While stopped at a farm where the owner was not home, he kicks their dog to death. In the other half of the prologue, we meet a door to door Bible salesman working the Nebraska countryside, moving from farm to farm. The Dead Zone opens with a prologue informing the reader that, despite the fact that he could not remember it, Johnny Smith suffered a head injury in his youth, colliding with another kid who was playing hockey on a frozen pond. I’ve moved on from reading the Dark Tower and have started The Castle Rock series. Unlike ‘Salem’s Lot, the town is not a character, just a setting. The sheriffs Bannerman and Pangborn are the most frequent recurring characters. The stories aren’t serialized and share loose connections at best. Needful Things was billed as the last Castle Rock book although it would be the setting for one more short story – It Grows on You in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Castle Rock, Maine was the setting for The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Body from Different Seasons, The Dark Half, and The Sun Dog from Four Past Midnight. With the publication of The Dead Zone in 1979, Stephen King created a venue which would serve as a backdrop for several of his books and short stories.
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