Life Expectancy Summary

Life Expectancy

Published: 2004

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Comedy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Literature, Metaphysical, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Visionary Fiction

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Life Expectancy

Summary

James Tock was born at Colorado's Snow County Hospital at the same time his grandpa, Josef Tock, a pastry chef, died of a stroke. 

Though incapacitated by a stroke earlier in the week, Josef unexpectedly recovers to give his son Rudy 10 cryptic prophecies, including that his grandchild would be named James—but that everyone will call him Jimmy. Josef also foresees five dreadful days in his grandson's future. Despite his coherent statement, Josef Tock does not recover from this catastrophe and dies immediately before the baby is delivered.

Earlier in the evening, Rudy Tock met a weird man named Konrad Beezo. Beezo is a clown for the same circus that Tock's pass is for, and he is a fitful, nasty, frightening, chain-smoking guy partially dressed as a clown. 

Natalie, a well-known trapeze performer from a decent family, is said to be in labor, and her relatives have nearly shunned her for marrying him. He speaks glowingly about his soon-to-be-born kid, who will be named "Punchinello" and will continue on the family clowning legacy. He uses several colorful epithets to describe his father-in-law.

Tock is overjoyed to be leaving Beezo. However, his mourning over his father's death was brief. Beezo goes wild after learning Natalie died during childbirth, shouting about her family sending assassins to assassinate her and opening fire, killing a doctor and a nurse. 

Tock, in arguably the only heroic moment in his modest baker's life, convinces the furious clown that his foes have fled, temporarily quelling his rage.

On the eve of his fifth and final awful day, Jimmy Tock creates the book, a vague autobiography of personal experience, reminisces, and second- or even third-hand recollections of events, transcribing it from a series of recordings. 

The story is told in a self-deprecating, humorously restrained tone. Certain experiences, however, stand out sharply, most notably blundering into a terrifying, yet almost strange, bank robbery by a trio of plastique-wielding crazed history buff clowns led by none other than Punchinello Beezo — during which Jimmy gradually realizes he's falling for a comely fellow hostage—and a huge gamble of chicken with a severely disturbed predator on an icy road the night his wife Lorrie (on the second predicted date). 

Konrad Beezo is the guy after the Tocks, seeking vengeance for his imprisoned and accidentally-gelded son. Beezo's insatiable yearning for a male Tock kid as his treasure, a new son to nurture in the good clown tradition, frames both this horrible day and the following prophesied day.

The maniac will go to any length to recover what he feels is owed to him, even many facial plastic procedures to assume new identities and evade the authorities. 

Jimmy believes that everyone and everything in the universe is tenuously yet inextricably linked to one another, just as his toes were at birth. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as "six degrees of separation." 

Punchinello, who is presently incarcerated, is urged by Jimmy and Lorrie, who assisted in his conviction and punishment, to donate one of his kidneys to help save Annie Tock, Jimmy, and Lorrie's daughter. 

Punchinello only agrees to the gift in exchange for several favors that are little in contrast to the valuable kidney. 

As the arrangement nears completion, Punchinello requests that Jimmy assassinate Virgilio Vivacemente as a final favor. 

Jimmy learns a lot about himself as the prophecies come true one by one, as do Konrad, Natalie, Punchinello, and Konrad's father-in-law, Virgilio Vivacemente, the pompous, cruel patriarch of the world-famous acrobatic dynasty who throws a long shadow over both the Tocks and the Beezos' lives. 

Some of Jimmy's findings are lovely; others are terrifying; and still, others rattle his quiet, lumbering pastry chef's existence to its core, forcing him to consider the actual meaning of syndactyly—as both a disease and a life philosophy.

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Sole Survivor Summary

Sole Survivor

Published: 1997

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Assassination, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Media Tie-In, Occult, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Sole Survivor

Summary

Joe Carpenter is the protagonist of the tale, having lost his wife and two kids in an aircraft disaster the previous year. Joe has never really recovered from their deaths, and on the one-year anniversary, he encounters a strange lady named Rose, who claims to be a survivor of the accident despite the fact that none were recorded. 

Rose says she'll tell Joe the truth, but not yet. Finally admitting that the crash narrative never made sense to him, Joe continues his search for information about what actually happened that night, learning that others may be interested in stopping him even if it meant sacrificing his life.

There have been a great number of suicides among the families of the accident victims, which leads Joe to believe that Rose is somehow convincing them to commit suicide by showing them an image of a cemetery. 

This leads him to a development involving his deceased daughter and a laboratory produced girl, CCY 21–21, with healing skills that resemble his daughter and want to live the life she was unable to enjoy. 

This girl has the ability to heal and provide hope to everybody she comes into contact with. Her sole flaw is that she cannot cure herself if she is injured.

Rose had been protecting this girl until her healing abilities and full potential evolved until Rose was shot by agents aiming to murder her and the kid. 

SSW-89-58, another experiment, has the ability to telepathically perceive and know things by gazing at photos of areas, as well as manipulating the minds of living organisms in that region. 

As it turns out, the plane accident was part of a plot to assassinate Rose since she had smuggled CCY 21–21 out of the complex. SSW-89-58 was obliged to take control of the pilot in order to murder everyone on board.

The plane crashed, but the girl and Rose managed to escape and are now on the run. Joe escapes with Nina and goes underground towards the end of the story (CCY 21-21). Rose was shot and perishes in the last storm.

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Fear Nothing Summary

Fear Nothing

Published: 1998

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Conspiracy, Contemporary, Espionage, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Medical, Occult, Psychological, Rural, Science Fiction, Small Town, Suspense, Technothrillers, Thriller

Book 1 of 2: Moonlight Bay

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Fear Nothing

Summary

Fear Nothing follows Christopher Snow for 24 hours as he finds and seeks to uncover a strange and apparently eternal conspiracy centered on a military outpost dubbed Fort Wyvern. 

The story begins with Christopher Snow visiting his dying father in the hospital. The lights are deliberately muted as Snow walks across the hospital to his father's room to protect him in his state. His father's final words of wisdom were, "Chris, don't be afraid. Have no fear "…

As he walks out of the hospital, Christopher Snow unintentionally and serendipitously witnesses his father's body being swapped with that of a drifter. 

Following the persons transporting the body to the funeral home, Christopher is almost apprehended, and a manhunt is launched. Christopher is pursued to the outskirts of town, and only his mastery of the night terrain allows him to stay ahead of his pursuers.

When Christopher returns home, he discovers his father's revolver on his bed, as well as an urgent message on his answering machine to contact Angela Ferryman, a nurse, and longstanding family friend. 

Orson, the family dog, is digging holes in the garden, which is unusual for him. Christopher halts the pet and takes Orson with him to meet Angela, who tells a weird narrative about a night some years ago when she discovered a strange rhesus monkey in her house, a scary beast rescued by secretive military officials. Before anything further is disclosed, Angela is slain in another room, and Christopher barely escapes when unknown perpetrators set fire to the residence.

Christopher rides his bike (with Orson) to the home of his closest buddy Bobby Halloway, a surfer who lives in a cottage on the outskirts of town near the sea. 

Bobby advises Christopher to leave the mystery alone and go about his daily life after hearing Chris' narrative. 

The guys enjoy some meals and a few beverages together (including the dog). Sasha, Christopher's girlfriend, interrupts their lunch with a message from another of Christopher's friends. 

The message drives him and Orson racing into the darkness, where they are pursued by a swarm of mutant rhesus monkeys headed by a mysterious creature like a half-man, half-beast.

As Christopher meets with Roosevelt Frost, an ex-football star who now concentrates on a knack for communicating with animals, he has cautioned off his inquiry once more, but now feels determined to solve this riddle. 

Frost alluded to unusual, abnormally intelligent animals escaping from the military base, such as cats and dogs. 

Later, he suggests to Christopher that his dog, Orson, is most likely from the military base laboratories. He makes a cryptic remark about Christopher being shielded by his mother's inheritance.

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The Taking Summary

The Taking

Published: 2004

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fiction, Ghost, Gothic, Horror, Occult, Psychological, Romance, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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The Taking

Summary

Molly Sloan awakens in the middle of the night in the midst of an unusually rapid heavy rainstorm. She leaves her husband Neil in bed, unable to sleep, and goes downstairs to work on a screenplay she is working on.

Coyotes from the adjacent woodland gather on her doorstep in huddles. She wonders what could have terrified such creatures into fleeing the safety of the deep forests and exposing themselves to human contact. 

She walks outdoors, disturbed, to stand among the wild beasts, and is terrified — not by the animals, but by the unusual, strangely glowing rain. She recognizes, instinctively, that the rain is dirty.

Molly and Neil scour the news for information once she returns home. They can only gather that the same phenomena are occurring all around the planet before all contact is lost. 

They decide to abandon their remote house, meeting with the people of a nearby little mountain town to prepare a resistance, despite the fact that they have no idea what they would be fighting against. 

The rain finally stops after ten hours of pouring. A heavy, gloomy fog has replaced it, obscuring everything and transforming trees and buildings into towering shadows. 

Molly and Neil are now in the local bar, where about 60 people have come with their pets and children. The occurrence is said to be the result of an extraterrestrial invasion.

Unusual sounds and lights are heard and observed. Strange fungi sprout in a local tavern's lavatory, and a terrifying fungus spreads on trees, lawns, buildings, and people alike. 

Huge things glide above the scared populace from time to time, and people feel as though they are entirely known by whatever or whoever fills these aerial ships - assuming the quiet, drifting objects are crafts of some type. 

Molly and Neil set off on a quest to rescue the town's youngsters, many of whom are trapped in their houses, accompanied by a stray dog named Virgil. Meanwhile, the tavern's patrons, divided into warring groups, battle the strange menace that has engulfed their town. 

Surprisingly, Virgil appears to be able to tell when and where particular youngsters are in danger. Later, it is discovered that other animals are directing rescue attempts to save other youngsters.

As they seek answers, the townsfolk come to the conclusion that they are under attack by extraterrestrial invaders who have arrived as an advanced group to reverse-terraform the Earth so that its changed atmosphere will support their alien body’s needs. 

However, while doing so, they will poison the planet's human inhabitants, who must die in order for the invaders to exist. 

Molly feels that the invaders are of the most malignant sort and that they seek nothing but devastation at all times. 

Even when they face the most horrifying and twisted animals on their quest, Molly and Neil are able to save 13 children with the assistance of Virgil and other animals after going through many tragedies. 

Molly is certain that the aliens permitted them to save the children in order to harvest them for some more heinous purpose; yet, a series of circumstances lead her to feel that there is still hope and that the children have been spared for a unique cause. 

After 36 hours of rain, mist, and darkness, a new rain falls, much to the satisfaction of the characters, and wipes away all the monsters, fungi, and sick alien presences on the planet.

Molly, Neil, and eight of the children they rescued had been living in a house for at least a year. Society has begun a sluggish process of restoration; the majority of survivors are children and those who saved them, as well as dogs and animals that assisted in the rescues. 

Molly is now a teacher, and Neil has returned to his church job. Most people don't talk about what happened, and the reasons for the aliens' departure are never mentioned. 

However, while the identity or origin of the invaders is never fully addressed, towards the conclusion of the novel, Molly discovers that the invaders were not aliens at all, but they had really lived through the biblical apocalypse and that the monsters were demons sent to Earth to exterminate mankind. 

Only a few would be saved, like on Noah's Ark, to rebuild a better world. Several facts in the story corroborate her opinion.

The novel concludes on a lighter note, with Molly resolving to write another book — this time for her soon-to-be-born son or daughter, rather than for publication. When Neil asks her what the book will be about, she responds, "Hope."

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Odd Thomas Summary

Odd Thomas

Published: 2003

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Crime, Espionage, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Murder, Occult, Psychic, Suspense, Thriller

Book 1 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Odd Thomas

Summary

Odd Thomas is contacted silently by the spirit of a young girl brutally raped and murdered at the start of the novel, and is psychically led to her killer, a former schoolmate called Harlo Landerson, by his unusual capacity to interpret the dead. 

Koontz reveals how Odd was named and continues to reveal, layer by layer, how Odd's chaotic background has influenced his life, and as those circumstances are revealed, Odd's otherworldly powers begin to make more sense.

Odd encounters a suspicious-looking man at the restaurant while working as a short-order chef in a California desert town, followed by Bodachs, shadowy spirit creatures who manifest only during times of death and calamity. 

This man, whom Odd dubs "Fungus Man" (because of his waxy complexion and blond hair that resembles mold), is being pursued by an abnormally huge swarm of Bodachs, and Odd is certain that he is related to some awful disaster that is about to unfold. 

Odd utilizes his uncanny sense, which his soul mate Bronwen (a.k.a. Stormy) Llewellyn refers to as "psychic magnetism," to track him down in order to learn more about him.

Odd's sixth sense takes him to Fungus Guy's home, where he learns more about the man and a mystery other-worldly connection to the deadly forces about to be unleashed on Pico Mundo. 

Odd becomes fully involved in an attempt to avert the tragic slaughter he knows will occur the next day, accompanied at times by the ghost of Elvis Presley and encountering other remarkable spirits, including a slain prostitute.

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Gwendy's Button Box Summary

Gwendy's Button Box

Published: 16, May 2017

Author: Stephen King & Richard Chizmar

Genre: American, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Magic, Mystery, Occult, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 1 of 3: Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy

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Gwendy's Button Box

Summary

The narrative takes place in Castle Rock, Maine, and is centered on a young woman called Gwendy Peterson.

The plot starts in 1974. Gwendy begins exercising at the age of twelve, during the summer before she begins Middle School, in an attempt to reduce weight in order to shed her moniker "Goodyear" (after the Goodyear Blimp). She runs up and down the Suicide Stairs on a hill every day.

When she reaches the top one day, she is greeted by a guy dressed entirely in black. The man who introduces himself as Richard Farris and asks her to a palaver. 

He presents her with a little mahogany box that has eight buttons on top and two levers on the sides. North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia are represented by six buttons. 

The other two, a red and a black one, have no specified destination, but Gwendy is warned that the black one is the most hazardous and that the red one is the only one she may use again. 

Pulling the levers causes the box to spew out miniature, mystical chocolate things, and mint-condition silver dollars. Farris vanishes after their conversation, but Gwendy has many nightmares about his black hat.

Gwendy keeps the box hidden from everyone in the years that follow. Her life improves dramatically as a result of the chocolates; she loses weight, her eyesight improves to the point that she no longer needs glasses, and she eventually matures into a stunning adolescent. 

She also achieves an A+ in school and excels in sports. Her parents, whose marriage was on the verge of disintegration, both stop drinking and rediscover their love for one another. 

The silver dollars guarantee that she would be able to pay for her college degree. But the box's secret weighs on Gwendy, and her good fortune finally drives a schism between her and her best friend Olive.

One day, she can't resist the impulse anymore and presses the red button, focusing on the South American country of Guyana to attempt to limit the damage. This precipitates a terrible occurrence in which a cult leader called Jim Jones commits suicide, inspiring 900 of his followers to follow suit. Among the dead are a number of youngsters and newborns.

Olive commits suicide at the age of 17 by jumping down the Suicide steps. Gwendy, torn by sadness, presses the red button once again, destroying the steps and a portion of the cliff. 

She is hardly able to attend Olive's burial, but she goes about her business as best she can. She meets and falls in love with a man named Harry Streeter. 

She gradually becomes bored of the box and her reliance on it. She quits using the magical chocolates, despite the fact that it causes her to gain a few pounds and her grades to fall significantly, and attempts to forget about the box entirely.

As graduation approaches, Gwendy is assaulted in her room by Frankie, a boy whose advances she had turned down. 

He discovered the button box as well as the silver dollars. Harry tries to protect Gwendy but is killed when Frankie smashes him with the box. 

Frankie then uses a knife to assault Gwendy. She gets wounded in the foot, but she manages to grab the box and activate the red button to kill Frankie.

Gwendy loses a portion of her foot as a result of Frankie's attack, but she otherwise survives. 

She leaves for college, bringing the box with her. She still eats the chocolates on occasion and uses the silver dollars to pay for her schooling. She decides to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.

Then, ten years after receiving the package from him, Gwendy runs across Richard Farris again. 

He compliments her for taking good care of the box. Gwendy ultimately discloses, at his request, what happened the night she used the box against Frankie; he literally withered away from the instant she pressed the button. 

She then made his body vanish so no one would ever suspect her of murder. Farris, in turn, soothes Gwendy by telling her that the Jonestown tragedy and Olive's death were not her faults and that her decision not to use the box saved numerous lives. 

He retrieves the package and vanishes into the darkness. Gwendy stays behind with one last silver dollar and Farris' promise of becoming a renowned author.

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Lisey's Story Summary

Lisey's Story

Published: 24, October 2006

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Media Tie-In, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Lisey's Story

Summary

Lisey's Story tells the story of Lisey Landon, the widow of Scott Landon, a well-known and highly successful author. 

The novel recounts two stories: Lisey's present-day tale and the story of her late husband's life, as recounted by Lisey throughout the novel.

It's been two years since acclaimed novelist Scott Landon died, and his wife Lisey is still clearing up her husband's writing space. 

Many scholars have approached her in the last two years, expecting to unearth some piece of literature she may have overlooked, such as an unpublished manuscript. 

Lisey has sent each of them away in turn, stating that she is still working through the clean-up, but her lack of progress is more indicative of procrastination. 

Amanda, her mentally ill sister, spends a day with her, leafing through stacks of books and periodicals, marking any images in which Lisey appears or is referenced. 

Lisey starts reliving her past; beginning with the moment she stopped Scott from being fatally shot by an insane fan. 

She frequently pauses herself in the middle of reminiscing to avoid unearthing scary memories. 

Amanda suffers from catatonia after learning that her ex-husband has remarried and is relocating back to town. 

Lisey hears her sister speaking in Scott's voice before admitting Amanda to a facility, telling her that he has arranged a "bool" search with a prize at the end. 

One day, she receives a distressing phone call from a guy purporting to be Zack McCool, threatening that if Lisey does not pass over Scott's paperwork to a professor she had recently kicked out, he, Zack, will be obliged to punish her. 

His next move will be to place a menacing note and a dead cat in her mailbox. At this point, Lisey informs the authorities, who can only provide her with a patrol car stationed near her home until an emergency occurs elsewhere. 

Zack is unafraid, and he ultimately sneaks onto her property and mutilates her with a can opener.

Throughout the novel, Lisey is forced to confront some facts about her spouse that she had previously repressed and forgotten. 

She remembers Scott's past—how he came from a family with a history of horrible mental illness that manifested as either an uncontrollable homicidal mania or a deep catatonia, how he had a special gift, the ability to transport himself to another world, which he called "Boo'ya Moon," with its own unique dangers, how Scott Landon's brother Paul was killed by their father when, at thirteen, Paul succumbed to the family.

Lisey is able to draw Amanda out of her catatonia, transport Zack to the other side, and lead him to his gory end at the claws of a violent world-crossing beast that patrols the forest of Boo'ya Moon using her own repressed power to cross across.

The prize at the conclusion of the quest is a journal documenting Scott's final days with his family, concluding with Scott Landon's confession that he was compelled to kill his own father in order to spare him from the madness that had finally taken over.

Lisey is able to pack and give up Scott's belongings over the next week since she now feels he has moved on. 

Now Lisey struggles to stay anchored in this world, frequently slipping back to Boo'ya Moon in her dream and sometimes while awake. 

The novel concludes with her bidding farewell to Scott in the now-empty study.

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From a Buick 8 Summary

From a Buick 8

Published: 24, September 2002

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Occult, Rural, Science Fiction, Small Town, Suspense, Thriller

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From a Buick 8

Summary

The story is told through the eyes of men of Troop D, a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania. 

After the death of Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, his son Ned began to visit the barracks. He immediately gains the respect of the officers, dispatcher, and custodian. 

Ned is informed about the "Buick 8" by the troopers. The Buick 8, which looks like a vintage blue 1953 Buick Roadmaster, has been in storage in a shed near the barracks since 1979 when a mysterious driver abandoned it at a petrol station and then vanished. 

They learn that the automobile isn't really a car at all. The steering wheel is immovable, the dashboard instruments are worthless props, the engine has no moving components, the ignition wires are useless, there are four portholes on the passenger side and only three on the driver's side, the automobile heals itself when injured, and it repels all dirt and debris.

Sandy Dearborn, now Sergeant Commanding of Troop D, is the book's major narrator, and he recounts Ned the narrative, recounting numerous events involving the automobile and his father's love for it. 

The automobile will regularly emit "lightquakes," which are enormous flashes of purple light that last for a long time. 

These lights will "give birth" to bizarre flora and creatures that are unlike anything we've ever seen. 

Curtis Wilcox's previous accomplice Ennis Rafferty, as well as an escaped lowlife called Brian Lippy, had both vanished near the automobile. 

Later on, it was theorized that the Buick may have been a doorway between our world and another.

Ned becomes persuaded that the Buick was somehow connected to his father's death in a seemingly random road accident after hearing the story of the Buick and how it was kept hidden by Troop D for so long. 

After all, the gas station employee who originally reported the Buick parked in front of the business was the same guy who would kill his own father years later. 

Sandy tells him not to become too attached to the Buick ("Buicks are everywhere," he later warns), but after leaving Ned at the Troop D base to eat at a diner, he recalls that Ned never inquired if anybody had considered burning it. 

He deduces that Ned is hell-bent on destroying the Buick and that the Buick intends to take advantage of that desire to transport Ned to another universe.

Sandy goes to the shed to discover Ned seated in it, brandishing a gun and a match, having poured gasoline beneath the car. 

The Buick changes into a vortex as Sandy drags Ned out, attempting to suck both Ned and Sandy within. 

The remainder of the crew arrives on the suspicion that something horrible is about to happen, and together they recollect the narrative of the Buick's genesis at their station, freeing Ned and Sandy, but not before Sandy gets a sight of the world outside the Buick. Lippy's swastika necklace and cowboy boots, as well as Ennis' Stetson hat and Ruger revolver, are all visible.

The last anecdote is recounted, suggesting that the idea of destroying the Buick was explored. 

They eventually reach the conclusion that the Buick serves as a type of world-to-world regulator valve, and that eliminating it would do more harm than good. 

They determine that keeping an eye on the Buick is the safest option, in the hopes that whatever mystical force qualities it carries will soon go away.

Eddie J commits suicide, and Ned goes on to become a State Trooper. Ned shows Sandy the Buick one day; the windshield has a break in it that has not been mended.

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Dreamcatcher Summary

Dreamcatcher

Published: 20, February 2001

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Alien Invasion, American, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Occult, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Dreamcatcher

Summary

Dreamcatcher is the story of four longtime friends: Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Pete Moore, Joe "Beaver" Clarendon, and Henry Devlin. 

It is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. The four defended Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, an older lad with down syndrome, from a gang of vicious bullies when they were adolescents. 

Jonesy, Beaver, Henry, and Pete began to share the boy's unique talents, such as telepathy, shared dreaming, and seeing "the line," a psychic trail left by human movement, as a result of their new connection with Duddits.

Jonesy, Beaver, Henry, and Pete gather for their yearly hunting expedition at the Hole-in-the-Wall, a remote lodge in the Jefferson Tract. 

They are sandwiched between an extraterrestrial invasion and a deranged retired US Air Force Colonel named Abraham Kurtz. 

Jonesy and Beaver, who are staying at the cabin while Henry and Pete go out for supplies, come upon Richard McCarthy, a bewildered and delirious stranger who is roaming around the lodge during a blizzard and raving about lights in the sky. 

McCarthy, a victim of alien abduction, becomes ill and dies while sitting on the toilet. After gestating in his gut, an alien parasite chews its way out of his anus and assaults the two guys, killing Beaver. 

Jonesy inhales the spores of the weird reddish fungus distributed throughout the cabin by the stranger and his parasite, and an extraterrestrial creature "Mr. Gray" takes over his consciousness.

Henry and Pete come across a woman from the same hunting group as the weird man at the cabin on their way back from their supply run. 

She is also crazy and parasitically afflicted. After their car crashes, Henry abandons Pete with the lady and attempts to return to the lodge on foot. 

His telepathic senses then alerted him to the fact that Pete is in jeopardy, Beaver is dead, and Jonesy is no longer Jonesy. 

Mr. Gray is attempting to flee the place while influencing Jonesy's body. The aliens attempted to infect Earth several times, beginning with the Roswell accident in the 1940s, but environmental reasons always prevented them, and the US government always covered up the unsuccessful invasion attempts. 

Mr. Gray has become the perfect Typhoid Mary—and he knows it—with the infection of Jonesy, who can hold the alien within his head while also spreading the illness. 

Mr. Gray hijacks a vehicle carrying a spore-filled extraterrestrial body, and Jonesy, who is confined inside a mental fortress, is unable to stop him.

It is up to Henry, who is now a quarantined Army prisoner, to persuade the military to go after Jonesy/Mr. Gray before it is too late. 

Jonesy, who is now a prisoner in his own head, attempts to assist. Both are persuaded that their old pal Duddits holds the answer to save the planet. 

Using telepathic abilities garnered from the alien fungus, Henry informs Army commander Owen Underhill of Kurtz's intention to kill the majority of Army men in order to preserve secret. 

The two stage an escape by instigating a disturbance among the other convicts and damaging the base in the process. 

An angry Kurtz, together with his followers Freddy and Perlmutter, pursues the duo as they flee. 

Despite his own reluctance and agony, Perlmutter gets infected with a psychic parasite and is being used to seek out Owen and Mr. Gray.

Owen and Henry accompany Jonesy/Mr. Gray to Derry, Maine, and share childhood recollections along the journey, including a time when Duddits and his buddies searched for a missing girl. 

Henry and Owen get together to help Duddits, who is suffering from leukemia. Following a tearful departure with Duddits' mother, the trio uses Duddits' abilities to track Jonesy/Mr. Gray southward to Quabbin Reservoir. 

Mr. Gray aims to infect the local water supply with a parasite-affected dog he infected with the spores. 

Jonesy is able to significantly impede Mr. Gray's growth by inducing the presence to seek bacon, which it consumes uncooked after procuring it from a convenience shop. 

Jonesy's body is considerably sickened by the raw meat, allowing the trio just enough time to catch up and face Mr. Gray at the reservoir.

Using the last of his abilities, Duddits assists Henry and Jonesy in psychologically defeating Mr. Gray, as well as assisting Owen in shooting the parasite that erupts from the dog. 

Duddits dies as a result of the endeavor, but he has stopped Mr. Gray's ambitions. Kurtz and his men arrive, the infected soldier still in their van. 

They ambush and murder Owen, but Kurtz is killed by Freddy, who is afraid Kurtz would kill him next. 

Freddy runs, returning to their truck, but is murdered by the parasite that was developing within Perlmutter's now-dead body. 

Exhausted and half-crazy, Henry shoots the car's gas tank, killing the last of the extraterrestrial presence on Earth. He re-encounters Jonesy, who collapses from weariness.

Jonesy and Henry reminisce about their time in an underground military complex where they were detained after the events at the reservoir months later. 

Jonesy was resistant to the alien fungus the entire time, and Mr. Gray was only able to take over his mind because he imagined it could - the concept being captured like in a dreamcatcher.

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The Talisman Summary

The Talisman

Published: 8, November 1984

Author: Stephen King & Peter Straub

Genre: American, Classic, Dark, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Occult, Shape Shifter, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Werewolf

Book 1 of 3: Talisman (The third book has not yet been published.)

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The Talisman

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Duma Key Summary

Duma Key

Published: 22, January 2008

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Occult, Parenting, Psychological, Relationships, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Duma Key

Summary

Edgar Freemantle, a wealthy Minnesotan building contractor, barely survives a terrible work-site accident in which his vehicle is crushed by a crane. 

Freemantle loses his right arm as a result of serious brain injuries that affect his speech, vision, and memory. Throughout his lengthy recuperation, Edgar has suicidal thoughts and severe abusive mood swings, prompting his wife to petition for divorce.

Edgar moves south on the suggestion of his psychotherapist, Dr. Kamen, renting a beach property on the Florida island of Duma Key. Kamen also recommends Freemantle to rediscover his old drawing pastime as a kind of therapy.

 

Edgar hires a part-time shopper and personal assistant Jack Cantori, a local college student. Soon after, Freemantle meets and befriends the island's other full-time residents, octogenarian heiress Elizabeth Eastlake (who suffers from final-stage dementia and whose family trust owns the majority of the island) and her live-in attendant, Jerome Wireman, himself a once-gifted attorney whose wife and daughter's tragic deaths led him to (unsuccessfully) attempt suicide by gunshot wound.

As Freemantle immerses himself compulsively in his work, decades-old unexplained happenings return to the island. 

Edgar works with feverish intensity, slipping into a semi-conscious haze; his paintings and drawings catch psychic glimpses, showing his ex-passionate wife's affair, a friend's suicidal melancholy, and his younger daughter Ilse's brief married engagement. 

Later, Freemantle used his newly discovered creative abilities to affect the outer world, curing Wireman's degenerative neurological condition and smothering a child killer in his jail cell. 

During Ilse's visit to Duma Key, the father-daughter team drives to a derelict, overgrown area of the island where colors appear abnormally intense, and Ilse feels severely ill. 

Through phone conversations, Elizabeth Eastlake tells Edgar that Duma "has never been a lucky location for daughters," and that his paintings should be sold to numerous physically remote purchasers, lest their supernatural power becomes too centralized or harmful.

Freemantle discovers that Duma Key's beach house has hosted many successful artists (including Salvador Dal) during its eighty-year tenure, that Elizabeth Eastlake was a prodigious artist as a child, and that both Edgar and Wireman manifest pronounced psychic talents while on or near the island, presumably as a result of their debilitating brain injuries. 

Freemantle's paintings get increasingly colorful and disturbing as they progress, depicting ship-and-seaside landscapes in which the vessel and enigmatic red-cloaked passenger edge closer to shore in each subsequent painting. 

As her dementia develops, Elizabeth becomes alternatively rational and confused, scattering her precious china figurines, moaning, "The table is leaking," and pleading for Wireman to toss one faceless sculpture into her koi pond. 

Eastlake asks Edgar whether he has started painting the ship yet, in a scary moment of clarity.

Freemantle's paintings are well-known throughout the state. He stages an art gallery and related seminar at an expensive Sarasota gallery, attracting a loyal audience (including Edgar's visiting loved ones) and generating a half-million-dollar profit. 

Elizabeth Eastlake makes a rare appearance at the show, reacting angrily to Edgar's ship-and-seaside paintings, cryptically referring to her childhood toys and long-drowned sisters, and warning that "She has grown so powerful," "The table is leaking," and "Drown her back to sleep," before suffering an incapacitating (and ultimately fatal) stroke. 

In his art, Freemantle discovers previously unnoticed details: the ship's deteriorating sails, children's toys littering her decks, and screaming faces hidden in its frothy wake.

Timelines intertwine as Edgar Freemantle's present-day horror matches the Eastlake family tragedy of 1927. 

Young Elizabeth, who had a brain injury in a horse-carriage accident as a toddler, turned to sketching and scribbling as a kind of therapy. 

"Perse," an outside force, communicates to Elizabeth, sometimes in her head, sometimes through her rag-doll, filling her with information, reality-altering powers, and a creeping infiltration of dark impulses. 

Elizabeth leads her bootlegger father to a pile of ship debris in the shallows, where he discovers a red-cloaked porcelain figurine. 

The girl's doodles become increasingly weird and demonic, until she rebels against Perse, inciting the entity's fury. Elizabeth's twin sisters are enticed into the water to perish as a form of retribution. 

Only Elizabeth's caretaker, Melda, takes direct action; when Perse's drowned-sister monsters rush beachward, the governess uses silver jewelry to keep them at bay while Elizabeth nullifies the Perse sculpture.

While investigating the Eastlake mystery, Freemantle meets comparable supernatural perils. When he gets home, he notices "Where our Sister?" painted on an unused canvas in a childish manner. 

Edgar then realizes that persons in possession of his artworks either die or are possessed by "Perse" and led to violent acts. He persuades his loved ones to throw away their paintings, but not before his daughter, Ilse, is drowned by a co-opted art critic. 

The zombie passengers of the ghost ship return for Edgar, Jack, and Wireman as they strive to find the mystery of crazy Persephone's ascendancy and subsequent deportation. 

Fighting their way to the island's overgrown region—Roost, Heron's the old Eastlake manor—the trio discovers the Perse-carving, caught in fresh (rather than her native salt) water and encased in a (water-filled) porcelain keg of table whiskey, in which a crack has formed over time ("the table is leaking"). 

Edgar returns the figurine to its fresh-water sleep and confronts one more Perse-temptation, this time in the form of his drowned daughter Ilse. 

The figurine is then dropped into Lake Phalen's watery depths by Freemantle and Wireman, where it will remain undisturbed for the rest of its life.

Wireman decides to relocate to Tamazunchale, Mexico, and open a hotel. He invites Freemantle to join him when he is ready and if he desires. 

Wireman, on the other hand, dies of a heart attack barely two months later in Tamazunchale's open-air markets before Freemantle had another chance to visit him.

Edgar Freemantle then begins his last painting, which depicts a large tropical hurricane devastating Duma Key.

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