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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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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