Overview
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry
(site of the classics It and Insomnia), four boys
stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a
good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something
that changed them in ways they could never begin to
understand.
Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with
separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties
endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in
the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles
into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something
about lights in the sky. His incoherent ravings
prove to be disturbingly prescient. Before long,
these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle
with a creature from another world. Their only
chance of survival is locked in their shared past --
and in the Dreamcatcher.
Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of
Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men
remember, and how they find their courage. Not since
The Stand has King crafted a story of such
astonishing range -- and never before has he
contended so frankly with the heart of darkness.
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