king, stephen

Examines all of the works of fiction by Stephen King and the ways in which his plots, characters, conflicts, and themes are intertwined.

A patient identified as "N." tells psychiatrist John Bonsaint of his compulsive attraction to a ring of stones in Ackerman's Field near the town of Motton, Maine, and his conviction that it imprisons something evil. "N." feels it is his responsibility to strengthen the hold the ring has over the terrifying beast "N." has only glimpsed, or it will get free.

As Mother Abigail foretold, Stu, Ralph, Larry, and Glen leave Boulder to follow Harold and Nadine west into the Dark Man's territory, but one of them will fall along the way. In the West, Randall Flagg unmasks and kills two of the spies from Boulder, but Tom Cullen leaves town before Flagg knows who he is. And, although Nadine makes it to Las Vegas and is impregnated according to plan, Flagg's world begins to fall apart.

Three groups of super-flu survivors, including Nick Andros and Tom Cullen, Stu Redman and his group, and Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, and the feral boy Joe--find themselves drawn to the cornfields of Nebraska by dreams of an old black woman who competes with the Dark Man in their dreams.

As the survivors in Boulder continue to clean up and rebuild, the Dark Man is finalizing his plans to claim his bride and hurt Mother Abigail's people. Nadine and Harold plot to destroy the Free Zone committee members and head west on the same day that Mother Abigail returns from her walk in the wilderness.

The Trashcan Man makes his way toward Las Vegas to join the Dark Man's army and set the world on fire, but he will need to survive encounters with "the Kid," and other obstacles; meanwhile, Mother Abagail's dreamers make for Boulder, Colorado, with hopes to rebuild their civilization.

Roland wanders into Tull, but is forced to fight his way out of the town thanks to a trap set for him by the man in black, who convinced the local minister that Roland was the devil incarnate.

Presents an illustrated version of Stephen King's poem "The Dark Man.".

Features photographs, credits, and synopses of film, television, and other media adaptations of the novels and short stories of Stephen King, and includes information about King's appearances, as well as reports on future projects.

Go beyond the ordinary. Go beyond the sane. With Stephen King as storyteller, you'll travel to worlds of the imagination where the extraordinary is commonplace and madness lurks just beneath the surface in eight mind-bending stories.