Once upon a time, in the haunted city

of Derry (site of the classics It and

lnsomnia), 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, dis-

oriented, mmnbling 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

BagofBones is, more than anything, a story of

how men remembar, 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.