About the Author. Title Page. Publisher Details. Chapter One. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Chapter Five. Chapter Six. Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight. Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten. Chapter Eleven. Chapter Twelve. Chapter Thirteen. Chapter Fourteen. Chapter Fifteen. Chapter Sixteen. Chapter Seventeen. Chapter Eighteen. Chapter Nineteen.
Chapter Twenty. Chapter Twenty-one. Chapter Twenty-two. Chapter Twenty-three. Chapter Twenty-four. Chapter Twenty-five. Chapter Twenty-six. Chapter Twenty-seven. Chapter Twenty-eight. Chapter Twenty-nine. The Lift. The Spiral Staircase. The Lord High. Chapter Thirty. Chapter Thirty-one. The Queen in White. Woody and Claudia. Leaving Empis. Chapter Thirty-two.
Stephen King is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Illustrations by Gabriel Rodriguez odd number chapters and epilogue and Nicolas Delort even number chapters. All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Telling it will be enough. Only that never would have happened except for the miracle that happened to my father. And now, thinking of those things, I see a clear thread leading up through the years to Mr Bowditch and the padlocked shed behind his ramshackle old Victorian. But a thread is easy to break. So not a thread but a chain. A strong one. And I was the kid with the shackle clamped around his wrist.
That was the year the state inspectors from the Department of Highway Transportation looked it over and deemed it unsafe. The bridge was posted for ten thousand pounds, but townies with a fully loaded pickup truck mostly steered clear of it, opting for the turnpike extension, which was an annoying and time-consuming detour.
