And as they uncover more and more of an artifact both familiar and so unbelievable it is almost beyond comprehension, the inhabitants of Haven start to change. Aided by a weirdly advanced technology, their excavation proceeds apace. but still better left alone.īobbi then begins to dig-tentatively at first, then compulsively-and is joined by her old friend (and onetime lover) Jim Gardener. It begins with Bobbi's discovery of the ship in the earth, a ship buried for millions of years, but still vibrating faintly, still humming with some sort of life. A logger's beer can, she thinks at first, but "the metal was as solid as mother-rock." Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil. It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house. 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.
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