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The Shining “It's a secret passage!” Danny said excitedly to his mother, momentarily forgetting all fears in favor of that intoxicating shaft behind the wall. “Just like in Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!” Future Page: Things that might have influence Stephen King's writing. Children of the Corn - possibly based on Star Trek, episode Miri Trope where King tells you a character will die Pet Sematary And Gage, who now had less than two months to live, laughed shrilly and joyously. Knives, forks, and spoons and the ceiling The Institute Knives, forks, and spoons rose to the ceiling Doctor Sleep The spoons were hanging from the ceiling, as if drawn upward and held by some exotic magnetic attraction. List of cities: Porterville The Long Walk - Garraty is from Derry Castle Rock Little Tall Island Dolores Claiborne Home Delivery Shawshank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawshank Acronym FEAR Doctor Sleep FEAR stands for face everything and recover. -Old AA saying Bag of Bones New Age wisdom which says the word "fear" stands for Face Everything And Recover. fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run. 11-22-63 One of Christy's AA slogans came to my mind: FEAR, standing for false evidence appearing real. The AAs say FEAR stands for something else, as well: Fuck everything and run. Pictures that want to hang crooked 1408 What Mike had noticed at that point were the pictures on the walls. There were three of them: a lady in twenties-style evening dress standing on a staircase, a sailing ship done in the fashion of Currier & Ives, and a still life of fruit, the latter painted with an unpleasant yellow-orange cast to the apples as well as the oranges and bananas. All three pictures were in glass frames and all three were crooked. He had been about to mention the crookedness on tape, but what was so unusual, so worthy of comment, about three off-kilter pictures? That a door should be crooked . . . well, that had a little of that old Cabinet of Dr. Caligari charm. But the door hadn't been crooked; his eyes had tricked him for a moment, that was all. The lady on the stairs tilted left. So did the sailing ship, which showed bell-bottomed British tars lining the rail to watch a school of flying fish. The yellowish-orange fruit-to Mike it looked like a bowl of fruit painted by the light of a suffocating equatorial sun, a Paul Bowles desert sun-tilted to the right. Although he was not ordinarily a fussy man, he circled the room, setting them straight. Looking at them crooked like that was making him feel a touch nauseated again. He wasn't entirely surprised, either. One grew susceptible to the feeling; he had discovered that on the QE 2. He had been told that if one persevered through that period of increased susceptibility, one usually adapted . . . "got your sealegs," some of the old hands still said. Mike hadn't done enough sailing to get his sealegs, nor cared to. These days he stuck with his land legs, and if straightening the three pictures in the unremarkable sitting room of 1408 would settle his midsection, good for him. There was dust on the glass covering the pictures. He trailed his fingers across the still life and left two parallel streaks. The dust had a greasy, slippery feel. Like silk just before it rots was what came into his mind, but he was damned if he was going to put that on tape, either. How was he supposed to know what silk felt like just before it rotted? It was a drunk's thought. When the pictures were set to rights, he stepped back and surveyed them in turn: the evening-dressed lady by the door leading into the bedroom, the ship plying one of the seven seas to the left of the writing desk, and finally the nasty (and quite badly painted) fruit by the TV cabinet. Part of him expected that they would be crooked again, or fall crooked as he looked at them-that was the way things happened in movies like House on Haunted Hill and in old episodes of The Twilight Zone-but the pictures remained perfectly straight, as he had fixed them. Not, he told himself, that he would have found anything supernatural or paranormal in a return to their former crooked state; in his experience, reversion was the nature of things-people who had given up smoking (he touched the cigarette cocked behind his ear without being aware of it) wanted to go on smoking, and pictures that had been hanging crooked since Nixon was President wanted to go on hanging crooked. And they've been here a long time, no doubt about that, Mike thought. If I lifted them away from the walls, I'd see lighter patches on the wallpaper. Or bugs squirming out, the way they do when you turn over a rock. The Institute The room's one picture- an unsettling composition depicting a sailing ship crewed entirely by grinning and possibly homicidal black men- hung crooked. Tim straightened it, but it immediately fell crooked again. Moving/Walking with extreme smoothness and ease The Long Walk "That's me," Baker said, and got to his feet. He moved with deceptive leisure, and he made Garraty nervous. Baker was going to be tough. Baker was going to last a long time. Mr. Mercedes A tall and stately woman in white who seemed to glide rather than walk. Finders Keepers weaving his way between boxes and stacks of books with the finicky grace some fat men possess. Dreamcatcher Kurtz, moving with a finicky, almost surgical precision Hands fly up right before death The Long Walk And Barkovitch's hands suddenly went up like startled doves taking flight and Barkovitch ripped out his own throat. Mr. Mercedes but she sees a section of skull the size of a small teacup cave in. His hands fly up, the one that was hidden knocking Frankie's picture to the floor, where the glass shatters. Machines that kill: The Tommyknockers Maximum Overdrive Christine From a Buick 8 Feel like throwing up / vomiting, but prevent themselves The Long Walk Garraty watched him struggle to keep from vomiting. He didn't want to vomit. Skeleton Crew: Survivor Type Wanted to puke, wouldn't let myself. Mentions of Round Here Mr. Mercedes (30) Finders Keepers (1) End of Watch (21) If It Bleeds (1) Doctor Sleep (6) But Doctor Sleep is not in the same universe as those with Holly Gibney because 'The Shining' and 'IT' share the same universe: Dick Hallorann is an actual person in both. But 'It' is mentioned as a work of fiction in 'Mr. Mercedes', and 'The Shining' is mentioned as a work of fiction in 'The Outsider'. So that just means 'Round Here exists as a boy band in both universes. References to Stephen King books or events within. The Shine/The Shining The Shining (power) The Stand (power) Doctor Sleep (power) The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Kubrick movie) The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (novel) The Outsider (Kubrick movie) Stuttering Bill from IT is mentioned in The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower Firestarter was the first King novel to mention "dirty bird" in 1980, followed by Misery in 1987. Firestarter He drew a memo form toward him and scratched out a note to that dirty bird Hockstetter, eating the obligatory helping of crow about his ill-advised "it's only money" comment. Misery (15X) "You . . . you . . . you dirty bird!" The Gunslinger reference in Pet Sematary There was no sign of Church's former feistiness. No more did he walk like a gunslinger; 'Salem's Lot references in IT, The Gunslinger and The Tommyknockers "The rain," he whispered hoarsely. "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. In vain he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." Danny Glick hissed at him. "Mark! Open the window!" "Betty Bitter bought some butter-" "The window, Mark, he commands it!" "-but, says Betty, this butter's bitter." IT (15X) drawing in a great breath, he cried: "HE THRUSTS HIS FISTS AGAINST THE POSTS AND STILL INSISTS HE SEES THE GHOSTS NOW LET ME GO!" The Gunslinger (5X) but be ye mad or only sane, the rain in Spain falls on the plain. The Tommyknockers (3X) She began to experiment with tongue-twisters: She sells seashells down by the seashore. Betty Bitter bought some butter. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. The Long Walk is mentioned in The Dark Tower The long walk (which also happens to be the name of a book he once wrote under the Bachman name, back before the world moved on) takes him past the Warrington's intersection, down Route 7 as far as the Slab City Road, then all the way back Route 7 to Berry Hill, bypassing Warrington's Road. The Long Walk mentioned in Bag of Bones (Ray Garraty) What I do know is that my real life that week had mostly to do with Andy Drake, John Shackleford, and a shadowy figure standing in the deep background. Raymond Garraty, John Shackleford's childhood friend. A man who sometimes wore a baseball cap. The Long Walk mentioned in The Wind Through the Keyhole (Peter McVries) After we'd shaken with him and introduced ourselves, he said: "I don't mean to belittle you, young fellows, but I was hoping to see Steven Deschain himself. And perhaps Peter McVries." "McVries died three years ago," I said. The Dead Zone references Randall Flagg Elevation references Bannerman Road Misery connection to Mrs. Kaspbrak from IT his mother gone to spend the day in Boston with Mrs. Kaspbrak from across the street. Misery (mentions the Hotel Overlook from The Shining) He was going to go up to the old hotel and sketch the ruins. His pictures were going to be with an article they were doing. It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. It burned down ten years ago. The caretaker burned it down. He was crazy. Everybody in town said so. But never mind; he's dead. he must have been as crazy as the caretaker that burned down the hotel. Then I found out that he didn't really have an assignment to draw pictures of the hotel at all. He was just doing them on his own, hoping to sell them. He wasn't even sure the magazine was doing an article on the Overlook. Paul Sheldon from Misery is mentioned in 3 other books. Annie Wilkes is also mentioned in The Dark Tower. Rose Madder (3) She looked up from the book (Misery's Lover, the title proclaimed in that same red foil, and, below it, Paul Sheldon's Most Torrid Novel!) and forced a smile. It's good in books like Paul Sheldon's, though. Rose couldn't think where it might have come from, unless the woman had had it strapped to her thigh, like the heroine in one of those sweet-savage Paul Sheldon novels, stories where there was a reason, no matter how farfetched, for everything that happened. The Library Policeman (1) "Naomi is a regular. She borrows a great many romance novels-Jennifer Blake, Rosemary Rogers, Paul Sheldon, people like that." The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (1) He thinks of Misery-Annie Wilkes calling Paul Sheldon a cockadoodie brat for trying to get rid of silly, bubbleheaded Misery Chastain. Stephen King mentions and appearances The Tommyknockers Also, she wrote good old western stories that you could really sink your teeth into, not all full of make-believe monsters and a bunch of dirty words, like the ones that fellow who lived up Bangor wrote. Thinner You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there, but it's not like that. Four Past Midnight: The Library Policeman I have never heard an Ozzy Osbourne record and have no desire to do so, nor to read a novel by Robert McCammon, Stephen King, or V. C. Andrews. The Dark Tower 5, 6, 7 Honorable Mention: Carrie: Mr. Edwin King, who had Carrie for grade seven English Stephen King quote in Later Books are uniquely portable magic. Reference to Pennywise from IT in Thinner It had bobbed up like some evil clown's dirty balloon and he had turned away from it. References to Pennywise from IT and the aliens in The Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher in If It Bleeds (novella). Now I think I can belive in anything from flying saucers to killer clowns. Reference to 'Salem's Lot in Dreamcatcher which gives access to the communities of Falmouth, Cumberland, and Jerusalem's Lot; Inside Edition Mentioned in If It Bleeds (novella) and Fair Extension Inside View Mentioned in If It Bleeds (novella), Bag of Bones, Insomnia, Desperation, The Dead Zone, Doctor Sleep, End of Watch, From A Buick 8, Joyland, Needful Things, Elevation, The Waste Lands, Wolves of the Calla, The Night Flyer, Popsy, Home Delivery, Big Driver. TR-90 TR-90 is mentioned in Rat, Bag of Bones, Under the Dome, Cell, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Drunken Fireworks. Rat references Everything's Eventual Everything was eventual. If It Bleeds (novella) refers back to Low Men in Yellow Coats with the same line. Give me what I want and I'll go away. Reference to Pennywise from IT in Later (deadlight is found 13 times and Ritual of Chüd is found 10 times) It was the deadlight thing that was now inhabiting Therriault. Have you ever heard of the Ritual of Chüd? Night Shift: One for the Road mentions the Marsten House from 'Salem's Lot. They figure it started up by the Marsten House on the hill that overlooked Jointner Avenue The Dead Zone mentions the Marsten family here was a whole family of MARSTENS; "Not fair!" she cried into the silence of BOWDENS and MARSTENS and PILLSBURYS, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla We went to the place the vampire had bought, an old wreck called the Marsten House. The thing staying there went by the name of Barlow. The moment I saw her lying there in the cellar of the Marsten House I understood it was all true. I began to think I'd drawn another king vampire, another Type One, the way the Marsten House had drawn Barlow. Thinner references Stephen King Novels: You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there it starts to sound a little like Stephen King again, wouldn't you say? Under The Dome mentions the movie The Mist: Another was that it was an experiment that had gone wrong and out of control ("Exactly like in that movie The Mist," one blogger wrote). Search for The Shining (case sensitive) to find mentions of the book and movie. The Dead Zone and The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah mention the book Carrie. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower mentions the character Carrie. The Stand mentions The Shining My own grandmother used to call it the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine. The Outsider It's one of Mr. Kubrick's finest. Much better than The Shining and Barry Lyndon IT features the car from Christine He reached the intersection of the seminary path and the sidewalk and peered at the car, trying to make sense out of the hulk behind the wheel. But it was the car he recognized first-it was the one his father always swore he would own someday, a 1958 Plymouth Fury. It was red and white and Henry knew (hadn't his father told him often enough?) that the engine rumbling under the hood was a V-8 327. Available horsepower of 255, able to hit seventy from the git-go in just about nine seconds, gobbling hi-test through its four-barrel carb. I'm gonna get that car and then when I die they can bury me in it, Butch had been fond of saying . . . except, of course, he had never gotten the car and the state had buried him after Henry had been taken away, raving and screaming of monsters, to the funny farm. Mr. Mercedes mentions the car from Christine as if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie, and make a run for it. The Sun Dog features car from Christine and cars that came to life and ran down people they didn't like. 11-22-63 features the car from Christine The newest car in the lot was a Plymouth Fury from—I think—the mid-or late fifties. The plate on it looked like an impossibly antique version of the one on the back of my Subaru; that plate came, at my ex-wife's request, with a pink breast cancer ribbon. The one I was looking at now did say VACATIONLAND, but it was orange instead of white. As in most states, Maine plates now come with letters—the one on my Subaru is 23383 IY—but the one on the back of the almost-new white-over-red Fury was 90-811. No letters. I threaded my way through the mill parking lot, once again tapping the trunk of the white-over-red Plymouth Fury for good luck. I once more rapped on the trunk of the white-over-red Plymouth Fury as I went by. The car was a white-over-red Plymouth Fury, And a two-tone Plymouth Fury. I doubt if she noticed the white-over-red Plymouth Fury parked at the curb a little way down the block. References to The Shining Overlook Hotel The Stand We had two of the generators going yesterday, and as you know, one of them overloaded and blew its cookies. So to speak. What I mean is that it overlooked. Overloaded, rather. Well ... you know what I mean. Doctor Sleep his father had probably sat in a room like this, being interviewed for the position of caretaker at the Overlook Hotel. Billy Summers I'm not a superstitious man, but I wouldn't go anywhere near where the Overlook Hotel used to stand. Bad stuff happened there. Misery It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. Secret Windows, Secret Garden (1990) references 1922 (2010) in this paragraph Mort sat down and worked his way slowly through the two stories, reading back and forth. By the time he was halfway through, he understood he really didn't need to go any further. They varied in diction in some places; in many others even that was the same, word for word. Diction aside, they were exactly the same. In both of them, a man killed his wife. In both of them, the wife was a cold, loveless bitch who cared only for her garden and her canning. In both of them, the killer buried his spousal victim in her garden and then tended it, growing a really spectacular crop. In Morton Rainey's version, the crop was beans. In Shooter's, it was corn. In both versions, the killer eventually went crazy and was discovered by the police eating vast amounts of the vegetable in question and swearing he would be rid of her, that in the end he would finally be rid of her. Hallorann is mentioned 5 times in IT It was this young fellow, a Pfc. named Dick Hallorann who was a mess-cook, who suggested that maybe we could fix it up pretty nice if we really tried. Hallorann got us going, though . . . Hallorann and Carl and me. I was sitting about halfway down the east wall with Trev Dawson and Dick Hallorann when it happened Then Dick Hallorann catches hold of him. I'd lost all track of Dick Hallorann by then and didn't even see him until the next day. References to IT and Pennywise in Dreamcatcher: The pedestal was drifted to most of its height in snow, but the top of the plaque screwed to the front was visible. Mr. Gray fell to Jonesy's knees, scraped snow away, and read this: TO THOSE LOST IN THE STORM MAY 31, 1985 AND TO THE CHILDREN ALL THE CHILDREN LOVE FROM BILL, BEN, BEV, EDDIE, RICHIE, STAN, MIKE THE LOSERS' CLUB Spray-painted across it in jagged red letters, also perfectly visible in the truck's headlights, was this further message: PENNYWISE LIVES Storm? Children? Losers? Who or what was Pennywise? Most of all, where was the Standpipe, which Jonesy's memories had insisted was here? Reference to IT in If It Bleeds (novella) Now I think I could believe in anything from flying saucers to killer clowns. IT references The Dark Tower In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything, he would have told them if he could. Pet Sematary references the movie The Shining "You sure?" Steve asked. "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, you know." Desperation references The Tommyknockers Another is that they made the tommyknockers mad. What're tommyknockers? No tommyknockers, no earth-spirits. What's amazing is how long the tommyknockers protected them from their own idiocy! The Tommyknockers references the movie, The Shining So what was he supposed to do? Grab Bobbi's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shining? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeere's GARDENER! The Tommykockers references the Arrowhead Project from The Mist Seabrook had had its vogue, and the Arrowhead installation in Maine The Tommyknockers referencing Ludlow from The Dark Half, Insomnia and Pet Sematary The tribe had originally covered much of what was now Penobscot County, with large groups centered in Oldtown, Skowhegan, and the Great Woods, which began in Ludlow Insomnia A sudden rush of force blew past him in a fan of wind and fading green light. He caught a strange, skewed glimpse of the Crimson King, no longer handsome and no longer young but ancient and twisted and less human than the strangest creature to ever flop or hop its way along the Short-Time level of existence. Then something above them opened, revealing darkness shot through with conflicting swirls and rays of color. The wind seemed to blow the Crimson King up toward it, like a leaf in a chimney-flue. The colors began to brighten, and Ralph turned his face away, raising one hand to shield his eyes. He understood that a conduit had opened between the level where he was and the unimaginable levels stacked above it; he also understood that if he looked for long into that brightening glow, those (deadlights) swirling colors, then death would be not the worst thing that could happen to him but the best. He did not just squeeze his eyes shut; he squeezed his mind shut. Fan Theory connects The Green Mile with The Stand. More specifically, it connects John Coffey to Mother Abigail. The Uncut version of The Stand takes place in 1990 and Mother Abigail is 108 years old. John Coffey went to prison in 1932. He'd in his 30s. John Coffey wandered around random places before ending up on the Green Mile. The main character from The Green Mile, Paul Edgecomb, lives to be 104 because he was healed by John Coffey. Paul can read the mind of Brutus 'Brutal' Howell so Paul also obtained some mind powers. When you are healed by John Coffey, you get "the shine" plus long life. It's possible that John Coffey met and healed Mother Abigail which gave her the Shining and long life. Mr. Mercedes references the movie IT: "Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?" Hodges shook his head. Later-only weeks before his retirement-he bought a DVD copy of the film, and Pete was right. The mask-face was very close to the face of Pennywise, the clown in the movie. Firestarter references Patrick Hockstetter from IT: Eleven doctors and psychologists had put the combination report and prospectus together under the overall direction of Dr. Patrick Hockstetter, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. 11-22-63 references IT: Bevvie-from-the-levee had said she thought the bad times in Derry were over, but the more of it I saw (and the more I felt-that especially), the more I came to believe that Derry wasn't like other places. Derry wasn't right. At first I tried to tell myself that it was me, not the town. I was a man out of joint, a temporal bedouin, and any place would have felt a little strange to me, a little skewed-like the cities that seem so much like bad dreams in those strange Paul Bowles novels. This was persuasive at first, but as the days passed and I continued to explore my new environment, it became less so. I even began to question Beverly Marsh's assertion that the bad times were over, and imagined (on nights when I couldn't sleep, and there were quite a few of those) that she questioned it herself. Hadn't I glimpsed a seed of doubt in her eyes? The look of someone who doesn't quite believe but wants to? Maybe even needs to? Something wrong, something bad. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging slowly open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again. A splintered fence on Kossuth Street, just a block away from the house where Mrs. Dunning and her children lived. To me that fence looked as if something-or someone-had been hurled through it and into the Barrens below. An empty playground with the roundy-round slowly spinning even though there were no kids to push it and no appreciable wind to turn it. It screamed on its hidden bearings as it moved. One day I saw a roughly carved Jesus go floating down the canal and into the tunnel that ran beneath Canal Street. It was three feet long. The teeth peeped from lips parted in a snarling grin. A crown of thorns, jauntily askew, circled the forehead; bloody tears had been painted below the thing's weird white eyes. It looked like a juju fetish. On the so-called Kissing Bridge in Bassey Park, amid the declarations of school spirit and undying love, someone had carved the words I WILL KILL MY MOTHER SOON, and below it someone had added: NOT SOON ENOUGH SHES FULL OF DISEEZE. One afternoon while walking on the east side of the Barrens, I heard a terrible squealing and looked up to see the silhouette of a thin man standing on the GS & WM railroad trestle not far away. A stick rose and fell in his hand. He was beating something. The squealing stopped and I thought, It was a dog and he's finished with it. He took it out there on a rope leash and beat it until it was dead. There was no way I could have known such a thing, of course . . . and yet I did. I was sure then, and I am now. Something wrong. Something bad. Do any of those things bear on the story I'm telling? The story of the janitor's father, and of Lee Harvey Oswald (he of the smirky little I-know-a-secret smile and gray eyes that would never quite meet yours)? I don't know for sure, but I can tell you one more thing: there was something inside that fallen chimney at the Kitchener Ironworks. I don't know what and I don't want to know, but at the mouth of the thing I saw a heap of gnawed bones and a tiny chewed collar with a bell on it. A collar that had surely belonged to some child's beloved kitten. And from inside the pipe-deep in that oversized bore-something moved and shuffled. Come in and see, that something seemed to whisper in my head. Never mind all the rest of it, Jake-come in and see. Come in and visit. Time doesn't matter in here; in here, time just floats away. You know you want to, you know you're curious. Maybe it's even another rabbit-hole. Another portal. Maybe it was, but I don't think so. I think it was Derry in there-everything that was wrong with it, everything that was askew, hiding in that pipe. Hibernating. Letting people believe the bad times were over, waiting for them to relax and forget there had ever been bad times at all. I left in a hurry, and to that part of Derry I never went back. They winced as if I had pinched a place where the nerves lay close to the surface. Beverly turned to Richie and whispered in his ear. I'm not positive about what she said, it was quick and low, but it might have been That wasn't the clown. Then she looked back at me. He lowered his voice further. Soon he'd be whispering. "We had a bad summer here, my friend. Local folks keep it as quiet as they can-even the newspaper doesn't play it up-but there was some nasty work. Murders. Half a dozen at least. Kids. Found one down in the Barrens just recently. Patrick Hockstetter, his name was. All decayed." "The Barrens?" "It's this swampy patch that runs right through the center of town. You probably saw it when you flew in." I'd been in a car, but I still knew what he was talking about. The bartender's eyes widened. "That's not the real estate you're interested in, is it?" "Can't say," I told him. "If word got around, I'd be looking for a new job." "Understood, understood." He drank half his Coke, then stifled a belch with the back of his hand. "But I hope it is. They ought to pave that goddam thing over. It's nothing but stinkwater and mosquitoes. You'd be doing this town a favor. Sweeten it up a little bit." "Other kids found down there?" I asked. A serial child-murderer would explain a lot about the gloom I'd been feeling ever since I crossed the town line. "Not that I know of, but people say that's where some of the disappeared ones went, because that's where all the big sewage pumping stations are. I've heard people say there are so many sewer pipes under Derry-most of em laid in the Great Depression-that nobody knows where all of em are. And you know how kids are." "Adventurous." He nodded emphatically. "Right with Eversharp. There's people who say it was some vag who's since moved on. Other folks say he was a local who dressed up like a clown to keep from being recognized. The first of the victims-this was last year, before I came-they found him at the intersection of Witcham and Jackson with his arm ripped clean off. Denbrough was his name, George Denbrough. Poor little tyke." He gave me a meaningful look. "And he was found right next to one of those sewer drains. The ones that dump into the Barrens." "Christ." "Yeah." "I hear you using the past tense about all this stuff." I got ready to explain what I meant, but apparently this guy had been listening in English class as well as bartending school. "It seems to've stopped, knock on wood." He rapped his knuckles on the bar. "Maybe whoever was doing it packed up and moved on. Or maybe the sonofabitch killed himself, sometimes they do that. That'd be good. But it wasn't any homicidal maniac in a clown suit who killed the little Corcoran boy. The clown who did that murder was the kid's own father, if you can believe it." That was close enough to why I was here to feel like fate rather than coincidence. I took a careful sip of my beer. "Is that so?" "You bet it is. Dorsey Corcoran, that was the kid's name. Only four years old, and you know what his goddam father did? Beat him to death with a recoilless hammer." Mr. Mercedes references IT: The mask-face was very close to the face of Pennywise, the clown in the movie. A Good Marriage references IT: Of course I set it in Derry, home of the late and unlamented clown Pennywise, because Derry is just Bangor masquerading under a different name. Elevation: mentions Pennywise (IT), Bannerman (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Needful Things and others), and Suicide Stairs (Gwendy's Button Box) a local garage band, Big Top, renamed themselves Pennywise and the Clowns. Then along Route 119, which became Bannerman Road once it crossed the municipal town line. He passed the sign reading CASTLE ROCK MUNICIPAL TOWN LIMITS, where Route 119 became Bannerman Road, named after the town's longest serving sheriff, an unlucky fellow who had come to a bad end on one of the town's back roads. there had been more before the collapse of the Suicide Stairs a few years earlier The Tommyknockers references IT (Pennywise): Sometimes he would lie in the dark and think he heard chuckling noises coming from the drains and he would think: You're going nuts, old-timer. Except he wasn't. Sometimes he wished he were. Tommy had begun to hallucinate; as he drove up Wentworth Street, he thought he saw a clown grinning up at him from an open sewer manhole-a clown with shiny silver dollars for eyes and a clenched white glove filled with balloons. Bill Denbrough from IT in Bag of Bones Johanna was deep in her ratty old easy chair, reading a book (not Maugham that night but William Denbrough, one of her contemporary favorites). Even one of William Denbrough's famous Creatures from Beyond the Universe, now hiding under the porch and watching me approach with glittering, pus-rimmed eyes. The Shine nod in Duma Key And I thought that if I wasn't able to take some of the pressure off his boiler, Needful Things references The Body - Ace Merrill is mentioned 59 times! The boys Ace Merrill had once terrorized-boys like Teddy Duchamp, Chris Chambers, and Vern Tessio-would have recognized him at once in spite of his graying hair. Cell references The Dark Tower. Charlie the Choo-Choo can be found in books 3-7 They came onto the midway between the Krazy Kups and a half-constructed kiddie ride called Charlie the Choo-Choo. Early reference to concept of 11-22-63 in The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla “Whatever it is, I felt it calling me back to the cave . . . and further. Whispering that I should resume my wanderings, and make them endless. I knew I could open the door by opening the box. The door would take me anywhere I wanted to go. And any when! All I had to do was concentrate.” Callahan considered, then sat down again. He leaned forward, looking at them in turn over the gnarled carving of his clasped hands. “Hear me, I beg. We had a President, Kennedy was his name. He was assassinated some thirteen years before my time in 'Salem's Lot . . . assassinated in the West—” “Yes,” Susannah said. “Jack Kennedy. God love him.” She turned to Roland. “He was a gunslinger.” Roland's eyebrows rose. “Do you say so?” “Aye. And I say true.” “In any case,” Callahan said, “there's always been a question as to whether the man who killed him acted alone, or whether he was part of a larger conspiracy. And sometimes I'd wake in the middle of the night and think, ‘Why don't you go and see? Why don't you stand in front of that door with the box in your arms and think, “Dallas, November 22nd, 1963”? Because if you do that the door will open and you can go there, just like the man in Mr. Wells's story of the time machine. And perhaps you could change what happened that day. If there was ever a watershed moment in American life, that was it. Change that, change everything that came after. Vietnam . . . the race riots . . . everything.'” Carrie References: The Dead Zone He set it on fire by his mind, just like in that book Carrie. Song of Sussanah I've picked up two copies of Lot and also three copies of his first novel, Carrie. Not long after that I started a book called Carrie. The Dark Tower What do you know about what it's like to spend your whole life on the outside, to be the butt of the joke every time, to always be Carrie at the fuckin prom? He said ABC onlyl it came out as XYZ Some examples ... A Good Marriage “Bob!” she cried, only it came out in two exasperated syllables Under the Dome “Hey, there, climb in,” the man behind the wheel said. Only it came out Hey-yere-lime-in Song of Susannah “Did you forget something, darling?” Only the last word came out in a downeast drawl, daaa-lin, ------------------------------------- Mainstream Universe: Carrie (book), Jerusalem's Lot, 'Salem's Lot, One for the Road, Roadwork (Callahan is in it), The Shining, Doctor Sleep, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, Breathing Method, The Talisman, Black House, IT, Insomnia, Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Needful Things, Uncle Otto's Truck, Mrs. Todds Shortcut, Misery, Dreamcatcher (maybe another level of Tower) ,Tommyknockers (same as Dreamcatcher), The Dark Half, The Sun Dog, Hearts in Atlantis, 11/22/63, Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy's Magic Feather, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Dead Zone, Cujo, Pet Sematary, The Man in Black Suit, It grows on you, NOS4A2 (Charlie Manx is mentioned in Doctor Sleep I belive), Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, Pearl (Tabitha Kings book in which is Dick Halloran), Firestarter, Home Delivery, Storm of the Century, Lisey's Story, Thinner Rose Madder, Desperation/The Regulators Bill Hodges' and Holly Gibney: Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch, The Outsider, If It Bleeds The Territories : The Talisman, Black House Captain Trips: Night Surf, The Stand All World: Rose Madder, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Dark Tower Series ------------------------------------- Number of Shawshank references per book: - Different Seasons: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (48) - It (7) - Needful Things (7) - Under the Dome (6) - 11-22-63 (3) - Blaze (2) - Dolores Claiborne (2) - Bag of Bones (2) - Full Dark, No Stars: A Good Marriage (2) - Different Seasons: The Body (2) - Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog (1) - Dreamcatcher (1) - Finders Keepers (1) - If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone (1) The movie The Shawshank Redemption is mentioned in Finders Keepers Also, I have my three favorite movie soundtracks on CD: Road to Perdition, The Shawshank Redemption, and Godfather II. The Shining mentions The Outsider (movie) I've seen Paths of Glory at least a dozen times. It's one of Mr. Kubrick's finest. Much better than The Shining and Barry Lyndon, in my opinion, but of course he was much younger when he made it. The Tommyknockers (movie) So what was he supposed to do? Grab Bobbi's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shining? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeere's GARDENER! Novels\Dark Tower\The Dark Tower II The Drawing of the Three (movie) Eddie had seen thousands, and what he was looking at was like one of those moving point-of-view shots they did in ones like Halloween and The Shining. He was staring into the doorway, hypnotized, as an aisle of Macy's rushed forward—he was reminded again of The Shining, where you saw what the little boy was seeing as he rode his trike through the hallways of that haunted hotel. He remembered the little boy had seen this creepy pair of dead twins in one of those hallways. Novels\Dark Tower\The Dark Tower VI Song of Susannah (novels The Stand, The Shining, and 'Salem's Lot) King was fifty-two, he says, the author of many novels, most notably The Stand, The Shining, and 'Salem's Lot. Ah Discordia, Brinkley says, the world grows darker. What had his name been, Jack? No, that was the haunted Dad in The Shining. King, author of such popular novels as It, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, and The Stand, was taken to Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital in Bridgton, where he was pronounced dead at 6:02 PM Saturday evening. Room 217 from The Shining Doctor Sleep (6 times) The woman from Room 217 was there End of Watch (26 times) Hodges visited Room 217 in the Brain Injury Clinic, Finders Keepers (2 times) Hodges ambles down the hall toward Room 217, The Shining (11 times) He had been drawn to Room 217 by a morbid kind of curiosity. Different Seasons: Apt Pupil (1 time) here he was in room 217 of the Holiday Inn References to The Shining Stanley Kubrick movie The Institute: They were holding hands and clutching dolls as identical as they were. They reminded Luke of twins in some old horror movie. Reference to Christine in The Stand Stu could see one more car ahead, one last chance. Stu's heart sank. It was a very old Plymouth, a 1970 at best. For a wonder it was standing on four inflated tires, but it was rust-eaten and battered. Nobody had ever bothered with much in the way of maintenance on this heap; Stu knew its sort well enough from Arnette. The battery would be old and probably cracked, the oil would be blacker than midnight in a mineshaft, but there would be a pink fuzz runner around the steering wheel and maybe a stuffed poodle with rhinestone eyes and a noddy head on the back shelf. The old Plymouth was almost surely a loser. Tom put an arm around Stu's waist and the two of them staggered across to where the old Plymouth stood in the breakdown lane. “Hood release,” Stu muttered, fumbling in the Plymouth's grille. Sweat rolled down his face. Shudders wracked him. He found the hood release but couldn't pull it up. He guided Tom's hands to it and at last the hood swung up. The engine was about what Stu had expected—a dirty and indifferently maintained V8. But the battery wasn't as bad as he had feared it would be. It was a Sears, not the top of the line, but the guarantee-punch was February of 1991. Struggling against the feverish rush of his thoughts, Stu counted backward and guessed that the battery had been new last May. “Go try the horn,” he told Tom, and propped himself against the car while Tom leaned in to do it. He had heard of drowning men grasping at straws, and he guessed that now he understood. His last chance of surviving this was a rattletrap junkyard refugee. The horn gave a loud honk. Okay then. If there was a key, take the shot. Probably he should have had Tom check that first, but on second thought, it didn't much matter. If there was no key, they were most likely all through no matter what. He got the hood down and latched by leaning all of his weight on it. Then he hopped around to the driver's door and stared in, fully expecting to see an empty ignition slot. But the keys were there, dangling from an imitation leather case with the initials A.C. on it. Bending in carefully, he turned the key over to accessory. Slowly, the gas gauge needle swung over to a little more than a quarter of a tank. Here was a mystery. Why had the car's owner, why had A.C. pulled over to walk when he could have driven? In his light-headed state, Stu thought of Charles Campion, almost dead, driving into Hap's pumps. Old A.C. had the superflu, had it bad. Final stages. He pulls over, shuts off his car's engine—not because he's thinking about it, but because it's a long-ingrained habit—and gets out. He's delirious, maybe hallucinating. He stumbles out into the Utah badlands, laughing and singing and muttering and cackling, and dies there. Four months later Stu Redman and Tom Cullen happen along, and the keys are in the car, and the battery's relatively fresh, and there's gas— And maybe God had left this battered '70 Plymouth here for them, like manna in the desert. The car was littered with McDonald's boxes and Taco Bell wrappers; the interior smelled like an old corn chip. Reference to Pet Sematary in Insomnia The sneaker of a little boy named Gage Creed, run down by a speeding tanker-truck on Route 15 in Ludlow. Reference to Susannah in The Drawing of the Three in Insomnia Here was the cameo brooch of a woman who had been struck by a falling brick while walking down Main Street to buy the new issue of Vogue; if she had left her home thirty seconds earlier or later, she would have been fine. The Dark half mentioned in Bag of Bones Ironically, one of the books that kept me from going higher was Steel Machine, by Thad Beaumont (writing as George Stark). The Beaumonts had a summer place in Castle Rock back in those days, not even fifty miles south of our place on Dark Score Lake. Thad's dead now. Suicide. I don't know if it had anything to do with writer's block or not. The Dark Half mentioned in Needful Things The business with Thad Beaumont, for instance-you really couldn't get that off your mind. What happened at their house by the lake, and how, after it was all over, he used to get drunk and call you. And then his wife took the twins and left him And maybe a man named Thad Beaumont was an unindicted co-conspirator in the deaths of his wife and son, but Alan could not find blame in his heart for Thad, either. they knew that the lakeside home of Thad Beaumont, novelist and local Famous Person, had burned to the ground during the summer of 1989, but they did not know the circumstances of that burning, or that Beaumont had been haunted by a man who was really not a man at all, but a creature for which there may be no name. The irrational horror of the business with Thad Beaumont, the business with the There was this thing that happened with Thad Beaumont, the writer . . . this crazy thing- Needful Things references (1) The Dead Zone (2) Cujo (3) The Dark Half In Castle Rock they knew about (1) Frank Dodd, the cop who went crazy and killed the women back in Sheriff Bannerman's day, (2) and they knew about Cujo, the Saint Bernard who had gone rabid out on Town Road #3, (3) and they knew that the lakeside home of Thad Beaumont, novelist and local Famous Person, had burned to the ground during the summer of 1989, but they did not know the circumstances of that burning, or that Beaumont had been haunted by a man who was really not a man at all, but a creature for which there may be no name. Joyland might have a reference to 'Salem's Lot where Ben Mears tries to burn 'Salem's Lot at the end. During my time at Joyland, I once heard Pop Allen talk about burning the lot. References to Cujo: Different Seasons: The Body: Chopper was-at least until Joe Camber's dog Cujo went rabid twenty years later-the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock. Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog: Pop suddenly found himself remembering Joe Camber's Saint Bernard, Cujo-the one who had killed Joe and that old tosspot Gary Pervier and Big George Bannerman. The dog had gone rabid. It had trapped a woman and a young boy in their car up there at Camber's place and after two or three days the kid had died. And now Pop found himself wondering if this was what they had been looking at during those long days and nights trapped in the steaming oven of their car; this or something like this, the muddy red eyes, the long sharp teeth- Skeleton Crew: Gramma: Buddy was already outside, because Buddy had wanted the good sled, that was why; they were going sliding on Joe Camber's hill and the other sled had a buckled runner. Skeleton Crew: Mrs. Todd's Shortcut: But folks are still not done talking about Joe Camber, who got killed by his own dog. Pet Sematary: Lot of rabies in Maine now. There was a big old St. Bernard went rabid downstate a couple of years ago and killed four people. That was a hell of a thing. Dog hadn't had his shots. If those foolish people had seen that dog had had its shots, it never would have happened. Needful Things: they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him. The dog killed good old Sheriff George Bannerman, too. Needful Things: In Castle Rock they knew about Frank Dodd, the cop who went crazy and killed the women back in Sheriff Bannerman's day, and they knew about Cujo, the Saint Bernard who had gone rabid out on Town Road #3, and they knew that the lakeside home of Thad Beaumont, novelist and local Famous Person, had burned to the ground during the summer of 1989, but they did not know the circumstances of that burning, or that Beaumont had been haunted by a man who was really not a man at all, but a creature for which there may be no name. Needful Things: Suddenly she seemed to hear a low, purring growl from the deep shadows of the barn, as if the rabid Saint Bernard which had killed Big George Bannerman and caused the death of Tad Trenton were still here, back from the dead and meaner than ever. Joe Camber had died in a tragedy that had taken three other lives. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower I seen all your movies. My favorite was the one about the Saint Bernard. What was that dog's name?" "Cujo," King said. This was a word Roland knew, one Susan Delgado had sometimes used when they were alone together. In Mejis, cujo meant "sweet one." "Yeah! That was great! Scary as hell! I'm glad that little boy lived!" "In the book he died." Then King closed his eyes and lay back, waiting. Fairy Tale: ROW-ROW, and I look up and here comes this fucking monster dog, must have weighed a hundred and twenty pounds at least, and he's all teeth with slobbery flying back and his yes are fucking red." "Sure," Bertie said. "Monster dog. Like Cujo in that movie. Riii-ight." "It was," Andy said. "Swear to God. If it hadn't been for the old guy yelling at him, he would have gone right through the gate. Which is so old it needs Medicure." "Medicare," I said. Cynthia Smith A character in Desperation and The Regulators is also in Rose Madder. Blue Ribbon Laundry Carrie Momma worked on the speed ironer and folder down at the Blue Ribbon Laundry in Chamberlain Center. Roadwork I work at the Blue Ribbon Laundry over in Western. The Mangler The story said that a steam line had let go on the large speed ironer at the Blue Ribbon Laundry, burning three of the six women working at the feeder end. Billy Summers references The Shining He studies the painting, frowning. The hedge dog is on the right, the hedge rabbits on the left. We're they the other way around before? And aren't the lions closer? Billy Summers references the Sidewinder Colorado and the Overlook Hotel from The Shining Used to be a resort hotel there, but it burned flat many a moon ago." He drops his voice. "It was reputed to be haunted." Billy Summers references the Mangler Billy Summers mom works on the Mangler Billy Summers quotes Stephen King I always keep two things in mind, myself and a stranger. Cell and Billy Summers are connected. Both have a character named Alice Maxwell. In Cell, she carries around a baby shoe for luck. In Billy Summers, Billy carries around a baby shoe for luck when he was a Marine. In both books, Alice is on the run with a capable and creative minded male influence after a traumatic event and chronicles her experience with PTSD and trauma effects. In Cell she is a teenager, in the Billy Summers she is slightly older but reverts to teenage behavior quite often and her youthful appearance becomes a major point. She influences the morality and actions of the lead male protagonists by bringing out a fatherly instinct--she's a traumatized girl half his age, but she's also capable of correcting the lead male's self destructive thought patterns. Her existence is basically to be a crutch for the lead male. Insomnia Dark Tower reference For one flickering moment he seemed to catch an image from the mind of the other, one he found both exciting and disturbing: an enormous tower constructed of dark and sooty stone, standing in a field of red roses. Slit windows twisted up its sides in a brooding spiral. Cell has Dark Tower references and is similar to The Stand You could tell King still had Sai Roland on his mind when writing this one. Clay's artwork of "The Dark Wanderer" The zombies garbled speech near the beginning resembling that of the Crimson King's minions in Black House. Charlie the Choo-Choo reference. The Crimson King corrupting a world, forcing it to "Move on" kind of like the Stand. The Institute has a nod to 'Salem's Lot There's a town in Maine, Jerusalem's Lot, and you could ask the people who lived there about the men in the black cars. The Dark Tower reference in Doctor Sleep and Fairy Tale: There are other worlds than these. Joyland reference in Revival. Joyland Avenue is mentioned 19 times in Joyland. During my time on the midway—which was called Joyland Avenue—there was a Rogues' Gallery next to Mysterio's Mirror Mansion. End of Watch references Sharp Cereal which is mentioned in Cujo 37 times. The first four were sponsored by Sharp Cereals, which gave out free samples at their concerts. Reference to The Shop in The Langoliers from Firestarter Let us say that some shadowy government organization like The Shop has decided to carry out an experiment, and we are the test subjects. What I cannot believe is that even The Shop could have persuaded everyone over our flight-path to turn off their lights in order to reinforce the illusion that we are all alone. Reference to 11/22/63 in The Langoliers I think we've gone into the past and discovered the unlovely truth of time-travel: you can't appear in the Texas State School Book Depository on November 22, 1963, and put a stop to the Kennedy assassination; he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts 'Salem's Lot (1 time) IT (17 times) Everything's Eventual referenced in RAT from If It Bleeds. Everything was eventual. Storm of the Century connections 1. The name of the detective The Outsider, Ralph Anderson, is the name of the child taken by Andre Linoge as a protege at the end of the series. 2. Roanoke Island is mentioned in The Outsider and is the name of an episode. Roanoke is mentioned several times in SotC and is seen on a piece of wood at the end. 3. The actress Julianne Nicholson plays Mrs Maitland in The Outsider and is also in SotC. The Stand referencing Dolan's Cadillac (?): He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. IT References The Dead Zone: When that crazy cop killed all those women in Castle Rock The Outsider - Jason Bateman stars as Terry Maitland in HBOs The Outsider. Jason Bateman also starred in Ozark as Marty Byrde on Netflix. He [Terry Maitland] watches Ozark on Netflix Apt Pupil - Andy Dufresne from Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is mentioned three times. All this banker's choices. Dufresne, his name was-I remember, because it sounds a little like mine. I lived adequately on the stock portfolio this Dufresne had set up for me for the first five years I was here. The banker who bought them for me went to jail for murdering his wife a year after I bought them . . . life is sometimes strange, boy, hein? The Dead Zone mentioned in The Tommyknockers In the course of a conversation with the bartender, he heard the story of a fellow named John Smith, who had taught in the nearby town of Cleaves Mills for a while. Smith had been in a coma for years, had awakened with some sort of psychic gift. He went nuts a few years ago-had tried to assassinate a fellow named Stillson, who was a U.S. representative from New Hampshire. David Bright, a reporter from the Bangor Daily News, is also in both. Pet Sematary mentioned in The Tommyknockers it was in Ludlow that they buried their dead when they were decimated by influenza in the 1880s and drifted south with Wahwayvokah, who had presided over their further decline. Wahwayvokah died in 1885, and on his deathbed he declared that the woods to which he had brought his dying people were cursed Danger to Children: It The Long Walk Police wanting to shoot themslves someday. Mr. Mercedes: The Institute: His .30- 06, which he planned to shoot himself with one of these fine South Carolina nights Feeding poisoned raw hamburger to a dog IT: Henry one day fed him a pound of hamburger laced with insect poison. Mr. Mercedes: Brady bought the Gopher-Go to poison the dog Connection: The Breathing Method and The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands Stevens at 249B East Thirty-fifth (aka 249B East 35th) The Dark Tower reference in Bill Summers "There you go, Daphne," Billy says. The little sign in front of the Busy Lizzie so identifies her. The spider plant is named - who knows why - Walter. Someone talking about writers and another person pretending to understand: The Long Walk - Garraty listening to McVries talk about writers Finders Keepers - Writers that focus on teen angst: The Long Walk - "J. D. Salinger ... John Knowles ... even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes ... they've destroyed being an adolescent, Garraty. If you're a sixteen-year-old boy, you can't discuss the pains of adolescent love with any decency anymore. Finders Keepers - Rothstein was sort of the go-to guy for teenage angst I figured out how to find which novels have both Chambray Shirt and Arc Sodium Lights. I used Notepad++ to do a Find In Files for these regular expressions, to search all Stephen King novels (I have them all as text files). - sodium.*chambray - chambray.*sodium I found them both in these 13 novels: 1. The Long Walk 2. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 3. IT 4. Pet Sematary 5. The Shining 6. The Stand 7. The Talisman 8. Black House 9. The Dead Zone 10. End of Watch 11. Firestarter 12. Needful Things 13. The Institute NOTE: Cujo is a false-positive due to this sentence. He had lost electrolytes, chlorides, and sodium through his perspiration. Soft southern accent: The Long Walk He spoke with a very slight Southern accent. 11-22-63 he said in his soft Southern accent. Southern accent grew stronger: The Long Walk His light Southern drawl had thickened appreciably. 11-22-63 Under stress, his Southern accent grew stronger. Sleeping Beauties his flat twang had become more pronounced. Folksier. Southern accent grew weaker: 'Salem's Lot - and the backcountry twang was gone from his voice. Rubbing the scar without thinking: The Long Walk - His hand went to the scar on his cheek and touched it. His hand had gone to the scar and was rubbing, rubbing, rubbing. McVries's hand went involuntarily to his cheek and the scar. His hand went to the scar. His hand crept up to the scar. 11-22-63 - Sadie stroked her hair against the wounded side of her face'that automatic gesture. Questions about Cell Why did the Raggedy Man tell people through their dreams that the Gaiten bunch is not to be touched and get Clay and other flock-killers to go to Kashwak? Did the phone crazies use their mind-control to make the Head commit suicide? If so, why? Or did the Head commit suicide on his own so Jordan would go with Clay? Did Clay sketch the Raggedy Man before the Pulse? If so, how is that possible he could predict the future in his drawings? Did the effects of the hive mind start wearing off near the end and individuality start to surface again so that the phoners would eventually leave the flock and returned to be semi-normal? It seems counter-intuitive that Clay should pulse his son in order to reboot him to return to normal. Has the pulse mutated in some way that might bring his son back to normal? Pixie Light was near Pixie Dark and got semi-pulsed from being next to her friend. Will Clay get semi-pulsed as well when he tries to pulse his son? When the Raggedy Man was killed, will the flock simply pick someone else to replace him? Why do so many people on this subreddit seems to dislike Cell? What do they dislike about it? Cell is in my top 10. I really enjoyed it. I found Ralph 5367 times in 41 novels, novellas and short-stories. Here are the most frequent 1. Insomnia (3301) 2. The Outsider (1047) 3. The Stand (397) 4. Desperation (297) 5. If It Bleeds (novella) (56) 6. The Tommyknockers (42) 7. Ayana (short-story) (22) 8. Firestarter (21) 9. Blind willie (short-story) (21) 10. Carrie (17) 11. 'Salem's Lot (16) 12. The Little Sisters of Eluria (short-story) (16) 13. Christine (14) 14. Misery (14) 15. The Regulators (10) Bram Stoker -> Barlow Straker Braw Stoker - flip m to w Brow Staker - trade a and o Brow Straker - add r to Staker Barow Straker - add a to Brow Barlow Straker - add l to Barow Green: The Long Walk - "See anything green?" Garraty asked irritably. The Long Walk - I was scairt green. 11-22-63 - "that was our greening". Weird use of the word green. Scar on face: The Long Walk - McVries scar 11-22-63 - Bobby Joel Allnut (sp?) got tired of looking at the slash down the left side of her face. Grange: The Long Walk - EUREKA GRANGE NO. 81 Wednesday Bingo at the grange hall Roadwork - Tom Granger The Tommyknockers - at each year's Grange Stage Spectacular 11-22-63 - near the old Durham grange hall. The New Year's Eve dance at Bountiful Grange No. 7 was a little better. The Saddle; twice I took her to the Saturday-night dances at the local Grange. Wan Smile The Dead Zone smiled at her—a tired, painful smile, She smiled at the man on the other side of the Greyhound's aisle, an apologetic, kids-will-say-anything-won't-they smile, Lancte smiled humorlessly they smiled at each other falsely, holding the smile was an effort. She smiled, but it was forced. Mercedes: Mr. Mercedes - Mr. Mercedes 11-22-63 - Mercedes Street Making fun of high-school bands: The Long Walk - 11-22-63 - Finders Keepers - From somewhere below, a quartet of musicians is playing "Greensleeves." Start: The Long Walk - He put his foot down in a puddle of water and started fully awake again. Carrie - felt a start of surprise and fear. I kind of started up awake Roadwork - He woke with a guilty start The Running Man - Richards started. 'Salem's Lot - Ben started. She started. She started from her thoughts Ben started guiltily. Tookey started 11-22-63 - I start awake again I woke with a start in the first weak light of day. End of Watch - She starts a little. The Outsider - He started and looked up Jerusalem's Lot - What a start that name gave me! IT - What a start he had given them that day Under The Dome She started visibly, as if someone had just clapped his hands in front of her face. Big Jim started a little at that, then relaxed. Report: (sound of gun shot) The Long Walk - There was one sharp, clean report, Roadwork - The rifle did not make a report. It made an explosion. 11-22-63 - Oswald jerked at the sound of the report, Finders Keepers - The gun is small, but in the enclosed space of the basement, the report is loud. End of Watch - The gun is a .357, and the report is deafening. Cell - anticipating the report of the gun Duma Key - The report was tremendous Just After Sunset: A Very Tight Place - Curtis realized he would probably be dead before he heard the gun's report Night Shift: Gray Matter - Going down we heard Henry fire three times, the reports loud as grenades "Tendons in his neck creek and stand out like cables" 1922 I heard the tendons in his neck creak. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Chattery Teeth the tendons in his neck stood out like pulley-wires. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Sneakers There was a grating sound not entirely unlike the one the hinge had made. It was the tendons in the dead man's neck, Tell realized. Carrie Tendons stood out on her neck Cujo She could hear the low creak of the tendons in her neck. The Dead Zone The scars from the tendon operations stood out clearly on his neck. Doctor Sleep he could hear the tendons in his neck creaking like old doorhinges. Gerald's Game The tendons of his neck stood out like cables. Cords of tendon stood out on the sides of his neck. She could hear the muscles and tendons in her neck creaking like old bedsprings Insomnia Ralph turned his head very slowly, hearing the tendons in his neck creak. Ralph turned and looked at her. The tendons in his neck creaked rustily. IT Henry could hear the tendons in Belch's neck; Needful Things He turned his head in that direction (the tendons in his neck creaking like rusty screen-door springs) Henry turned his head to look, and heard the tendons in his neck creak. The Outsider Terry could see two tendons standing out on the back of his neck, making the number 11. Pet Sematary Rachel turned slowly to her daughter, and Ellie could hear the tendons in her neck creak. when he moved his head, it felt as if the tendons in his neck had been replaced by rusty bandsaw blades. Revival She swallowed with a grimace that made the tendons in her neck stand out. Sleeping Beauties Tiffany screamed, every tendon in her neck standing out in stark relief. The Stand He turned around little by little, the tendons in his neck creaking like the hinges of a door in a haunted house. The Talisman He turned toward the telephone, which was only four feet from where he was working, hearing the tendons in his neck creak. Corded tendons stood out like insulated cables. tendons on their necks standing out in harsh relief The Tommyknockers She turned toward Peter, hearing the tendons in her neck creak like dirty door hinges He turned his head slowly and stared at Ev. Ev could hear the tendons in the man's neck creak. scrawny tendons standing out on his throat. The Regulators He looked slowly to his left, hearing the tendons in his neck creak little man: The Long Walk - Now go peddle your papers, little man. The Running Man - Goodbye little man Cell Nigger: Carrie - keep the niggers out of Kleen Korners The Long Walk - What the hell can you expect from a dumb nigger? The Running Man - I had you pegged for the house nigger. Roadwork - the niggers always keep their distance. 11-22-63 - evil nigger-loving communist monster? Mr. Mercedes - poison the nigger family's dog Finders Keepers - Big buck nigger, isn't he? End of Watch - And where, pray tell, is your nigger lawnboy? Rabid Dogs: 11-22-63 - But you can feel sorry for a good dog that goes rabid, too. Cujo Analyzing books for their meaning: The Long Walk Finders Keepers Sit and Spin: Finders Keepers - sit on it and spin Occam's razor: Finders Keepers Mentions Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts: The Long Walk Cell Finders Keepers Pound Cake: 11-22-63 Finders Keepers Full Daylight: Cell Calling someone a Rabbit: The Long Walk 11-22-63 Bloody foot prints: The Long Walk Gerald's Game choo-choo - 103 results in 17 books blast from the past - 10 results in 5 books Khakis: The Long Walk Finders Keepers None of your bees-wax: Finders Keepers Opinions are like ass-holes, everyone has one: Finders Keepers 11-22-63 Alive, alive, alive: The Long Walk - alive, alive-o Roadwork - alive, awake, aware ... 11-22-63 - Alive, alive, alive Little by slowly: 11-22-63 burrow into the mind: The Long Walk - You burrow until you hit bedrock. Then you burrow into the bedrock. End of Watch - burrowed deep into her mind leg cramp: The Long Walk End of Watch rubber legs: The Long Walk - legs feel rubbery My legs feel funny. Like the muscles are all turning ... baggy. Cell You're going to need a bigger boat: Finders Keepers Character named Sadie: 11-22-63 End of Watch Global Warming: Finders Keepers Expansion-jointed concrete: The Long Walk - The road was now expansion-jointed concrete The Running Man - wide oil-blackened cement with expansion joints. Composition surface: The Long Walk - That composition surface will be hot by noon Roadwork - the frozen composition surface Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera: Finders Keepers Streets named after trees like Pine Street, Elm Street, etc. Finders Keepers shit the bed: End of Watch The Outsider Few teeth or Bad teeth: The Long Walk Scramm smiled, showing the stubborn last survivors of his teeth. 'Salem's Lot He had only five teeth left in his jaw Finders Keepers showing his last remaining teeth in a grin IT Henry said, and offered a big grin which showed an irregular line of yellow teeth. They looked like the pickets in a fence outside a haunted house. Henry had begun to lose his teeth when he was fourteen or so. Dreamcatcher half her teeth were gone. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla Not as Jamie was now, doddering and nearly toothless Duma Key broke into a sunny and nearly toothless grin. Sleeping Beauties exposing teeth that hadn't seen a dentist in a good long while, if ever. Gwendy's Button Box exposing teeth that would make even a hardened dentist wince and turn away. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: The Little Green God of Agony exposing teeth that were little more than tiny eroded gravestones. The Shining grinned widely enough to expose all three gold teeth End of Watch Both of them grin, the younger one with quite a few more teeth. The Tommyknockers there's two teeth less in your head Under the Dome He cackled, showing a few surviving teeth. Sloppy Sam grinned himself, showing all six of his remaining teeth. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: The Night Flier When he grinned, displaying all six of his remaining teeth The Dead Zone using all six of his teeth on them. Easy as shooting fish in a barrel: End of Watch Does the sunrise in the East?: End of Watch He screams like a girl: End of Watch Widget: End of Watch - attaching widgets to wodgets on an assembly line Storyville Small breasts: nubs: nubbins: A-cup: no breasts: nonbreasted: scant bosom: tea-cups: flat as a board: The Long Walk His mother was also tall, but too thin. Her breasts were almost nonexistent: token nubs. Roadwork A pair of harlequin glasses hung against her scant bosom her breasts a soft weight on his stomach (flat enough in those days, her breasts small and not apt to sag much. Carrie their slim, nonbreasted gym teacher A baggy sweater concealed her breasts except for her token nubs. End of Watch flat as a board Any chick who sees the teacups I call tits gets to call me Freddi. The Running Man Flattened, sagging breasts. a scrawny woman with no breasts Sleeping Beauties She was an A-cup Her breasts, once little more than nubbins Revival little sweater-nubbins that might in the future become actual breasts. Skeleton Crew: The Wedding Gig A thin lady with no breastworks to speak of Just After Sunset: The Gingerbread Girl her boobs no more than nubs Under The Dome Wettington and her gunshell tiddies tiddies of hers-a couple of cotton-picking gunshells was what they were One fisted hand is pressed between the scant nubs of her breasts Rose Madder her teacup-sized breasts and small strawberry-colored nipples. 11-22-63 Milly wagged her scaly tail and jiggled her teacup breasts. I don't make the news, I just report it: End of Watch Face Slapping: The Long Walk He brought one hand up and slapped himself across the face, backward and forward, hard. At quarter to four he was given first warning, and he slapped himself twice smartly across the face, trying to make himself wake up. she had slapped him hard enough to make his mouth bleed and told him to shut up, shut up. McVries slapped him twice quickly, forehand on the right cheek, backhand on the left. The Running Man - He dropped the parachute and slapped her. 'Salem's Lot - Susan slapped her across the face. Carrie - I slapped her. Firestarter - Andy slapped her as hard as he could The Dead Zone - She had slapped his face The Tommyknockers - The old man's callused palm slammed across his face. IT - Dick slapped his face Cell - The man slapped her face hard Mr. Mercedes - He slaps first one cheek, then the other. Finders Keepers - Morris slaps her, and hard. End of Watch slaps herself across the face he slaps himself briskly-two hard ones on each cheek. 11-22-63 - I began to slap her face again The Mist - Reppler stepped briskly forward and slapped Amanda, first forehand, then backhand. Duma Key - Wireman slapped first one side of my face, then the other. Not gently, either. New pain is much worse than the old pain: This pain makes the old pain feel like ...: The Long Walk - The sobs ripped out of him and made him ache with a pain that was far beyond anything the Walk had been able to inflict. The Long Walk - when the monstrous pain bolted up Garraty's left leg, making all the pain of the last thirty hours seem like a mere whisper in comparison. End of Watch - it makes his previous pain feel like a bunch of warm-up notes. No good deed goes unpunished: End of Watch You're shitting/shittin me Right to his face The Long Walk - I'll tell him right to his face! End of Watch - turning things she should have said into things she had, and right to his face! The Shining - I told him once right to his face dickweed: End of Watch Cell fuckhead: Come to the for (forground): End of Watch Skull/Head on a Stick: The Long Walk - Look at Olson. A skull on top of a stick. End of Watch Leaving the scene jelly bean: Honest Injun: (Finders Keepers and The Green Mile) Eyes up to the left (lying): End of Watch The Rec (for the recreational center): Finders Keepers children getting killed: Mr. Mercedes Tough titty: 5 results 12 files 11-22-63 - tough titty said the kitty End of Watch - if he doesn't like her secondhand smoke, tough titty. The Outsider - Tough titty said the kitty Monopoly analogies: collect two-hundred dollars: go to jail: go directly to jail: do not pass go: The Running Man Back to Go, collect two-hundred dollars Sort of like landing on Free Parking in Monopoly. Carrie Lose all of your points, go to jail. The Long Walk Ray, you lose all your points. Remember that game? Roadwork Lose one turn. Niggers dispersed by fire hoses in Selma. Go directly to jail.. The Dead Zone Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Go directly to New Hampshire State Prison. The Stand It was no different than the Go to Jail card in Monopoly. Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars. You and your friends are going right into the Las Vegas County Jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Christine It was all nothing but a big shitting game of Monopoly, really. His parents had come up with the Get Out of Jail Free card. Duma Key In Nebraska, a one-seven means do not collect two hundred dollars, go directly to drunk. Mr. Mercedes that makes it like Free Parking in Monopoly. Finders Keepers And then to tell him he's going back to prison: Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Insomnia Go to the doctor. Now. Today. Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars, go directly to Litchfield. Sleeping Beauties inmates called their work accounts Free Parking, like in Monopoly Everything's Eventual: Everything's Eventual You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? Four Past Midnight: The Langoliers Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars, go directly to the nearest rehab, and start drying out, Full Dark, No Stars: A Good Marriage To jail, of course. Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars, go directly to jail. Skeleton Crew: The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Go directly to drunk. Card Game analogies: The Running Man - My people, they're the jack of spades The queen, the lady in the affair, is you. I'm the king; the black man with the sword. Gladiators in Rome: The Long Walk - Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. That's entertainment, Garraty. The Running Man When the Games first started, people said they were the world's greatest entertainment because there had never been anything like them. But nothing's that original. There were the gladiators in Rome who did the same thing. Lose the plot: Finders Keepers jack shit: (meaning nothing) jack-shit: jackshit Ambo: Ambos: (short for Ambulance and Ambulances) End of Watch Doctor Sleep Roger That: End of Watch Petie with a little sister: The Long Walk Finders Keepers Oh well, so it goes: Finders Keepers Bleeding like a stuck pig: The Long Walk - Like a stuck pig The Tommyknockers You bled like a stuck pig, Starting her period early, only spotting here at the farm but bleeding like a stuck pig when she was close to it. Finders Keepers - Morrie, I need a doctor! I'm bleeding like a stuck pig! The Institute - bleeding like a stuck pig. Everything's Eventual: Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - and he was bleeding like a stuck pig. Skeleton Crew: Nona - He was heavier, and bleeding like a stuck pig. The Regulators - Help her, Doc, she's bleedin like a stuck pig! Bag of Bones - I can hold him another minute-two, if I have to-but I'm bleeding like a stuck pig. The Dead Zone - I'm bleeding like a stuck pig, he thought. Desperation - There was also the fact that Mary was not bleeding like a stuck pig. Rose Madder - how Officer Al could still be on his feet even though he was bleeding like a stuck pig Faint chuckle of the stream: Finders Keepers But me no buts: The Long Walk - But me no buts, Ray. Slow down and live. Finders Keepers But me no buts, Lin. Go ahead and but me your buts But me your buts. Brains look like oatmeal: The Long Walk - Curley had gone down in a spray of blood and brains like oatmeal The Tommyknockers - It looked like radioactive oatmeal. Finders Keepers what came out looked like so much oatmeal Nothing left but oatmeal up top. Under the Dome - What she had used to think with now looked like a clot of oatmeal. shove it up your ass: The Long Walk - "Shove it up your ass!" Barkovitch screamed after them. The Running Man - reverse bowl movement beam: The Dark Tower beam mentioned in books outside The Dark Tower farted: The Long Walk He broke wind - a long, sterile rattle that seemed to bear no relationship at all to an honest fart. The Running Man He returend, sat down, farted, 'Salem's Lot Clyde Corliss broke wind. The Tommyknockers looked ready to shoot the moment a squirrel farted. 11-22-63 Did cancer treatments make you fart? The Outsider and accused each other farting Lighting farts: Bachman\Long Walk, The this hairy-assed old boy named Davey Popham had managed to burn off almost all the hair on his ass and the small of his back as well. IT I don't care if it was twenty fuckin feet, you burned my ass off! married instead of graduating high-school: The Long Walk - Scramm The Running Man - Richardson Shit in your boot and eat it: The Running Man The game is rigged: The Long Walk The Running Man Farcical: The Running Man had to be a way. had to: (trope: repeating anything twice) The Long Walk - he had to reach her, had to- had to be Barkovitch, had to be. The Running Man - had to be a way. had to. Cell - The ranks of the phoners had to be seriously depleted - had to be. Abraiding skin: The Long Walk - He slid forward on the end of his nose, abrading the tip of it on the road like soft chalk The Running Man Saying "bullshit" when someone is making a speech: The Long Walk - "I'm proud of you, boys. Proud!" From somewhere behind Garraty a voice said softly but clearly: "Diddly shit." The Running Man Portly: The Running Man pneumonia: The Long Walk The Running Man The Tommyknockers - maybe even pneumonia Getting run over by something heavy: The Long Walk Mr. Mercedes End of Watch Augusta: The Long Walk The Running Man The Tommyknockers - There were trips to Augusta Cell ethereal: The Running Man - The foot itself felt strange and ethereal, barely attached. Coleman: The Tommyknockers - and found her Coleman gas lantern on a high shelf Cell - coleman lantern The Outsider - You got a Coleman gas lamp when you went in gut-shot: comparing intenstines to sausages The Long Walk The Running Man leave us boogie: Cell <- only one! surpassing the previous record: The Long Walk The Running Man Say it until it's gibberesh: The Long Walk Live a little longer. Live a little longer. Live a little longer. Until the words themselves became meaningless and signified nothing. Cell say you're name two-hundred times and you find our you're no one Live a little longer: (sub-string) The Long Walk Live a little longer. Live a little longer. Live a little longer. Until the words themselves became meaningless and signified nothing. Cell Then whatever it was, a vase or some knickknack, decided to live a little longer and settled back into place. Talisman: Cell Yelp and Yowl: Cell Packsack: The Long Walk The Running Man - like a packsack The Tommyknockers - with a loaded gun in my packsack. Cell Uncontrollable laughter: The Long Walk He had gone into hysterics, had a laughing jag, The Running Man But laughter overcame him. Finders Keepers Cell they would think he was having hysterics, and they would be right He laughed harder. He couldn't help it. The Outsider - She began to howl. she laughed herself into another coughing fit Skeleton Crew: The Mist I thought of that tentacle waving Norm's red apron around, and I got laughing. Duma Key I laughed until I rolled bonelessly out of my own chair and plopped onto the sand beside Wireman What the haps?: Cell Drop trau: (drop trausers) Cell Shown red / Seen red: The Long Walk - McVries had shown red The Running Man - she had shown red Carrie - until Carrie saw red. Rabbit: The Long Walk - The Running Man - "That's too bad," Richards said. "I saw a rabbit." See you later alligator, in a while crocodile: Finders Keepers Puppy: (calling a thing a puppy) Cell - he loved that puppy S.A.T.'s: Cell - I never broke a thousands on the S.A.T.'s Vulpine: The Long Walk - His face was speckled by two days of beard and it looked sickly vulpine. The Running Man - McCone was aware of what was happening, and his leaning posture became more and more vulpine. Don't shit me: The Long Walk The Running Man Poet and don't know it: End of Watch khaki: The Long Walk The Tommyknockers - stained his khaki shirt Cell End of Watch One of the main characters has a younger sister: The Long Walk Mr. Mercedes Finders Keepers End of Watch 11-22-63 Fist in mouth: The Long Walk - "Get off my back!" Garraty screamed. He crammed one fist against his lips and bit down on it. The Running Man - Amelia screamed affrightedly in unison, cringing back in her seat with eyes as huge as cracked porcelain doorknobs, trying to cram a whole fist in her mouth. Flogged his dog: The Running Man Route 1 or U.S. 1: The Long Walk - That's also where we get on U.S. 1. And that's where we stay until it's over. The Running Man - Go up Route 1 and we'll talk about it. Cell - were walking North on Route One Souvenir: The Long Walk - A teenager in pegged jeans raced a middle-aged housewife for McVries's empty tube, which had stopped being something useful and had begun its new career as a souvenir. The Running Man - Tomorrow those woods will be full of people looking for a scrap of your shirt, or maybe even a cartridge case. click.+throat: swallowed.+click: (from the mouth) audible click: In The Tall Grass Her mouth was dry. She swallowed, and her throat was dry, too. When it made that click sound, you knew you were dry. "The baby," she tried to say, but nothing would come out, just a scraping click, the sound of someone trying to pick a rusty lock with rusty tools. Jacking off: The Running Man Jesus on a Pony: End of Watch Jesus Pleasus: End of Watch Jesus Mary and Joseph: Roadwork - Hitler copulating with the Virgin Mary But what, dear Mary, Oh-not-so-virgin Mary, are we going to do? 'Salem's Lot - Jesus Mary and Joseph. Cell - Jesus Mary and Josheph NO! The Outsider - The rope was finally loosening, thank God and Jesus and Mary and all the saints. Ice-cream trucks: Mr. Mercedes - Mr. Tastey truck Cell - Mister Softee truck Barsoom Mars: The Long Walk - My home is Barsoom, Mars. Cell - Barsoom! Assume means make an ass out of u and me: Cell white socks: The Long Walk - Garraty saw he had been wearing white athletic socks. Hint 12 recommended them. The Running Man - White socks. (describing poor people) (drew,breathed,hissed,hitched) in breath: The Long Walk Garraty hissed in breath. 11-22-63 She drew in breath Christine His chest hitched—once, twice. Cujo hitched in breath, and screamed. Cycle of the Werewolf hitches in a great, gasping breath, and begins to scream. IT He hitched in breath and turned it into a scream. Ben hitched in breath, sure the scream would follow Koontz hitched in breath to scream again as the clown lurched toward him. Needful Things Norris's thin chest hitched in breath, and he uttered a scream of shame and rage. Revival “No.” His chest hitched and he screamed it. “No!” The Stand He drew one final bubbling gasp, let it out, hitched in a smaller one, and just quit. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands Then his chest hitched and he loosed the boy's name in a long, bloodcurdling cry. His chest hitched once . . . twice . . . three times. Doctor Sleep The breathing hitched. Misery He hitched air into his lungs and closed his eyes. Duma Key His chest hitched, he made a gurk sound deep in his throat The Dead Zone The kid drew breath in hitches. The Green Mile He drew breath in hitches Pet Sematary angry cries became hitches and hiccups and moans. Under the Dome She drew in a deep breath, let it out in little hitches. The Regulators sobbing in big, watery hitches. The Institute his narrow chest still hitching with a few final sobs. Collections\Nightmares & Dreamscapes\The Moving Finger He hitched in breath Collections\Different Seasons\The Breathing Method Its breathing, like the baby's, hitched and caught . . . stopped . . . hitched again . . . stopped . . . Collections\Four Past Midnight\The Library Policeman His chest hitched twice, and Sam could see his throat locked against a sob. hitched up pants The Long Walk He hitched up his pants. He was wearing jeans that were too big for him and he hitched up his pants often. 'Salem's Lot hitched his garrison belt. Dud wiped his hands on his green pants, hitched them up He hitched his pants and walked down to his car. hitched up his green work pants. From A Buick 8 hitched up his belt. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon hitched up her jeans again she hitched at her jeans She hitched constantly at the waist of her loose jeans without realizing it. Insomnia He hitched at the waistband of his jeans hitched at her wayward slip again IT hitched at the sides of his pants Bill hitched up his pants Lisey's Story He hitched up his pants. Needful Things Lenny hitched at the truss beneath his baggy trousers. hitched up his green khaki pants Pet Sematary hitched the straps of the Gerrypack up a bit The Shining hitched his cook's whites at the hips. Under the Dome Frankie hitched up his belt He hitched up his belt Chef hitched up his pjs Blaze He hitched up his gunbelt The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass hitched up her own skirt The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla Aaron hitched up his diaper Full Dark, No Stars: 1922 Sheriff Jones got out, hitched up his belt He hitched at that, getting the pants set the way he wanted them just below his tidy little paunch. Just After Sunset: The Gingerbread Girl She hitched up her shorts Newark: The Long Walk - Then it was on to Newark The Running Man - We are over Newark, New Jersey. Old music makers: The Long Walk - Dave Brubeck, Thelonius Monk, Cannonball Adderly'the Banned Noisemakers that everybody kept under the table and played when the party got noisy and drunk. Cell - Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music Makers playing "Baby Elephant Walk." gathering: The Long Walk - out of the gathering gloom The Running Man - The bus rolled north in the gathering darkness. runways stretched straight and clean into the gathering twilight, 'Salem's Lot - squinting in the gathering gloom a subdued elegance in the gathering gloom. The Dead Zone - Johny slipped quietly out into the gathering storm. Cell - the gathering darkness behind the desk Androscoggin: The Long Walk - Now they were walking parallel to the mighty and dead-polluted Androscoggin River. 'Salem's Lot - The Royal fed the mill-polluted Androscoggin but had never been polluted itself 11-22-63 - deep in the heart of Androscoggin County. bullet near misses: The Long Walk The slugs snapped and whined, and Garraty felt one of them tug air in front of his face. Roadwork Something whizzed past his head. heard the bullets pass overhead Finders Keepers the bullet goes over his head almost close enough to part his hair. The Outsider The bullet grooved the side of Terry's head Ralph felt the passage of the slug, which meant it had missed the top of his head by no more than an inch or two. Sleeping Beauties Frank felt the bullet pass just above his knuckles. Firestarter Missed his head by no more than a quarter of an inch. The Dead Zone Another bullet whizzed by his temple. Under the Dome Big Jim felt the bullet buzz close by his ear Fairy Tale I felt the bullet go between my shoulder and my ear. Death wish: The Long Walk - Ready to grant first wish, every wish, any wish, death wish. The Prize. Cell - I have many issues - I'd be the first to admit it - but a death-wish has never been one of them. Ollie Ollie, Oxen Free / Olly Olly Oxen Free: Cell - Olly-olly-in-for-free The Outsider - character named Ollie Mr. Mercedes - character named Ollie Derry: The Running Man - The Tommyknockers - It - 11-22-63 - Abbreviating: End of Watch - Holly looks for the girls addy The Outsider - Talk to the wits, Don't forget the eye-wits. Correcting English: Cell - Me and the head - the Head and I The Outsider - Me and Helen - Helen and I Crowd: (as some kind of creature) The Long Walk - the savage scream from the throat of Crowd. the great god Crowd clawing its way out of the Augusta basin on scarlet spider-legs and devouring them all alive. Only Crowd, a creature with no body, no head, no mind. Crowd was nothing but a Voice and an Eye, and it was not surprising that Crowd was both God and Mammon. Crowd was to be pleased. Crowd was to be worshiped and feared. Ultimately, Crowd was to be made sacrifice unto. The hands of Crowd groped for it eagerly. He drifted over to the right until the clutching hands of Crowd were inches from him The Outsider - The spectators had become a crowd The Dead Zone - The crowd's mass mouth had received the meal's appetizer and had found it good. The crowd lurched and swayed deliriously toward him The crowd had started to move, panicky as cattle. Nose bleed: Bloody nose: Carrie (blood nose mentioned 3 times) The girl had cried herself into a bloody nose. The Long Walk - His nose was gushing blood. Roadwork - One of them had a nosebleed. It - Georgie sometimes got nosebleeds. The Mist - The guy with the noselbeed? The Tommyknockers - 9 results found! He'd had a nosebleed. The Outsider - Something let go in my nose, that's all, and it went like Old Faithful. No reply: The Long Walk - The soldier didn't reply. The Running Man - He didn't reply; The Tommyknockers - Dugan didn't reply. Gardener didn't reply. Bobi didn't reply. Cell - Clay didn't reply. 11-22-63 - To this he didn't reply. They didn't reply to this. I didn't reply. Finders Keepers - Duck didn't reply. The Outsider - Holly didn't reply. Which was a reply, of course. Get randy: The Outsider - when guys get randy Arc sodium: The Long Walk the fuzzy glow of more arc-sodiums'bone - white this time - above The Outsider Hard to tell under those arc-sodium parking lot lights Snipping motions: cutting gesture: The Long Walk the reporter made snipping motions with his fingers at the two technicians. (repoter to technician to cut what they just recorded) Roadwork then made cutting gestures with the first two fingers of his right hand. (repoter to technician to cut what they just recorded) Shoo: (whole word) Shooing: (whole word) The Long Walk His mother made shooing gestures. The Outsider Lovie made a shooing gesture. Rage The cops tried to shoo them away. Plastic legs: The Long Walk - Plaaastic feet, Garraty. I'm just gonna have these ones cut off, fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. I'll have new plastic feet put on Roadwork - He looked like somebody who had just had his legs cut off and was trying to fool everybody that he was looking forward to the new plastic ones fuck 'em if they can't take a joke: The Long Walk - fuck 'em if they can't take a joke A day late and a buck short: The Outsider - A day late and a buck short sibling rivalry: End of Watch - He breaks up this strangely pleasant sibling rivalry Finders Keepers - Were they two years closer in age, maybe they could have gotten that sibling rivalry thing going, but maybe not even then. The Outsider - Given the age difference between the two brothers - seven years - they had been amazingly close. Or maybe it wasn't so amazing, maybe that was just enough space to keep sibling rivalry to a bare minimum. euphemisms for urinating: The Outsider - tap a kidney vomit until nothing left: Cell - vomited until there was nothing left. theremin: Cell - It wavered like the cry of a theremin in an old horror movie go to hell: Roadwork - Oh, go to hell. Carrie - All of you, go to hell. Tommyknockers - You got to let the world go to hell in its own way Cell - Go to hell, buddy. Finders Keepers - he told them to go to hell. speak of the devil: The Outsider - Detective Anderson - ah, speak of the devil. chuckle of the brook: gurgle of the brook: The Long Walk - A small brook gurgled its way underneath. Cell - the noisy chuckle of the brook. Related - noise of inanimate objects Roadwork - making the silverwear gossip. create that feeds on emotion: It - creature that feeds on fear The Outsider - creature that feeds on sadness Describing an animal dying slowly: The Long Walk - where it lay dull-eyed, panting, and shivering. Roadwork - It sat in the snow surrounded by a pink blood stain, it's beak slowly opening and closing. aging quickly: The Long Walk - He had aged unbelievably; Stebbins was an old man. Cell - He looked ten years older than the man Clay ahd met in Boston. intestines hanging out: The Long Walk - The blue snakes of Olson's intestines were slowly slipping through his fingers. The Running Man - Richards got up very slowly, holding his intestines in. Roadwork - and the steaming sausages of his own intestines. The Tommyknockers - shitting out their own intestines! Cell - while his intestines swung back and forth at the level of his crotch. Bingo: The Tommyknockers - Bingo! Cell - Bingo! 11-22-63 - Bingo, Finders Keepers - Bingo! Fuck your warnings!: The Long Walk - Fuck your warnings! Finders Keepers - Fuck your warning. The Outsider - Stick your warning up your - to-may-to, to-mah-to: The Outsider - You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to. insulted look: The Long Walk - Barkovitch put on his insulted look and moved away. The Outsider - Bowtie gave him an insulted look. irons in the fire: The Outsider - too many irons currently in the fire, stepping in blood: The Long Walk - Stebbins stepped over the body. His foot slid a little in some of the blood, and his next step with that foot left a bloody track The Outsider - In the movies, no one stepped in a puddle of fresh blood and left bright red tracks behind. scratching the face: The Long Walk - One pinwheeling hand ripped stripes of blood across the face Carrie - hooked her right hand into claws and ripped it across her own cheek, bringing thin blood 'Salem's Lot Her hands, hooked into claws, pinwheeled across his face, dragging red stripes across the surprised orderly's forehead and right cheek. The hands clawed at Ben's cheeks, pulling long gouges in his skin. The Outsider - Ralph let her rake her fingers down the left side of his face Insomnia - When Mom opened his face with her fingernails, Pet Sematary - Can't you see her harrowing her face with her fingernails? raring to go: The Long Walk - Said he liked to see someone who was raring to rip. The Outsider - Especially when you were as raring to go as I was this morning. Stephen King books mentioned in other books: Finders Keepers - mentions movie soundtrack to Shawshank Redemption when the wind was right: The Long Walk - I even took to reading Keats to her out in back of the house, when the wind was right. Maybe I should have read her Swinburne when the wind was wrong. The Outsider - Not so fresh when the wind comes from the west I don't know why I'm doing this: The Long Walk - Roadwork - Are you really going to pull the string? I really don't know. Getting too old for this: Roadwork - He was getting too old for this sort of bullshit Knee joints pop: The Long Walk He saw Olson flex first one knee, then the other, again. Curious, he tried it himself. His knee joints popped audibly You'd start by squatting, and your stiff knee-joints would pop like toy air-pistols. every few moments he would bend one knee swiftly. Each time Garraty could hear the joint pop. His knees popped explosively. Carrie Billy had just flexed his knees to make his joints pop. 11-22-63 hoping like hell I wouldn't pop my knee. and swung it at my left knee. I heard something down there make a popping sound. Cujo She bent down, expecting her knees to pop, but they didn't. The Dark Half and as he rose to his feet, knees popping dryly The Dead Zone His knees popped like dud firecrackers. Dreamcatcher She rose, her knees popping, and burped again. Duma Key His knees popped. Insomnia the scream shot him to his feet so hard and fast that his knees popped. IT he ran with his knees popping Lisey's Story He squats beside her and his knees pop. His knees popped Rose Madder his knees popping. The Stand his knees popped like pistol shots He stood up, wincing as his knees popped. She knelt clumsily and without grace, her knees popping like firecrackers as she did so. The Talisman They sat down with Wolf on the aisle, his knees accordioned up uncomfortably The Tommyknockers Both knees popped. His knee buckled and struck the side of the ship. The kneecap popped like a bottlecap. Rage I got up and heard both my knees pop. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger The boy got up to fetch it, his knees popping slightly. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands Roland stood up. His knees popped like gunshots. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla Callahan dropped to one knee. There was an audible pop as the joint flexed The Man in the Black Suit He hunkered beside me on his hams, his knees popping just as the knees of any normal man might Low Men in Yellow Coats He got to his feet, using the table for support and grimacing when one knee popped loudly. The Little Green God of Agony His knees popped like pistol shots. Fan Theory: George LeBay from Christine was in the Turnpike crowd The Long Walk. niggers want to give away the panama canal The Long Walk There were other crowd standouts. A man with an electric bullhorn who alternately praised Garraty and advertised his own candidacy to represent the second district; a woman with a big crow in a small cage which she hugged jealously to her giant bosom; a human pyramid made out of college boys in University of New Hampshire sweatshirts; a hollow-cheeked man with no teeth in an Uncle Sam suit wearing a sign which said: WE GAVE AWAY THE PANAMA CANAL TO THE COMMUNIST NIGGERS. Christine “Steer clear of colleges. They're full of niggerlovers that want to give away the Panama Canal. ‘Think-tanks,' they call em. ‘Asshole-tanks,' say I.” Easily side stepped a punch: The Long Walk - Rank threw another punch. Barkovitch nimbly stepped around it 'Salem's Lot - He swung his haymaker right, which would catch ole four-eyes queer-boy right in the mouth and send his teeth flying like piano keys. Get ready for the dentist, queery-boy. Here I come. Mark Petrie ducked and sidesstepped at the same time instant. The haymaker went over his head. pulling pigtails: 'Salem's Lot - pulling pigtails on Bug 6. Mr. Mercedes - never called me names or pulled my pigtails Mocking prayer: The Long Walk Amen, hallelujah, chunky peanut butter. Our father, which art in tinfoil, hallow'd be thy name. "Hail Mary," McVries muttered. "Full of grace," Stebbins said from behind them. "Help me win this stock-car race." 'Salem's Lot hallelujah, chunky peanut butter. Hail Mary, full of grace, help me win this stock-car race. Just After Sunset: Rest Stop Tonight he was going for the long bomb. Hail Mary fulla grace, help me win this stock-car race. The Stand Brad smiled nervously and said, "Hail Mary, fulla grace, help me win this stock-car race." Powers of the mind: The Long Walk Carrie 'Salem's Lot End of Watch Cell It The Dead Zone Firestarter The Shining The Green Mile Dolores Claiborne (Eclipse connection) Gerald's Game (Eclipse connection) 11-22-63 Duma Key Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game Eclipse Connection Gerald's Game the image of the woman kneeling by the splintered boards with her slip puddled on the ground beside her Dolores Claiborne I also think that little girl I saw then n again later was a real little girl, and that she was sittin with her father somewhere else along the path of the eclipse at the same time I was sittin on the back porch with Joe. Pain of walking: The Long Walk - And my legs feel like they got harpoons in them all the way up to- His legs were screaming at him that they simply weren't going to do this shit any longer. monstrous pain bolted up Garraty's left leg The Dead Zone - it feels like somebody took a long splinter and rammbed it stright up my legs to my balls The Shop: DSI: Department of Scientific Intelligence: Getting bonked in the head with a baseball: The Long Walk - Once he got under one and jabbed his glove at a hunk of thin air while the ball landed on his forehead with an audible bonk! like a cantaloupe being whocked with the handle of a kitchen knife. It - He stood looking up, raised his glove in an almost aimless punching gesture, and instead of settling into his glove, the ball had struck him squarely on top of the head, producing a hollow bonk! sound. It was as if the ball had been dropped from three stories up onto the roof of a Ford sedan. summertime blues: The Beam, off the beam, on the beam: It It was one of those perfect summer days which, in a world where everything was on track and on the beam, you would never forget. "Before removing the mote from thy neighbor's eye, attend the beam in thine own," the clown intoned, Roadwork I was a little off the beam, but I'm going to get back on. drained of color: Firestarter his face stamped with pain. He was paper white. Her face was a pallid moonlet in the dark. A ghost of a smile: A hand fell on his shoulder: Onward Christian soldiers: Shit don't stink: shit happens: the horse you rode in on: goshdarn: gosh darn: in a nice way: fight him or crawfish before the day was over Rage Owl shit: Rage jackribbit: Rage He jackrabbited in front of me hangdog: Bachman\Long Walk, The one of the Troopers looked around, startled and . . . well, almost hangdog. Rage They were all staring at me with that funny hangdog look kids get when they've gone too far, The Dark Tower I The Gunslinger a rather sad-looking specimen only half-stoned, looking hangdog and ashamed. Collections\Skeleton Crew\The Wedding Gig I've never been able to get her out of my mind, or the agonized, hangdog way Scollay had looked that first night put on a crocodile face about the whole thing. Rage seemed right: seems right: feels right: felt right: was right: is right: true-blue: true blue: Fuck you very much: fuckstick: cunt licker: cunt-licker: cuntlicker: Mostly toothless The shit The total shit Go fuck yourself: Reader's digest: Grinning like there was no tomorrow: Rage Jesus please us: The room was dead quiet: Rage jesus wept: Mississippi: counting - Example: Mississippi-one, Mississippi-two, like that? tough titty: better of it: (example thought better of it) Mouth O: O.: (shape of mouth) The Long Walk - His mouth hung open in a wet, sloppy O. Night Shift: The Man Who Loved Flowers - her mouth an opening black O of terror Under the Dome: Georgia's mouth dropped into an O of dismay. His lips were folded into a poochy little O. hyuck: footfalls Lenoleum floors gore-crow gore-crew star wormwood? fool me once: Dolores Claiborne <- only one! shit on that: shit all over that: shit or git: git: deurogitory name tell us a story: stinkeye: stink-eye: pig in shit: pig in a ... bun in the oven: If I'm lyin, I'm dyin: total eclipse: platitude: (substring) knees pop: (substring) knee pop: (substring) said to no one: says to no one: sure as shit: doth: bet your boots: sucking face: arc-sodium: sodium light: <- need to append unless it's acr-sodium light (substring) snug as a bug: (usually snug as a bug in a rug) nubbins: Acme: bee in: (Example: bee in bonnet/hat) (case sensitive) balls to the wall: balls-to-the-wall: been there, done that: soup to nuts: soup-to-nuts: bust a gut: busting a gut: without a paddle: pigs will: (example: pigs will whistle) bird-dog: (substring) kachina doll: (substring) no humor in it (fake smile or laugh) piss like a: gold teeth: gimlet: That's the ticket: can't take a joke: without much humor: not for the world: writ large: Connections to The Long Walk: Roadwork - character is trying to remember someone's name: Baker? Barker? There is also a Barker Street. Both are call-outs to characters Art Baker and Gary Barkovitch The Crowd by Ray Bradbury The Long Walk Once, in the eighth grade, he had read a story by a man named Ray Bradbury, and this story was about the crowds that gather at the scenes of fatal accidents, about how these crowds always have the same faces, and about how they seem to know whether the wounded will live or die. The Crowd Face mugged and gibbered and cheered, but always remained essentially the same. Dreamcatcher That makes him remember a Ray Bradbury story, he thinks it's called "The Crowd," where the people who gather at accident sites-always the same ones-determine your fate by what they say. Locations: Derry Castle Rock Shawshank Chester's Mill Jerusalem's Lot 'Salem's Lot Jeep Scout (vehicle) mentions (search for Scout or Jeep Scout (subset)) Bag of Bones The Scout fishtailed Christine Arnie and Michael and I got their Oldtown canoe on top of their Scout and tied it down. Dreamcatcher Now, as he followed the Scout's headlights through the thickening snow Needful Things the Scout had veered off the road at high speed and had struck a tree. Rose Madder a four-wheel-drive Scout full of them. The Stand Hap was in the garage bay putting a new tailpipe on Tony Leominster's Scout Four Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden The Scout was no longer in the driveway. Night Shift: One for the Road I've got a four-wheel-drive Scout. Skeleton Crew: The Mist Your Scout is a four-door, is it? Star/Explorer/Cub/Boy/Girl/Eagle Scout mentions (TLW connection) also Scout's honor Tums 18/12 Rolaids 12/10 Chester's Mill and Tarker's Mill were sometimes known as the Twin Mills long days and pleasant nights ka-Pow ka-bam ka-blam ka-boom ka-ploom ka-floomp ka-chow ka-chonk ka-thud ka-pop ka-bloosh ka-whap ka-whamm ka-whammm ka-whaaam ka-whaaaam ka-whap ka-whummm ka-spangg Mad as a hatter Crazy as a shithouse rat Crazy/Crazier'n/Mad as a shithouse rat/mouse/bear/hatter/etc. tits of America Hough - common last name, link to The Long Walk cyclopean crescent his fist was so tight his fingernails made little crescent moons in his palm. Sleeping Beauties the nails digging crescents into his palms. Finders Keepers Erase this right away, Drew thinks, his fingernails biting into his palms. He looks down at them and sees his fingernails digging into his palms. He lets up and watches the white crescents there fill in red. his fingers interlaced so tightly that his closely clipped nails dug into the backs of his hands. Doctor Sleep her nails digging into deep, blood-crusted crescents they had already made in her palms. Cujo Her fist was so tightly clenched that the fingers ached. Dimly, she could feel the crescents of her nails biting into her palm. Rose Madder He looked down at his finger and saw deep, bleeding crescents on either side of it. but now blood was brightly visible in the creases of his closed fist. The Talisman with his hands clenched into tight and somehow anal little fists, the hidden nails digging viciously into his palms. Sloat often found his palms tattooed with dented bruises left by his fingernails. He opened them and looked thoughtfully at the blood which flowed out of the deep semi-circular wounds in his palms. The Institute He was clenching his fists hard enough to leave marks in his palms. Needful Things His hands slowly rolled themselves into fists. His carefully manicured nails cut into the flesh of his palms. He did not notice the blood when it began to flow. Insomnia The fingers had been clamped down so long that they were creaky and reluctant to open. When they finally did, he saw the marks of his nails pressed into the flesh of his palm. tweedledum and tweedledee (5/5) Trains - King witnessed a friend being struck by a train as a child but in his shock, can't remember it. He returned home speechless. His family learned of his friend's death later. The Dark Tower - Charlie the Choo-Choo and Blaine the train is a pain The Talisman - Morgan Sloat's train Doctor Sleep - Teenytown train The Body - the boys were almost hit by a train [black] engineer*boot/boots The Gunslinger His engineer boots made a mystical V. they were engineer boots he found in the old train-yard Needful Things splashing muddy water on the toes of his engineer boots. the cleats on his engineer boots clockin along the sidewalk. Lisey's Story On his feet are engineer boots with side-buckles. IT and blocky engineer boots although this doofus in the engineer boots didn't know it in their engineer boots and they steal his life. and a pair of scuffed engineer boots. and his old engineer boots cleats on his engineer boots dragging and tapping. The Dead Zone snugged down over square-toed engineer boots Christine His cleated engineer boots drummed the pavement. The Body two pairs of feet in black engineer boots with side-buckles then stomp him with their engineer boots. He puts on his pants, his engineer boots, finds a sweater. manicured nails Roadwork His fingernails were manicured. He had never seen manicured nails exactly like that except on TV commercials Thinner Billy saw one manicured hand straying toward the intercom. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of Three But there was the nicely cut suit, the manicured fingernails. Desperation his exquisitely manicured fingers spread on the lapels of his suitcoat. Gerald's Game Gerald's carefully manicured hand swooped wildly back and forth in the air. Needful Things reached inside with the carefully manicured nail of one finger His carefully manicured nails cut into the flesh of his palms. Lenore's hands closed into fists, hiding the elegantly manicured nails. The Stand put our well-manicured hands over our eyes Inside View (66+ times in 17+ books) including Billy Summers cordite All things serve the beam gabble dark figure jitter spheres The Long Walk all the screaming insanity there might be in the universe, all the idiot whistling laughter of the spheres The Gingerbread Girl Even if they met in heaven, standing ankle-deep in clouds while angels all around them played the music of the spheres Lisey's Story She closed her eyes again and seemed to hear faint music, not that of the spheres Insomnia Short-Timers and Long-Timers live in overlapping spheres of existence-on connected floors of the same building, if you like-ruled by the Random and the Purpose. This is a loose connection to The Long Walk: Someone screaming about their foot or feet. The Raft "My foot!" Deke was screaming. "My foot! My foot! My foot!" The Long Walk "My feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-" gunmetal Repeating: The Long Walk: I have to go, he had told her. I have to, don't you understand, I have to. "Whoever wins better keep his word," McVries said suddenly. "He just better." one of them had to be Barkovitch, had to be. Finders Keepers: I have to get something here. Have to. I have to keep it together a little longer, Morris thinks. I have to. I have to think, he tells himself. I have to Hold that thought, kiddo, Hodges thinks as he starts back to his car. Hold that thought. That can't be why I'm here. It can't. Are you at the airport? Are you? End of Watch: But it has to be the games. Has to be. Apt Pupil: But had Denker been the one to speak them? Had he? The Institute: You better be there, Ionidis. You just better. Night Shift: Battleground - There had to be a way out of this blind alley. There had to be. Everything's Eventual: That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French - Because I have to break out of this cycle, this groove. I have to. Four Past Midnight: The Langoliers "I will if I have to," Craig muttered as he walked back into the waiting room. "I will if I have to." I have to make him stop moving or he'll get up and kill me. I have to make him stop moving or he'll get up and kill me. 1922 - "Do I have to look at her? Poppa, do I have to look?" The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Mile 81 - I have to go, he had told her. I have to, don't you understand, I have to. The Dead Zone - I have to do something about Stillson. I have to. Needful Things I have to have that picture! I have to! I have to tell him-sooner or later I have to. wants/needs One-room schoolhouse: I remember King mentioning one-room schools before. I think it was a short-story in Skeleton Crew. The Long Walk They passed a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. an abandoned one-room schoolhouse that had been replaced by the new Consolidated building Surviving the Depression: The Long Walk Morticians go on eating even in a depression. Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead. suffer a witch to live witch's tit witch-grass Hansel and Gretel Wicked Witch of the East Wizard of Oz references: There's no place like (home, dome) Kenduskeag Ayuh Connection to The Long Walk Dreamcatcher. The fart "It seemed to go on forever" reminded me of The Long Walk "sterile rattle that seemed to bear no relationship at all to an honest fart" back stoop Onward Christian Soldiers Onward, Christian Soldiers had had wetting the pants The Long Walk Garraty ejaculates, and wets his pants as a child The Dark Tower II The Drawing of the Three he came in his pants. The baggy sweatshirt also covered the wet spot I had a feeling that we would still be there when Gabriel flew overhead, clutching the Judgement trump trump: judgement: semen rimmed glasses does a bear shit in the woods time flies when you're having fun chronometer cordoned pot to piss in Bowie - surname thought not - add to think not Cribbage Shirley Jackson - The Long Walk connection Esso mitt baseball glove cords stand cord stand Christine every muscle standing out, each cord standing out, even the blood-vessels standing out in perfect relief. 'Salem's Lot But Dud Rogers had taken it off himself, cords standing out on his neck, veins bulging on his forehead Dark Tower III Susannah howled and rocked backward, cords standing out on her neck. Dreamcatcher Jonesy redoubled his grip on the doorknob, cords standing out on his forearms and on the sides of his neck, lips skinned back to show his teeth. IT Bill was standing up, gripping the bike's handlebars from underneath, head turned up toward the cloudy sky, cords standing out on his neck. Lisey's Story The cords stand out on his neck. He breathes through his mouth-long harsh shaking breaths. The Stand He lugged the TV in by her bed, the cords standing out heroically on his arms Tommyknockers sweat running down her face, cords standing out in her neck as she hung up the new lights. Ruth lowered her head and continued to walk, her mouth drawn down in a grimace of effort, cords standing out on her neck. obdurate 26 11-26-63 2 Misery 1 Pet Sematary 1 The Tommyknockers 1 The Library Police 1 Thinner 1 Black House 1 Christine 1 The Dark Tower II 1 Gerald's Game X never saw Y again That was the last time X saw Y Suicide Stairs Gwendy's Button Box There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. (as she did when she first started her runs up the Suicide Stairs two months ago) Say! Why do they call them the Suicide Stairs, Gwendy? and then charge up the Suicide Stairs once more. When she comes back from her run up the Suicide Stairs on Monday Thanks to the Suicide Stairs, that nickname has been laid to rest. she runs the Suicide Stairs for the first time in almost a year. After a while, she gets up and jogs down the Suicide Stairs and home again. She thinks about running Suicide Stairs but decides against it Jumped off the Suicide Stairs. She strikes off in the dark at a brisk pace and heads for the Suicide Stairs before she realizes she doesn't want to go to the Suicide Stairs at all. when she first met him at the top of the Suicide Stairs first encountered on a bench at the top of Castle View's Suicide Stairs Elevation there had been more before the collapse of the Suicide Stairs a few years earlier bullspit gut shot gut-shot gutshot gut shoot gut-shoot gutshoot shoot them in the gut (many variations unfortunately, just need to search for gut to find them all) hot-shit hot shit match for it match dimes matching dimes Garraty concentrated on picking them up and putting them down. pick them up and lay them down pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down picking them up and laying them down Pick 'em up, put 'em down Pussy Tickler mustache The Dark Half The guy with the stupid little pussy-tickler mustache was a lot quicker than Stark had expected. Needful Things Lester knew what some fellows called moustaches like that: pussy-ticklers. Grow your goddam pussy-tickler over that. Polluted river trope The Body But there were no fishing jumping out there Dirt collars of foam color of old ivory The Long Walk Beneath them the water boiled along, sullen and salty, dressed with cheesy yellow foam. Describing the hair on the nape of the neck or lip as fine or fuzz I could see the fine down on the nape of his neck. Ralph could remember a fine down on her upper lip father had always called quackfuzz. Romans, Chrisians, Lions, Guillotin The Body She told me that if I'd been born a Roman I would have been right there in the Colosseum, munching grapes and watching as the lions disemboweled the Christians. The Long Walk They're not getting thrown to the lions. The French lords and ladies used to screw after the guillotinings. The old Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. The Long Walk Ding-dong-bell-pussy's-down-the-well. Who pushed her in? Little Jackie Flynn. Dolores Claiborne Ding-dong-bell, pussy's in the well. The Breathing Method humorless laugh - similar to grin/smile Happy Crappy The Body "What's all this happy crappy? How'd it come out!" Big Driver "Did you pick that happy crappy up off the road?" Bag of Bones thank God-but there's still a fair amount of happy crappy I ain't got to yet. Christine that's pretty stiff on top of the tools fees and the lift fees and all that happy crappy. Watch Guy Lombardo and all that happy crappy. That'd be all right. The Dark Half Ask Mamma if she believes this happy crappy. IT How about all that happy crappy, sports fans? Lisey's Story who's going to write up all this happy crappy for some campus outlet or another The Stand (17X) I'd piss Coors if I could. You believe that happy crappy? Trashcan said he did indeed believe that happy crappy. You believe that happy crappy? It was the last time he saw her alive The Dead Zone It was the last time he ever spoke to her. She died at five minutes past eight on the morning of August 20. IT that was the last time I ever saw my brother George alive. It was the last time I ever saw him alive. Needful Things Todd had waved back before getting in the Scout. It was the last time he saw them alive. Nettie left. It was the last time Polly ever saw her alive. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams\Bad Little Kid That was the last time I saw her alive. Cujo He never saw his father alive again. The Shining She goes up to her room around ten-thirty, and that's the last time anybody saw her alive. Duma Key I had seen Elizabeth Eastlake for the last time. She turned back once and waved to me, by then little more than a girl-shape behind the polarized glass. I wish with all my heart that I could have seen her better, because I never saw her again. He died of a heart attack two months later, in Tamazunchale's open-air market, while dickering for fresh tomatoes. Under the Dome “Oh, you bet!” he called back, and drove away. The next time she saw him, he was dead. Joyland In the spring of 1992, Tom was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was dead six months later. trundle Hill House was found 8 times in 5 works Captain Trips 34 times in 3 works. Cadillac 260 times in 50 works Buick 491 times in 35 works Mercedes 429 times in 33 works beeswax taste of pennies (search for pennies for variations) adam's apple bobbing up and down preternatural Microsoft IBM Mac/Macintosh Apple (computer) AOL iPad iPhone iPod iTunes Dell laptop personal computer PC Zip discs hotmail Phantom of the Opera Dr. Seuss The Institute Luke thought of Dr. Seuss. Thing one and thing two. Pepsi Coke Coca-Cola Nehi Big Mac Secret Sauce REAL PEOPLE M. Night Shyamalan Donald Trump Everything's Eventual:Lunch at the Gotham Café I understand that you want to see her, and that's the reason why you have to be very careful, and make no mistakes. You're not Donald Trump and she's not Ivana Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Sneakers It's mostly Ginger, the chick in the group, playing mudhoney in some generic bayou with a guy who looks like Donald Trump in overalls. Bag of Bones First I marry the son of an extremely rich man, and after he dies, I fall under the protective wing of another rich guy. Next I'll probably move in with Donald Trump. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla When my Ma used to see some rich guy on TV-Donald Trump, for instance- End of Watch He's living like Donald Trump, Ruth Scapelli thinks. The Outsider Says the man who probably voted for Donald Trump, Ralph thought. Above the kitchen pass-through was a defaced photograph of Donald Trump. Sleeping Beauties Few could compare-in fact, so far, officially, there was only Donald Trump and cannibals. Elevation Yeah, and solid Republican. Conservative Republican. The county went for Trump three-to-one in '16 and they think our stonebrain governor walks on water. The Institute Which, she said, had no money because "Trump and his cronies took it all back. They understand culture no more than a donkey understands algebra." hung on the wall next to the official portrait of President Trump. Never mind the Times with its headline about Trump and North Korea; "Did she know about Trump?" Kalisha asked. If It Bleeds (2020) (novella from collection If It Bleeds) She's discussed that possibility with Allie Winters many times, especially after her mother told her - proudly - that she voted for Donald Trump (oough). RAT (2020) (novella from collection If It Bleeds) Lester was reporting on the latest Trump farrago, Although I must warn you the market is barely making half-steam these days unless it's a book about Trump and his cohorts. Jerry Falwell Shirley Jackson 18 times in 12 works I hear that. Video Game mentions Asteroids Pac-Man Donkey Kong Space Invaders Laser Strike Super Mario Brothers games like Tetris, Simon, and SpellTower. Nothing complicated like Grand Theft Auto. solitaire, Angry Birds, and Frogger, Pitfall! Ping-Pong against his teeth against her teeth mashed his lips mash*lip [regex] (find what you're looking for, then look for more variations to search) cacophony nobody loves a nobody loves a smartass nobody loves a deader nobody loves a clown fit to split ducky ... isn't that ducky isn't that just ducky was just ducky Oil's just fuckin ducky. That's ducky Cain Rose Up Good drink, good meat, good God, let's eat! The Stand Good food, good meat, good God, let's eat Survivor Type good food good meat good God let's eat. "desultory" The Institute They exchanged the desultory conversational gambits of mere acquaintances- the Wolves of the Calla A dozen desultory shoppers The Talisman playing a desultory game of cards on a coffee table The Stand They still did tests on him here, but they seemed desultory. The Shining The driver shifted his stance companion-ably as if they were having a desultory chat on the back steps IT There was another period of desultory, almost aimless conversation. Insomnia Okay, Ralph thought now as he watched the desultory mid-morning flow of customers There was some desultory, almost forced laughter The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon In the world she had left, a desultory remnant of the search went on Doctor Sleep Steamhead Steve, Baba the Red, Bent Dick, and Greedy G were playing a desultory game of canasta The Dark Half which seemed so oddly exhausted and desultory-when George Stark rang. 'Salem's Lot Milt and Pat Middler were having a desultory conversation The Mist Norton and I made desultory conversation Nightmares & Dreamscapes: It Grows On You The old men watch the children and speak in low, desultory tones. there are other worlds than these Hearts in Atlantis: Low Men in Yellow Coats Not just one world, Bobby thought. Not just one. There are other worlds than this, millions of worlds, all turning on the spindle of the Tower. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger "Go then. There are other worlds than these." The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three the boy who had said Go then-there are other worlds than these before plunging into the abyss. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands "Go then," Roland said, "there are other worlds than these." And fainted. After all, there are other worlds than these and that fuckin train rolls through all of them. Go, then-there are other worlds than these. "Go, then," the gunslinger murmured, rolling back onto his side and drawing his knees up once more, "there are other worlds than these." He was silent for a moment. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass it's one of the most important things anyone has ever said to me: ‘Go, then, there are other worlds than these.' "There are other worlds than these," Eddie said. "Remember?" The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah ‘Go, then-there are other worlds than these.' The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower she added: "There are other worlds than these." Doctor Sleep If you think the shining begins and ends with paltry shit like telepathy, you're way short." He paused. "There are other worlds than these." Under The Dome The one thing I'm sure of is that there are other worlds than the ones we can see with our puny telescopes here on Earth. Insomnia Lachesis: [To other worlds than these.] all was well Just After Sunset: A Very Tight Place So far, though, all was well. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: The Doctor's Case and called down to ask if all was well. Dark Tower: The Dark Tower III The Waste Lands he had done his fatherly duty and all was well, all was well, and all manner of things were well. Dark Tower: The Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass even a gold one for the largest of the freeholds-all was well. Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole even a gold one for the largest of the freeholds-all was well. Dreamcatcher If it kept snowing that might change, but for now, all was well. This calm wouldn't last long, but for now all was well. As well as it could be. Finders Keepers and peeked briefly into the garage to make sure all was well there. Gerald's Game Then he smiled again and all was well. Talisman, The all was well and all was well and all manner of things was well. Car 54, Where are you? lackadaisical roont (ruined) feeder road testicles.+crawl 'Salem's Lot The skin on the testicles seems to crawl and tighten. IT He remembered how the flesh of his testicles had begun to crawl Needful Things He felt the flesh of his testicles crawling madly; his balls seemed to be trying to pull themselves back to where they had come from. caught pregnant / catch pregnant cords.+neck cords on her neck cords on his neck Kewpie doll macadam apt (maybe just a subset) acrid heliograph (substring) gork (case-insensitive substring) bad self - wrong? Go with your bad self Right? Go on with your bad self - King not understanding modern slang? Connected to King not understanding tech? flash-drives or copy protected, how to pay Uber. welsh dresser Make like an amoeba and split A day late and a dollar/buck short bells and whistles take it to the bank arms fly up trope, hands throw up right before death, long walk connection, Barkovitch golden oldie famous.+infamous give shit one old habits [die/died hard] [are strong habits] ask me no questions are we clear [on that/this]? it is what it is talk is cheap miles to go before [we/you/he] sleep Four Past Midnight: The Langoliers We have miles to go before we sleep, and there's no time for therapy. 11-22-63 Miles to go before you sleep, and all that. Dreamcatcher he had twelve-point-seven miles to go before he could sleep. End of Watch We've got miles to go before we sleep. He has miles to go before he sleeps, and he's anxious to start rolling them. Miles to go before he sleeps, and then the final touch, the cherry on top of the sundae. The Talisman We've got promises we must keep, miles to go before we sleep, and you are still an utter creep. "depth and strength" is found 3 times. Doctor Sleep "Help me, Abra," he said, and felt her join in. Once they were together, the thought instantly gained depth and strength. Joyland This was partly because I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness, but mostly because I was dismayed by the depth and strength of my jealousy. The Stand But when she thought of the baby in her belly, a feeling of fierce protectiveness swept over her all at once, a feeling that perplexed her and frightened her a little with its depth and strength. "bright*eyed and foo" or "bright*eyed, foo" Under the Dome All brighteyed and bushy-tailed 11-22-63 Doctor Sleep Dreamcatcher The Green Mile Sleeping Beauties. Just After Sunset: Bright-eyed and ring-tailed Dolan's Cadillac - bright-eyed and smiling Bag of Bones - "bright-eyed, smiling" and "bright-eyed, cheerful" Dreamcatcher - bright-eyed and interested Pet Sematary - bright-eyed and full of beans Under the Dome - bright-eyed and eagar The Regulators - bright-eyed and excited Karen Carpenter's death Mr. Mercedes The Tommyknockers Thinner The Long Walk: Last names found in other books (last book searched is If It Bleeds) Aaronson: Bedilia Aaronson in Dedication, Scotty Aaronson in The Shining Arthur Baker: Mr. Baker in The Sun Dog, La Vern Baker in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band, Jared Baker in The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, Darrel Baker in The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, pulper named Baker in Uncle Otto's Truck, Randy Baker in 11-22-63, Howard Baker in The Dead Zone, Sheriff John Baker in The Stand, Any Baker in The Tommyknockers, Ron Baker in Thinner Curley: Curley from 11-22-63 Ewing: Mrs. Ewing in The Body Charlie Field: Bob Beal Field in Head Down, Tonney Field in Cell, Don Field in Duma Key Percy: Percy Wetmore from The Green Mile, Percy Sledge from Autopsy Room Four, Percy the fish in The Jaunt, Percy from Duma Key Raymond Garraty: Raymond Garraty in Bag of Bones Harkness: Buck Harkness in Home Delivery Bill Hough: Tammy Hough in Gerald's Game, Carl Hough in The Stand, Donald Hough in Blaze Jensen: Jensen from The Little Green God of Agony, Belinda Jensen in End of Watch Klingerman: Dr. Klingerman in The Tommyknockers, Dave Klingerman in Apt Pupil Larson: Uncle Larson in Gramma, Poul Larson in Doctor Sleep, Bill Larson in If It Bleeds, Buzzy and Drew Larson in RAT Peter McVries: Peter McVries in The Wind Through the Keyhole Frank Morgan: Uncle Morgan in Black House, George Morgan in From A Buick 8, George Morgan in Gwendy's Button Box, Scooter Morgan in IT, Lester Morgan in Pet Sematary, Michaela Morgan in Sleeping Beauties, Uncle Morgan in The Talisman, Jack "Dutchy" Morgan in The Shining Henry "Hank" Olson: Olson in Doctor Sleep, Millie Olson in Sleeping Beauties, Lester Olson in The Ten O'Clock People Collie Parker: Jean and Alan Parker in Riding the Bullet, Mr. Parker in The Langoliers, Mrs. Parker in Dedication, Johnny Parker in Drunken Fireworks, Ollie Parker in Cycle of the Werewolf, Charlie Parker in Black House, Robert Parker in Dreamcatcher, Johny Parker in From A Buick 8, Dorothy Parker in Mr. Mercedes, John Parker in Thinner, Adele Parker in Revival, Parker Nason in The Stand, Speedy Parker in The Talisman, Eddie Parker in The Tommyknockers Pearson: Brandon Pearson in The Ten O'Clock People, Dave Pearson in Desperation, Bob Pearson in Finders Keepers, Doc Pearson in IT Bobby Sledge: Percy Sledge in Autopsy Room Four, Frank Sledge in Mr. Mercedes Marty Wyman: Bill Wyman in Sneakers, Stephanie Wyman in The Dead Zone Yannick: George Yannick in Rage Quentin: Glenn Quentin in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Quentin in Uncle Otto's Truck, Dr. Quentin in Cujo and The Dead Zone Milligan: Spike Milligan in Big Wheels Gallant: Jamie Gallant in The Body, Richie Gallant in The Outsider Jimmy Owens: Dave Owens in Mrs. Todd's Shortcut Dr. Patterson: Floyd Patterson in Low Men in Yellow Coats, Janey Patterson in Finders Keepers, Marjorie Patterson in End of Watch, old man Patterson in Misery, James, Miz, Janelle, Janey Patterson in Mr. Mercedes, the Patterson place in RAT Miss Petrie: Miss Petrie in Gerald's Game, June, Henry, Mark Petrie in 'Salem's Lot, Sally Petrie in Cujo, Glenn Petrie in Thinner, Mark Petrie in The Dark Tower V, VI, VII If I had a dollar/quarter Fairy Tale: horse whisper Fairy Tale: tear/tore him/her/them a new one Fairy Tale: hard as old paint Fairy Tale: nook and cranny Fairy Tale: want to live forever? Fairy Tale: coming home to roost Fairy Tale: freshet Fairy Tale: Full Tilt Fairy Tale: all he/she/they needed - All he needed was a couple of hand weights to look like any middle-aged gettin'-in-shape guy from my neighborhood. Oh, and maybe a tracksuit. Fairy Tale: hill and dale (TLW) Fairy Tale: you this - NOW ATTEND YOU THIS! Fairy Tale: wet*whistle - Claudia wetted her whistle Fairy Tale: less said*better Fairy Tale: I could feel my fingernails cutting into my palms. Fairy Tale: Now put an egg in your shoe and beat it. Fairy Tale: NASA Talk: The Eagle has landed. REPEAT: die if you can't walk fast enough long enough FT: At least two dozen gray men and woman were speed-walking on treadmills, each with a noose around his or her neck. TLW: Low speed cutoff was exactly four miles an hour. hunker/hunkering down apotheosis Timothy Grass bolt upright Joyland: Hen's teeth Joyland: Green as grass Joyland: Poop on that Joyland: Fly up your ass Joyland: Egg in your shoe and beat it Joyland: Mind powers I don't give a shit Duma Key: Aye karumba Duma Key: Cheeseburger cheeseburger Duma Key: Laughed without humor Duma Key: Full night Duma Key: Ass over teapot Like a mother fucker Rage: under the arms of Ted's khaki shirt. Rage: The reports slammed around the room like bowling balls. Rage: I felt a weird smile stretch across my lips. Ghost in the machine Repeat: The Langoliers (He had to see it. Had to.) slapped in the face (Back handed him, Dreamcatcher, TLW connection) He began to slap her lightly, first one cheek and then the other, (The Raft, TLW connection) Suffer a witch to live just us chickens smell the coffee woodchuck / wood-chuck (83/37) black as a/an X (25/20) related: darker than, darker'n a like a man in a dream (31/21) quonset hut (28/11) OSHKOSH (25/6) Flexible Flyer Waldorf-Astoria came to life lemons.+lemonade up to eleven god pound / god-pound hold onto your Flattery will get you Field.+Stream (case sensitive) if wishes were Hal 9000 trundle Humpty Dumpty aloha go fuck your[self/selves sister Mother] druthers in for a penny[, in for a pound] high port arking and barking / yarking and barking / arkie-barkies Groucho Marx tap-dance / tap-dancing get into this? monkey house time flies guys like you deadfall Coveralls Boston Red Sox effword what the eff Effa Bee Eye fearless minion(s) The rain in Spain Betty Bitter he thrusts his fists wants.+needs fook sic (my dog on you) get stuffed piss.+pants [leaving the scene, know what I mean, see what I mean, I know what you mean] jellybean penny saved [is a penny earned, was a penny earned, is a penny et cetera] see you later, seeya later [alligator, Lisey-gator, masterbator] [went, going, gone, entirely] by the boards that was then [this is now] that was the worst. (not regex) if it bleeds day late and a dollar short beating around the bush Even cowgirls get the blues crawfish cheese stands alone not to be sneezed at give up the ghost skiv (skivvy, skivvies) count your blessings take stock snug as a bug slow and steady [wins/won] the race Lord of the Flies tap a kidney shit and shinola (search for shinola) no great loss wordlessly no fuss, [no muss, or bother, no bother, or fanfare, and no fanfare] rot in hell die laughing Daddy-O fat chance see to it Pall Mall helter-skelter sight better bl.+like.+pig (bled like a pig, bleeding like a stuck pig) Jeezus in God's name assume the position / assumed the position Nada. (Zip. Nada. / Nada. Zip. / De Nada.) the lord helps those cancer-stick taste in.+mouth * on a cracker No shit, Sherlock Yessum payback's a bitch woid marritch hell in a handbasket grrrl kicking the habit Easy-peasy Massholes gray water / graywater slow and easy wins the race when knights were bold spare me thy rod reckon gabble / gabbling wishful thinking double jeopardy smell.+blood (smell of blood, smelled blood, smell the blood, smelling blood, smell of ancient/old/clotted blood) scared green fuck that shit, fuck this shit honest injun places to go (and things to do, and cats to kill, and diseases to spread, and people to see) we don't need no (steekin batches, steekin handcuffs, sinkin badges, charity money) pigs will (whistle, ride broomsticks) fortunes of war joggle crazy, like a fox (search for "like a fox") chop-chop in for a penny, in for a pound (search "in for a penny") trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat (search for "smell my feet") ill-gotten gains From your lips to God's ear He who hesitates [bullshit, Creepy, asshole, popularity, etc.] quotient Soonest begun, soonest done. [search for "soonest done"] threw back.+head.+laugh/cackled objects grinning (it sat there grinning, Misery) smell the ozone (search on ozone) as neat as you please Red River Valley hole in the ozone layer pallid.+face / face.+pallid (idea from DescoHabre) for the time being strawberry (a subset perhaps?) Close enough for government work Close enough for rock and roll could have done without any port (in a storm) part of the solution (if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem) hell.+icewater pay the price Prince Albert embarked on rest.+laurels (rest on your laurels) stir the pot join the club the Lord helps those that help themselves stew in his own (juices, sauce) pardon my (French, Polish, francais, fran-kays), not "pardon my friend" or "pardon my pun", but language based. cock-and-balls / cock and balls another fine mess slap me five on my mother's name / on mom's name shit.+toast (shit on toast, shit-on-toast) hair on fire / hair was on fire (literal and figurative) book of job (long-tailed) cat in a room(ful full of rocking chairs) old college try hush puppies not a dime's worth Power by the hour christ on a (pony, bicycle, crutch, sidecar, carousel, motorcycle, taco, cracker) what's good.+is good enough decided against it bet your (life, ass, patootie, bobcat, bippie, fur, bottom dollar, boots, rooty-toot, jackdog) tree of good and evil I stand corrected field and stream / field & stream New York minute can you say amen / can you give me hallelujah flights of angels (sing three/you to y'rest/thy rest) those who can, do got that right now more than ever to the slaughter pin the tail / pin this tail miss a trick in that moment since dinosaurs walked the earth at the ready none of your (business, beeswax, bi'ness, affair, concern) right as (rain, rainbarrels) and I quote / and I also quote without a paddle pedal to the metal 11/9 duly noted 9/9 snake in the grass 4/4 tickling the 6/6 suss 4/4 doom and gloom 3/3 growing gloom 13/11 (add to gathering gloom) cakehole / cake-hole 4/4 cool as a (kite/cucumber/fool/butcher/baby/...) 25/22 Different strokes for different folks 6/5 or some such 11/10 level best 7/5 Narragansett 15/7 friends and neighbors 30/23 Emporium Galorium 36/6 tip of the iceberg 3/3 live free or die 5/4 No harm, no foul. 4/4 GIVES A RIP gives a ripe red fuck thank you very much carpetbagger get down to brass tacks canebrake you can and you will I kid you not Life would go on Esperanto igpay atinlay Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird gild the lily dick and jane 8/7 new under the sun (3/3) Ditto (36/25) toys in the attic (8/4) life hands you lemons, make lemonade (3/3) what's up, doc? (6/5) Room 217 (46/5) Do You Love? (13/3) catch your death (3/3) lady named (12/11) Corgi (37/12) raggedy ann (11/8) raggedy andy beached fish the fear was coming ... off him/her put paid to ... that/everything phone clunk down the hatch raggedy (146/24) beep-beep (48/8) insouciant (10/7) you'd do well (11/9) you'd do well to keep your distance, you'd do well to stay away, you'd do well to remember that. I'd just as soon (18/16) But I'd just as soon not go through that again. bag of bones (7/5) Zippo (45/21) Kraut (37/18) That's the ticket. (8/8) overbalance (29/20) dinky-dau (6/4) ass over teapot (6/6) are you deaf (5/5) Salvation Army the worst of it dragon.+breath overbalanced (21/16) over-balanced (2/2) dry swallow (of pills, or just swallowing) gobbledegook (3/3) don't/wouldn't/can say shit (9/8) thrum (74/36) kitty-corner, kitty korner (7/7) perish the thought (3/3) Fantasia Holiday Inn (19/12) fusillade (21/17) Hey-ho, let's go. (3/3) Harley-Davidson (25/16) shut your pie-hole (3/3) twins (400/52) bool (172/6) So help me God losing it Fox News David Bowie Dead Man's Curve lookie-loos gennie gave.+turn (gave me a helluva turn!) crazy as a loon laugh like a loon loon calling out / screamed Goodbye, cruel world tasted copper, tasted coppery Fuck you and the horse you rode in on shiny happy people when things go wrong, they have to keep on going wrong? When things go wrong, they keep going wrong yellow brick road Erector Set Bride of Frankenstein give up the ghost disco queen Star-sixty-nine Alice references in 11/22/63 regarding the portal being a rabbit hole to the past. good meat (3/3) good food good meat good God let's eat had the course (TLW) It was X, but it was also Y (TLW: Olson, he was trivial. He was magnificent, too, but those things aren't mutually exclusive. He was magnificent and trivial.) TCM Gods (Oh My Gods / By Gods) Fairy Tale Levi (32/23) emaciat (emaciated/emaciation) (25/20) Lord Buxton (13/10) Red Ryder spume (15/11) febrile (12/8) biballs (28/15) inchoate (9/9) for a wonder (33/20) scree (30/15) tenebrous (33/22) pouty / pouty child / pouty mouth (TLW) milk truck (TLW) hands/fingers.+laced or laced.+hands/fingers (TLW) length of football field (TLW) They still had the length of a football field to go. There By Tygers: The door was at least a football field's length away. bought.+ticket (TLW) lots of variation, Dolan's Cadillac "He had bought his own ticket and paid a full fare." Why not? Why the fuck not? (TLW) 11/10 search for "Why the fuck not?" Oh my suds and body (TLW) 2/2 no dignity (The Long Walk: This has about as much dignity as a mongoloid idiot strangling on his own tongue and shitting his pants at the same time.) fatigue jacket (TLW) 12/4 corduroy (TLW) 71/39 that was the hell of it (search: hell of it) (TLW) not "for the hell of it" carbine (TLW) extremis / extremity (TLW The Institute) hot ticket (TLW) 8/7 why the.+not (fuck, hell, heck) (TLW) zori / zoris (TLW) of the spheres (TLW) 3/3 yipping (TLW) 21/19 pipestem / stovepipe (TLW) felt sweat pop (TLW) 3/3 tut-tut (TLW) 5/5 eager beaver (TLW) 3/3 is that so? (TLW) 48/35 blood red (TLW) 7/7 drowning man (TLW) 20/16 no rest for the wicked (TLW) 4/4 pedal pushers (TLW) 7/5 goggled (TLW) 29/23 horn-rimmed (TLW) 31/20 tatter (TLW) 3/3 (begun to tatter) artillery (TLW) (as in it sounds like artillery) ragdoll / rag-doll / rag doll (TLW) smartly (TLW) Elmer's Glue (TLW) shitkicker / shit-kicker (TLW) jibe 16/12 (TLW) hell or high water (TLW) sacrificial offering (TLW) Shirley Jackson (TLW) 18/12 zip.+fly (TLW) 39/20 rimless glasses/specs/spectacles/bifocals (TLW) 41/25 Ethiopian jug-(rammer/diddler/fucker) (TLW) 3/3 enema (TLW) 29/17 blue balls / blue-balls (TLW) Dumbo (TLW) derogatory term shacked up (TLW) pound.+the pavement (TLW) 7/6 slathered/lathered.+gore/blood (TLW) adam's apple (TLW) 60/34 bob up and down / bobbed up and down (TLW) Klieg (TLW) 8/4 P.F. Flyers (TLW) 4/4 she's a peach / can be.+peach (TLW) gone to seed (TLW) 3/3 happast (TLW) insupportable (TLW) 18/14 how.+would/should I know (TLW) How should I know? How would I know? How the hell would I know? How the hell should I know? stovepipe hat (TLW) 6/4 better off dead (TLW) 5/5 knock your block off (TLW) 3/3 toss.+cook (TLW) 7/7 (toss his/her/their cookies) lady fair (TLW) 7/5 good old (TLW) 297/78 good ole 7/4 Good ol' 1/1 by the way (TLW) (253, 73) (whole word) as in "oh, by the way" and "and, by the way", not "he could tell by the way she" (some false positives) you talk too.+much (TLW) (3/3) hainesville woods (TLW) (7/5) hail mary (TLW) (27/16) American Indian references (TLW) kachina, Micmac, Navajo, Indian, Injun, Kiowa, Shoshone, Kashwakamak and much more! thunderhead (TLW) (83/33) terrier (TLW) (44/25) you don't look so good (TLW) (6/5) long way to go (TLW) (11/9) gunslinger (TLW) (2349/33) filtering out Dark Tower, Eluria, Keyhole (38/24) cream.+jeans (TLW) creamed my jeans, cream your jeans, creamed his jeans no one has invited (TLW) no one has invited me to tea. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower No one had invited him to the Reap Ball Mr. Mercedes no one invited her to the Spring Dance. poime (poem) (TLW) (5/5) Whore's hair / whore's hair (TLW) (5/5) in the army now (TLW) (3/2) Eureka Grange (TLW) (10/2) Revival has No. 7, TLW has No. 81 wet end (TLW) (14/8) Hi yo / Hi-Ho (TLW) Bag of Bones The Hi-Ho Dairy-O. IT So hi-ho-the-dairy-o The Long Walk Hi-ho the dairy-o 11-22-63 "Hi-ho, Daddy-O." Needful Things box of Hi-Ho crackers. Rage Nipping on the cooking sherry a little at first? Hi-ho. And it's not your fault, is it? Hi-ho. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Hi-ho, there, Mr. Spectacles! The Stand he will be hung like the Lone Ranger's horse. Hiyo Silver, away. IT "Hi yo, Silver!" Bill shouted They are both mispronouncing the cry from the Lone Ranger, "Hi Ho Silver, Away!" The only time King uses Hi-Ho is ... backdoor virginity Revival "I don't think that matters to the gods of heredity," I said. "They just send the Big C wherever it's most welcome. For Christ's sake, what's the big deal? It's a finger up your ass, it's over in ten seconds, and as long as you don't feel both of the doctor's hands on your shoulders, you don't even have to worry about your backdoor virginity." The Institute "Oh yay, there's that full moon!" Zeke stood in front of him. He had the thermometer in one hand and a jar of Vaseline in the other. He dipped the thermometer into the jar and brought it out. A glob of jelly dangled from the end. To Luke it looked like the punchline of a dirty joke. "See? Plenty of lube. Won't hurt a bit. Just relax your cheeks, and remind yourself that as long as you don't feel both of my hands on you, your backside virginity remains intact." Thinner "Relax," Houston said, snapping on the thin rubber glove. "As long as you can't feel both of my hands on your shoulders, you're all right." Four Past Midnight: The Library Policeman Thdeady, the Library Wolf pants, and now his hands descend on Sam's shoulders and he is rocking back and forth, in and out, back and forth, in and out. Thdeady . . . thdeaady . . . oooh! Thdeeeaaaaaaddyyyyy- Gasping and rocking, the Library Cop pounds what feels like a huge hot bar of steel in and out of Sam's bum; The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla "Don't worry, he won't lose his butthole virginity on our account," Biondi said, and laughed. Groan in protest IT felt the ball-and-socket joint in his shoulder creak and groan in protest The Stand boards groaning and creaking and protesting under the weight Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Popsy There was that groaning, protesting sound of metal under stress Blaze he could hear the trunks groaning and protesting. The Dark Tower the house creaked and groaned in protest. Crazy like a fox (search for "like a fox") Collections\The Bazaar of Bad Dreams\Blockade Billy.txt Crazy like a fox, see? The Dark Half He smiled at her. It was a slightly peculiar, slightly distant smile. "Yeah," he said. "Crazy like a fox." Dreamcatcher crazy like Patton had been crazy. Crazy like a fox, in other words. his exhausted legs screaming. "But he's crazy like a fox." Insomnia Dis one crazy like a fox! Under the Dome "Dad-has it ever occurred to you that you might be crazy?" Big Jim nodded. "Like a fox," he said. The Talisman and if he finds out he's gonna be after you like a fox after a goose. Watch for his trail-his own and his Twinner's . . . he's gonna be after you like a fox after a goose. Lavender (gay) The Long Walk Touch of the lavender? The Colorado Kid there was something kinda handsome about him just the same, with his ashy cheeks and pale lips and that little touch of lavender on his eyelids. Insomnia Back in those days she was known as a hot ticket and fellows like me were known as ‘a wee bit lavender.' In that amusingly antique era, gay was how you described your Christmas tree after it was decorated." The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three O'Mearah expected the guy to sound like a fruit-probably as fruity as his routine about the lavender handcuffths had suggested, but a pouf all the same. The Dark Tower Susannah thought that the painter, sai Sayre, or both might have been part of the Lavender Hill Mob, as she had sometimes heard homosexuals called in the Village. Fuck your warning (TLW and Finders Keepers) NOT REPEATED (or only repeated once or twice) grinning skull (Fairy Tale) heal of his palm to his forehead (heal*forehead) Fairy Tale high heaven (Fairy Tale) as in stank/stunk to high heaven hard bark (Fairy Tale) Life turns on a dime (11-22-63) what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas (1X Under the Dome) disaster waiting to happen (1X Under the Dome) X says jump, Y ask/asks how high (1X Under the Dome) jackdog (1X Under the Dome) Who you gonna call? (1X Under the Dome) not-ready-for-prime-time (1X Under the Dome) golden flood (1X The Long Walk) you don't say (1X Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla) dollop of glue (1X The Long Walk) Lost his lunch (2X The Long Walk and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) wakemare (1X The Long Walk) idiot litany (1X The Long Walk) For every night, twice the bright (1X Under the Dome) bloodbeat (used instead of heartbeat 2X The Long Walk and The Body) co-inky-dink (2X Finders Keepers) high as a kite (2X The Dead Zone, Under the Dome) Hoard a penny and lose a dollar. (1X Under the Dome) you drive like a (2X Under the Dome, 11-22-63) Where'd you get your license? (2X Under the Dome, Insomnia) You're off your trolley (1X The Long Walk) suicide is PAINLESS, it brings on many changes. / if suicide was painless (2X) good to the last drop (1X Under the Dome) the most fascinating thing (2X) never say never (2X) leatherhead (Under the Dome) flake off (2X) going home to jesus (1X The Long Walk) therefore I am (3/2) live adder (1X The Long Walk) soup to nuts (2X) less said the better (1X IT) sacrifice unto (2x The Long Walk and The Gunslinger) fulfill.+destiny (2X DT6 and Sleeping Beauties) where do you get your ideas? (2X) ('Salem's Lot and IT) heard it in the show Bag of Bones cockgobbler (2X) Big H. (1X Revival) big-ass bird (2X) Do you know what I'm trying to say? (1X) dumb hump (1X) boy and his dog (1X) I'm off to join the circus (1X) hallway of stars (1X) An orange is gold in the morning and lead at night (1X) Village People (1X) Fuck your warning(s) (2X) I don't care if I do. (1X The Dead Zone) Alfred E. Neuman (2X) The wind blew and the shit flew. (1X The Dead Zone) tit assignment (1X The Dead Zone) I don't see any harm in telling you (1X The Dead Zone) S*H*I*T (1X The Dead Zone) Wilkinson Sword Blades (1X The Dead Zone) This little light of mine . . . I'm gonna let it shine . . . this little light of mine . . . I'm gonna let it shine . . . let it shine, shine, shine, let it shine . . . (1X The Dead Zone) donald duck watch (1X The Dead Zone) no better or worse (1X The Long Walk) reach an understanding (1X The Dead Zone) Boys with dead younger brothers: The Long Walk (Garraty's brother died of pneumonia when he was six), IT and The Body. three-dollar bills (1X The Dead Zone) ejaculated loudly (1X The Dead Zone) framed against (1X The Dead Zone) costing a Denver mint (1X The Dead Zone) plumb the depths (1X 'Salem's Lot) 63 Things in The Dead Zone that remind me of The Long Walk https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLongWalk/comments/10dqhrl/63_things_in_the_dead_zone_that_remind_me_of_the/ Things repeated from The Long Walk in Fairy Tale https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLongWalk/comments/zszzxw/things_repeated_from_the_long_walk_in_fairy_tale/