The Dead Zone Summary

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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The Dead Zone

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

Insomnia

Published: 15, September 1994

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Classic, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Thriller

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Insomnia

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

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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Misery

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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Firestarter Summary

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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Firestarter

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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Mr. Mercedes Summary

Mr. Mercedes

Published: 3, June 2014

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Action, American, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Hard-Boiled, Horror, Media Tie-In, Murder, Mystery, Police Procedurals, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

Book 1 of 3: The Bill Hodges Trilogy

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Mr. Mercedes

Summary

When a Mercedes slams into a crowd of jobless people waiting in line for a job fair, sixteen people are killed and many more are injured. Bill Hodges, a recently retired detective from the local police department who is enjoying his retirement, receives a letter from someone claiming to be the person in charge of the employment fair and calling himself as "Mr. Mercedes." 

Hodges is divorced, lonely, and unsatisfied with his life to the point of suicidal ideation. When Hodges retired, the incident had occurred at the end of his tenure and remained unresolved. 

Mr. Mercedes is aware of the facts surrounding the murder and refers to Olivia Trelawney, from whom he took the Mercedes.

Olivia committed herself shortly after the incident as a result of her remorse. Instead of handing the letter on to his former police colleague, Pete Huntley, Hodges becomes fascinated and begins to examine the matter.

Mr. Mercedes is revealed to be Brady Hartsfield, an emotionally unstable psychopath in his late twenties who lost his father when he was eight years old. At his mother's request, he killed his mentally challenged sibling when he was a little lad. He currently lives with his alcoholic mother, with whom he has an incestuous connection, and works at an electronics store and as an ice-cream vendor. This second employment allows him to study Hodges and his neighbors, including seventeen-year-old Jerome Robinson, who helps Hodges with modest tasks.

Hodges meets Olivia Trelawney's sister Janey while conducting research on the rich Olivia Trelawney, and she engages him to investigate Olivia's suicide and the theft of the Mercedes. 

Janey and Hodges start dating shortly after Hodges starts working for her. With the aid of brilliant, computer-savvy Jerome, Hodges discovers how Mr. Mercedes stole the automobile and then drove Olivia (whom he met through his employment at the electronics shop) to suicide by putting unsettling sound files on her computer that was rigged to go off at random intervals, exacerbating her guilt. When Olivia first heard these sounds, she mistook them for the ghosts of the Mercedes Massacre victims.

Hodges meets Janey's unsavory family, including Janey's emotionally disturbed niece Holly, at the burial of Janey and Olivia's recently deceased mother. 

Mr. Mercedes stands by as Janey drives Hodges' vehicle to the church steps after the funeral. As the automobile approaches Holly and Hodges, he uses his remote gadget to contact a mobile phone on the car seat to blow up the car with Janey inside. 

Janey is killed as a result of the explosion. Hodges is remorseful, but he is even more determined to solve the crime without the assistance of the cops. In the inquiry, Holly joins Hodges and Jerome.

Hartsfield murders his mother by inadvertently poisoning her with a poisoned cheeseburger he had cooked for Jerome's dog. 

He planned to kill himself by pretending the need for a wheelchair and using explosives stashed within the wheelchair at a large concert for young girls, with her decaying body in their house. 

Hartsfield's true identity is discovered and his computer hard drives are searched by Jerome, Hodges, and Holly. 

They determine that Hartsfield's target is at the concert and race to the venue to intercept him. 

Hodges had a heart attack and is unable to join Holly and Jerome in the concert, but encourages them to continue. 

Holly tracks down Hartsfield and slams him in the face numerous times. Holly tracks down Hartsfield and uses Hodges' "Happy Slapper," a sock stuffed with ball bearings, to give several hard punches to his skull. On the concert floor, Hartsfield is bleeding and unresponsive.

Hodges who had been rescued by concert personnel, Holly, and Jerome get together for a picnic to talk about the previous happenings. 

Hodges has heard that he will not face criminal charges as a result of his activities in the Hartsfield case. Instead they were given medals by the city as a thank you for their efforts. Hartsfield, meantime, emerges from his coma and requests to visit his mother.

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Thinner Summary

Thinner

Published: 19, November 1984

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Thriller

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Thinner

Summary

While driving across town with his wife Heidi giving him a massage, Billy Halleck, a wealthy, arrogant, and morbidly obese lawyer, is distracted and runs over and murders an old Romani woman. 

Billy exploits his contacts in the local police and criminal court to evade punishment and get himself acquitted. 

Outside the courts, the woman's father, Taduz Lemke, exacts vengeance by casting a curse on Billy, using the term "thinner," and Billy begins to lose weight fast, regardless of how much he eats. 

Billy contacts a number of specialists, all of whom fear cancer, but they are unable to pinpoint the source of his weight loss.

Billy later finds that the judge who ruled over his case has developed scales on his skin and that the police officer who lied on Billy's behalf has developed terrible acne. Both guys finally kill themselves. 

Billy, now malnourished, traces the Romani band north through the New England seacoast to Maine with the aid of private investigators and Richie "The Hammer" Ginelli, a former customer with links to organized crime. 

At their camp, he meets Lemke and attempts to persuade him to withdraw the curse, but Lemke refuses, insisting that Billy be brought to justice.

Billy is thrown out of the Romani camp, but not before Gina, Lemke's great-granddaughter, shoots him in the hand with a ball bearing. 

Richie responds by dispatching a mob doctor to cure Billy's hand before arriving in person to scare the Romani camp. 

Lemke agrees to meet with Billy when Richie finishes with the locals. Lemke takes a strawberry pie with him, which he tops with blood from Billy's injured hand. 

Unless Billy passes the curse on to someone else by persuading them to eat the pie, the weight loss will cease for a brief period and then restart. Billy is advised by Lemke to eat the pie himself so that he can die with dignity.

Billy goes home after discovering Richie's severed hand in his car and learning that he has been murdered, intending to offer the pie to Heidi, whom he has blamed for his situation. 

However, the next morning, he discovers that she and their daughter Linda had devoured the pie. He slices a piece for himself, realizing that they are both doomed so that he might join them in death.

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