Henry Carter Hull

While looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her backyard, Bobbi finds part of an ancient spaceship still humming with some sort of life.

"Dr. Louis Creed and his wife Rachel chose rural Maine to settle his family and bring up their children. It was a better place than smog-covered Chicago-- or so he thought. But that was before he became acquainted with the old pet burial ground located in the backwoods of the quiet community of Ludlow. The place has a power-- it seeps into your dreams and you wake up sweating with fear. It is a place that strikes dread into the lives of all who share...

Ralph Roberts has trouble sleeping, but so does everyone else in the small town of Derry, Maine, where terrifying forces are at work.

Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.