Dreamcatcher - by Stephen King (Paperback)

About the Book

In the haunted city of Derry, Maine, the setting for King's previous novels "It" and "Insomnia, " four young boys stood together and did a brave thing 25 years ago. The boys, now grown men, still get together once a year to hunt in the north woods of Maine. But when a man stumbles into their camp, muttering about lights in the sky, these old friends are plunged into a terrible struggle with a creature from another world.

Book Synopsis

From master storyteller Stephen King comes his classic #1 New York Times bestseller about four friends who encounter evil in the Maine woods.

Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious local bullies. It was something that fundamentally changed them, in ways they could never begin to understand. These lifelong friends--now with separate lives and separate problems--make it a point to reunite every year for a hunting trip deep in the snowy Maine woods. This time, though, chaos erupts when a stranger suddenly stumbles into their camp, freezing, deliriously mumbling about lights in the sky. And all too quickly, the four companions are plunged into a horrifying struggle for survival with an otherworldly threat and the forces that oppose it...where their only chance of survival is locked into their shared past--and the extraordinary element that bonds them all...

Review Quotes

Chicago Tribune A tour de force -- has more passages of power and imagination than some writers produce in a lifetime...[An] entertaining must-read.

The Miami Herald Prime King at his most engrossing...[he] has lost none of his ability to mine terror from the ordinary.

The New York Times Book Review Fascinating...A frenzied, multilayered, ever-accelerating nightmare.

"The Miami Herald" Prime King at his most engrossing...[he] has lost none of his ability to mine terror from the ordinary.

"Chicago Tribune" A tour de force -- has more passages of power and imagination than some writers produce in a lifetime...[An] entertaining must-read.

"The New York Times Book Review" Fascinating...A frenzied, multilayered, ever-accelerating nightmare.

"Chicago Tribune"

A tour de force -- has more passages of power and imagination than some writers produce in a lifetime...[An] entertaining must-read.

"The Miami Herald"

Prime King at his most engrossing...[he] has lost none of his ability to mine terror from the ordinary.

"The New York Times Book Review"

Fascinating...A frenzied, multilayered, ever-accelerating nightmare.

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch (May 2025), the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.