Doctor Sleep

Published: 24, September 2013

Author: Stephen King

Book 2 of 2: The Shining

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


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Summary:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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The Shining Summary

The Shining

Published: 28, January 1977

Author: Stephen King

Book 1 of 2: The Shining

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


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Summary:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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The Secret of Crickley Hall Summary

Published: October 2006

Author: James Herbert

Genres: Contemporary Literature, Cults, Fiction, Ghost Fiction, Ghost Thrillers, Ghosts & Hauntings, Horror, Haunted House, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Thriller, Supernatural Horror, Supernatural Thrillers, Supernatural, Suspense, True Crime, War Crime

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Gabe Caleigh lives in London with his wife Eve and their three children Loren, Cameron, and Cally. Cameron goes lost one day at a playground when Eve falls asleep for a few seconds and he simply vanishes. Gabe is given a temporary job on the seaside eleven months later. Concerned for his wife's well-being, he recommends that the entire family benefit from relocating during the anniversary time.

They encounter Percy Judd, who worked at Crickley Hall during the war and is worried for their children when they arrive. They begin to settle in, but weird things begin to occur in the house soon after. They hear noises, Cally swears she was struck by a guy with a cane, and their dog flees in panic. For the first time in a year, Eve hears her missing son's voice in the house. He claims to be alive and that the children will be able to tell her where he is. Gabe wants them all to go when Loren has a terrifyingly real nightmare in which she is beaten by the guy with the cane, but Eve can't stomach abandoning her son.

Hollow Bay in The Secret Of Crickley Hall is based on Lynmouth in Devon's Exmoor National Park; Devil's Cleave is the East Lyn Valley, and Watersmeet is Watersmeet. The novel weaves together two stories: child refugees during WWII and the devastating floods that hit Lynmouth in 1952.


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American Psycho Summary

Published: 1991

Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Genres: Adult, Crime Fiction, Literary, Satire, Fiction, Lawyers & Criminals, Self-Help, Psychology, Humor & Comedy, Horror, Dark Humor, Urban Life, Vintage Contemporaries

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American Psycho is a novel set in Manhattan during the late 1980s Wall Street boom and follows the life of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy young investment banker. Bateman, who is in his mid-twenties when the story begins, narrates his day-to-day activities, from his social life among New York's Wall Street elite to his midnight heists.

Bateman describes his daily life through a present-tense stream-of-consciousness narrative, ranging from his loveless engagement to fellow yuppie Evelyn and his contentious relationship with his brother, to a series of Friday nights spent at nightclubs with his colleagues—where they snort cocaine, critique fellow club-goers' clothing, trade fashion advice, and question one another on proper etiquette—to his loveless engagement to fellow yuppie Evelyn Bateman's stream of consciousness is periodically interrupted by chapters in which he addresses the reader directly in order to criticize 1980s pop music musicians' work.

Through misidentification and inconsistencies, the story maintains a high level of ambiguity, implying that Bateman is an untrustworthy narrator. Persons debate over the identity of individuals they meet in restaurants or at parties and characters are frequently introduced as people who are not themselves. Bateman, who is very conscious of his physical appearance, goes into great detail about his daily aesthetics routine.

After killing one of his coworkers, Paul Owen, Bateman takes over his apartment and uses it to host and murder other people. Bateman's ability to control his aggressive impulses deteriorates. His killings get more cruel and sophisticated, going from basic stabbings to long sequences of rape, torture, mutilation, cannibalism, and necrophilia, and his sanity begins to deteriorate.

He casually brings up serial killer stories and freely admits his homicidal actions to his colleagues, who never take him seriously, don't hear what he says, or utterly misunderstand him—for example, misinterpreting "murders and executions" as "mergers and acquisitions." These events culminate in a shooting spree in which he murders multiple people in the street, prompting a helicopter dispatch of a SWAT squad.

The first-person perspective shifts to third-person in this narrative episode, and the ensuing events are recounted in terms of cinematic depiction for the first time in the novel, albeit not for the first time in the novel. Bateman runs on foot and hides in his office, where he calls his lawyer, Harold Carnes, and confesses all of his misdeeds over the phone but to an answering machine.

Bateman later returns to Paul Owen's flat, where he had previously killed and tortured two prostitutes, wearing a medical mask in preparation for the decaying remains he expects to find. He enters the spotless, renovated flat, however, which is brimming with strong-smelling flowers, possibly to mask a stench. When the real estate agent notices his surgical mask, he convinces him that he was at the apartment showing because he "saw an ad in the Times" (when in fact there was no such advertisement). She tells him to go and never come back.

Bateman's mental condition continues to deteriorate, and he begins to have strange hallucinations like witnessing a Cheerio on a talk show, being pursued by an anthropomorphic park bench, and discovering a bone in his Dove Bar. Bateman approaches Carnes about the message he left on his computer at the end of the narrative, but the attorney is delighted by what he deems a clever prank.

Carnes says that the Patrick Bateman he knows is too much of a coward to have done such crimes because he mistook him for another coworker. Carnes stands up to a defiant Bateman in the climactic scene and informs him that his allegation of having murdered Owen is preposterous because he had dined with him twice just a few days before.

Bateman and his coworkers are in a new club on a Friday night, engaging in dull talk, when the novel closes. "This is not an exit," reads the notice at the book's conclusion.


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House of Leaves Summary

Published: 7, March 2000

Author: Mark Z. Danielewski

Genres: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Horror, Romance, Satire, Suspense, Postmodernism, Literary Fiction, Literature

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Johnny Truant, a tattoo parlor employee and self-described unreliable narrator, begins House of Leaves with a first-person narrative. Truant is looking for a new place to live when his friend Lude tells him about the apartment of Zampan, a blind, elderly man who lived in Lude's building and died recently.

Truant discovers a manuscript written by Zampan in Zampan's apartment that turns out to be an academic study of a documentary film called The Navidson Record, directed by an acclaimed photojournalist named Will Navidson, despite Truant's claims that the film or its subjects never existed.

The rest of the novel weaves together several narratives, including Zampan's report on the (possibly fictional) film; Truant's autobiographical interjections; a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom; a small transcript of many people's interviews about The Navidson Record by Navidson's partner, Karen; and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors.

Truant's mother is also a narrator, and her voice is heard through a self-contained set of letters called The Whalestoe Letters. The text of each narrator is printed in a different font, making it easier for the reader to follow the novel's sometimes difficult format (Truant in Courier New in the footnotes and Times New Roman in the main narrative in the American edition, the unnamed editors in Bookman, and the letters from Johnny's mother in Dante).


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