One Door Away from Heaven Summary

One Door Away from Heaven

Published: 2001

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Adventure, Conspiracy, Fiction, First Contact, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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One Door Away from Heaven

Summary

A shape-shifting extraterrestrial, along with others of his kind, has arrived on Earth to save us from ourselves. 

After seeing his whole family slaughtered by wicked aliens focused on stopping him, he embarks on a cross-country quest to save himself. 

He stops in the middle of the night at a farmhouse to "borrow" some cash and supplies and finds a sleeping youngster his age. He is able to "become" Curtis Hammond, the boy's exact replica, using a drop of blood from an old bandage. 

The terrible aliens arrive seconds after he leaves the house and slaughter the family, leaving just the dog alive. Curtis and the dog escape and wind up at the site of an extraterrestrial sighting. 

Castoria and Polluxia Spelkenfelter, twin UFO enthusiasts, know Curtis from news coverage of his murder and resolve to assist him. He eventually confesses his actual nature to them, and they promise to help him finish the assignment he has come to Earth to perform. 

The twins, boy, and dog set off together towards Nun's Lake, Idaho, the next place on the twins' schedule while they determine what to do next.

Michelina (Mickey) Bellsong was just released from jail. She has moved in with her Aunt Geneva to start again, but things aren't going as planned. She is adrift and aimless, simply trying to get through the day. 

A clever but crippled little girl approaches her as she is sunbathing in the backyard. Leilani Klonk has a malformed hand and a misshapen leg that necessitates the use of a brace. She is smarter and more talkative than the usual nine-year-old, and her wit charms Mickey. 

Mickey and Geneva get to know the youngster and discover that her mother is a psychotic drug user and her stepfather is a killer. He murdered her older brother Lukipela, and Leilani is the next victim. 

Leilani feels that no one can assist her since Preston Maddoc is well-regarded in the academic community. Preston and Leilani's mother, Sinsemilla, travel throughout the country hunting for UFOs, and Leilani knows it's just a matter of time until they return to Montana, where Preston murdered her brother Lukipela. 

Mickey and Geneva resolve to find a method to assist Leilani, but Preston discovers this and flees with the family in the middle of the night. 

Mickey realizes that they have vanished and sets out to find them in order to save Leilani. Leilani had said that they are heading to Nun's Lake, Idaho, the location of a rumored close contact, and Mickey rushes to the town in order to discover the girl. 

Mickey comes and proceeds to talk with the man who was "healed" by aliens, only to discover that Leilani's step-father hasn't arrived yet. She searches the home for Preston and follows him to Leilani. 

Preston is alerted to her existence by the cured man, whom he murders. He slips out of the home and approaches Mickey, knocking her out. He drags her into the deceased man's house and binds her up before speeding back to the campsite. 

Curtis meets Leilani at the Nun's Lake campsite and realizes she's in trouble. While Preston is away, he and the twins approach her and persuade her to accompany them. 

Leilani is kidnapped by her stepfather and taken to the home where he has concealed Mickey as they rush for the twins' RV. 

His objective is to have Leilani witness him kill Mickey before torturing and killing her. When he returns home, he sees that Mickey has escaped her chains. He ditches Leilani, takes her brace and begins looking through the maze of old periodicals and newspapers for Mickey. 

Leilani enters the maze in search of a route out, where she and Mickey meet. Preston corners them and sets fire to the newspapers in front of them, intending to listen as they burn to death. 

Curtis and the twins arrive at the residence, helped by a disillusioned ex-PI sent by Aunt Gen. The PI, Noah Farrell, shoots Preston Maddoc as he speeds through the maze looking for Mickey and Leilani. 

Preston staggers away, becoming increasingly dizzy from blood loss and smoke inhalation. Noah and Cass locate Mickey and Leilani, and the four of them look for a way out. 

Curtis appears in his normal form to save them, and they all flee the home. Preston Maddoc is killed after he gets buried behind a mound of flaming rubbish.

Leilani, Mickey, Aunt Gen, and Noah join Cass and Polly in their attempt to assist Curtis in completing the assignment that has been assigned to him.

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Lightning Summary

Lightning

Published: 1988

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Time Travel

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Lightning

Summary

A mystery blond stranger (Stefan) prevents an inebriated Dr. Paul Markwell from attending to the difficult and delicate birth of Laura Shane in January 1955, amid a bizarre lightning storm. 

Laura's mother dies after childbirth, despite the fact that she is a perfectly healthy and wonderfully beautiful baby, and she is left to be raised by her father, Bob Shane. 

An addict tries to steal Laura's father's convenience store when she is eight years old; however, the blond stranger reappears, protecting them both and coaching them on what to tell the cops. 

Bob Shane dies after a heart attack in 1967. Laura sees the stranger looking over her again after her father's burial and comes to believe he is her guardian angel, along with an unidentified guy asking for her as she attempts to follow him.

Laura is placed in the McIlroy orphanage, where she meets Thelma and Ruth, twins who become her greatest friends. She also encounters Willy Sheener, a terrifying child molester who also works as the maintenance worker and custodian. 

Willy falls in love with Laura because of her unusually excellent looks and follows her throughout the orphanage. 

Following a series of strange episodes, her mystery angel pays a visit to Sheener and viciously beats him. This frightens him for a while until Laura is sent to live with the Dockwielers, with whom she soon bonds. 

Laura is able to fend off Sheener and finally murder him, but the stress of seeing the scene leads her new foster mother to have a fatal heart attack, sending Laura back to the orphanage. 

Soon later, Laura becomes 13 and is sent to another institution for older children, where she learns that Ruth was killed in a fire in McIlroy. 

Laura's creative writing at college catches the notice of Danny, a naïve man who has fallen in love with her from afar. Following a failed attempt to be her secret admirer, they agree to a date and eventually fall in love. 

Laura becomes a well-known author of numerous novels after their marriage and gives birth to a son, Christopher Robert. Because the birth was challenging, she will be unable to have children in the future.

Years later, the blond man's (eventually revealed to be named Stefan) intervention saves Danny, Laura, and Chris from a tragic disaster. 

A little time later, the unidentified man appears. Danny and the blond guy both attack, but Danny dies from multiple gunshot wounds before Stefan kills the man and tells Laura what to say, just like years before at the grocery store. 

He vows to return soon and tell more, but he doesn't return until a year later, injured, in a remote stretch of winter woods. Laura and Chris are able to heal him at a doctor they find in the phone book, but they soon face mysterious assassins.

The gang seeks refuge at a modest hotel. Stefan regains consciousness and eventually reveals his story. He was 35 years old when he was born in 1909. He is from Nazi Germany in 1944, and he is a member of a covert time travel program that sends spies to the future to discover methods to affect the result of World War II. 

Stefan had already arrived in an alternate version of 1984 and had met Laura, who was paralyzed as a result of Dr. Markwell's inebriated mistakes during her birth. Despite her infirmity, she created wonderful poetry volumes that encouraged Stefan to abandon his objective and travel to unpleasant portions of her life in order to alter them. His commander, however, became suspicious of him and pursued him, sending the assassins into the future to learn of their course.

They obtain numerous items they require with the assistance of Thelma, who has grown wealthy as a comedienne and actress after her sister's death. 

Fat Jack, an arms dealer, provides them with weapons as well as Vexxon nerve gas. Stefan is ready to travel back in time with the help of contemporary computing technology. He kills the five guys on duty at the moment with the nerve gas and disposes of their remains six billion years later. He jumps to visit Winston Churchill and tells him that the time machine institution must be attacked; Churchill agrees. 

Stefan also travels to Adolf Hitler to persuade the dictator of different issues that must be resolved, damaging the German war effort in the process.

While he is gone, Laura and Chris are ambushed by additional Nazis in an empty piece of the rain-washed desert after records of a police stop are uncovered. 

Stefan returns to discover Laura and Chris dead. He gets around the machine's time limit by sending Laura a message to save them. Despite this, Chris and Laura must face all four guys. The second cylinder of nerve gas becomes useful. Laura finally kills all four guys chasing them while protecting Chris to the best of her ability. 

Laura and Chris are questioned by the authorities over the course of many months. They quickly believe a narrative about 'drug traffickers' seeking vengeance. Laura backs up her claim by turning Fat Jack over, which she was about to do anyway (he does not blame her, due to his personal beliefs). 

Stefan, who had been hiding with Thelma, returns to live with them. Laura eventually falls in love with him after giving him more time.

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Shadowfires Summary

Shadowfires

Published: 1987

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Literary, Literature, Suspense, Thriller, Zombie

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Shadowfires

Summary

The story's protagonist is a lady who is about to divorce her violent husband Eric, an ardent scientist at a bio-research organization when he is killed in a traffic accident.

As it turns out, the husband was researching immortality because he was obsessed with avoiding death as a result of sexual assault as a youngster and the worry that his abuser is waiting for him in Hell. 

In truth, he tested an experimental serum meant to confer amazing regeneration abilities on himself. 

The spouse awakens in the morgue, but his "immortality" is defective; it cannot repair brain injury correctly since the "mind" is formed of electrical signals, not simply flesh and protein. The stress of the traffic accident has left him in chronic agony and with a loss of mental clarity. 

The husband, now an unstoppable murdering machine, stalks his wife throughout the nation while gradually sliding into madness and the return from death, leading him to mutate at an alarming rate.

Rachael and her lover Ben Shadway chase the reanimated Eric to his hidden country hideout in the hopes of murdering him before he regenerates to the point where he can discover and kill Rachael. 

Eric, on the other hand, outwits them and gets to hide in the trunk of Rachael's car after overhearing her and Ben discussing their plan to split up and meet in Las Vegas.

Rachael Leben accidentally brings Eric to Las Vegas and observes Eric emerge from the trunk of her car, now brutally altered into some type of unimaginable mutant and fast-evolving. 

A pursuit continues into the desert, but Rachael manages to escape Eric's grasp when he's munching on a den of rattlesnakes and returns to her car before continuing on her route to Vegas. 

Later, Eric murders and consumes the driver of the automobile, then rapes, kills and devours the female passenger before heading to Vegas. 

Ben Shadway is also being pursued by federal agent Anson Sharp, who has a 20-year-old grudge against Shadway when the two served together in Vietnam and Shadway revealed Sharp's dishonesty and illicit smuggling operations, resulting in Sharp being dishonorably dismissed from the US army. 

Partners in Eric Leben's bio-research business are also on the trail of Shadway and Rachael Leben, attempting to prevent them from leaking the company's top-secret project to the media but are stopped by Sharp's soldiers. 

Sharp intends to murder them both in order to keep Project Wildcard a secret and get revenge on Ben. 

After a long chase across Nevada to Las Vegas, the pair finally confronts Eric at Ben's hotel. 

Eric's mutation eventually stabilizes into an unstoppable and unidentifiable insectoid form that cannot be killed by the weaponry they have. 

They hurriedly pour gasoline on Eric and light him ablaze. Consumed by fire, Eric's mutant body's accelerated metabolism devours itself in an attempt to repair and mutate further, reducing his body to slime and eventually killing the genetic monster but not before Eric's shattered awareness finally embraces death.

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Strangers Summary

Strangers

Published: 1986

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Conspiracy, Depression, Fiction, First Contact, Horror, Literary, Mental Health, Psychological, Science Fiction, Superhero, Suspense, Teen, Thriller, Young Adult

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Strangers

Summary

A group of people is pulled together by their various and equally bizarre illnesses. Dominick has somnambulism, Ginger has unexplained lapses into a fugue state, Father Brendan loses his faith and then has a supernatural 'gift,' and Ernie has nyctophobia.

Dominick receives Polaroids that lead him to the Tranquility Motel, which is located thirty miles west of Elko in the Nevada 'high desert.' 

They realize, along with Ned and Sandy, who owns the restaurant next door to the motel, that their genuine memories from the previous summer may have been buried. 

Ginger, Jorja, and the other guests at the Tranquility Motel are later contacted and offered to join the organization. 

Ginger reveals that Azrael Blocks, a form of brainwashing generated by medications and hypnosis, inhibit their memories. She underwent hypnosis as a treatment to determine the origin of her illness.

The 'community' of Tranquility is unaware that those behind the repression are observing them. 

Jack Twist has joined them (who was led to the Tranquility Motel by a series of postcards placed there by an insider). 

Finally, the gang devises a plan to discover the government secret concealed in the hills at the Thunder Hill Depository.

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The House of Thunder Summary

The House of Thunder

Published: 1982

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller

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The House of Thunder

Summary

The story centers around Susan Thorton, who wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of her history or how she got there. 

Susan's doctor, Dr. McGee, assists her in regaining parts of her memories, including that of an anti-Semitic hate crime she saw years ago that resulted in the murder of her fiancé, but she can't seem to recollect anything about the firm she works for or her recent history. 

Susan's memory is not jogged by phone calls from her coworkers. Meanwhile, Susan begins to have nightmares and vivid hallucinations related to her fiancé’s death. 

The guys who committed the crime come to the hospital, claiming not to recognize her, and none of them appear to have aged at all, despite the fact that more than a decade has passed. 

Susan is tormented by the guys, and she must determine whether she can trust Dr. McGee as she attempts to figure out if the men are ghosts, doppelgangers, or if these awful events are all in her head.

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Night Chills Summary

Night Chills

Published: 1976

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Adventure, American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Night Chills

Summary

Widower Paul Annendale has brought his two children, Rya and Mark, on their yearly camping trip to Black Water, a small New England village. 

What no one knows is that the town has become a test site for a new experiment employing subliminal advertising tactics. 

This newly discovered technique was introduced into the town with the help of a chemical in the water supply and allows anyone with a special code phrase to gain total mind control of an exposed subject. 

It was developed by amoral scientist Ogden Salsbury and funded by multi-millionaire Leonard Dawson. Paul aims to put an end to this criminal scheme with the help of local business owner Sam Edison.

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Saint Odd Summary

Saint Odd

Published: 13, January 2015

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Literary, Mystery, Paranormal, Psychic, Romance, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Urban

Book 7 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Saint Odd

Summary

Odd Thomas returns to Pico Mundo only to be attacked by surviving members of the demonic organization he encountered in earlier books. 

He survives the first attempt on his life by escaping a huge SUV as he rides the rural roads on a hefty motorbike. Odd goes off-road and lures the SUV's driver into driving into a steep gully, killing everybody inside as the SUV explodes. 

Odd initially flies to the mall where Stormy and 18 others were murdered, just evading three cultists who, coincidentally or with Odd's psychic attraction, are visiting the mall where the cult's members nearly killed hundreds. 

After meeting Mrs. Fischer, Odd rides his bike to a safe home maintained by the same group he aided in the last novel. 

The safe house is operated by an older couple who tell him they've been married for years and have only had "5 terrible days in all those years," according to the husband. His wife disagrees, adding, "There were six, you need to figure out where we're disagreeing." 

Odd sleeps in the house's guest room and his dreams of Pico Mundo are filled with glimpses of people, both recognizable and unknown, floating by him with angry looks. 

He realizes that the cult has gathered enough C4 to destroy a neighboring dam after reconciling with Chief Porter and author Ozzy Boone. 

Destroying the dam would flood the town partially, but not enough to inflict the damage and death he envisioned. When he goes to the dam, he experiences an epiphany after sighting coyotes.

Odd returns to the safe home to discover it under siege by the cultists, all of whom are killed by the caretakers. 

Mrs. Fischer and a "Cleaning Crew" come and make the safe home look as if no one has ever lived there, while Odd and Mrs. Fischer meet in her limo. 

He is then forced to engage in a bloody cat-and-mouse game with the fanatics. A paramilitary attack squad pursues him through an almond orchard, and when they can't find him, they start blowing up the orchard's structures. 

Using the explosions to his advantage, Odd catches two cultists discussing the ritual rape and slaughter of a little family that owns a property nearby. 

Odd kills the cultists and rushes to the home in time to save the family in the barn. Odd hides in the landscape and then enters the home, following the cultists when they make their entrance. 

Odd eventually kills all of the cult members, including a girl he describes as having an "innocent child's face." 

Odd receives a terrible knife wound from the female cultist before she dies, and then sees her spirit waiting for him. Odd ignores her, causing her to go into a poltergeist rage while Odd flees the house. 

Odd observes that the demons ("Bodachs") who had previously collected in preparation of violent occurrences are no longer present. He eventually deduces that the cult intends to spread a lethal strain of the rabies virus via hoax air blasts emerging from a funhouse in a visiting carnival. The Bodachs have not appeared because they are solely concerned with immediate violence and not with sickness. 

He is able to foil the scheme, but only at the expense of a fatal gunshot wound. He is reunited with his girlfriend Stormy Llewellyn after death, who educates him on what he will confront in the hereafter. 

His literary friend then discovers the manuscript of this book printing inexplicably on his laser printer.

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Frankenstein: Dead and Alive Summary

Frankenstein: Dead And Alive

Published: 2009

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Conspiracy, Dark Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Graphic Novel, Horror, Literary, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 03 of 05: Frankenstein

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Frankenstein: Dead And Alive

Summary

The mythological monster, Deucalion, is a noble person committed to overcoming the evil that brought him existence. 

By intent and accident, the megalomaniacal Victor Helios has unleashed several of his manufactured murderers on modern-day New Orleans. 

Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison are Deucalion's all-too-human allies in his quest to bring Helios' perpetrators to justice. 

A resistance movement is also forming inside Helios' control structure, as many of his vat-made men and women comprehend that fighting Helios would put an end to tedium, servitude, insanity, self-destructive abuse practices, or life itself.

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Frankenstein: Prodigal Son Summary

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Published: 2005

Author: Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson

Genre: Children's Comics, Conspiracy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Horror, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Police Procedurals, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 01 of 05: Frankenstein

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Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Summary

The basic narrative follows New Orleans detective Carson and her partner Michael as they search for "The Surgeon," a serial killer. 

Deucalion, once known as The Monster, is alarmed by reports of this serial murderer, believing that his old master and creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, has returned. 

When Carson meets Deucalion, the investigation takes a darker turn, leading Carson and Michael down the road of a 200-year-old mystery and evil that threatens more than just New Orleans.

In New Orleans, a serial killer is on the loose and killing nonstop. A number of women have been discovered dead with one or more body parts missing–feet, hands, ears, lips–you get the picture. 

A few men have also died after having their internal organs removed medically. The inquiry is being led by detective partners Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. 

She is aggressive and hard-driving both inside and outside of the automobile. Maddison is her polar opposite: a devoted spouse who is constantly able to mock himself and Carson in a way that keeps things honest. 

Carson is also in charge of her younger autistic brother Arnie, who is constructing a castle fortress in his room.

The stronghold is a symbol, a warning that something far more sinister is at work than just a serial murderer. 

Carson's first clue is Deucalion, a mystery guest. He's reportedly the inheritor of a theater and has arrived in New Orleans from a monastery abroad. 

He moves with fast speed, employing an extraordinary sleight of hand, and has enormous scars tattooed on one side of his face. 

He claims to be almost two centuries old, made from body parts, and brought to life by Victor Frankenstein by a lightning strike. 

He believes that Frankenstein, also known as Victor Helios, is still alive in New Orleans and poses as a local benefactor. He also forms a particular relationship with Arnie, who is in peril as well.

The true story is significantly more sinister. Helios has honed his ability to produce human life, ostensibly soulless but improved beings, and a perfect race infiltrating civilization until Helios fulfills his aim of eradicating humanity. 

However, something isn't quite right. Some of those who were created with no ambitions other than to serve Helios and to be submissive to his whims are starting to think, act, and even murder on their own. 

It turns out that you can't make people and expect them to stay robots. They want significance, joy, or even just to be free of Helios—wishes that are far more human than Helios would allow.

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Ghost Story Summary

Ghost Story

Published: 1979

Author: Peter Straub

Genre: American, Drama, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Suspense, Thriller

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Ghost Story

Summary

The tale begins with a guy named Donald Wanderley traveling with a little girl whom he appears to have abducted. When Donald and the girl arrive in Panama City, Florida, the narrative travels back in time to the previous winter's events.

Four elderly men who are members of a clique called the Chowder Society live in the small upstate New York town of Milburn, which is indicated to be in Broome County east of Binghamton: John Jaffrey, a doctor; Lewis Benedikt, a retired entrepreneur; Sears James, an attorney; and Ricky Hawthorne, an attorney, and James' Partner. 

For the past 50 years, these closest friends have gathered, told each other tales, and been wonderful companions. 

However, their group used to be made up of five people. Jaffrey had hosted a party in honor of a visiting actress a year before, and their fifth member, Edward Wanderley, had perished in an upstairs bedroom amid the celebrations. He had a terrified expression on his face as if he had been scared to death.

Since that night, the friends have been troubled by dreadful dreams and have turned to recounting ghost stories to each other. 

Sears tells them a ghost story about when he was a young man during one of their gatherings. 

Before opting to go to law school, James worked as a teacher in a small town. He became obsessed with one of his students, Fenny Bate, a sluggish, mentally troubled young lad. 

Fenny and his sister were shunned by the town, and after some investigation, he discovers why. 

Gregory, the older brother of the two youngsters, was widely thought to have sexually abused his younger brother. 

Gregory was the guardian of his younger siblings because their mother had died and their father had abandoned the household. 

Gregory tumbled from the ladder and died one day while repairing the roof and someone thought they spotted the two young Bate children fleeing the scene. 

Sears tells his friends that over time, he began to see a scary young guy lingering around the school, and he finally came to believe it was Gregory Bate's ghost. 

Sears endeavored but failed, to free Fenny from the clutches of his deceased brother. Fenny died, and Sears departed the tiny town after finishing the school year.

After relaying his story, Sears and Ricky are summoned to the property of one of their clients, who has discovered some mangled sheep in his field. 

Later in the ride, Sears tells Ricky that the previous night's event was not made up, but had truly occurred to him when he was younger. 

Sears, like the rest of the Chowder Society, admits to being terrified. They decide to write to Edward's nephew, Donald Wanderley because Donald has authored an esoteric novel and they believe his research skills may be useful to them. However, before Donald arrives, Jaffrey commits suicide by jumping off a bridge.

Donald enters just as the funeral is wrapping up. The Society's three remaining members inform him that they want him to look into any conceivable options that he may find acceptable. 

Donald's brother David had died under unexplained circumstances some years before, prompting him to pen his horror thriller. 

Donald tells them the tale of what he believes happened. He'd gotten a teaching job at Berkeley because of the positive response to his first novel, and he'd started dating a lovely graduate student called Alma Mobley. 

He was inseparable from her at first, and there was a discussion of marriage. But, as time passed, he began to notice odd things about her and thought that there was something peculiar about Alma. 

She had a sinister drug-dealing acquaintance named Greg Benton who was the guardian of a mentally disabled younger brother, as well as even more sinister acquaintances who belonged to a cult associated with the Manson Family and claimed to be in regular contact with the spirit of a dead man named Tasker Martin who "approved" their relationship. 

Donald ceased seeing her as frequently, because his business faltered, and Alma suddenly disappeared one day. 

Upon further investigation, he learned that many of Alma's claims about her family history were false; for example, she claimed to be the daughter of a prominent New Orleans artist called Robert Mobley, who had two boys but no daughter. 

In fact, Robert Mobley had a bizarre experience similar to Donald's in which his son Shelby committed suicide after an affair with a mysterious younger girl named Amy Monckton while under the guardianship of a woman named Florence de Peyser, who employed a sinister man named Gregorio as her chauffeur. 

A few months later, David phoned to tell him that he and Alma had gotten engaged and that he wanted everything to be okay between Donald and his girlfriend. 

Donald tried to warn David about Alma, but it was too late, and David died shortly after.

Soon after, Lewis Benedikt is murdered in the forest, and Sears and Ricky decide it is time to tell Donald the most horrifying story the Chowder Society has ever heard—and it, too, is real. 

Eva Galli, a young woman, had migrated to the village fifty years before. She was in her early twenties, and all five of the young guys were head over heels in love with her, although completely platonic love. 

Eva came to see them one night in 1929, not long after Black Tuesday, but she wasn't herself. 

She made sexual approaches and made fun of them. Eva collapsed and injured her head as a result of the struggle. 

They planned to hide her body by placing it in a car and driving it into a deep pond, believing she was dead. 

But, at the last second, Eva's body vanished from the inside of the car, and a lynx watched them from the opposite bank.

Donald continues his investigation and swiftly concludes that they are dealing with a Manitou or some type of shape-shifting beast. 

He also believes Alma Mobley is Eva Galli, as well as Amy Monckton and the mystery young actress who was the guest of honor at his uncle's death party. 

He discovers some of his uncle's tape recordings and listens to bits that not even his uncle has heard yet, when she talks directly to him and the remaining Chowder Society, claiming to be a member of an ancient race of creatures and being old enough to recall the first humans in the nation.

Donald, Ricky, and Sears are joined in their fight by Peter Barnes, a young man whose mother was murdered by the servants of these creatures, formerly normal human people who have been given new life and powers. 

Sears is ambushed and killed in his car, and the survivors discover that the reanimated Gregory and Fenny are assisting Eva in her endeavors and that Gregory is identical to Greg Benton, the drug dealer Donald met in Berkeley, and Fenny was Greg Benton's disabled brother, and Gregory and Robert Mobley's New Orleans acquaintance Gregorio were also one and the same. 

Gregory informs them that Florence de Peyser assisted in his resurrection and that Eva is also obedient to the de Peyser lady. 

Gregory and Fenny assault Peter, Donald, and Ricky at a movie theater, but both are slain in the subsequent fight, causing Donald to learn that, despite their unearthly abilities, the monsters are not truly immortal. Eva is tracked down and defeated by the survivors, but she escapes in a new form.

Ricky, exhausted, departs Milburn for a lengthy vacation with his wife, as Peter prepares for college. Donald keeps an eye out for Eva's next appearance, which he believes will be the little girl from the beginning of the novel.

Eva appears in the shape of a small girl and seeks to manipulate Donald's psyche while in Florida. 

He is able to resist and kills her after she attempts to flee in the shape of a wasp. Donald then makes plans to travel to San Francisco in search of the de Peyser woman.

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Elevation Summary

Elevation

Published: 10, October 2018

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Fiction, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Elevation

Summary

Scott Carey in Stephen King's novella Elevation did not appear to be any unusual; he is the standard overweight American guy, but the scale revealed that he was shedding weight at an alarming rate. 

Scott confided in Bob Ellis, a friend, and retired doctor, about what was going on with him. Scott determined to make at least one thing right in his life because he didn't want to spend what was remained of his life being tested and seen as an anomaly. 

Scott's effort to befriend a lesbian couple in his area, whom he had unknowingly hurt, prompted a shift in his whole community.

When Bob initially grew concerned about his weight loss, Scott paid him a visit. His usual doctor examined him thoroughly and informed him that he was in wonderful health. 

Scott showed Bob that he weighed the same amount fully clothed as he did in only his underpants. 

According to the scale, he had been dropping weight on a regular basis, but he had never become any leaner. Scott said that he was terrified when he noticed that the clothes he was wearing looked to weigh nothing. 

Bob was at a loss for words when it came to Scott's questions. He advised that Scott inform his doctor about what was going on, but Scott refused since he did not want to be compelled to undertake medical tests.

Scott was happy when he returned home and was able to photograph his neighbors' dogs performing their business on his grass. 

He had contacted married lesbians Missy Donaldson and Deirdre McComb about their pets in the past, but Deirdre had assured him that the dog was not coming. 

Deirdre felt increasingly enraged when Scott approached her with the image. He had shown his case and won the war, she said. 

Scott tried to apologize, but Deirdre wouldn't let him. Missy subsequently came to Scott's house to apologize for Deirdre. She told him that she and Deirdre were likely to lose their business since the community refused them. Missy and Deirdre would have to make an effort to be polite to one another from then on.

Scott came close to winning the race because he weighed so little. Deirdre tripped when she turned to see Scott behind her. He stopped to help her up. She became aware of his state and stared at him in surprise, but he instructed her to run. 

There were images of Scott assisting Deirdre up and also of him seeming to hug both Deirdre and Missy at the finish line in that evening's online version of the paper. 

The townspeople's attitudes shifted as a result of Scott's demonstration of acceptance. Missy and Deirdre's restaurant was so popular that they had to recruit additional staff and expand their hours.

Scott got acquainted with Missy and Deirdre as well. Despite the fact that Deirdre won the race, Scott nevertheless cooked lunch for them. 

Scott told Missy and Deirdre about his weird condition in front of Bob and his wife, Myrna. Even though Scott knew he didn't have much time left, he and his new circle of pals ate together once a week.

Scott felt comfortable having people around the home the final week, so he asked Deirdre if she would assist him when the time came for him to go. Deirdre concurred. 

Scott summoned her one day after the scales recorded his weight as 2.1 pounds. He needed to be restrained in a wheelchair and harness so Deirdre could get him outdoors. 

Scott was able to fly into the night sky thanks to Deirdre's assistance. He was clutching a SkyLight, an expensive firework that he fired off as he drifted toward the stars far above the town.

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Sleeping Beauties Summary

Sleeping Beauties

Published: 26, September 2017

Author: Stephen King & Owen King

Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Historical, Horror, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Post Apocalyptic, Psychic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Sleeping Beauties

Summary

A strange lady beats two guys who run a meth lab out of their mobile home to death, and then sets fire to the lab before allowing herself to be apprehended by the local sheriff. 

Lila Norcross, in the impoverished town of Dooling, part of the fictional Tri-Counties region of Appalachia. 

Simultaneously, reports emerge of a mysterious illness sweeping the globe, causing women to fall into a deep sleep while cocooned in a strange material. 

The sickness, called "Aurora," also makes the sleeping ladies homicidal, assaulting and killing any adult who tries to release the cocoons.

Clint, Lila's husband and the chief psychiatrist at the Dooling Correctional Institute for Women, notices Aurora in his patients around the same time that the woman, dubbed "Eve Black," is incarcerated there. 

As the disease spreads throughout the town, local women become desperate to stay awake, which results in looting and riots. 

Lila succumbs to the illness and is replaced by Terry Coombs, her alcoholic chief deputy, who appoints Frank Geary, a former animal control officer with a short fuse, as his second-in-command. 

Warden Janice Coates, Clint's superior, fires one of her guards, Don Peters, for sexual harassment; he drugs her with Xanax, leaving Clint to protect the few remaining female inmates.

Clint interviews Eve and discovers that she is an "emissary" sent by an alien creature who believes that women are capable of creating a society devoid of war, abuse, and other ills that she claims are mostly caused by males. 

Clint is "the Man," according to her, and his mission is to guard Eve for "a week or two" while she pledges to heal the ladies of Aurora. 

Meanwhile, Frank and Terry deputize numerous new recruits, including Peters and Eric Blass, a juvenile delinquent, and gradually restore order to Dooling. 

Rumors about Eve's ability to sleep and wake without incident spread across the village, prompting Frank to begin enlisting Terry's help in luring her out of prison in order to save the sleeping ladies. 

Clint's son Jared and his companion Mary successfully conceal Lila and three other women in an empty house, fearful that Frank will exploit their bodies as hostages.

Meanwhile, the ladies are trapped in a post-apocalyptic Dooling that they refer to as "Our Place" in another reality. 

Even as several unexpectedly leave, Lila and Janice assume leadership, and the women begin to re-establish themselves (due to their bodies having been destroyed by men in the real world). 

Instead of finding additional survivors, a crew assigned to hunt for them comes and finds a majestic Tree, which turns out to be the doorway between Our Place and Dooling. 

Frank's wife, Elaine Nutting, tries to burn the Tree down because she doesn't want to return to the real world, but Eve intervenes by sending an inmate, Jeanette Sorley, to stop her; Jeanette has a little boy whom she urgently wants to see again, so she agrees to intervene. 

When Jeanette discovers Elaine lighting the Tree gateway, she wrestles the lighter and a revolver away from her. 

Jeanette then tosses the lighter into the trash and grabs the revolver to stow it in her belt. Leaves rustle behind her before she can do so. Jeanette turns around with the rifle in her hand, and Lila accidentally fires and kills her.

Clint and his merry band take firearms from the police station, causing Frank and Terry to form a posse to storm the prison and kidnap Eve. 

During the attack, two criminals whom Lila had apprehended based on an inmate's confession use a stolen bazooka to blow up the station and a section of the jail, killing fifteen women before Vanessa Lampley, a former guard, shoots them down. 

Terry kills himself out of sadness and cowardice, Peters and Blass are slain, and the majority of Frank's men abandon him, but he makes it to Eve's cell. 

Even though Eve herself assures Frank that murdering her is the best way to rescue his family, Clint, Jared, Janice's daughter Michaela, a prisoner called Angel Fitzroy, and an old volunteer named Willy Burke try to urge him to spare her life. 

Clint uses guilt to push Eve to use her power to save Willy when his heart suddenly stops, realizing that Eve is attempting to establish that males are fundamentally violent and should be allowed to die out. 

When Frank and the others notice this, they allow Eve to return to Our Place, where she gives the ladies the option of returning to Dooling or staying put. At the end of the day, all of the ladies vote to return.

Life gradually returns to normal as sleeping ladies throughout the world awaken from their slumber. 

However, Lila and Clint's already unstable marriage falls apart, and the couple decides to divorce, with Clint returning to his previous position at a nearby jail and Lila retiring as sheriff. 

Lila travels out to where the Tree used to stand, haunted by Jeanette's death and seeking forgiveness and asks Eve for a sign of her presence. Then, on her palm, a solitary brown moth (one of Eve's forms) falls.

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