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Dreamcatcher (2001) (edit title/settings)

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Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Dreamcatcher Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy... read more

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Set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine, Dreamcatcher is the story of four lifelong friends (Gary Ambrose 'Jonesy' Jones, Pete Moore, Joe 'Beaver' Clerendon and Henry Devlin) who gain special powers after they save Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, a child with Down syndrome, from a group of... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine, Dreamcatcher is the story of four lifelong friends (Gary Ambrose 'Jonesy' Jones, Pete Moore, Joe 'Beaver' Clerendon and Henry Devlin) who gain special powers after they save Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, a child with Down syndrome, from a group of sadistic bullies. The four friends grow up and go their separate ways, living equally problematic lives. While going on their annual hunting trip at the Hole-in-the-Wall, an isolated lodge in the Jefferson Tract, they become caught between an alien invasion and an insane US army Colonel Abraham Kurtz (Born Robert Coontz), who has patterned himself after Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now.

The friends first begin to suspect that something unusual is happening when Jonesy finds a disoriented and delirious stranger wandering near the lodge during a blizzard talking about lights in the sky. The man exhibits dyspepsia and extremely foul flatulence but claims that these are the result of eating berries and lichen while he was lost. Jonesy notices a reddish discolouration on the man's face. Beaver observes the wide-scale migration of numerous species of animals, all exhibiting similar reddish discolouration to that of the stranger. By the time Beaver returns inside, the man has retreated to the washroom and died while sitting on the toilet.

The lost man, the stampeding animals, and a woman (who is the wife of the stranger) all share similar symptoms, and the friends eventually discover that they have all been infected with an extraterrestrial macro-virus know as Ripley. Army scientists gave the alien species the codename "Ripley" after the protagonist of the Alien series due in part to it's extreme resilience to destruction. The friend's discover that ingesting the infectious red mold results in the host incubating large worm-like aliens called byrum (derived by the true name of the infectious mold, byrus). They name the byrum "shit-weasel" due to it's incubation in the human intestinal tract and resemblance to a red, lamprey-like creature with multiple rows of razor-sharp teeth. A second form of byrus grows on open wounds and mucus membranes of the host. When sufficiently established, the host develops a form of telepathy with other such infected individuals. The aliens have a symbiotic relationship with the byrus, as they communicate telepathically. If a human is dermally infected, the byrus will eventually die and leave the host, either from the host's immune system, or because of a terrestrial cause that life on Earth is already immune to. Internal ingestion of byrus gives rise to a byrum, which is inherently fatal to the host. Byrum are highly aggressive and, while small, are more than capable of killing a human being.

Beaver is killed by a shitweasel, Pete is killed by Mr. Grey and Jonesy experiences hallucinations following his possession by Mr. Gray. Jonesy and Henry attempt to stop Mr. Gray from implementing his scheme to infect a large number of people with the virus and to prevent their annihilation by Kurtz and his followers. This task requires the help of Duddits who is now dying of leukemia, who telepathically functions as the "Dreamcatcher."

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  • “If we know the truth Henry, does it not free us? No. Not in the slightest”
    henry, to himself
  • “Jonsey is thinking how wrong T. S. Elot had been to call April the cruelest month just because an itinerant carpenter from Nazareth supposedley got crucified.”
  • “That fart sounded like he had something crammed up his butt dying of smoke inhalation”
    jonsey
  • “What about the prime numbers? Just to show they're intelligent? As if any other kind could travel here from another star system !”
    Kurtz
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It became their motto, and Jonesy couldn't for the life of him remember which of them started saying it first.

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PART 1
CANCER
CHAPTER ONE MCCARTHY
CHAPTER TWO THE BEAV
CHAPTER THREE HENRY'S SCOUT
CHAPTER FOUR MCCARTHY GOES TO THE JOHN
CHAPTER FIVE DUDDITS, PART ONE
CHAPTER SIX DUDDITS, PART TWO
CHAPTER SEVEN JONESY AND THE BEAV
CHAPTER EIGHT ROBERTA
CHAPTER NINE PETE AND BECKY

PART 2
GRAYBOYS
CHAPTER TEN KURTZ AND UNDERHILL
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE EGGMAN'S JOURNEY
CHAPTER TWELVE JONESY IN THE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER THIRTEEN AT GOSSELIN'S
CHAPTER FOURTEEN GOING SOUTH
CHAPTER FIFTEEN HENRY AND OWEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN DERRY
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN HEROES

PART 3
QUABBIN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE CHASE BEGINS
CHAPTER NINETEEN THE CHASE CONTINUES
CHAPTER TWENTY THE CHASE ENDS
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE SHAFT 12

EPILOGUE
LABOR DAY


AUTHOR'S NOTE

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This is book 4 of 11 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 2001. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Stephen King (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 3550083297
Page Count: 704

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 D77 2001
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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