The Dead Zone

Viking (1979)

Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into
The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a- half year trip into
The Dead Zone
John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power - the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in
The Dead Zone

Main Characters:

George Bannerman
The Castle Rock sheriff
Sarah Bracknell
Johnny's girlfriend
Frank Dodd
a deputy in Castle Rock who turned out to be the Castle Rock Strangler
Sonny Elliman
Greg Stillson's right hand man
Walter Hazlett
the man Sarah married when Johnny didn't come out of the coma
John Smith
the man who came out of the coma after 5 years with his precognitive gift, a man with a mission.
Greg Stillson
the maniacal presidential candidate who would one day destroy the world, if not stopped.
Notes of Interest:
  1. The first novel to take place in Castle Rock, Maine.
  2. The book Carrie is mentioned
  3. Frank Dodd killed 7 women from 1970 to 1975


[Stephen King's books]

Ed Nomura

Last updated: Mar 28, 1996