The Tommyknockers

Hardcover, 558 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 1987 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.

ISBN:
9780399133145

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From the Flap:

Late last night and the night before,

Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers,

    knocking at my door.

I want to go out, don't know if I can,

'cause I'm so afraid

of the Tommyknocker man.

It begins with nothing more frightening than a nursery rhyme; yet in Stephen King's hands it becomes an unforgettable parable of dread, a threat from an unimaginable darkness that drags the practical inhabitants of a New England village into a hell worse than their own most horrible nightmares . . . and yours.

It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house. Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil. A logger's beer can, she thinks at first, but "the metal was as solid as mother-rock."

It begins with Bobbi's discovery of the ship in …

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