![]() ![]() Henry Devlin, a psychiatrist by trade, is sunk in a suicidal depression Gary “Jonesy” Jones, a college history professor, is mangled in body and spirit after being hit by a car Joe “Beaver” Clarendon, a carpenter, is divorced and aimless and Pete Moore, a salesman, is bottoming out from alcoholism. This year’s reunion finds each of the men burdened with midlife woes. The story centers on four men in their late thirties, friends since childhood, meeting in the Maine woods for their annual autumn deer hunt. (There are a couple of references to a disputed “Florida Presidency”-clearly a last-minute addition to the book before it went to press.) As for “phobic pressure points,” King’s discarded original title for Dreamcatcher perhaps says it all: Cancer. Political paranoia isn’t a subtextual concern. The author’s latest novel, Dreamcatcher, is an updated alien invasion epic with all the classic trimmings of UFO sightings, extraterrestrial fungi, telepathic mind control, and slimy bug-eyed creatures baring sharp teeth and lethal tentacles. According to King, the films touched “phobic pressure points” in the culture at large, which during the 50s had an undeniable component of Cold War paranoia. ![]() ![]() ![]() the Flying Saucers and Invasion of the Body Snatcherswere frightening on more than one level. In Danse Macabre, an engaging nonfiction exploration of cinematic and literary horror, Stephen King wrote nostalgically about the science fiction films of his 1950s boyhood. ![]()
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